POSTS TAGGED AS wearable sensors

Perspective on Wearable Sensors

Rock Health: Future of Wearables
In some ways, the market for wearable biosensors resembles the “dot com” bubble—a tremendous expansion of [MORE]

Android Wear, Apple’s Healthbook and Samsung’s Virtual “White Cane”

iWatch
People have always been anxious about their health status to some degree, but today that has become a retail healthcare [MORE]

Ad for Piezoelectric Accelerometers

Compact, Plug-n-play Accelerometer from Measurement Specialties
While this is an unpaid, unsolicited advertisement for motion detectors, it is among the kinds [MORE]

Insole Trackers

Moticon OpenGo insole
At a recent wearable sensors conference in Europe, Moticon (Munich, Germany) attracted much attention for it “OpenGo” [MORE]

Will “Mood Sweaters” Really Make Your Life More Colorful?

Mood Sweater
With the fashion for reporting peoples’ feelings and Facebook users willing to reveal their every thought online, why not [MORE]

GPS Chip for Wearable Devices

Wearables
Broadcom Corporation (Germantown, MD) is one of those “connect everything” companies which seems to have found a strategy for success.  [MORE]

UCSF and Samsung’s Center for Digital Healthcare Innovation

CDH Web mHealth Program App
What might be in store for a major medical research university in Silicon Valley teaming up [MORE]

Body-Attachable Nanowire Sensors

Silver Nanowire Sensor
Capacitance means an ability to store an electrical charge, and engineers at North Carolina State University have developed [MORE]

Hexoskin’s Sensored Clothing

Hexoskin Shirt Measuring Breathing Volume
In another month or so, the Canadian firm Hexoskin (Montreal) will begin marketing its sensored [MORE]

Wrist Worn BP Monitor

ViSi Mobile
As one medical automation authority said, “[this device] is a complete wireless ambulatory ICU,” referring to “ViSi Mobile” [MORE]

Health Sensor in a Tooth Implant

Tooth Monitor
Hybridizing the ideas of wearable and implantable sensors, engineers at National Taiwan University (Taipei City) have designed an [MORE]

Sprint’s mHealth Accelerator

Dr, Bill Crounse
Earlier this year, cellular provider Sprint announced its Mobile Health Accelerator Program whereby it will solicit applications [MORE]

“Visual Odometry”

Visual Odometry
It takes a lot of technology to simulate a sense of vision. But researchers at Auburn University [MORE]

Build Your Own Body Sensor Kit

BITalino
Want a basic tool kit of real time visualization software and sensors that track muscle activity, skin conductance, heart [MORE]