Fitbit and Solera Health Expand Collaboration to Reduce Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Fitbit extended its partnership with Solera Health, an integrated benefit network, to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by using the Fitbit platform through Solera Health’s innovative model to...
View ArticleAktiia’s optical blood pressure technology proven accurate for two months...
Aktiia, a Swiss-US startup that develops optical blood pressure monitors at the wrist, has demonstrated that its cuffless optical blood pressure technology does not need recalibration after two months...
View ArticleMasimo SedLine in Combination with O3 Regional Oximetry Helps Surgeons...
The results of a series of four clinical studies, published in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesiology, showed Masimo SedLine® brain function monitoring, in combination with O3® regional oximetry helped...
View ArticleCareWear’s Wearable Light Patches Allow Safe Application of Light Therapy on...
Lately, healthcare professionals have been raising concerns over the use of light therapy on patients with tattoos. With the popularity of tattoo, especially among entertainers and athletes, health...
View ArticleSmart Fabric Automatically Cools or Insulates Depending on Conditions
Decades of innovation in the field of fabric development failed to produce a fabric that can automatically change its insulation properties in response to the environment, for example, keeping a...
View ArticleIBM Watson Wants to Use Wearable Devices to Improve Worker Safety
IBM has announced collaborations with Garmin Health, Mitsufuji, Guardhat and SmartCone to improve worker safety for those working in hazardous environments like construction sites, mines, and...
View ArticleWearable Devices Can Predict and Stop Bad Mood Even Before They Strike
The wearables market is flooded with devices that can monitor physical health such as heart rate, blood glucose and so on, but there aren’t many out there that can track our mental health. Read more...
View ArticleByteflies Makes Wearables for Movement Monitoring in Legg–Calvé–Perthes Disease
Legg-Calve-Perthes disease is a childhood condition that occurs when blood supply to the femoral head of the hip joint is temporarily interrupted and the bone begins to die. Byteflies, a...
View ArticleSaranas Gets FDA De Novo Designation for its Early Bird Internal Bleed...
Minimally invasive vascular procedures, although normally safer than open surgeries, have potential complications. A study of over 17,000 large-bore transcatheter interventions from the National...
View ArticleToyota’s Virtual Reality Simulation Lets You Experience What It’s Like to...
The Swedish division of automaker Toyota in collaboration with Swedish Paralympic committee has developed a virtual reality simulation that can reproduce how people with different visual impairments...
View ArticleKnow Labs Bio-RFID Platform Detects Blood Alcohol Levels
Know Labs, Seattle-based company that provides diagnostic solutions, developed a small device that uses artificial intelligence to identify blood alcohol levels non-invasively. The Bio-RFID™ platform...
View ArticleCasio Announces New EDIFICE Watch with Solar Technology and Smartphone...
Casio has announced its new EDIFICE collection of timepieces – the ECB900DB – with enhanced features like Tough Solar and Bluetooth Connected technology. The new smartwatch is stylish and comfortable...
View ArticleHuami Fitness Tracker Provides Clinical-Grade Accuracy, Says Stanford Sleep...
Amazfit Arc, a consumer wearable device made by Chinese wearable company Huami, tracks sleep and wake periods with better accuracy than a commonly used clinical-grade actigraph, according to the...
View ArticleTiny Cell-sized Microbots Could Help in Drug Delivery
Scientists have created wireless bug-shaped microrobots using nanofabrication techniques that turns a 4-inch specialized silicon wafer into a million microscopic robots in just weeks. The microbots,...
View ArticleScientists Engineer Handheld Bioprinter that Can Print Skin to Heal Deep...
Bioprinters are becoming enormously popular in healthcare where they can be used to print various organs of the human body. Now, researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM)...
View ArticleApple Watch Could Have Sleep Tracking by 2020, Say Rumors
According to rumors, Apple will add the much-requested sleep tracking feature to Apple Watch by 2020. The tech giant has reportedly been secretly testing sleep tracking functionality for the Apple...
View ArticleCanadian Researcher Develop Low-Cost Handheld Cancer Probe to Detect Melanoma...
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, affecting more than 130,000 people worldwide each year. Although this cancer is easily visible on the skin, it is hard to differentiate between harmless...
View ArticleWearable Pet Technology Company Link AKC Acquired by Smart Tracking Technologies
Smart Tracking Technologies, a Jacksonville, FL-based IoT company, acquired Wearable Pet Technology Company Link AKC. Link AKC, a GPS enabled dog collar, won the CES 2017 “Best of Innovation” award in...
View ArticleMovie Technology Inspires Scientist to Develop Self-Powering Devices
A Purdue University scientist has developed methods to harvest energy which may self-power wearables and other electronic devices. He got his inspiration after watching movie technology that showed...
View ArticleNintendo Switch is Finally Getting VR-Style Headset – Made Out of Cardboard
Nintendo has launched a virtual reality kit for its Switch and it is made out of cardboard. With the new Nintendo Labo VR Kit gamers can build their own headset out of cardboard so that they can slide...
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