Wearable Might Detect COVID-19 Early

Wearable Might Detect COVID-19 Early

by | April 14, 2020 | Health, Medical

Boston-based Whoop focuses on performance-optimization for athletes and exercise enthusiasts. Whoop’s platform has three interdependent pillars: biometric sensing hardware, data analytics, and its user community. In combination, these factors can also provide...
Smart Shirts Could Combat Driver Drowsiness

Smart Shirts Could Combat Driver Drowsiness

by | March 26, 2020 | Health

In 2018, Juniper Research predicted that smart clothing would lead the growth in the wearable market. In 2015, Tractica forecast the market for smart clothing would grow rapidly. In line with those early predictions, Tokyo-based Xenoma, Inc.’s e-skin wearable...
Location-Aware Wearable Monitors Vital Signs

Location-Aware Wearable Monitors Vital Signs

by | March 6, 2020 | Health

Smart yarns and smart fabrics are getting smarter every day. The variety and combinations of smart fabric functions seem almost endless. We wrote about work at Darmouth College developing a smart fabric that can assist rehabilitation and training by sensing joint...
Physicians Warm to Digital Health

Physicians Warm to Digital Health

by | February 24, 2020 | Medical

If doctors aren’t willing to use new digital health and medical technologies, then the best engineering, design work, and clinical studies won’t make it far beyond the labs and publications. We wrote in 2015 about consumers accepting health data...