Samsung Relúmĭno

Samsung launches Relúmĭno, a Gear VR app for the visually impaired

The app processes images from videos projected through the rear camera of a smartphone and makes the images friendly to the visually impaired users.
Byteflies sensor

Byteflies develops wearable technology for UCB’s monitoring project

The company offers a unique toolkit of specialized wearables along with an accompanying data platform for the pharmaceutical industry and research groups.
Samsung patent for a phone with breathalyzer

Samsung working on a smartphone with a built-in breathalyzer?

The company's patent shows a smartphone with slim microphone extending out of the side that has a gas sensor which could analyze the exhalation.
Apple Watch

Aetna looking to bring the Apple Watch to millions of its customers?

The insurer, which covers 23 million, is already offering Apple's smartwatch to its 50,000 employees as part of its corporate wellness program.
Apple patent camera health data

iPhone to be used as an all-purpose health data tracker?

The filing describes how a camera and built-in sensors can work together to track blood hydration, body fat content, oxygen saturation and other health data.
Xiaomi Mi Band

Strategy Analytics: Xiaomi is the top wearables vendor in Q2 2017

The Chinese company managed to capture 17 percent of the market, overtaking Fitbit and Apple; global wearables shipments reached 21.6M units.
Google Glass

Trinity Health to test Glass Enterprise Edition for advancing tablet-free virtual care

The technology combines home visits by secondary caregivers with Glass and the video technologies of swyMed, a provider of video telemedicine technologies.
Seeing AI

Microsoft’s new iPhone app describes the world to the visually impaired

Called Seeing AI, it uses computer vision which is built inside the app to deliver results in a fraction of a second.

Fitbit faces lawsuits over haptic feedback in the U.S. and China

Developer and licensor of touch feedback technology Immersion aims to stop manufacturing and selling of Fitbit devices in the U.S. and China.
RightEye Autism Test

RightEye’s new eye-tracking game aims to improve reading skills

The game, called Maze Master, helps users improve oculomotor control, build stable and accurate eye movements required for effective reading.