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Chris Montera stopped by the Isonea booth to take a look at their Asthma Sense app, designed to help patients with asthma manage their condition through detailed information. Based on conditions at the time of an attack, Asthma Sense can help you determine your atmospheric and activity triggers.

The TPN health team was so impressed with the capabilities of the Asthma Sense app that they awarded it a Podcast Network Innovator Pick Award. Their innovative way of helping chronic illness patients in management and prevention and their ability to keep patients out of the ER all contributed to this award.

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Interview by Chris Montera, The Geeky Medic.

Descom's CEO Terry Gregg spoke with the Tech Podcast Network team on a new device coming from the company that monitors glucose levels in a whole new way. The Dexcom G4 Platinum glucose monitor is a continuous monitoring system that has a 20 foot wireless range, displaying trends and stats on a video monitor, and comes complete with a small receiver available in classic black, ocean blue and tickled pink.

Having a system that displays continuous glucose monitoring is literally vital for patients who require this service, because their bodies cannot regulate glucose on their own. A "Share Cradle" feature also allows users to connect the monitor to a charger and then share the data to up to 5 connected mobile devices. This is perfect if other family members or a caregiver needs to check up on the patient.

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Interview by Chris Montera, The Geeky Medic.

The Digital Health Pavilion at International CES was so large that we spent almost an entire day covering all things health-tech. United Healthcare had a booth and Tom Paul spoke with us at CES about how the company is looking to connect with its customers in today's digital age.

Now more than ever, patients want more information about their health and want to be educated on treatments and healthy lifestyles. They also want to be able to see their insurance information online and have it readily available. United Healthcare is working in several spaces to bring more connectivity between patients, their health and their life choices. The company is promoting healtheir living through community involvement and have even teamed up with the popular dance-step game Dance, Dance, Revolution to introduce games and contests in schools to bring more education to the younger generation.

United Healthcare introduced "My Easy Book," which is a new program allowing customers to find healthcare providers, schedule appointments, pay fees and more, all online. The organization is also looking to bring more information and education to those with diabetes, by creating a program solely focused on the disease. These new programs will be available to both members and non-members, which truly shows the committment from United Healthcare to better the community as a whole.

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Interview by Chris Montera, The Geeky Medic.

Chris Montera visited the InBody booth at CES 2014 to learn more about a company that is looking to help decrease obesity in the industrialized world. One way InBody does that is through monitoring your body, defining problems to fix and then setting targeted goals to fix them.

InBody systems from BioSpace give a person access to a bunch of information that could help improve their lifestyle and health. Using an 8-point tactile electrode method, the InBody system determines your body makeup and is already FDA approved to be used in the US. InBody says its system is extremely accurate and can return high-quality results that can really turnaround your life, improve your body fat and increase your wellness.

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Interview by Chris Montera, The Geeky Medic.

After a pretty successful 2013 for Fitbug, they were back at CES this year to talk about their new KiK initiative. The endeavor matches up Fitbug's unique fitness gadgets with a fully-interactive application that gives users personalized health care planning, accompanied by a weekly goal to attain and how to get to it.

Chris Montera speaks with Fitbug founder Paul Landau on how Fitbug KiK works and what it's all about. Not only can you set fitness goals and achieve them through the system, but some of the health care features include nutrition and wellness goals that come with webcasts and helpful videos to learn more about what you're putting into your body. The new Fitbug devices also track steps taken, calories burned and distance traveled, and all data is passed through the Fitbug app and cloud system so that KiK can start tracking you effectively.

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Interview by Chris Montera, The Geeky Medic.

Chris Montera spoke with the Vision Council, a non-for-profit focused on making life better with glasses. Maintaining good eye health is a constant battle in today's era, with people looking at so many screens with artificial, bright light emitting from them. Vision Council looks to alleviate some of the very real pain by putting high-tech coatings onto corrective lenses, keeping eyes happy and healthy.

HEV, or high-energy violet light, is the typical blue light that most monitors put out a lot of and the human eye has a tough time blocking out that light spectrum and in fact, are more sensitive to that particular range. The Vision Council says that both corrective lense wearers and not can benefit by putting HEV coating onto a set of glasses to protect their eyes from macular degeneration and weakening of the eye.

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Interview by Chris Montera, The Geeky Medic.

What's better than a solar-powered charger combined with a light? A company that makes said product and then helps third world countries by making the devices available at an affordable rate to people who make less than $2 per day in countries that do not have an electrical grid. Wakka Wakka does just that.

Dubbed the "iPhone of solar chargers," in an emergency situation, a single charge can give you 200 hours of LED light or can fully charge a dead smartphone. With a five month shelf life for discharge, you can leave this device in the drawer and save it for an emergency situation. The Waka Waka Power is available now and the Plus version will be available in April.

We also got to take a sneak peek at a power and light emergency kit, similar to a first aid kit. A power bank with multiple USB outs and LED lights that can be daisy-chained come inside a simple pouch and will be released in June. Fozzy Bear not included.

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Interview by Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine.

A trip to the IEEEatCES TechZone in the halls of CES 2014 led us to discover the new Neptune Pine Smartwatch. Having all of the smartwatch exhibitors in one confined area made this company easy to spot. Not only does Chris Miller talk to the CEO, Simon Tian, about Neptune and their latest wearable, but he also got to put his hands on the smartwatch.

Chris has had some time with Neptune in the past, interviewing CTO Aaron Wilkins and discussing more of the technical aspects of the Pine. This time around, we learn about the features of the phone and what it can do in a broader sense.

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Interview by Chris Miller (IdoNotes) of Spiked Studios.

What is CES Unveiled? For someone who's never been before, the event before the official kickoff of International CES 2014 allows attendees to get a closer, early look at about 100 different exhibitors. The booths are packed with the best of the best, along with some previews of what's to be announced later in the week.

From audio gadgets to new health tech, CES Unveiled has it all and Chris Miller of IdoNotes took some time to go through the entire event. He identified five major categories at the showcase and breaks them all down for you.

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Video by Chris Miller (IdoNotes) of Spiked Studios.

Jeffrey Powers decided to start the show off right by talking with Robin Raskin, a former PC Magazine editor now with Living in Digital Times, who has brought products that people really need to CES 2014.

Canary is a home automation hub, in a similar vein to Nexia, but with the added bonus of temperature monitoring, noise detection and other less automation-focused sensors.

Through their focus on families, Living in Digital Times also showed off Kurio, a smartphone for kids without the full smartphone price tag. In addition, the phone sports some family-friendly features, such as app-specific time limits so parents can turn off games at 8pm and texting at 9pm.

Robin also discusses a product to help coaches better determine whether players should stay on the field or not after a hit.

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Interview by Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine.