Wesley Smith, Head of Health Sales in North America for Samsung, tells iMedicalApps about his company’s new focus on B2B over its legacy B2C business.
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USC Center for Body Computing to launch accelerator, adds BMW as a partner
USC Center for Body Computing announces it will launch its own digital health accelerator and has partnered with BMW to bring sensors to the driving experience.
Larklife is the daytime compliment to the popular Lark sleep tracker
The Lark Original and Lark Pro are devices which monitor sleep patterns, gently nudge users awake, and offer personalized advice on how to improve sleep patterns. Lark CEO Julia Lu told TechCrunch the company has sold “tens of thousands” of its devices, with 73 percent of users purportedly experiencing improvement after using Lark Pro for just one month. The company has now officially launched a daytime compliment to their sleep monitor, the Larklife, which shares many features with leading activity monitors like Nike Fuelband.
Another amazing invention from John Roger’s lab at University of Illinois
Now Rogers, in a paper published in the journal Science, has unveiled what he calls “transient electronics”, which are made of silicon, magnesium and silk, that can be implanted subcutaneously for a specific purpose and once they have served that purpose will automatically dissolve harmlessly into the human body.
New technologies hope to deliver noninvasive glucose testing sooner than later
Several recent advances in biosensor technology give hope for a day when diabetics will no longer need to prick their fingers to test glucose levels.
