At the recently concluded CES 2018 in Las Vegas, Humon, a firm based in Cambridge, MA, was showing off its Humon Hex wearable device for measuring muscle oxygen levels. The product is intended to help athletes keep an eye on a metric that is important to optimize training routines, but that was previously difficult to […]
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Medgadget’s Best of CES 2018
CES 2018 is over. We assessed the many health-related gadgets that were shown off by a myriad of companies, concluded our deliberations, and now is the time to present the winners of Medgadget’s Best of CES 2018. We extend our congratulations to the winners! SmartSleep from Philips Here’s an exciting device with a huge potential to (Read more...)
Medgadget @ CES 2018: Prevent Head Impact Monitor Helps Detect Concussions
Prevent Biometrics is showing off its head impact monitoring technology at CES this year. We stopped by their booth to checkout an electronic mouthguard that can detect unusual movements of the head, and which provides assessments of such impacts on a paired smartphone or tablet. The technology may help detect concussions and prevent subsequent bra (Read more...)
The AliveCor KardiaBand: A Medgadget Review
In 2012, Mountain View-based AliveCor released KardiaMobile, a smartphone-connected device that could wirelessly record a single-lead ECG (aka EKG). KardiaMobile, however, is not just another novelty gadget for quantified selfers; it’s an FDA-approved Class 2 medical device that pairs with AliveCor’s comprehensive cardiac rhythm analysi (Read more...)
LEVL Body Fat Breathalyzer: A Medgadget Review
We’re right in the middle of the holidays, which for most people means festive decorations, celebrations with friends and family, and an overabundance of food. At risk of looking a bit more like Santa Claus at the start of 2018, this editor embarked on a diet and exercise journey over the past several months to […]
Accurate Health Monitoring On The Go: Interview with Dr. Shourjya Sanyal, CEO of Think Biosolution
Think Biosolution is an Irish-based wearable technology company that was co-founded by Dr. Shourjya Sanyal and Koushik Kumar Nundy in March 2016. Their first product, the QuasaR, can measure heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, and blood oxygen saturation more accurately than any other photodiode-based sensor technology available o (Read more...)
KardiaBand for The Apple Watch Records ECG, Detects Atrial Fibrillation
Watching the rhythm of your heart is getting quite a bit easier. AliveCor, the originators of the to-go ECG smartphone market, have announced FDA clearance of the KardiaBand single-lead ECG device for the Apple Watch. The device is capable of detecting atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder that’s difficult to diagnose, and (Read more...)
Body Monitoring Sensors from Shimmer Help Researchers Get Science Done
The Med in Ireland conference that we recently had a chance to visit, featured Shimmer, a successful body-sensing firm out of Dublin. The company also has offices in Cambridge, MA and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They build a variety of modular sensing devices for clinical studies, product development, and anything else that would require to record [&he (Read more...)
Medgadget Joins the Verily Baseline Project Study, Part 2: The Tech
This is the second of a two-part series about Medgadget editor Scott Jung joining the Verily Baseline Project Study. Click here to read the first part. The Project Baseline Study is a landmark, 10,000-subject trial sponsored by Verily Life Sciences (Alphabet‘s life sciences division) and coordinated in partnership with Stanford University and (Read more...)
Building Flexible Electronics from Scratch Using 3D Printers
Scientists from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute have created a way to print flexible electronic devices. The development may herald future ubiquity of flexible body-worn products that can monitor various health parameters, provide therapy, and guide users in exercise and rehabilitation routines (Read more...)
Sensoria Health Powered by Genesis Rehab Services, a Partnership to Develop Smart Aging Solutions (Interview)
Another exciting announcement from Health 2.0 is a partnership between Sensoria and Genesis Rehab Services (GRS) to develop smart aging solutions under the name, “Sensoria Health powered by Genesis Rehab Services.” Sensoria is already known as a leading developer of smart footwear and clothing products based on the Sensoria Core microel (Read more...)
Medgadget Joins the Verily Baseline Project Study, Part 1: The First Visit
Over the past few years, just about all the major tech giants have shown significant interest in health. It’s basically now a necessity for smartphones and smartwatches to contain sensors, apps, and other features to monitor your health and fitness. And many of these companies are partnering with research institutions to analyze and mine user (Read more...)
Highly Stretchable and Flexible Fiber Optic Measures Tiny Changes in Body Movements
The motion of our hands, fingers, feet, and other parts of our bodies is pretty complicated. Our bodies are curvy and their shape varies significantly from one person to the next, so accurately measuring the mechano-dynamics of different body parts requires more than just attaching accelerometers to them. There are pretty accurate electronic strain (Read more...)
Tiny Breath Acetone Sensor to Measure Fat Burning During Exercise, Help Monitor Diabetes
Those wishing to lose weight have to watch their diet, but for optimal results they also have to burn existing fat in their bodies through exercise. Any amount of exercise simply won’t do, as body fat only burns when pressed to do so by specific physiological situations. Therefore, it would be nice to know that […]
The Ozmo Smart Hydration Bottle: A Medgadget Review
It’s a common advice that you need to drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water every day. While not entirely accurate (it’s actually more like 11.5-15.5 glasses, according to Mayo Clinic, and even that is highly suspect), we wanted to see exactly how much water we were drinking daily over the summer. And for […]
Klue, a New Tracker That Claims to Detect When You’re Eating or Drinking
Klue, a new wearable tracker, was just unveiled at this year’s Health 2.0 conference in Silicon Valley. The makers of the device claim it can detect the type of activity that you’re engaged in, with a particular focus on eating and drinking. The ultimate goal of the technology is to help users adjust their habits, […]
Smartfoam Can Measure Impacts in Football Helmets
Biomedical engineers at Brigham Young University have developed a nanocomposite “smartfoam” lining for football helmets, which measures impacts and can help coaches know if a player may have sustained a brain injury. Football players risk concussions during games. If a player is involved in a collision, it can be difficult to know wheth (Read more...)
Smartphone App to Help Diagnose Concussions Anywhere and Without Expensive Equipment
Concussions are important to detect promptly. Much too often those that are affected go on doing what they were doing, blissfully unaware of being impaired and in serious danger for other injuries and oncoming symptoms of the brain trauma. Now a team at University of Washington has created a smartphone app that tracks the movement of [… (Read more...)
Algorithm Makes Smartwatches More Effective Movement Trackers
Researchers at the University of Sussex in the UK have devised an algorithm that helps smartwatches track activity more effectively by learning new movements as they happen, rather than just having a limited number of pre-programmed activities they can recognize. Wearable devices to track movement are currently very popular. At the moment, the (Read more...)
Flexible Skin Worn Electricity Generator Powered by Sweat
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed what they claim is by far the most powerful wearable fuel cells that run on sweat and produce enough electricity to energize small components such as LEDs and Bluetooth radios. The stretchable devices stick to the skin and conform to its movements, maintaining the ability to [ (Read more...)