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by Alfred Poor | July 30, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Health
Being confined to a wheelchair can be limiting for individuals, especially if they do not have the motor control to drive the device. A group of students in a course at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) created an app for Google Glass that would allow patients...
![Short-Term Memory on Your Wrist [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/08/Kapture.jpg?resize=600%2C276)
by Alfred Poor | July 28, 2015 | Enabling Tech
How many times do you wish that you could remember something that you or someone else just said? (I confess that I’m reaching an age where that happens more often than I’d care to admit.) Maybe someone is telling you an email address or website, or giving...
![Smartphone Alternative to Wearable Trackers [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/08/No-ankle-bracelet.jpg?resize=600%2C250)
by Alfred Poor | July 27, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Corrections officials need to track people who have been placed on probation or parole, and the most common solution is a wearable device: an ankle bracelet that uses GPS and other systems to track location. These devices are expensive, and many departments cannot...
by Alfred Poor | February 26, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Medical
In spite of what you might be led to believe by the mainstream media about the “demise” of Google Glass, head-mounted computers are alive and well (including Google’s product). There are several competing systems that are gaining traction in several...
by Alfred Poor | September 11, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Remember your old “dumb” cellphone? The one that you could charge once or twice a week, depending on how much time you spent talking on calls? Now consider your smartphone; most people have to recharge theirs every day (or maybe even more often than that)....
