Pristine builds telepresence enterprise and healthcare applications around wearable technology. Like many companies, it built its first round of products around Google Glass -- understandable as Google was the best-publicized visual wearable, but an unfortunate choice as Glass has retrenched. There are other (and better) visor solutions, though. With Glass off the market for … [Read more...]
Sony Talks A Little About Their Add-On Glass Prototype
Sony is working on a prototype of a visor that clips onto an existing pair of eyeglasses. The working name for the module is "SmartEyeglasses Attach!" (the exclamation point and InterCap are theirs), and they'll unveil it at CES next month. It weighs 40 grams, and uses a 640x400 pixel OLED display that's light-piped to an optical unit that sits in front of the glasses. In … [Read more...]
Glass Helps Save a Life In A Boston Emergency Department
CIO has an interesting story about a neat use of Google Glass in the emergency department of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. An ER doc was able to access and read a patient's medical records while providing emergency care -- learning from the documents that the standard treatment that was about to provided would probably have killed the guy. It's worth noting … [Read more...]
Epson Shows Moverio Visor
Epson is a familiar brand to tech lifers. They're very big in dot matrix printers, labelers, cash registers and stuff like that, but it's been a while since Twittering classes have had them in their crosshairs. But Epson's been back in the labs playing with wearable tech and are about to show their latest take. TechRadar reports that the Moverio visor isn't meant for … [Read more...]