Bruce Brown

We have written about automatic blood glucose level monitoring, insulin pumps, and closed-loop artificial pancreas systems from companies such as Medtronic. People with diabetes rely on accurate blood glucose level...

Last September Amazon announced Alexa Together, an elder care subscription service. On December 7, Amazon launched Alexa Together with a free, limited-time six-month trial. The same day, Vayyar Imaging announced its...

Supply chain disruptions and shipping delays likely impacted shipments in Q3 2021, but despite these pandemic-related challenges, global wearables shipments increased 9.9% year-over-year (YoY) during the quarter....

We’ve written about various wearable technologies that detect fatigue, including a hat, pants, and even an exoskeleton. Netherlands-based AirBliss+ plans to introduce GIBLI — a smart respirator that also detects...

Earlier this year, we wrote about a brain-computer interface (BCI) developed by Stanford University researchers that enabled a paralyzed individual to turn his thoughts to written sentences. The Stanford BCI platform...

We periodically write about market research reports from reputable firms that track wearables. We cover reports from IDC, Gartner, and IDTechEx, among others. These reports typically include data from the previous...

ReWalk Robotics is a Marlborough, Massachusetts-based company that specializes in wearable assistive robotic medical devices for patients with lower-limb disabilities. We have written about ReWalk technologies multiple...

One of the strongest arguments in favor of free weights over weight machines for strength training has to do with symmetry. The problem is that humans aren’t symmetrical. People with minimal asymmetry often can power...

We’ve covered a smattering of COVID-19 detection technologies that use voice samples, smart rings, smartphone apps that listen to coughs, and even fitness band data. In late October, OSU announced that researchers...

If CES ever brews up a Lifetime Innovations Awards Achievement Award (LIAAA), Vuzix will be in the running. This year CES named the augmented reality (AR) and smart glasses trailblazer as a double CES 2022 Innovation...

Here’s a slam dunk story about a home-based smart device paired with AI-driven analysis to improve health and wellbeing. Independence Blue Cross and virtual care management company Podimetrics recently agreed to use...

Lazy eye, or amblyopia, affects 2% to 3% of all children and is the most common cause of vision loss during childhood, according to the CDC. In 2018 we wrote about doctors at the Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in...

Less than 40 years ago, in 1986, the U.S. patent office granted the first patent for 3D printing to Charles Hull. Hull founded 3D Systems Corp. that same year and introduced the first 3D printer, the SLA-1, in 1988....

Apple introduced Siri, the digital voice assistant, with the Apple iPhone 4s in 2011. Amazon introduced Alexa in 2013 with the Echo smart speaker. Google launched Google Assistant in 2016. While Siri may be available...

For many elderly people, their greatest fear is of an unexpected fall that will be the beginning of the end. According to April 2021 World Health Organization Falls data, falls are the second most common cause of...

Eko Devices continues to upgrade its cardiopulmonary digital health technology. We first wrote about Eko in 2018 when the Oakland, California-based company collaborated with the Mayo Clinic to develop a tool for...

Upper-leg amputees fitted with prosthetic legs expend an extraordinary amount of energy when walking, according to researchers at the University of Utah’s Bionic Engineering Lab. The engineers cited a study from The...