LUMOback won the Body Slam competition hosted by the USC Body Computing Lab last year and has spent the last eighteen months designing and developing a very cool product with major potential due to the prevalence of back problems, which will effect as much as 80% of the population at some point in their lives.
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NantWorks makes major move into wireless health monitoring with acquisition of Boston Life Labs
Patrick Soon-Shiong‘s NantWorks announced their first acquisition of 2012 on Tuesday buying Boston Life Labs and moving its operations across the country from Boston to Phoenix. NantCare, as the company is renamed, provides software and hardware products to enable wireless monitoring of patients’ blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, medication management and other indicators. From a […]
Apple iPhone 4S first consumer smartphone to offer Bluetooth 4.0, paving way for mobile health devices
Apple’s inclusion of Bluetooth 4.0, know also as the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol, in the new iPhone 4S may be the single greatest leap toward realizing the pervasive computing environment often referred to as “Internet of Things”.