Why Tech Companies Should Hire Older Women
As the U.S. population gets older, sicker and richer, technology giants like Apple, Amazon and Alphabet are creating devices perfectly suited to help aging Americans. The artificially intelligent...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence: A Key Topic At Semicon West 2018
The upcoming Semicon West conference is filled with sessions and keynotes about artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine learning. It’s hard to believe how much demanding the topic of AI is at the...
View ArticleNew Qualcomm Chip Will Power Smartwatches for Kids
It was two years ago when Qualcomm last introduced a new smartwatch processor. Now, their new chip has been designed for what Qualcomm sees as an emerging market of smartwatches: kids. Read more With...
View ArticleSmart Pills Will Change the Way We Take Medications
Drugs have long been used to enhance our health and extend lives. However, in many instances, it is very difficult to administer drugs to the part of the body where it is needed. For example, it is...
View ArticleHealth Tech Startup Neopenda Unveils Wearable Vital Signs Monitor For Newborns
Neopenda, a Chicago-based health tech startup has recently unveiled its first product, a wearable device that monitors vital signs of newborns. Almost 3 million babies die within the first month of...
View ArticleThe DIY StitchKit by MakeFashion Lets You Merge Fashion With Technology
It seems like the DIY tech scene hasn’t fizzled out, but in fact it is gaining momentum. StitchKit is one of the leaders in DIY tech. It is a FashionTech kit made for everyone – from students, to...
View ArticleHow EPTS in World Cup 2018 is Changing the Game of Soccer
We’ve seen many new technologies at the 2018 World Cup such as Video Assisted Referee (VAR) and Goal line technology. Soccer technology has evolved since World Cup 2014 in Brazil. However, a new...
View ArticlePebble Smartwatches Could Get A New Lease On Life After Fitbit Shuts Down...
Starting June 30, Fitbit will stop software support for Pebble smartwatches. But, a group of developers is reaching out to users asking them to set up new accounts on Rebble.io. “Our present focus is...
View ArticleWorld’s Tiniest Computer Is Smaller Than A Grain of Rice
After IBM made the “world’s smallest computer” in March, a team at the University of Michigan has gone even smaller, with a tiny computer measuring just 0.3 mm to a side – dwarfed by a grain of rice....
View ArticleThis “Smart Stent” Can Monitor Blood Flow and Detect Narrowing of Artery
Vascular stents are common metal or plastic tubes inserted into the arteries to keep the passageway open, allowing uninterrupted blood flow. However, for every three people who have had a stent...
View ArticleMaxim Integrated Launches ECG Development Platform Based on Movesense
Maxim integrated, a company that manufactures, and sells analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, has launched MAX-ECG-MONITOR, a wearable ECG and heart monitor evaluation and development platform...
View ArticleStretchable Sensors Will Change the Way Sensors Are Integrated Into Wearables
We humans aren’t rigid like electronic circuitry, therefore manufacturers need to make a sea of change in order to produce wearables that fit us perfectly. Among the several stretchable solutions at...
View ArticleWearable Post-Surgical Vacuum Pump SOMOVAC 100 Gets FDA Clearance
Of the more than 750,000 U.S. surgical patients annually, around20 percent experience complicated seromas requiring painful and costly interventions such as aspirations such as which add more than a $1...
View ArticleElectronic Wool May Soon Find Its Way From Wearable Tech to Your Wardrobe
Sensor laden smart shirts have been around for some time. Engineers are integrating circuitry into clothing to produce shirts to keep you cool, to LED-packed dresses. However, they aren’t becoming...
View ArticleToppan Printing’s Electronic Paper Display Is Powered by Energy Harvesting...
Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., a Japanese global printing company, has developed an electronic paper display (EPD) powered by energy harvesting technology. This EPD can be used to generate a display on...
View ArticleL’Oreal’s Batteryless UV Sense Fits On Your Fingernail
Beauty and makeup company L’Oreal has introduced UV Sense, a new wearable UV sensor that can be stuck on your nail. The batteryless device measures UV exposure, which you can monitor through a...
View ArticleGTX Corp Debuts SmartSole and Invisabelt GPS Trackers for Children
GTX Corp, an IoT platform and global provider of GPS tracking and monitoring wearable and wandering assistive technology, has released 2 new products: GPS SmartSole in size small and the new GPS...
View ArticleNew Technology From 3M Monitors Breathing And Helps You Improve Respiratory...
When it comes to healthy lifestyle, we often think about maintaining a good heart health, burning calories and losing weight, but we don’t usually think about healthy breathing. However, breathing is...
View ArticleWhaleTeq Introduces Multifunction Tester Capable of Conducting ECG/EKG...
There’s a growing demand for using wearables to collect vital signs, however, it is very important that the vital signs collected by the wearable device is accurate. With that in mind, WhaleTeq has...
View ArticleWhich Smart Home and Wearable Devices Are Consumers Actually Using?
Having a smart home can be really fun. You ask the lights to turn on and they turn on. Your voice assistant gives you the weather forecast, lets you watch your favorite show on your TV, lowers the...
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