Scientists Deploy AI to Spot Signal in the Noise of Wearable Data
New approach improves the reliability of detecting cardiac risk in ECG data from consumer devices
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Watch Healthcare Improve as Runners Embrace Tech
I joke sometimes with my running friends that we don’t take our watches on runs; our watches take us on runs. In June Facebook launched Moves, its own activity-tracking app. Facebook is just one of...
Techonomy’s Top Articles for 2015
At Techonomy we put on conferences and publish articles and videos. Our most popular articles this year tackled the conceptual problem with the Apple Watch, the Human side of the Internet of Things, how consumer...
Fashion Forward: Technology Makes Headway at Met Gala
Yes we are in the digital age and fashion hasn’t been excluded from this shift. With Apple watches, Google glasses, Fitbits, and all sorts of other wearables of dubious fashionability, along with new digital printing...
I Heart This Overlooked Feature of the Apple Watch
One of the features that most intrigues me about the Apple Watch is the one that lets you share heartbeats. It’s the sound you hear when you’re being held by someone you love. It’s something...
Why the “Luxury” of Apple’s Watch Is Beside the Point
After putting down yet another slavishly admiring profile of top Apple designer Jony Ive this weekend in the egregiously-named "How to Spend It" magazine published by the Financial Times, I had a nagging sense that...
Everybody’s Finally Piling into Digital Health
A number of factors are driving the digital health revolution: Healthcare reform is changing business models; high costs and an aging population are creating demand; iPads, sensors, genetics, and big data are getting cheaper; and...
