POSTS TAGGED AS wireless

Ultrasound Activated Pacemaker

Startup company, EBR Systems (Sunnyvale, CA) is developing a new generation of pacemakers that rely on ultrasound signaling rather [MORE]

Grandpa’s Smart Slippers

GTX Corp (Los Angeles, CA) has introduced a GPS tracking shoe designed for Alzheimer’s patients who wander and get [MORE]

Qualcomm’s Branch for Wireless Medical Devices

Qualcomm has left the business of making cell phones and pursued ways for making them better.  Last month, Qualcomm [MORE]

Wireless MedCARE and Senior Homestyle Living to Form Joint Venture

Wireless MedCARE, LLC announced a customer and joint venture agreement with Senior Homestyle Living, LLC of Arlington, Texas.  Under the [MORE]

Innovations in Wireless and Mobile Health Technologies: In Search of the Tricorder

Innovative wireless health information technologies are enabling health products and services unlike ever before.  More and more wireless solutions are [MORE]

Growing Presence for Passive Bed Monitoring

From time to time, Tagline has mentioned companies, such as WellAware Systems and Wireless Medcare, that manufacture sensored bed [MORE]

Monitoring BP With Your Smart Phone

Researchers at the University of Southern California’s Center for Body Computing and St. Luke’s Hospital are working on an [MORE]

Do It Yourself Phonocardiograms via a Nokia 3100

While researchers at Oxford University and the University of Cape Town carried out this R&D project for monitoring heart [MORE]

Sensored Under Armour

Read this piece thinking not about performance athletes but of people in need of distance monitoring-e.g. CHF patients discharged from [MORE]

Devices: Electromagnetic Compatibility

With an increasing number of WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and wireless phone devices coming into the medical domain, problems related [MORE]

Electronic Tattoos for Biomonitoring

Materials Science professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has developed a flexible, stretchable thin silicon patch [MORE]

Telehealth: Diabetes Tracking

Recently, a study group at the University of Maryland reported that their test of automated real time education and [MORE]

Skype Download for iPad

If you haven’t already downloaded the Skype app for the iPad, here is the link to get it.  The [MORE]

Checking for Cataracts with a Cellphone

Claiming that a new iPhone clip-on device for cataract detecting “gathers more information than a visit to an ophthalmologist’s [MORE]

Free Texting for Drug Authenticity

The World Health Organization estimates that 30% of all drugs sold in developing nations are counterfeits.  And, with increasing [MORE]

Haptic Device for Movement Assist

At last month’s Human Computer Interaction Conference in Orlando, FL, research psychologist Dr. Linda R. Elliott reported on a [MORE]

Wristband Monitor

Jawbone (San Francisco, CA), a maker of personal electronics and best known for its Bluetooth headsets, will release later [MORE]

Low-Power Radio Chip for Body-Area Sensing

Two European companies-Imec (Leuven, Belgium) and Holst Centre (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) have collaborated to create an ultra-low power radio [MORE]

24/7 BP Monitor

Sleep and Blood Pressure Have an Interesting Relationship. Normally, a person’s BP drops to its lowest level [MORE]

“Angela:” The Boomers Next Hulahoop

As the “Baby Boomers” moved through history, the marketplace has responded to their wants (if not needs).  First there [MORE]