Brain Monitoring: It Could Improve Employee Performance or Worsen Discrimination January 10, 2025 By Paul Brandt-Rauf Despite all the attention on technologies that reduce the hands-on role of humans at work – such as self-driving vehicles,...
Researchers Testing If Wearable Wristwatch Can Detect COVID-19 Infection February 22, 2021 University of Miami Miller School of Medicine researchers are recruiting health care workers to study whether a wearable device, a...
Zebra Technology Adds Social Distancing Alerts to Warehouse Workers’ Scanners June 4, 2020 By Paresh Dave Zebra Technologies Corp., which sells barcode scanners and other computers used in warehouses globally, introduced a feature on Thursday that...
Get Too Close, Get Buzzed. Ford Tests Wearables to Keep Workers at Safe Distances. April 17, 2020 By Keith Naughton A dozen Ford Motor Co. workers are experimenting with wearable social-distancing devices that could be deployed more widely once the...
Travelers Partners with Contractor, Tech Firm on Wearables for Construction Safety November 16, 2018 The Travelers Companies has partnered with contractor company Gilbane, and Triax Technologies, a provider of Internet of Things (IoT) construction...
John Hancock Will Only Sell Interactive Life Insurance with Fitness Data Tracking September 19, 2018 By Suzanne Barlyn John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead...
Affordable ‘Smart’ Jewelry Detects Assaults and Falls Then Calls for Help April 12, 2018 Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are utilizing technology to create a pragmatic solution for physical or sexual...
Big Data Gathered by Twitter Monitoring Could Cut Premiums – and Erode Privacy October 24, 2016 By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi When people take to Twitter to comment on the great evening they enjoyed with good food and wonderful friends, reducing...
Aetna Offering Discounts on Apple Watch for Health Monitoring September 28, 2016 By Zachary Tracer and Alex Webb Aetna Inc. will give some customers and employees discounts on Apple Inc.’s smartwatch, offering the potential that incentives from the...
Global Insurance Fintech Investment Grew by 237% in 2015: Accenture Research April 27, 2016 While insurance historically has been a laggard in the fintech race, it is increasingly a high-growth investment area in the...