All the stories tagged with: Medical
Smartphone With Braille-based “Display” For The Blind Developed In India
04/22/2013, While our smartphones are able to cater to the visually impaired through accessibility features, they probably weren’t designed for the blind to begin with. However it seems that over in India, an innovator by the name of Sumit Dagar has [...]
iPads To Assist Wounded Veterans In Home Care Situation
04/21/2013, There is an app for everything, or so they say. The thing is, have we actually run out of the number of apps for different purposes available? Perhaps, or perhaps not, but here we are with the world famous iPad [...]
Scientists Manufacture ‘Laboratory-Grown’ Kidney
04/14/2013, When it comes to matching organs such as kidneys and livers from donors, that can be quite a tough thing to do, not to mention an extremely short list of donors are available in addition to a super long waiting [...]
Fujitsu Medical Body Area Network Completes Verification Test
04/12/2013, Fujitsu recently announced that they have managed to complete the first verification test with flying colors in Japan for a medical body area network , or mBAN for short. The mBAN will conform to IEEE 802. 15.6 standards, where it [...]
Phone Camera Assists Medical Field Again
04/12/2013, It is said that plenty of science and medicine fields do rely on microscope and flow cytometry use, where the former see action in numerous medical fields including identifying pathogens and examining tissue samples for aberrations among others. As for [...]
Touch Bionics i-limb Now Equipped With Powered Rotating Thumb
04/11/2013, The advancements made in prosthetics over the years has been remarkable, but Touch Bionics’ latest creation may very well be the most advanced prosthetic we’ve ever seen to date. Touch Bionics’ i-limb already received such notable improvements as Bluetooth connectivity [...]
Wireless Charging System Juices Up Medical Implants
04/11/2013, António Abreu, a PhD Student at the MIT Portugal Program who works at LNEG (Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia I.P.), has been hard at work in developing a wireless charging system that will cater for implantable medical devices. This [...]
AT-AT Walker Created To Help 4-Year-Old Surgery Patient
04/10/2013, We’re sure there’s no worse feeling in the world than having a child who is ill, especially if you are a parent who finds themselves helpless to make things better for their child. But this is a story of one [...]
Popular Surgical Robot Being Investigated By FDA As Incidents Increase
04/09/2013, The da Vinci surgical robot, developed by Intuitive Surgical, can now be found in a quarter of all hospitals in the country. So far it has been used to perform around 400,000 procedures. According to new report the FDA is [...]
Cedars Sinai Hospital Announces BabyTime Initiative For Mothers To Interact Remotely With Their Newborn Baby
04/09/2013, So we’ve heard of Apple’s FaceTime, which is basically Apple’s spin on video calling, and it seems that the Cedars-Sinai hospital has announced a new initiative called “BabyTime”, which as the name might have already given away, is basically the [...]
Panasonic DNA Testing Lab
04/08/2013, Yesterday, we saw a precocious teenager come up with a DIY DNA testing machine, simply as part of an effort to make sure that the world will no longer tease he and his brother that they have a different father [...]
T.Ware T.Jacket Offers Autistic Kids Some Therapy
04/05/2013, T.Ware’s T.Jacket is definitely not an ordinary jacket, as you can check it out from the image above with various descriptions for different parts of it. In a nutshell, the T. Jacket is said to offer a therapy management wearable [...]
3D Printer Generates Synthetic Human Tissue
04/04/2013, 3D printing is certainly catching on in its very own manner, and scientists have managed to come up with a new kind of 3D printer which is capable of churning out material that resembles human tissues. This particularly unique substance [...]
