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Wellness tech: trendy gadgets for the rich, or better health for everyone?
Wellness tech can help poor people with medical conditions, but the marketing is focused on affluent people living healthy lifestyles. Read more…
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Insurance companies must embrace user-held data models
Insurance companies want to use customer behavior data to set premiums, but this raises privacy concerns. User-held data models can help. Read more…
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Wellness and health wearables need open ecosystems to thrive
Wearables companies think they can succeed with closed ecosystems. History is against them – when data is king, openness is the way forward. Read more…
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Dual-use tech for military and civilian use is the next ‘new normal’
Dual-use tech that can be used for both peaceful and military aims may become another ‘new normal’ in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war. Read more…
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Next-gen chopsticks can make your food taste saltier
Japanese researchers have developed computerised chopsticks that enhance salty tastes to help people who need to reduce sodium intake. Read more…
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Mental wellbeing and health data needs better solutions to be useful
Mental wellness is an essential part of health – data can help, but without proper software it could also make things worse. Read more…
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The smart devices market is unsustainable – here’s how to fix that
Smart devices and Silicon Valley-driven consumer electronics are not very ecological or sustainable businesses – but they could be. Read more…
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Wearables are going mainstream and still evolving: CES 2022
Health wearables have become a prominent category at CES they enter the consumer mainstream. Here’s what’s next in the pipeline. Read more…
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boAt parent to acquire Singapore-based KaHa for health wearable play
The parent company of India’s leading audio and hearable brand, boAT, is acquiring Singapore-based KaHa Pte Ltd, to augment wearables range. Read more…
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Five disruptive predictions for creating the future in 2022
2022 predictions: If the best way to predict the future is to create it, here’s our chance to think about the future we will create in 2022. Read more…
