All the stories tagged with medical-tag
Man designs his own heart implant
01/25/2011, When Tal golesworthy was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, a condition that causes his heart’s aorta to expand and rupture, he decided to take matters into his own hands. Using an MRI, CAD and rapid prototyping technologies, he managed to create [...]
Germans develop a remote-controlled stomach submarine
01/19/2011, If you’ve ever had a medical examination where the doctor stuffed a video camera tube into your mouth and you just feel like puking all the time? Well, thanks to some scientists in Germany, you won’t have to in the [...]
Kinect used to perform surgery
01/19/2011, It’s time to add one more item to the ever growing list of things you can do with a Kinect. Previously all we had were fun hacks to play games differently. Now, a group of students from the University of [...]
Check your temperature without touching a thermometer
01/17/2011, The folks over at NEC Avio Infrared Technologies have just released a new thermometer that can tell your temperature without you having to lay a finger on it. Say goodbye to fears of sticking a thermometer into your mouth or [...]
Gamers raid a medical server to host Call of Duty: Black Ops
01/13/2011, If you thought training for the World Cyber Games was tough enough, wait til you get a load of this – a bunch of hackers broke their way into the medical server of Seacoast Radiology in New Hampshire, not for [...]
Motoworkr concept phone designed for medical professionals
12/29/2010, Concept phones are always cool to check out and next up we’ve got the Motoworkr concept. This phone was designed for medical professionals and features a swivel keyboard design. Aside from fulfilling the basic communication needs, this phone incorporates various [...]
Breath sensor delivers instant cancer report
12/28/2010, The big C is a word that is still feared among us, as some might think of it as a death sentence despite leaps and bounds being made in the medicinal field. That doesn’t mean all research is going to [...]
Acoustic rectifier improves ultrasound image quality
12/27/2010, Ultrasound technology is an amazing invention. It has many uses in the medical field- breaking kidney stones, treating tumors, cleaning teeth in dental hygiene, and of course scanning pregnant mothers to determine more information about their unborn children. Usually ultrasound [...]
Kinect modified for use in radiologic image browsing
12/20/2010, We were talking about the Microsoft Kinect’s hidden potential that remains limited by its firmware, but even as it is currently, the Kinect is already adept at helping out even medical personnel. For instance, put yourself in the shoes of [...]
Brain Athlete device helps you concentrate better
12/16/2010, [Sport Science & Technology Fair] Brain Athelete from B-Bridge from HIC Network on Vimeo. Hmmm, we did think that the whole “brain game” craze has died down after Brain Age on the Nintendo DS first made its debut a [...]
Spinal implant could cancel pain signals
12/14/2010, Researchers Down Under might just come up with a new implantable chip which is capable of canceling the pain signals sent from the spine to the brain in human trials. This chip will naturally target folks who suffer from chronic [...]
60beat iPhone heart rate monitor
12/10/2010, Name us something that the iPhone cannot do in the comments, and weigh against what it can do, before coming to your own conclusion on whether to purchase it or not. For sure it cannot stop global warming, but at [...]
Ritmo Pregnancy receives Parent Tested, Parent Approved (PTPA) award
12/09/2010, The Ritmo Pregnancy device has picked up its Parent Tested, Parent Approved (PTPA) award for this year’s holiday season, which ought to lend all the more credibility to the device. Let us pull the brakes for the moment though, as [...]
