by Bruce Brown | September 4, 2020 | Health
After two months of study with more than 100,000 Fitbit users in the trial and 1000+ positive COVID-19 virus reports, Fitbit has released preliminary results from its early disease detection work. The wearables company experts are employing machine learning and...
by Bruce Brown | June 11, 2020 | Health
Neurostimulation reduces pain by interfering with electrical signals to the brain’s pain centers from the area of the body where the pain originates. I’m an unabashed fan of neurostim. My surgeon sent my home with a transcutaneous electrical nerve...
by Bruce Brown | May 14, 2020 | Health
We’ve written about several technologies developed for COVID-19 testing or remote patient monitoring. Vancouver, British Columbia-based industrial workforce safety company Proxxi recently announced a new wearable to support two additional elements in...
by Bruce Brown | April 17, 2020 | Health
It would be nice if you could choose your mood as easily as you could select a song by pushing buttons on a 1950s tabletop diner jukebox. OmniPEMF’s NeoRhythm headband wearable doesn’t have buttons, but it responds to gestures and taps. Simple finger...
by Bruce Brown | March 4, 2020 | Health
Engineers from Texas A&M University (TAMU) are taking a proactive approach to the mental health of college students. Researchers in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering are developing a wearable continuous mental health monitoring and...