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Voices Inside Our Head #CES2016
The premise of The Six Million Dollar Man was that scientists could make a broken astronaut “better, stronger and faster,” after his nearly fatal crash. Fast-forward 40+ years and the ReSound hearing aid is helping out with the better part by improving hearing through a nearly invisible device. The LiNX2 hearing aid provides invisible insight into…
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The Wearable Airbag #CES2016
One of the most unusual wearables at CES 2016 was from a French company Inemotion. Inemotion invented a ski vest that contains an airbag, Packed with sensors, this device detects that a skier is falling and deploys an airbag to soften the impact of a fall; all in less than 100 milliseconds. With a focus on the…
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The Meditation App & Headband
With the buzzing of text message alerts, the temptation to check social media and the knowledge that an answer to a fleeting thought is a search away, the conventional wisdom is that technology can be distracting and an impediment to focus. Ariel Garten has a solution that uses these same tools to help people improve…
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The Body Mind Connection – Part 1
The Bodywave device from Freer Logic is a wristband that detects and reads brainwaves. The technology has already been deployed in various professional applications and now consumers will soon see this amazing technology. Gwen Sorely explains some of the applications, including sensors in a steering wheel that would detect drowsiness or games to help relieve…
