POSTS TAGGED AS wireless

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]

Micro-Pacemaker

Research in microelectronics are leading Medtronic to assemble the parts of a heart pacemaker-a circuit board, an oscillator, a [MORE]

Cancer Detection in an Hour

Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Systems Biology have used magnetic nanoparticles, with attached protein ligands, to detect [MORE]

Implantable Device for Bariatric Medicine

“Abiliti” is the name of a implantable “gastric pacemaker” made by Intrapace, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) that is now [MORE]

Wireless Implanted Heart Monitor

When congestive heart failure patients are admitted to a hospital they may have a catheter inserted into their heart [MORE]

Eldercare Mobility App for iPad

Here is another illustration of mobility as a “vital sign” among elders.  Researchers at Wake Forest University/Baptist Medical Center [MORE]

M2M Wireless for Diabetes Monitoring

Positive ID Corporation (Delray Beach, FL, formerly Verichip Corporation) recently signed an agreement to partner with AT&T for wireless [MORE]

USDA Funding Rural Telemedicine Projects

The USDA is offering $34.7m in grants for 45 telemedicine projects and 61 for distance learning.  It appears that [MORE]

Mobile Platforms Forecast

It’s not a matter of knowing the need, but rather how to act on the need that is the [MORE]

Electronic Contact Lens

Indeed, the eye may be the window on health.  Two recent developments illustrate how engineers are building electronic sensors [MORE]

Microfluidics for Home Testing

Lab-on-a-chip devices are opening a new genre of disruptive innovations on the model of the personal blood glucose tester.  [MORE]