wearables

Proton’s device aims to help those with kidney disease, and cut heart failure risks

Hardware /

People with chronic kidney disease, or those at risk of heart failure, are greatly affected by potassium imbalances in the body. These can even be life-threatening. While wearable glucose monitors are now commonplace and have transformed the lives of diabetes patients, potassium monitoring is in its infancy as it’s hard to do. Now, startups are […]

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Quantune joins quest for the holy grail of non-invasive glucose monitoring

Hardware /

Numerous companies have tried and failed to develop a device that can measure blood sugar levels without pricking the skin for a blood sample. Even Alphabet had a go at it with contact lenses for diabetic patients, but abandoned the project in 2018. Still, the quest for non-invasive glucose monitoring continues to captivate scientists and

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Bee AI raises $7M for its wearable AI assistant that learns from your conversations

Gadgets /

The promise of AI and large language models (LLMs) is the ability to understand increasingly wider amounts of context and make sense of that information easily, so it makes sense that we’re seeing a bunch of companies trying to make wearable hardware so that people can use AI in their day-to-day lives. The latest entrant

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