by Bruce Brown | August 10, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable Health Tech requires power to work. The size, shape, and type of power can vary, but any form of action requires power. Most wearable devices use batteries, which come with their own challenges of space, weight, and recharging. If you’re going to wear a...
by Bruce Brown | August 9, 2016 | General News, Health
Try to imagine a wristband that sets out to be simultaneously part of and a link to a complete health ecosystem. Of course, you need to know what that even means. For GOQii founder and CEO Vishal Gondal, it means his company sees itself as a preventive health...
by Bruce Brown | August 8, 2016 | General News, Health
Medical experts disagree about the efficacy and even the safety of neurostimulation, where electrical currents are sent through a subject’s head. In spite of the controversy, or perhaps because of it, MIT Technology Review featured an article about Halo...
by Bruce Brown | August 5, 2016 | General News, Health
HIV remains at epidemic levels in Africa. The highest levels in the world persist in sub-Saharan Africa where the combination of tuberculosis and AIDs causes the greatest number of deaths. Cultural factors including men’s resistance to condoms and widespread...
by Bruce Brown | August 4, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Real-time monitoring of our muscles, nerves, and organs without living inside an MRI machine sounds like a fantasy awaiting some future generation of science. But University of California, Berkeley engineers cracked the code to monitoring from the inside. The key to...