6 More Vital Design Tips for Wearables
Wearables are everywhere, and they’re moving past the usual smartwatch territory into new areas, like clothing, glasses, and rings. Although all wearables connect to your mobile device for a more detailed experience, we’ve come to expect a lot from the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) of wearable screens. For health app developers that […]
The Biggest Tech Trends of 2020
The last decade made one thing abundantly clear: Technology has invaded and transformed every aspect of our lives. The Internet of Things (IoT) made it possible to set the mood (and temperature) at home before you even walked through the door. Artificial intelligence (AI) now lets automobiles take the wheel. With the rise of streaming […]
5G Is Fueling the Future of Wearables
When most of us think of “wearables,” our minds go straight to smartwatches like the Apple Watch and Fitbit. They track our fitness, health, and more, and we seem to love the insights they extract from our daily habits. Although many wearables come with mobile connectivity, most of us are tethering our wearables to our […]
How a New Wearable Can Track Your Health Via Vibrations
These days, if you mention “wearables”, most people will automatically think of Fitbit and Apple Watch. And while these smartwatches track your sleep, heart rate, calories burned, and prompt you to increase your hourly movement, they’re actually monitoring very basic bodily functions. Wearables encompass so much more than smartwatches, and a team of researchers at […]
Combining Wearables and AI Can Bring Some Big Benefits to Healthcare
Wearables are a low-risk method to collect high-quality patient data around the clock. When you add artificial intelligence (AI) into the mix, you open up opportunities for smarter analysis, more actionable insights, and better results. In England, patients leaving a group of hospitals in the southeast are receiving their own wireless, connected armbands. These wearables […]
Apple’s Heart Study Shows the Future of Wearables Is Healthcare
The future of healthcare involves a combination of technologies that must work collaboratively to improve the patient’s health. These technologies include artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and wearables, among other innovations. And wearables are already taking the lead. Wearables by Apple and Fitbit work remotely to log your steps, keep a record […]
What Medical Wearables Need to Change Healthcare for the Better
Wearables that monitor patients and their medical status are gearing up to disrupt healthcare and health tracking as we know it. The global market for medical wearables will reach $12.1 billion by 2021, with most devices being in the U.S., according to Markets and Markets. This astronomical figure isn’t so surprising when you consider this: With wearables […]
This New MedTech Innovation Creates Natural Motion Through Prediction
As technology continues to improve many applications across most industries, one of the greatest improvements for us, physically and mentally, will be better healthcare and health monitoring devices. Though we have Fitbit and Garmin to help track our steps and hikes, these devices will seem rudimentary when compared to what the future will bring. Biomedical […]
This Wearable Measures Human Movement and Tendon Tension
MedTech wearables have rapidly advanced recently. Consumers are able to improve their health through a variety of available products that didn’t even exist a few years ago. But the innovation isn’t slowing down anytime soon. A new wearable out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison passed trial testing with very promising results. It measures forces on the patellar (knee), […]
MIT Made a New Wearable That Gives Your Thoughts a Voice
MedTech wearables are evolving, but the adoption by the general public has been slow. But a new device out of Boston-based MIT could change that. The wearable seemingly reads your internal voice and carries out computations, integrates with Roku, and more. Arnav Kapur led the team who developed the device, which is aptly dubbed “AlterEgo”. “Our […]