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Relatively Unknown Wearable Health Companies

MD+DI - Sep 11 - 5 international wearable health companies that seek to make their presence felt in the wearables space.

1. Personal KinetiGraph System - The FDA recently cleared the wrist-worn device that aims to assess and monitor the symptoms of movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease.
2. GetActive - A fitness tracker that measures steps taken and calories burned. Results can be synched with companion apps on Apple and Android-enabled phones.
3. OMsignal Biosensing- A line of shirts that work with a tracking module to monitor heart rate, breathing rate, breathing depth, activity intensity, steps walked, calories burned and heart rate variability.
4. OrCam - A portable device with a smart camera that clips on to eye glasses to help the visually impaired. The system can learn to recognize objects commonly used by the wearer to help in everyday activities.
5. Oxitone Watch - A wrist worn device that provides medical grade data on pulse oximetry, heart rate, and respiratory rate. The device connects to an app via Bluetooth and automatically alerts the relevant medical professionals in emergency situations. by Arundhati Parmar See full article at MD+DI

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Wearables Market Growing Fast In Israel

MOBILE COMMERCE PRESS - June 12 - Wearables are becoming very popular in Israel, both in terms of adoption and development. Israel has the infrastructure in place for the advancement of wearables, with a number of companies conducting similar research and development. Irael's inkjet printing expertise could also be applied to spray-on transistors. The OrCam smart glasses were developed in the country, and Intel purchased Omek gesture recognition software for $40M.

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Intel Puts $15M Into Israeli OrCam

GIGAOM - Mar 27 - OrCam makes a system that’s in many ways similar to Google Glass, but used to help blind people interpret the world around them. It is a small wearable camera, clipped onto glasses, that interprets what it sees and feeds back to the wearer via bone-conduction audio. The $2,5K device reads gestures to help it know what to interpret, and it can recognize and learn to remember a variety of objects, places and people.

by David Meyer
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5 Wearables That Could Transform Our Lives

VENTURE BEAT - Mar 3 - Disabled people are increasingly relying on wearables to augment how they see and experience the world.

1. Google Glass
Glass offers physicians and law enforcement a way to receive information in real time, while remaining hands free.

2. Mind-controlled wheelchairs
Emotiv has developed a headset capable of picking up electrical signals from the brain and translating them into actions. It could be used for wheelchairs.

3. Stress-monitoring devices for autistic children
Autistic children sometimes have trouble vocalizing when they’re stressed. Two gadgets, Neumitra and Affectiva, are designed to track the stress levels.

4. Smart specs to help the blind read
Glasses from OrCam Technologies interpret nearby visual inputs, including letters, faces, objects, products, places, bus numbers, and traffic lights.

5. Addressing color blindness
EnChroma is developing smart sunglasses that help color-blind people identify and better discriminate between colors.

by Christina Farr
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