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health

Lumen Hit Their Indiegogo Funding Goal

Lumen, a digital health and wellness company reinventing weight management and performance optimization through science and technology, quickly hit their $50,000 funding goal on Indidgogo in just three hours. Lumen, the pocket-sized device that hacks metabolism in real-time, has helped beta users lose an average of 6.8 pounds in 30 days, and has quickly gained popularity amongst consumers since the

Activinsights Measures Health at Wearable Technology Show

Activity trackers with built-in heart rate monitors are incredible pieces of technology. Sophisticated electronics crammed into a tiny space at relatively inexpensive cost and generating vast swathes of data. Fantastic as these devices are, they're aimed squarely at consumers. There's no guarantee that a thousand steps is a thousand steps. For medical applications, a validated wearable is required and these devices

Rubi Pregnancy Monitor at Wearable Technology Show

In my experience, expecting a new baby is a conflicting mix of emotions ranging from total joy to sheer terror...and I'm the dad. For mums-to-be there's the extra worry from carrying the baby and 78% of women experience unhealthy levels of stress and anxiety during pregnancy. These concerns are not entirely unfounded as the risk of miscarriages and stillbirths is

Hospital VR Experience for Children at Wearable Technology Show

It's stressful enough as an adult to go into hospital for an operation or procedure. Much as you know it's for your own good and the doctors are there for your benefit, hospitals are still unfamiliar territory for most people and there are machines which you're not quite to sure what they do and whether the beeping noise is normal.

Digital Health London Innovates with NHS at Wearable Technology Show

The British National Health Service (NHS) is often thought of as a single organisation but it's more of a Hydra-esque organism made of many semi-autonomous agencies each with their area of expertise and sources of funding. Consequently, it can be hard for entrepreneurs and startups to engage with the NHS - where do you start? I chat with Rose from

Marvel-lous Massage Chairs at CES 2018

There are massage chairs and then there are BodyFriend massage chairs. With these chairs, it's not so much getting a gentle pummelling from a recliner as putting on Iron Man's exoskeleton with Jarvis as your masseur. Todd gets a sensational experience with Roy. The premium BodyFriend chairs provide full body massage including shoulders, arms, waist, legs and feet, with more

Manage Diabetes with DiabiLive App at CES 2018

Diabetes is a disease that affects increasing numbers of people in developed countries where obesity, lack of exercise and genetics are causing epidemic levels of the condition. Simplistically, the pancreas becomes unable to manage blood sugar levels as it (usually) can't to produce the right amount of insulin. Don and Nicholas discuss the problems facing diabetics and how DiabiLive's new