US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Sensors driving next-generation wearable devices

Sensor development is driving the next generation of wearable devices, and this development is now going further than simply attaching sensors to devices that can be stuck on the body

Collaboration to pilot wearable pain relief technology

Through this innovative collaboration, Premera will provide Quell devices to selected employees with chronic pain.

Nanomedical Diagnostcs

Nanomedical Diagnostics Inc. (Nanomed) was established in 2013 in California, USA. They are commercialising graphene-based medical sensors. This is a profile update covering their latest activities.

Google - Verily

Dr Harry Zervos spoke to Sohyun Park, a hardware engineer with Verily, previously a division of Google X and now Alphabet's research organization that focuses on developing new technologies in life sciences.Sohyun discussed with Dr Zervos some of Verily's activities in smart contact lenses and smart glasses platform developments.

Blacktrace - Fluidic Factory

IDTechEx interviewed Mark Gilligan from Blacktrace Holdings. Fluidic Factory is the world's first commercially available 3D printer for fabrication of fluidically sealed devices, for use in medical diagnostics and chemical industries.

Hivox Biotek

Hivox Biotek are a Taiwan-based company making wellness and healthcare devices, in particular several wearable devices including EMS patches, watches, blood pressure monitors and others. They sell around 2 million units annually, with a strong customer base in Asia, but also with sales via retail partners across the US and Europe.

Wearable tech meets pain relief

iTENS, the world's first FDA-cleared, true wireless TENS therapy device that works via an iPhone or Android based app, is launching in 2016.

Lubricated 3D printing filament motorised spool holder

Big spools of filament have many advantages such as reduced frequency of changing the spool and ensuring that big prints are always completed successfully.

Life saving wearable aids medics in the field

Imagine a future battlefield where an Air Force pararescue jumper treats seven wounded service members at once. He places sensors on their chests, arms and fingers, which immediately feed vital signs to a small wireless computer, no bigger than a cell phone, on his forearm.

Medical Design Solutions

Medical Design Solutions is a small design consultancy and IP holder around medical device design. With a long history in the medical device industry, they develop many diverse projects with partners, but are also developing their own work around an e-shirt, with a concept similar to that pursued by Vivometrics before they went bankrupt.

3D printing and public policy

Although legal principles apply to 3D printing the same as they apply to any other technology, 3D printing has the unique potential to upset the legal status quo. It is the potential scale of 3D printing that may have profound effects on the law.

Vision aid cleared by FDA

Wicab, Inc has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration granted Wicab's de novo application and allowed marketing of the BrainPort® V100 device in the USA.

Special glasses help surgeons 'see' cancer​​​

The high-tech glasses may help surgeons visualize cancer cells, which glow blue when viewed through the eyewear.

GSK - an end user view on Wearable Technology and Sensors

The Platform Technology & Science division of GSK is a group of around 3000 people that provides technology innovation support to the three main sections of GSK: consumer, pharmaceutical and vaccines. Within the PTS, the Innovation PTS division (iPTS) is a group of 25-30 staff looking for novel science to support the main divisions. Luis said that the majority of work they do is purely investigational, and only select projects will ever see application in other parts of the company.

Printed and organic electronics in healthcare

Printed, organic and flexible electronics is an industry that includes various components and technologies, from relatively simple electrochemical sensors to flexible X-ray detectors. From an end-user's point of view, the main advantages are disposability, large area, and conformability. In this article we focus on healthcare and review the wide range of devices targeted for medical applications.

First US hospital to use Leaf patient-wearable technology

The first US hospital to deploy the wireless Leaf Patient Monitoring System in its Labor and Delivery rooms to help reduce the duration of labor and risk of caesarian births.

Patient leaves hospital hospital without a human heart

he University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center has sent home a patient with a total artificial heart, a first in heart care in Michigan.

Cartilage to repair tracheal damage created with 3D printer

Researchers have made a medical breakthrough using 3D printing to create cartilage designed for tracheal repair or replacement.

Vancive Medical Technologies

Vancive Medical Technologies are the Medical division of Avery Dennison. Their wearable electronics product is a disposable skin patch device that does activity and health monitoring. They work with partners that want to use the data produced by the device.

Quell™ wearable pain relief technology

Quell utilizes NeuroMetrix's proprietary non-invasive neurostimulation technology to provide relief from chronic pain, such as due to diabetes, sciatica, fibromyalgia, and degenerative knee conditions.