Readers might recall the 2017 Indiegogo campaign by SomnoHealth to create EverSleep, a wearable sleep tracker with built-in oxygenation monitoring. The campaign reached 224% of its original goal in addition to receiving a $50k Arrow Electronics Flash Funding Grant and recognition as a 2017 National Sleep Foundation SleepTech 2017 Semifinalist. Today, the EverSleep device is...
Category: <span>Devices</span>
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Vuzix Smart Glasses and Genzõ App Provide Live Life Experiences for Low-Mobility Patients
Vuzix, a New York-based supplier of smart glasses and augmented reality solutions, has partnered with 1Minuut Innovation, a Dutch healthcare innovation company, to provide a real-time life experience solution for low-mobility patients. The system consists of the Vuzix M300 smart glasses and the 1Minuut Genzõ app, and it allows patients who are confined to their...
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Slipping into this ‘skin’ turns any object into a robot
When you think of robots, usually you think of a 3D being that manipulates the world around it. But Yale University researchers took a different tack, turning away from nature to design “robotic skins” that wrap around existing objects and manipulate them from the outside. It’s an out-of-this-world solution intended to help with space-age issues,...
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New colour change wristbands help you balance too much sun vs not enough
The sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiations have both harmful and beneficial effects for our health. Too much exposure can lead to sunburn, skin ageing, eye damage or even skin cancer. With too little UV we may become vitamin D deficient. Different skin tones need different amounts of UV light to activate vitamin D in the skin. ...
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Multi-joint, personalized soft exosuit breaks new ground
Fully wearable soft exosuit with automatic tuning helps users save energy and walk outside over difficult terrain WYSS INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ENGINEERING AT HARVARD (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — In the future, smart textile-based soft robotic exosuits could be worn by soldiers, fire fighters and rescue workers to help them traverse difficult terrain and arrive fresh...
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Smartphone, M.D.
A new app developed by UCSB researchers enables a smartphone to ID bacteria in just one hour UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SANTA BARBARA In a potential game-changer for the healthcare industry, a new cell phone app and lab kit now allow a smartphone to identify bacteria from patients anywhere in the world. With the new...
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New Faster, Cheaper, Better Test Platform for Nucleic Acid Identification of Diseases
At the National University of Singapore, scientists have developed a portable, point-of-care nucleic acid test platform that can be used to diagnose a variety of diseases. It comes in the form of a cartridge that does not need to be kept refrigerated or handled specially in any other way and once used it provides results...
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iPrognosis Looking at People’s Behaviors to Find Signs of Parkinson’s
Our smartphones are powerful sensors and information processors that have the potential to detect early signs of some diseases. Parkinson’s, for example, is a disease that can have a slow onset with few symptoms early on. These symptoms, moreover, may be unnoticeable to the person and those around them, but possibly detectable by the phone....
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Mellitus Health and Smart Meter Announce Strategic Partnership for Connected Insulin Titration
TAMPA, Fla. – September 5, 2018 – Mellitus Health, Inc., the developer of Insulin Insights™, the first FDA-cleared and CE-registered clinician decision-support tool for titrating all types of insulin, all eight standard dosing regimens and 125 combinations of insulin, and Smart Meter LLC, an innovative diabetes management technology and solutions company, announced today a strategic...
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A wearable device for regrowing hair
Although some people embrace the saying “bald is beautiful,” for others, alopecia, or excessive hair loss, can cause stress and anxiety. Some studies have shown that stimulating the skin with lasers can help regrow hair, but the equipment is often large, consumes lots of energy and is difficult to use in daily life. Now, researchers...