Deans' stroke musings: Tech Tats: The Future of Wearables?

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Tech Tats: The Future of Wearables?

I could easily see this being used for stroke survivors, by adding a nano needle patch you should be able to monitor INR and cholesterol levels. A great stroke association would have hundreds of patents supplying money to be used in research. That's if we had any stroke leadership at all. Which we don't.

Tech Tats: The Future of Wearables?

A forlorn girl sits at the bottom of a staircase in her household. An adult comes by with a small plastic case, opening it to reveal a rectangle sheet. The adult applies the sheet to the girl’s arm and holds a cloth over it. The cloth is pulled away and a small circuit board-like array with glowing green dots is stuck to the girl’s deltoid. The adult pulls out her smartphone, where the girl’s vitals are displayed.
“Rather than going to the doctor once a year to get your physical, this Tech Tattoo can be something that you just put on your body once a year and it monitors everything that they would do in a physical and sends that to your doctor, and if there’s an issue, they could call you,” said Eric Schneider, a creative technologist with Chaotic Moon, the developer of Tech Tats, in a video.
“It can look at early signs of fever, your vital signs, heartrate, everything that it needs to look at to notify you that you’re getting sick, or your child is getting sick.”
According to Vice’s Motherboard, the tattoo uses electroconductive paint to transfer data from temperature sensors to an ATiny85 microcontroller.
While the focus is currently on the medical field, Schneider floats the idea of using the Tech Tat as a way to revolutionize the banking industry. Rather than carrying wallets around, credit cards and identification information can be stored right on one’s skin.
Speaking with TechCrunch, Chaotic Moon CEO Ben Lamm said, “The future of wearables is biowearables.” He added that the company is in talks with partners to bring Tech Tats to market.
Chaotic Moon is a software company based in Austin, Texas.