![Wearable System for Visually Impaired [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/06/MIT-3D-camera-for-blind.jpg?resize=599%2C275)
by Alfred Poor | June 6, 2017 | General News, Health
One of the wonders of modern technology is its ability to compensate for impaired or missing functions in the human body. Prosthetic limbs, enhanced hearing, cochlear implants, wheelchairs, and exoskeletons are just a few of the amazing developments that allow...
by Alfred Poor | January 6, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of the most important features of any wearable Health Tech device is how the user interacts with it. For many devices, the most difficult task is developing a good means for the user to input commands. As a result, we’re always on the lookout for new...
![Wearable Vibration Sensor Enables Many Applications [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/11/Wearable-microchips-with-video-600x273.png?resize=600%2C273)
by Bruce Brown | November 29, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable health tech takes a giant step further with stretchable devices that can attach to the skin. Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Colorado Boulder, in conjunction with other institutions, have developed a tiny, soft, wearable...
![Wearable Aims to Silence Snoring [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/11/Anti-Snoring-Wearable-with-video-600x278.jpg?resize=600%2C278)
by Bruce Brown | November 25, 2016 | General News, Health
Emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and biosensors that respond to heat, blood content, breath, and sweat can be as fascinating as they are forward-looking. Occasionally, however, we come across a practical, wearable health tech product that relates...
![Hear Through Your Hair with Fujitsu Ontenna [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/10/Ontenna-with-video-600x275.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Bruce Brown | October 6, 2016 | General News, Health
Deaf people miss out not just on spoken conversation but on a wide range of sound in their surroundings and the environment. Fujitsu Limited has a vision of a new technology to help deaf people sense and relate to sounds in the world and in their lives. Ontenna, an...
