POSTS TAGGED AS wearables

Smart Thread for Wearables

EPFL researchers develop a smart thread
Quoting directly: “At the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) researchers have developed a smart thread [MORE]

“Obscure Technologies” in the Future of Healthcare

Car seat with embedded sensors
According to this piece which focuses on nanotechnology as a driver of a second wave of [MORE]

A Stretchable, Conductive Coating for Wearable Devices

Conductive MXene Multilayers
MXenes are a class of inorganic compounds, only a few atoms thick, which are used in electronic devices. [MORE]

The Future of Mobile Devices for Hospitals

Wearable Device for Health Monitoring
How common will mobile medical devices be—e.g. wearables for pre-admission, admission, and post-discharge patient monitoring; telecom [MORE]

A Super Sensor on Your Finger

SensoRING
“Masimo (Irvine, CA)  just announced receiving European approval for its new rainbow Super DCI-mini sensor, a pulse oximeter that can [MORE]

Apple’s Gym for Testing Activity Algorithms

Apple Fitness
What does a wearables development lab look like? In Apple’s case, the facility is a gym with a large [MORE]

Soft and Stretchy Wearable Monitors

Soft Flexible Sensor Fabric
Lots of wearable sensors now exist, but this piece describes the advantages of making them from stretchable [MORE]

That’s Some “Cool” Wearable—A Robotic Jacket

Omius Tech Jacket
Remember when your mother insisted that you put on a heavier jacket, or the opposite—wear something so you [MORE]

Can Smartwatches Really Alert to Oncoming Sickness?

Smart Watch
The worried-well can now use a smartwatch to say “I told you I was sick.” This piece describes how [MORE]

Antimicrobial PICC Line Cover

With many wearable medically-related devices, it’s no wonder that a clever entrepreneur has coined
PICC Line Cover by Care + Wear
the [MORE]

Skin Patch Dx for Food Allergies

Viaskin Peanut Product
For an infant with undiagnosed allergies to milk and egg proteins, the only communication is through crying—-non-stop crying. [MORE]

The World of Wearables

This infographic piece doesn’t show the wearable world map in great detail, but it has all the continents of the [MORE]

Wearable Lactic Acid Monitor

BSXInsight Wearable Lactate Threshold Sensor
BSXinsight (Houston, TX) is taking orders for what they claim is “the first wearable lactate threshold [MORE]