iHealth Align

Health device companies adapt to Apple nixing headphone jack with shift toward Bluetooth

By Jonah Comstock 01:43 pm September 8, 2016

The rumors were true. Apple is ditching the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 in favor of headphones that connect via the lightning adapter or wirelessly via Bluetooth. The company argues that the headphone jack is ancient technology whose time has come and that omitting it allows for a thinner and more waterproof device. Critics are upset that they won't be able to use their existing headphones...

iHealth to launch smaller glucometer, drop test strip price

By Jonah Comstock 05:00 am June 12, 2014

iHealth Labs, a San Francisco-based subsidiary of China's Andon Health, has received FDA clearance for iHealth Align, a new smaller, smartphone-enabled glucometer. iHealth announced the product along with a new pricing strategy for diabetes care, dubbed Simple Savings. The new device is just slightly larger than a quarter in circumference and plugs into the phone's headphone jack, allowing it to...