Digital Health, Wearable technology and Devices

Another series of sensors, this time for monitoring quality of local weather. There are many weather solutions out there but neatatmo intends to monitor the local (backyard) weather accurately and make specific graphs and reports about the hyper-local weather rather than rely on weather channels that supply the general weather. The instruments and the sensors…

Typically sensors are built into a mobile device and there are many applications of the sensor with a good interface. However, using those sensors require special programming or something that we all have “a phone app”. These are now almost all complete and so there is probably an app for whatever you need even if…

There are many devices that measure activity and Shine is another one. The strange thing is that it has not been released but it still seems interesting to people. It is waterproof and it is small. The device is something that would be useful to the people with FitBit and other Fuel band’s out there,…

Lapka is an interesting company. In this dangerous world it thinks we need sensors that measure things. These sensors measure radioactivity (Geiger counter), electromagnetic fields, humidity and organic content of food. These devices are not new. Many companies make them but they do it very elegantly. Their devices look good and hopefully are as functional…

Kidneys perform an essential function in the body of removing the waste – salts, many metabolites and also many other waste substances. However, in many patients this kidney is damaged and there are only two possibilities for these patients: 1.Kidney transplantation – very difficult to do, very expensive and very difficult to find a donor…

There are many fitness monitors out there from Nike’s fuel band to Fit Bit. They all promise monitoring of activity in some form or another but none are very comprehensive.One company, promises better watches and sensors – Basis. Their sensors are equipped with not just accelerometer sensors but they also capture skin sweat secretion, heart…

It is often difficult for caregivers of Schizophrenia patients to understand and fully appreciate the experience of schizophrenia patients. If you have never experienced the symptoms, then it is difficult to feel what the patient is feeling. I was sent a link to the website that has been doing just that… Dr James Cook at…

Innovations that save lives sometimes take a $1 Billion or more and many researchers while some are simple and effective. The innovation that has already saved many lives is a birth mat. Birthing process is dangerous and is a risky, messy and tedious affair to say the least. Many lives are lost in developing countries…

Nicolelis’s lab has been working on the brain machine interface. The interface will obviously help many paraplegics but could be a boost for many neurological disorders. The lab has produced monkeys that can control objects using just their brains without any motor function. Recently, they created a mouse that though could not see infrared light…

Development of any one field requires corresponding development in other fields. Sometimes the fields are so unrelated that it seems amazing that one field would have influenced the other. But consider the link between diagnostic tests and the observation that the sky is blue. This is not about “blue sky thinking” but rather a direct…