MedCity News September 16, 2024
MIT spinout Bloomer Tech is developing a wearable electrocardiogram device designed to look and feel like a bra.
Wearable technology that measures people’s physiological data has gotten quite small over the past decade — with some devices now the size of a mere ring or a watch. That’s not an unequivocally good thing, though, according to one founder in the medical device world.
“When you make something tiny, it might be more comfortable than what we used in the past, but then you also have the trade-off of what it can do — how much data it can collect, the resolution of the data that it can collect, and how it performs,” said Alicia Chong Rodriguez, co-founder and CEO of...