Wearables

  • Innovative software can detect hidden and complex emotions

    Innovative software can detect hidden and complex emotions

    Researchers in the UK have conducted trials using software capable of detecting intricate details of emotions that remain hidden to the human eye. The software, which uses an ‘artificial net’ to map key features of the face, can evaluate the intensity of multiple different facial expressions simultaneously. The teams at University of Bristol and Manchester Metropolitan [...]

  • How the healthcare industry can improve efficiency, security and performance by leveraging mobile device management

    How the healthcare industry can improve efficiency, security and performance by leveraging mobile device management

    By Nadav Avni, CMO of Radix Technologies

  • Flexible sensors allow earbuds to record brain activity and exercise levels

    Flexible sensors allow earbuds to record brain activity and exercise levels

    A pair of earbuds can be turned into a tool to record the electrical activity of the brain, researchers at the University of California San Francisco have learned. They can also record levels of lactate in the body with the addition of two flexible sensors screen-printed onto a stamp-like flexible surface. Gert Cauwenberghs, a professor [...]

  • Freeing your hands in healthcare with head-mounted wearable devices

    Freeing your hands in healthcare with head-mounted wearable devices

    By Jon Arnold, VP of EMEA, RealWear Inc.

  • UK company aims to revolutionise wearable tech

    UK company aims to revolutionise wearable tech

    Health Tech World hears from the CEO of Prevayl Innovations, a company that is shaking up the wearable tech landscape with its connected clothing. The dynamic landscape of wearable technology has made huge strides in recent years, evolving from simple fitness trackers to encompassing a wide array of innovative devices that have the potential to [...]

  • New Horizons in health research

    New Horizons in health research

    The National Horizons Centre is a leading light in the emerging genomics and bioinformatics space.

  • Bodii: Clearing the road to recovery

    Bodii: Clearing the road to recovery

    Long-term injury recovery can be a frustrating experience. One single incident can lead to months or years of doctor’s appointments, physio and knock-on injuries. Bodii founder Chris Fernandes understands this all too well. In 2016, the then-aspiring footballer tore the ligaments in his knee during a training session and went on to have three more [...]

  • Falls Management – Innovations for an Ageing Population – Special Report

    Falls Management – Innovations for an Ageing Population – Special Report

  • The end of the road for in-person GP appointments?

    The end of the road for in-person GP appointments?

    Technology enabling “stay at home clinics” is set to fully transform patient’s GP experience by 2030.  In-person GP appointments may become a thing of the past, as plans get underway to put stay-at-home technology on the frontline of healthcare.  The ‘Future of General Practice’ report released by The Future Laboratory x Mjog, charts the future [...]

  • Have you seen these apps for PTSD?

    Have you seen these apps for PTSD?

    Mental health professionals are increasingly using apps with their PTSD patients. We’ve asked the experts with real, hands-on experience for their top recommendations... Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be a paralysing experience - often forcing patients to re-live frightening or dangerous trauma. Fear triggers can be so strong that re-experiencing events and emotions can have [...]