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Limitless’ $99 AI wearable to promises to remember your meetings and, well, everything else
LimitlessLimitless, formerly Rewind, is putting its meeting transcription and work productivity AI into a wearable. If you're feeling discouraged by recent reviews of a particular AI wearable, the company aims to avoid the fate of Humane's Ai Pin by focusing on one thing at a time: first up, meetings. Pendant, launched initially for effortless meeting prep, takes the
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This Small Wearable Device Reduces Parkinson’s Symptoms
In 2015, Lucy Jung was a young industrial designer working on assistive devices for stroke victims, people with multiple sclerosis, and those with other conditions which meant they struggled with fine motor control. Her projects included a pen that used high-frequency vibrations to help Parkinson’s patients write more clearly.Then she was diagnosed with a brain
The Whoop Wearable Just Got a Big Update: An AI Fitness Coach
Whoop has created a conversational AI coach designed to help you meet your health goals. Whoop Coach is powered by GPT4, the advanced generative AI system from OpenAI, and it uses the unique biometric data collected by Whoop Bands to offer personalized fitness advice and recommendations. Whoop says it's the first AI coach of its kind
A Health-Monitoring Wearable That Measures Vital Signs
The health-monitoring bracelet that Pramuka Sooriyapatabandige designed can measure vital signs such as heart rate, skin temperature, blood pressure, and blood oxygen saturation. What’s more, the device should be inexpensive to manufacture and could be made in his native country of Sri Lanka, where access to health care can be difficult. The bracelet recently won
New Wearable Device Could Help Prevent Overdose Deaths
Jan. 27, 2022 -- It’s no secret that a particular public health epidemic has only gotten worse during the COVID-19 pandemic: drug overdose deaths. From May 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 people in the U.S. died from a drug overdose, according to the CDC. About 64% of those deaths were from opioids, mostly…
Kernel flow: A wearable device for noninvasive optical brain imaging
Recent advances in brain imaging techniques facilitate accurate, high-resolution observations of the brain and its functions. For example, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a widely used noninvasive imaging technique that employs near-infrared light (wavelength >700 nm) to determine the relative concentration of hemoglobin in the brain, via differences in the light absorption patterns of hemoglobin.…