Using wearable tech to monitor employees is kind of creepy, but what if that monitoring could save lives? InformationWeek carries an interesting perspective article that suggests hospital patient outcomes might be better if nurses were checked in real time for error-inducing fatigue. … [Read more...]
Avegant Retinal Display Prototype
Most heads-up displays work by putting a monitor close to your eyes, one way or another. cNet's got a hands-on story about the Avegant Virtual Retinal Display, a prototype that actually projects images directly onto your retina. It sounds creepy, but it is, after all, how people see: light hitting the backs of our eyes. There's a key quote from Avegant's Allan Evens, … [Read more...]
Listening to Breath
This article had us with this snippet: Using 10 years of data, which amounts to over 10,000 recordings of various people’s breathing... BreathResearch has a KickStarter campaign to raise $30,000 to build a Bluetooth smartphone headset that also tracks the sound of your breath. The interesting idea is that your breath is an important indicator of your health; by comparing how … [Read more...]
Infographic: State of Medical Wearables
If you think that wearables are a fad or something that only freaks and geeks could want, check this out: an awesome infographic from mHealthNews that deftly illustrates that it's not only freaks and geeks who are using this stuff, but docs and nurses, too. … [Read more...]
Hexoskin shirt goes Indigogo
Micro-investing seems to be the way a lot of wearable startups are raising money to build their second prototypes. Hexoskin, looking for $100,000 at Indigogo, looks maybe a little more advanced and thoughtful than most. The Hexoskin washable and strapless shirt has sensors that track movement, respiration, and heart activity -- just the stuff that athletes need to know … [Read more...]
Here’s Calico, but what is it?
Google today launched a new company called Calico, with a minor mission to extend human life. (Sorry, no link to the company.) It's headed by Art Levinson, who also chairs the boards of Apple and Genentech,so you know there's not a great deal of grass growing under his feet. In his announcement, made in a charmingly old-fashioned manner through an interview with Time … [Read more...]
MC10 and Sports Injuries
MC 10 is a Boston-based company that's deeply into wearable technologies that go way beyond buzzy products like watches. Bloomberg TV had an interview the other day with Isaiah Kacyvenski, a retired NFL linebacker with undergrad and graduate degrees from Harvard who runs MC10's sports segment. Kacyvenski talks about his instrumenting players with a sensor-laden skullcap that … [Read more...]