Many people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experience nightmares on a regular basis. Nighttime memories often manifest as distressing dreams or nightmares in which the event is relived. These dreams can be very hard to control, since dreams seem to have a life of their own. It is estimated that nearly 5 million Americans suffer from Nightmare Disorder in the U.S. each year through referencing PTSD diagnoses and CDC data relating to PTSD.

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Minneapolis, Minnesota-based healthcare startup Nightware has received Breakthrough Status designation from the FDA for its lead product, NightWare, which measures and treats nightmares in people with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

“We’ve seen a markedly large effect size for improved sleep quality in NightWare open label trials.  We are excited to get folks enrolled in these randomized trials to further verify the observed efficacy,” said Daniel Karlin, M.D. and Chief Medical Officer for NightWare.

NightWare is a smart watch application that runs on the Apple Watch platform. The wearable device collects biometric data through integrated sensors and uses machine learning algorithms to create a profile of an individual’s sleep patterns. The app doesn’t actually wake the wearer of the watch, but instead uses vibrotactile feedback to arouse the sleeper out of sleep. Thus, it interrupts the nightmare without interrupting the circadian sleep pattern, enabling the patient to get better and more restful sleep, said the company in a press release.

“This is truly a watershed moment for our company,” said NightWare CEO and Founder Grady Hannah. “In our initial studies, NightWare has demonstrated substantial and significant efficacy.

The FDA’s Breakthrough Status designation will enable us to complete our Randomized Clinical Trials ahead of schedule and give us the opportunity to help improve the lives of veterans and others suffering from PTSD sooner than we anticipated.” Hannah added, “Our team is humbled and excited by this FDA designation.”

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The company is currently enrolling patients in two Randomized Clinical Trials (RCTs), one of which is being conducted at VA hospitals in Minneapolis and St Cloud, Minnesota. The company is also enrolling a virtual RCT trial that is much broader in geographic scope. Interested parties can get more information about NightWare clinical trial enrollment here.

WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10

The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded funding to six organizations to support the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program. The groups will attempt to develop high-resolution, bidirectional brain-machine interfaces that match the performance of implanted electrodes without the need for surgery.

The six organizations are: Battelle Memorial Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Rice University, and Teledyne Scientific.

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The wearable interfaces could ultimately enable diverse national security applications such as control of active cyber defense systems and swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles, or teaming with computer systems to multitask during complex missions, reports DARPA.

“DARPA is preparing for a future in which a combination of unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, and cyber operations may cause conflicts to play out on timelines that are too short for humans to effectively manage with current technology alone,” said Al Emondi, the N3 program manager. “By creating a more accessible brain-machine interface that doesn’t require surgery to use, DARPA could deliver tools that allow mission commanders to remain meaningfully involved in dynamic operations that unfold at rapid speed.”

In the past 18 years, the agency has showed success in neural control of prosthetic limbs and restoration of the sense of touch to the users of those limbs, relief of otherwise intractable neuropsychiatric illnesses such as depression, and improvement of memory formation and recall. Due to the inherent risks of surgery, these technologies have so far been limited to use by volunteers with clinical need.

Nonsurgical interfaces are needed by the military’s able-bodied population to benefit from neurotechnology. Similar technology could also greatly benefit clinical populations. By removing the need for surgery, N3 systems seek to expand the pool of patients who can access treatments such as deep brain stimulation to manage neurological illnesses.

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“If N3 is successful, we’ll end up with wearable neural interface systems that can communicate with the brain from a range of just a few millimeters, moving neurotechnology beyond the clinic and into practical use for national security,” Emondi said. “Just as service members put on protective and tactical gear in preparation for a mission, in the future they might put on a headset containing a neural interface, use the technology however it’s needed, then put the tool aside when the mission is complete.”

WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10

The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

Magic Leap, the Florida-based augmented reality startup has acquired Mimesys, a Belgium-based startup behind co-presence technology that brings hologram-like projections to AR conferences. The team has been working on bringing Star Wars-esque volumetric video calls to the Magic Leap platform.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Besides simply projecting a customized avatar, Mimesys uses 3D avatars that look like you, and ramps it up by volumetrically capturing real imagery of the user to give the virtual conference an even more realistic feel. The platform already utilizes Magic Leap’s mixed reality headset, reports Pocket Gamer.

“As we expand the spatial computing ecosystem integrating a best in class communication and collaboration solution helps us to further fulfil the promise of the next computing platform,” said Magic Leap chief product officer Omar Khan.

“The spatial co-presence platform the Mimesys team has created is remarkable and we are thrilled to have them as part of our team. We look forward to further expansion of co-presence and collaboration tools on the Magic Leap platform.”

Mimesys CEO Remi Rousseau added: “Spatial Computing is going to change the way we think and work, leading to more collaborative, physically active, and magical experiences.

“We had the chance to work with Magic Leap Spatial Technology early on, were impressed by their technology and excited by the possibilities of co-presence on the platform. We are thrilled to be joining the Magic Leap family and to integrate the co-presence technologies into their spatial computing platform.”

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WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10

The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

Scientists at the Institute of Textiles and Clothing (ITC) at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have created a lightweight, highly flexible and high-energy Textile Lithium Battery that offers more stable, durable and safe energy supply for wearable electronics. The new battery can be used in a multitude of applications, such as in healthcare monitoring, smart textiles, smartphones, GPS tracking and IoT.

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The novel Textile Lithium Battery has shown high energy density of more than 450 Wh/L, and excellent flexibility – with a bending radius of less than 1mm, and foldability of over 1,000 cycles with marginal capacity degradation. In comparison, the existing bendable lithium battery can only reach a bending radius of about 25 mm, and with much lower performance of less than 200 Wh/L. The Textile Lithium Battery, of less than 0.5 mm thick, also possesses fast charging/discharging capability, and long cycle life comparable with conventional lithium batteries, says a press release.

The innovation has already won three prizes at the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva held in April this year, namely a Gold Medal and two Special Merit Awards.

“Wearable technology has been named as the next global big market opportunity after smartphones. Global market revenues for wearable devices are forecasted to grow by leaps and bounds, of over 20% annually, to reach US$100 billion by 2024. [1] As all wearable electronics will require wearable energy supply, our novel technology in fabricating Textile Lithium Battery offers promising solution to a wide array of next-generation applications, ranging from healthcare, infotainment, sports, aerospace, fashion, IoT to any sensing or tracking uses that may even exceed our imagination of today,” said Professor ZHENG Zijian, who leads the ITC research team.

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In today’s market, lithium battery is the most popular type of rechargeable battery due to its relatively high energy density and long cycle life. To enable lithium battery to be used in wearable devices, scientists, over the past decade have been trying to develop bendable lithium battery, often by using metal foils as current collectors. However, it is only until the emergence of PolyU’s Textile Lithium Battery that the bottlenecks over energy density, flexibility, mechanical robustness and cycling stability being able to be addressed.

Laboratory tests conducted by the ITC team have shown the new Textile Lithium Battery to be highly durable, stable and safe.

WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10

The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

Boston, MA-based human performance company WHOOP introduced next-gen WHOOP Strap 3.0 featuring WHOOP Live – a suite of improved features for real time data collection. Kristen Holmes, VP of Performance at WHOOP will be part of the panel discussion at the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10. Together with the NFL Players Association, we will be discussing the use of wearables and data analytics for protection, health and media in professional sports in this panel.

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WHOOP is a wrist-worn wearable device that is designed to improve training, sleep and lifestyle choices with real-time feedback on the body. Its effortless social media integration further augments the user experience with compelling graphic design and easy in-app capture for ultimate connectivity. The new WHOOP Strap 3.0 allows users to share live data and progress with trainers, coaches, friends, and connect with the WHOOP community at large, said the company in a press release.

“Data collection and accuracy have always been first and foremost at WHOOP. Through algorithmic breakthroughs, we’ve now found ways to optimize battery life while maintaining incredible accuracy. The result is a product with better ease of use and real-time coaching,” said Will Ahmed, Founder & CEO of WHOOP.

WHOOP Live features include:

• Strain Coach: Get exertion level recommendations based on the body’s recovery. When training begins, WHOOP will show whether the user needs to push harder, is overdoing it, or has reached their goal.
• WHOOP Snap+: Overlay WHOOP data onto videos or photos. Whether recording alone or with a trainer/friend, the user can see how strain, heart rate, and calories evolve over the course of any activity. Videos and photos can be saved, analyzed, and shared.
• HR Broadcast: Users can easily connect to their favorite BLE compatible apps and devices, including Peloton, Wahoo computers, Concept2 ergometers, Strava, and TrainerRoad.

WHOOP Strap 3.0 comes with the new ProKnit band – sturdy and stretchy band, engineered for maximum comfort, sweat absorption and pressure displacement. Optimizations in hardware, firmware, Bluetooth, and data architecture have contributed to an unprecedented 5-day battery life (considerably longer than the WHOOP Strap 2.0’s 40-hour charge). The new WHOOP also offers an opportunity to reflect users’ personal style, launching in three new colors: Onyx, Carbide and Arctic.

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WHOOP Live is only available in combination with the WHOOP Strap 3.0. New members receive the WHOOP Strap 3.0 for free with a 6, 12, or 18-month plan. Existing members can upgrade for as low as the cost of renewal, based on membership status. WHOOP is only available at WHOOP.com.

WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10

The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

Amazon is reportedly working on a wearable that will tell you to calm down when you’re angry. According to the latest report from Bloomberg, the wrist-worn, voice activated device is able to read human emotions. Amazon would be able to collect emotion information and perhaps share it with other health products, Bloomberg’s sources say.

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Bloomberg also reports that Amazon’s new device would use the emotion data to serve relevant ads or product recommendations to people based on their emotional state. For example, when a person is happy the device will show them ad or product recommendation that would suit his or her happy state of mind. If a person is feeling sad, angry, fearful or any type of negative emotions, that person would get different recommendations to suit their mood.

Bloomberg reviewed internal Amazon documents, which reportedly show the Alexa voice software team and Amazon’s Lab126 hardware division are collaborating on the wearable in development.

“Designed to work with a smartphone app, the device has microphones paired with software that can discern the wearer’s emotional state from the sound of his or her voice, according to the documents and a person familiar with the program. Eventually the technology could be able to advise the wearer how to interact more effectively with others,” reports Bloomberg.

Amazon’s new venture suggests the company might be on to something. According to a 2016 Nielsen research, ads that considered human emotion and elicited an emotional response generated a 23% gain in sales volume, compared to those that didn’t include emotional elements.

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A diagram in the patent filed in 2017, says “the technology can detect an abnormal emotional condition and shows a sniffling woman telling Alexa she’s hungry. The digital assistant, picking up that she has a cold, asks the woman if she would like a recipe for chicken soup,” Bloomberg reports.

WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10

The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures, sensations, and sometimes loss of awareness. Seizure symptoms can vary widely. Some people with epilepsy simply stare blankly for a few seconds during a seizure, while others repeatedly twitch their arms or legs. However, there isn’t much you can do to stop a seizure once it starts. But advancements in wearable technology is allowing the patient and their loved ones to know beforehand when a seizure will occur. Now, a team of European researchers believe they have found a way to halt seizures with the help of tiny flakes of graphene.

Tiny Graphene Flakes to Stop Epileptic Seizures

The researchers from Sissa (International School for Advanced Studies) in Italy, and the Universities of Trieste, Manchester, and Strasbourg, have shown that these particles are able to interfere with the transmission of the signal at excitatory neuronal synaptic junctions. Furthermore, in animal models the research team demonstrated that they do so in a reversible manner because they disappear without leaving a trace a few days after they have been administered. The injection was done directly into the brain using a syringe, but there was no noticeable increase in inflammation or immune response, reports MedGadget.

AI System Can Predict Epileptic Seizure

Scientists in Australia have developed a low-cost wearable that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) system to predict and alert an epileptic patient when a seizure is likely to strike. The predictive algorithm has sensitivity of up to 81.4% and false prediction rate as low as 0.06/hour. For their study, researchers proposed a generalized, patient-specific, seizure-prediction technique that can alert epilepsy sufferers within 30 minutes of the probability of a seizure.

Embrace2: The world’s most advanced smartband for epilepsy monitoring

Embrace2 is a FDA-cleared smartband that uses advanced machine learning to detect unusual patterns that may be associated with convulsive seizures, and immediately notifies caregivers. It also provides rest and physical activity analysis to better understand your lifestyle. And with fast charging and a 48+ hour battery life, it gives you more freedom to do more of what you love. Beyond helping people with epilepsy better monitor their seizures, Embrace2 also tracks rest and physical activity, providing valuable insights into your health.

Nightwatch: Wearable Night Time Seizure Detection Device

Researchers at Kempenhaeghe and Eindhoven University of Technology in collaboration with multiple partners have developed nighttime seizure alert device for people with epilepsy. Nightwatch, the wearable device is designed to wear at night. It alerts the caregiver of imminent seizure by triggering an alarm. The device is an upper arm strap-on that measures the heart rate and movement of the sleeping person, directly from the body. There is no discomfort. You almost don’t notice that you’re wearing the armband.

SeizeIT2 Detects Seizure Precisely and Discreetly

European organization EIT Health partnered with several other European companies and Universities to deliver a clinically accurate seizure detection system called SeizeIT2. This discrete wearable device monitors several biosignals to allow a more precise quantitative analysis of seizure activity, so that people with epilepsy can receive treatment optimized for their specific condition, reports EIT Health. The first prototype of this wearable allows comfortable and unobtrusive seizure monitoring outside of a hospital setting. Accuracy level of SeizeIT2 is 70-90%, compared to the typical accuracy level of less than 50% in a seizure diary, and the device offers an improved patient experience.

WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10

The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

After gaining a major market share as a successful sleep tracker, Oura ring now has a new feature called Moment, which can track your meditation and other mindfulness practices.

“What I’ve appreciated the most about the Oura Ring is that simply wearing it is a powerful reminder of how important sleep is to my health. Now, with the Moment feature, I have a great reminder of my meditation practice, and one that will help me understand how I’m doing,” said Jack Dorsey, Founder and CEO of Twitter and Square.

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Built on Oura’s sleep tracking features, Moment gives users with information about their heart rate, HRV, body temperature, respiratory rate, and sleep stages. The app also provides analysis of optimal sleep schedules, sleep trends over time, readiness for peak mental and physical performance, and overall recovery, said the company in a press release.

Moment uses resting heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) to track the impact of a session, two data points highly correlated with stress and heart health. Oura Ring users can now see precisely how meditation affects stress levels, sleep, and overall health.

Oura was deliberately designed as a ring (rather than a wrist worn device) because the arterial pulse at the finger delivers a significantly more accurate reading than what can be collected from the wrist. The Oura Ring measures blood volume pulse directly from the palmar arteries of the finger with infrared LED sensors. The personalized data allow users to work toward decreasing stress and increasing heart health.

“Oura is solving a universal problem of helping people to get enough quality sleep. Moment is a natural adjacency of the Oura Ring into the growing meditation space, I’m excited that companies like Oura are helping users understand the connection between body and mind,” said Michael Dell, Chair and CEO of Dell Technologies and MSD Capital, an investor in Oura.

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Oura Ring’s performance has convinced well-known biohackers and longevity leaders like Bulletproof founder Dave Asprey and tech leaders like Digg founder Kevin Rose to become investors in the company. Oura is also worn by professional athletes like Drew Brees, Kevin Love, Lance Armstrong, and Manu Ginobili and actress Ali Landry.

WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10

The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is beta amyloid plaque – clumps of protein that builds up in the brain and destroys neuron cell connections. Now, researchers at UC Davis Health and UC San Francisco have developed a machine learning tool that can detect if a sample of brain tissue has one type of amyloid plaque or another, and do it very quickly.

This is a proof of concept for a machine-learning approach to distinguishing critical markers of the disease.

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The findings suggest that machine learning can add to the expertise and analysis of a neuropathologist. The tool allows them to analyze thousands of times more data and ask new questions otherwise impossible with the limited data processing capabilities of highly trained human experts, reports UC Davis.

“We still need the pathologist,” said Brittany N. Dugger, an assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and lead author of the study. “This is a tool, like a keyboard is for writing. As keyboards help writing workflows, digital pathology paired with machine learning helps with neuropathology workflows.”

Another researcher in this project Michael J. Keiser, an assistant professor in UCSF’s Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, designed a “convolutional neural network” (CNN), a computer program designed to recognize patterns based on thousands of human-labeled examples.

To teach the CNN algorithm how Dugger analyzes brain tissue, the researchers devised a method that allowed her to rapidly label tens of thousands of images from a collection of half a million taken from 43 healthy and diseased brain samples.

This database labeled example images was used by the UCSF team to train their CNN machine-learning algorithm to identify different types of brain changes seen in Alzheimer’s disease. This includes discriminating between so-called cored and diffuse plaques and identifying abnormalities in blood vessels. The researchers showed that their algorithm could process an entire whole-brain slice slide with 98.7% accuracy. They confirmed the computer’s identification skills were biologically accurate.

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“If we can better characterize what we are seeing, this could provide further insights into the diversity of dementia,” Dugger said. “It opens the door to precision medicine for dementias.” She added, “These projects are phenomenal examples of cross-disciplinary translational science; neuropathologists, a statistician, a clinician, and engineers coming together, forming a dialogue and working together to solve a problem.”

The findings of the study were published in the journal Nature Communications.

WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10

The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

Google has launched the second edition of its Glass Enterprise Edition for $999 in the U.S. Glass Enterprise Edition 2 looks the same from the first enterprise-focused variant, but it now runs Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR1 chip. Pankaj Kedia, Global Head for Smart Wearables at Qualcomm will be speaking at the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10.

Like its predecessor, the Glass is not being sold directly to consumers. It’s aimed at workers in logistics and manufacturing helping them to be more efficient.

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“Glass Enterprise Edition 2 helps businesses further improve the efficiency of their employees. As our customers have adopted Glass, we’ve received valuable feedback that directly informed the improvements in Glass Enterprise Edition 2,” Google said in a blog.

The Glass Enterprise Edition 2 is also a great tool for physicians in hospitals and clinics.

“A typical doctor spends about 2 hours a day to write notes on visits they conducted. And because I have glass, typing that out for me in real-time, I am not worrying about going back four hours later trying to remember all the details of the visit. It’ll help us be better doctors,” says Dr. Albert Chan, Chief of Digital Patient Experience, Sutter Health.

Google noted the glass has “significantly more powerful multicore CPU” and new AI engine compared to the previous Intel Atom chip on EE1. It also features 3GB of LPDDR4, 32GB eMMC Flash, and runs Android Oreo, reports 9to5 Google.

It features an improved camera performance and quality. The Glass comes equipped with an 8-megapixel camera with 80-degree FOV remains in the same position as before with privacy LED for the camera and to denote power on the rear. USB-C charges the 820mAh battery with fast charge available.

Google partnered with Smith Optics to add new safety frames to Glass. Glass also now runs on Android, with support for Android Enterprise Mobile Device Management.

Other specs include a single 6-axis Accel/Gyro and 3-axis Mag, as well as water and dust resistance.

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“We’re committed to providing enterprises with the helpful tools they need to work better, smarter and faster. Enterprise businesses interested in using Glass Enterprise Edition 2 can contact our sales team or our network of Glass Enterprise solution partners starting today. We’re excited to see how our partners and customers will continue to use Glass to shape the future of work,” Google said.

WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10

The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

Singapore-based smart wearables startup KaHa has raised $6.2 million in a Series B funding to accelerate its growth in Asia. The founding round was led by ICT Fund, a specialized deep-tech venture capital fund focused on deep-tech investments.

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The company will the new fund to boost its research and development and scale its operations in the Asia Pacific region – the world’s fastest growing smart wearables market, outperforming Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

“Apart from helping us expand our product line, this new round of funding will allow KaHa to discover more breakthrough products that can support the health and wellness, sports and fitness, safety and digital payments needs, as well as increase the COVE platform’s availability internationally and improve our accessibility and affordability,” said Pawan Gandhi, Founder and CEO of KaHa.

KaHa was incorporated in 2015 by Pawan Gandhi, Justin Tang and Sudheendra Shantaram. The company runs an end-to-end IoT platform for smart wearables including electronics design, printed circuit board assembly, application framework for iOS and Android, cloud services, data analytics and smart after-sales service tool, reports SME Street.

The platform also enables partners and customers to incorporate the latest technology without high financial costs and speed up their go-to-market time for smart products.

KaHa is expecting the number of devices powered by its platform to exceed two million by the end of 2019.

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“We are delighted to partner with KaHa, which is well placed to capitalize on the fast-growing market opportunity in smart wearables. Consumer product brands will increasingly need to offer ‘smart’ products to maintain leadership and KaHa, with its innovative end-to-end platform, is a perfect partner for global brands,” said Brijesh Pande, managing partner of ICT Fund.

As part of its expansion plan, KaHa plans to increase manpower at its Singapore headquarters and offices in China, India and Switzerland within the next two years.

WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10

The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

Is the hot weather becoming unpleasant, making you uncomfortable to walk down the street? Not to worry, U.S. scientists have developed a wearable patch that could give you personalized cooling and heating at home, work or on the go.

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Developed by researchers from the University of California-San Diego, the soft, stretchy patch cools or warms a user’s skin to a comfortable temperature and keeps it there as the ambient temperature changes.

The novel patch is powered by a flexible, stretchable battery pack and can be embedded in clothing and wearing it could help save energy on air conditioning and heating, reports UC-San Diego press release.

“This type of device can improve your personal thermal comfort whether you are commuting on a hot day or feeling too cold in your office,” said Renkun Chen, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering who led the study.

The device, which is at the proof-of-concept stage, could also save energy.

“If wearing this device can make you feel comfortable within a wider temperature range, you won’t need to turn down the thermostat as much in the summer or crank up the heat as much in the winter,” Chen said in a paper published in the journal Science Advances.

Made of thermo-electric alloys, the device is also comfortable and convenient to wear. It physically cools or heats the skin to a temperature that the wearer chooses.

“You could place this on spots that tend to warm up or cool down faster than the rest of the body, such as the back, neck, feet or arms, in order to stay comfortable when it gets too hot or cold,” said study’s first author Sahngki Hong.

The goal is to create smart clothing by combining multiple patches together that can work as a personalized cooling and heating system.

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The researchers are now working to integrate the patches into a prototype cooling and heating vest.

“We’ve solved the fundamental problems, now we’re tackling the big engineering issues — the electronics, hardware and developing a mobile app to control the temperature,” Chen said.

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For a limited time (until May 28^th), Nuheara is offering IQstream TV for free when you buy IQbuds BOOST. IQstream TV gives you control of your own volume levels, allowing others with you to watch tv at comfortable levels. Shipping starts in early June.

Related Nuheara Building Ecosystem for Hearables with its IQStream TV

IQbuds BOOST allows you to hear better at a fraction of the cost of traditional hearing devices – and now with IQStream TV you can enjoy watching TV with crystal-clear stereo sound at the volume you want, while others listen at the volume they prefer. No need to blast the TV volume anymore!

Around the world, millions of people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss struggle to hear the television, resulting in uncomfortably loud TV volumes. To compensate for hearing challenges, some people crank up the TV volume to a level that becomes unpleasant for others sitting in the same room, reports Nuheara.

For those with some degree of hearing loss, the experience of watching TV is frustrating. Additionally, the solution is often more complex than simply turning up the volume. As Dr. Meredith Scharf of Manhattan Audiological Services in New York told Consumer Reports in a recent interview:

“We see this issue quite a bit, especially with our older patients. It’s not just volume; it’s clarity any time there’s a high background level of noise. It can be with speech and conversations, as well as with TV.”

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The supplied cables make it easy to connect IQstream TV to any TV in the household. The Nuheara App automatically identifies IQstream TV and connects with a tap.

You can also set up IQstream in multiple rooms for personalized audio throughout the house.

“IQbuds BOOST allows you to hear better at a fraction of the cost of traditional hearing devices – and now with IQStream TV you can enjoy watching TV with crystal-clear stereo sound at the volume you want, while others listen at the volume they prefer. No need to blast the TV volume anymore!” said the company in a press release.

WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco on July 9-10

The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

Traditional wearable devices can monitor step count, heart rate, blood pressure and even blood glucose. However, these devices have limited functionality and have issues around accuracy, calibration and reliability. A team of scientists at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden want to change all that. So, they’ve developed multi-purpose electrochemical sensors to take measurements of blood and sweat.

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These sensors can be incorporated into skin-patches, woven into clothes, deployed as microneedles, or even integrated with existing sensors such as accelerometers and ECG, to provide a broad-spectrum overview of important physical parameters, reports New Atlas.

“Both technology platforms can be used in medical contexts at home or during athletic activity. They could also be tools in hospitals and clinics,” says Gaston Crespo, an Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Physical Chemistry at KTH.

What sets these sensors apart from traditional sensors is that these multi-purpose sensors are able to measure a wide range of important biochemical compounds such as sodium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, ammonium, glucose, uric acid, as well as amino acids like glycine. These sensors can also detect a range of problems. Such as dehydration, electrolyte balance and kidney problems.

“Kidney problems in particular are associated with the secretion of potassium ions for example and creatinine level in blood, which the technology can identify,” says Crespo.

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During intense physical exertion, lactic acid can build up in your bloodstream faster than you can burn it off and this is something the sensors can continuously monitor during the course of training.

“The sensors can also measure how stressed a person is, and their attentiveness,” Crespo said.

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Coros, a Redmond, Washington-based sports tech start-up focused on endurance sports wearables, launched VERTIX GPS Adventure Watch. Described as the “biggest product launch in company history,” the smartwatch is the longest lasting, most powerful watch ever built and will help make running, cycling, climbing, and other activities safer and more efficient for all explorers.

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Features of VERTIX GPS watch include:

• Extended 45-days of battery life in regular use and 60+ hours of battery life in full GPS mode
• Innovative Altitude Mode. This is designed with mountain climbing in mind, and it provides 24/7 blood oxygen monitoring, altitude performance assessment and built-in alert system to notify the user when they are safe to resume climbing.
• Industry leading low temperature performance. Works down to -4°F/-20°C with less than a 30% depreciation in battery performance. Extreme temperature testing showed 21 hours of battery in GPS mode at -22°F/-30°C.
• Four color options including the unique “Ice-Breaker” model with a clear casing that lets the user see inside the unit.

A variety of climbers, runners and outdoor explorers have tested the watch in various conditions in the last few months, said the company in a press release.

More features and specs include:

• Titanium frame and bezel with Sapphire Glass screen
• 150-meter water proof – the only GPS watch with this rating
• 150 hours of battery life in UltraMax GPS mode
• Navigation with interactive touch screen for easy viewing
• Detailed training metrics and performance evaluations
• Barometric Altimeter for precise altitude readings
• Oximeter to measure blood oxygen levels
• 76g – the lightest watch in its class

“As someone who is personally passionate about both climbing and trail running and who aspires to train for big mountain expeditions, I could not be more excited to bring VERTIX to those who share my love for the outdoors,” said Lewis Wu, CEO of COROS. “VERTIX is the longest lasting, most powerful and incredible GPS watch ever built and will make adventures safer and more efficient for all explorers.”

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The VERTIX GPS will be available for purchase on coros.com and at select running and outdoor specialty retailers. Shipping will begin on or before Tuesday June 4th with a suggested retail price starting at $599.

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The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19

MC10, a Massachusetts-based startup specializing in wearable digital health sensors, and AbbVie, a global biopharmaceutical company, are working together on clinical trials in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) using the BioStamp nPoint system.

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The new partnership aims to explore the use of data from the nPoint® System in order to provide unique insights into MS clinical studies.

“We are excited to work with a world leader in CNS therapies and look forward to exploring novel data and metrics that help to advance clinical development,” said Dr Arthur Combs, Chief Medical Officer of MC10.

BioStamp nPoint System, which received 510(k) from the FDA, was developed for use in clinical trials and other applications for the continuous collection of physiological data. The system is optimized for both in-home and in-clinic use. The BioStamp nPoint System reports vital signs, activity and postural classifications and a suite of sleep metrics. Today, numerous pharmaceutical companies and academic research across several therapeutic areas use this system, said MC10 in a press release.

Dr. Michael Gold, Vice President, Development Neurosciences, of AbbVie said:

“We are excited to explore the BioStamp nPoint System’s ability to unobtrusively collect clinically relevant data continuously from subjects in more natural settings. This technology has the potential to improve the quality of data we collect and at the same time reduce the burden on study participants.”

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Based in Lexington, Massachusetts, MC10 combines its proprietary ultra-thin, flexible body-worn sensors with advanced analytics to unlock health insights from physiological data.

Lake Bluff, Illinois-based AbbVie was founded in 2013 as a spin-off of Abbott Laboratories.

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Optune, a wearable device from Novocure delivers Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) to slow down or stop glioblastoma cancer cells from dividing, and destroys the cancer without disrupting healthy, resting cells.

Glioblastoma is the most aggressive cancer that begins within the brain. Glioblastoma can occur at any age, but tends to occur more often in older adults. It can cause worsening headaches, nausea, vomiting and seizures.

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Optune® is intended as a treatment for adult patients (22 years or older) with histologically-confirmed glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).

Here’s How Optune Works

• GBM tumor cells divide quickly, creating more and more cells that form a mass, or tumor
• When Optune is turned on, it creates low-intensity, wave-like electric fields call Tumor Treating Fields, or TTFields. These TTFields are delivered by transducer arrays to the location of a GBM tumor
• TTFields interfere with GBM tumor cell division. This action slows or stops GBM cells from dividing, and may destroy them

Clinical Study

A large clinical study showed that people who added Optune to chemotherapy had a greater chance of living longer than those who used chemotherapy alone.

Participants in the study were also able to maintain their mental, emotional, and physical well-being longer than those on chemotherapy alone.

Nearly half of people on Optune plus chemotherapy were alive at 2 years compared with 31% of people on chemotherapy alone, reports optune.

Getting Used to Optune

Although it may take some time to get used to wearing Optune, head shaving and applying the transducer arrays will soon become part of your daily routine.

Continuous treatment with Optune can be received almost anywhere. With the doctor’s approval, you can use Optune while you go about your daily routine at work, while traveling, and at social functions. Your nCompass team at Novocure can work with you to provide ongoing support, such as additional batteries, that can make using Optune at your office or while traveling possible.

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Optune is Not for Everyone

Talk to your doctor if you have:

• An implanted medical device (programmable shunt), skull defect (missing bone with no replacement), or bullet fragment. Optune has not been tested in people with implanted electronic devices, which may cause the devices not to work properly, and Optune has not been tested in people with skull defects or bullet fragments, which may cause Optune not to work properly
• A known sensitivity to conductive hydrogels (the gel on the arrays placed on the scalp like the ones used on EKGs). When Optune comes into contact with the skin, it may cause more redness and itching or may rarely cause a life-threatening allergic reaction

Do not use Optune if you are pregnant or are planning to become pregnant. It is not known if Optune is safe or effective during pregnancy.

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Leading nanoelectronics research and innovation hub imec and its spinoff Bloomlife have showcased a prototype of the world’s first wearable 5-channel ECG chip to continuously and accurately monitor fetal heart rate and mobility at the FutureSummits this week.

Fetal heart rate and mobility are the two important indicators of a baby’s wellbeing. The new system can accurately measure the fetal ECG as early as week 20 in a woman’s pregnancy.

Related Bloomlife Pregnancy Tracker Keeps You and Your Baby Safe by Monitoring Contractions

Although often a time of excitement, pregnancy can come with uncertainty. The parents may worry about the baby’s wellbeing. At-home pregnancy monitoring systems could take away some of that uncertainty and provide valuable insights and data. However, today’s wearable solutions are typically limited to tracking maternal health parameters, spot-checking or contraction monitoring and are not providing a real-time, continuous report of a baby’s wellness.

Bloomlife’s purposely-built BeatleIC chip, which leverages imec’s unique integrated circuit (IC) technology know-how, is the only chip on the market today that has all required characteristics to accurately track a fetus’ wellbeing indicators – such as heart rate and mobility – throughout the second half of a woman’s pregnancy. Existing chips either consume too much energy to be of any practical use in wearable solutions or are not capable of tracking the right fetal parameters, reports a news release.

The BeatleIC chip features:

• A 5-channel ECG sensor to enable simultaneous recording of all perinatal health related signals
• Low power consumption to enable long-term and continuous use (featuring a battery lifetime of approximately one week on a coin cell)
• High accuracy to enable fetal ECG data acquisition at very low amplitude levels (between 3 and 15µV peak-peak)

“Our next step in bringing this technology to market includes a clinical trial to further validate the chip’s measurement results. And, ultimately, we plan to launch not only a consumer product – consisting of a sensor device integrated in a wearable patch and a smartphone application – but also a risk management platform that can be used by medically qualified staff. We are excited about the significant impact of these advancements as we continue to work towards our mission to bring much overdue innovation and solutions to help solve the biggest challenges in prenatal care, including preterm birth,” says Eric Dy, Co-Founder/CEO at Bloomlife.

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Nick Van Helleputte, R&D manager circuit development for connected health solutions at imec described this collaborative effort with Bloomlife as a concrete example of how his company’s expertise in nanoelectronics and digital technologies translates into increasingly smaller, accurate and yet more energy-efficient components that find their way in a wide variety of applications. “When it comes to developing smart health solutions, in particular, imec’s research and insights in wearable technology and artificial intelligence can provide partner companies with a significant head start. Efforts like these are fully in line with our ambition to bringing wearable health technology within the reach of everyone, helping people track health parameters over extended periods of time so as to identify health risk factors and illness triggers,” he said.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) is setting up a global multi-disciplinary technical group to advise it on issues related to digital health. The newly-established Digital Health Department will work to harness the power of digital health technologies and steer developments to contribute to the attainment of all people to the highest level of health through the General Program of Work (GPW13) triple billion goals and Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages). World Health Assembly resolution WHA/71 A71 underpins this work.

Related World Health Organization Releases First Guideline on Digital Health Adoption

WHO is establishing roster of experts in various areas related to digital health, such as strategic approaches, areas for intervention and governance structures for regulations and adoption of digital health solutions and products. Some of those experts will be selected to be part of a technical advisory group, and others may be called on to be part of specific subgroups, reports WHO.

The advisory group will:

1. Provide high-level global strategic advice and support to the WHO Secretariat on the Organization’s digital health vision and strategy, thereby facilitating WHO’s positioning and comparative advantage in the subject to enable maximum impact
2. Review the digital health frontier landscape and advise the WHO Secretariat on possible effective new areas for intervention in that subject

Members of the technical advisory group will have understanding of and experience working in digital health, national or large-scale digital health programs and policy, artificial intelligence and health, virtual and augmented reality in healthcare, biomedical innovation, robotic surgery, wearable technologies, health and wellness, traceability (e.g. block chain) and health, ethics, governance and security in in healthcare ecosystem with a focus on digital health, health economics with a focus on digital health and health law with focus on digital health technologies).

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The most innovative wearables event will be back on July 9-10 in beautiful San Francisco at SEMICON West to celebrate the 34th edition of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. Topics include data analytics in professional sports, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation with wearables, the future of digital health, medication and adherence, smart patches, workflow optimization and workforce safety and much more – featuring international leaders and experts of the wearables industry´s biggest names including Abbott, Autodesk, Datwyler, Kopin, Maxim Integrated, Multek, NFLPA, Omron, SharkDreams, Qualcomm, and many more. Register now to be part of #WTUS19