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by Alfred Poor | January 13, 2017 | General News, Health
If you watched the major news outlets’ coverage of CES 2017, you might have gotten the impression that it was largely a virtual reality (VR) show. Clearly, this is a sexy market segment that is a real crowd-pleaser, but the fact is that augmented reality (AR) is...
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by Bruce Brown | January 12, 2017 | General News, Health
As wearable Health Tech takes off, we’re seeing many new devices, applications, and enabling technologies introduced and proposed advance the field and offer more options. The bottom line question remains, “How does this product, service, or technology...
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by Alfred Poor | January 12, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health
Smart watches are still struggling to gain traction in the market beyond early adopters, but they do have the potential to bring a wide range of functions to a convenient wearable device. With the right sensors, they can also provide useful Health Tech data such as...
by Alfred Poor | December 29, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical, Uncategorized
Another year, another 400 to 500 new posts here on Health Tech Insider. In this first of two parts looking back on 2016, I want to highlight some of the stories that you, the readers, found to be most interesting. To come up with these, I used a very simple —...
by Bruce Brown | December 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
As we have noted before, 2017 will a huge year for hearables. Our interest is primed for devices with hearing assistance features rather than those targeted to people most interested in streaming audio quality or mobile communications… although there will be...
