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Alphabet and Fitbit: could this be the competition the wearables segment has been waitingfor?
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has launched an offer for one of the pioneers in the wearables segment, Fitbit, an operation that makes sense given Fitbit’s disastrous performance on the NYSE and the strong growth and huge potential of the wearables…
Blood Pressure, One Of The Keys To Preventive Healthcare
A group of researchers from the University of Toronto have come up with a way to measure blood pressure accurately using a smartphone camera and a procedure similar to taking a selfie. In the coming years, healthcare will be based on a pro-active appro…
Why Our Brains Will Soon Be Able To Communicate Digitally
This is not about hooking your brain up to the internet, but instead something scientists have been speculating about for some time: digitizing our brain, the stimuli that its neurons produce, and interpreting them. What might we achieve if we can
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Guess What? It Turns Out Smartphones Aren’t A Danger To Our Children’s Health
Remember all those headlines about the dangers children face from spending too much time using their smartphones and tablets, backed up by the World Health Organization, along with guidelines for future policy? They were based on poor research, and tha…
Insurance, Wearables And The Future Of Healthcare
As technology improves the ability of devices to record data related to exercise and health, more companies are seeing the opportunities this new approach may offer. Understanding the variables of that disruption and not clinging to outdated ideas will…
Responses To Innovation: Apple Watch Vs. The Specialists
The electrocardiogram obtained by Apple Watch provides a much more imperfect and rudimentary result than a hospital or a dedicated device would. But the measurements, although less rigorous, can be taken and analyzed continuously, at any time of the da…
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