News Roundup – October 2015

October was the breast cancer awareness month and every October the major breast cancer charities organize health campaigns to increase awareness of the disease...

News Roundup – September 2014

September has been a very busy and interesting month for several companies in the wearables space. With summer being over and Christmas around the...
Fitbit Flex

Fitbit Flex – Checking out the Activity Wristband

Four years after releasing their first step counter, the pioneer company Fitbits now offers a wristband activity monitor. Flex is just like the digital...
Explainable AI bias

How Explainable Artificial Intelligence Could Lower the Effect of Biased Algorithms

We usually expect computers to be more unbiased than humans. However, over the past several years, we’ve witnessed multiple controversies over Machine Learning-enabled systems...
Maxim ecg monitor

Maxim Enables a Healthier World with Health Band and ECG Monitor

Due to the complexity involved in designing good optical solutions and motion-compensated algorithms, many designers find it very difficult to develop good optical heart-rate...

Second day of the Wearable Technologies Europe Conference 2014

The second day of the Wearable Technologies Europe Conference was a huge success. It kicked of with a keynote by Isabel Pedersen who pointed...