by Alfred Poor | January 16, 2015 | Health, Medical
When couples want to have a child, the woman sometimes has difficulty getting pregnant. One of the common approaches to improving the odds of conceiving is to track the woman’s body temperature, with the idea that this can indicate when ovulation occurs. There...
by Alfred Poor | January 16, 2015 | Health, Medical
Why is this man smiling? No, he has not been assimilated by the Borg. He just won a car race, simply by thinking about it. Last summer, I wrote about the Insight wireless headset from Emotiv. It is capable of sensing brain activity, and has many applications including...
by Alfred Poor | January 15, 2015 | Health, Medical
Last summer, we wrote about the HealthPatch from Vital Connect. I got a chance to meet representatives from the company and see the product firsthand at the ShowStoppers press event at CES 2015. HealthPatch MD is a wearable sensor package that is not aimed at...
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by Alfred Poor | January 14, 2015 | Fitness, Health
Sure, that fitness band of yours can tell you (approximately) how many steps you’ve taken, but can it do anything about your cold feet? I didn’t think so. Glagla is a French company that has created the Digitsole, a smart shoe insert that does more than...
by Alfred Poor | January 13, 2015 | Health
Early in my technology writing career, I wrote and did training programs about desktop publishing on personal computers. Daniel Will Harris wrote a great book on the subject back then, in which he gave some great advice: “Nobody gives out medals for doing it all...
