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Using Wearable Technology to Prevent Kidney Stones

Oct. 21, 2020
WNCG professor Edison Thomaz is part of a team exploring the use of wearable technology to prevent kidney stones. The team received a five year, $2.97 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to address this problem. The team includes David Conroy, professor of kinesiology and human development and family studies, Necole Streeper, assistant professor of surgery at the College of Medicine, both from Penn State University, as well as Nilam Ram, professor of communications and psychology at Stanford University.
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The Future of Motion Tracking Devices

April 18, 2016
The mouse. It sits on your desk or swipes under your hand and is limited by the need to be touched. With different computer displays and richer options, a mouse that requires a surface to operate is becoming obsolete. The future needs a controller that can operate in the air with a simple hand movement and control the devices surrounding us. Whether that device is a computer, a game console, a Virtual or Augmented Reality device, or other smart devices such as household appliances.