by Bruce Brown | February 5, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Imagine you set out to build wearable health tech device to address a major health condition such as diabetes or glaucoma. Wouldn’t it be nice to incorporate the techie bits into an item small, light, discrete, and already worn by more than 125 million people...
by Bruce Brown | January 26, 2018 | General News, Health
It couldn’t have worked out better if they planned it that way. Science-led global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare and wearable pain solution innovator NeuroMetrix announced a technology sale and a multiyear development collaboration deal...
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by Bruce Brown | January 25, 2018 | General News, Health
Single-purpose wrist, pendant, or pin-on emergency alert devices have been available for decades. Smartwatches paired with smartphones running health and wellness apps are commonplace. In a further step for wearable alert products, Shenzhen-based mobile device...
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by Bruce Brown | January 24, 2018 | General News, Health
Nuheara introduced hearables at CES 2018 that would not have been legal six months earlier. IQbuds Boost’s Ear ID hearing threshold calibration analysis software incorporates National Acoustics Labs’ NAL-NL2 self-fit protocol. NAL-NL2 is an international,...
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by Bruce Brown | January 22, 2018 | General News, Health
People who suffer from migraine headaches have two new devices to help. As we’ve noted before, approximately one-quarter of all U.S. households include a migraine sufferer. More than 12% of the population have migraines. Many people can detect an incipient...
