All the stories tagged with: Medical
ReWalk Improves Rehabilitation Process With Its New Exoskeleton
01/22/2013, Last summer, we stumbled onto a story where a woman competed at the London marathon using a ReWalk exoskeleton to assist her as she suffered a spinal injury making her paralyzed from the chest down. Ever since then, we’ve been looking [...]
Woman’s Assistance Needed For Neanderthal Baby Clone
01/21/2013, The things that you read in the news these days, now I know that what you are about to embark on is not exactly full of GHz and RAM figures, but at least there is some semblance of bio-technology involved. [...]
Firefighters Swallow Data Transmitting Pills
01/20/2013, If you ever want to see a hero, forget about looking for someone in the sky who is faster than a speeding bullet, or checking out the rooftops for a brooding superhero who thinks that the bat is an elemental [...]
Chitti Robot Monitors ICU Patients
01/17/2013, When it comes to modern medical technology, the role of robots cannot be underestimated as they gain more prominence in time. The ICU (Intensive Care Unit) over at the Sri Ramachandra University in India will have a sleek robot known [...]
Knit Alarm Cardigan Merges Fashion And Medical Technology
01/15/2013, Design Research Lab are the ones behind what they call the Knit Alarm, which is a re-imagining of traditional medical alarms that relies on contemporary materials instead. In order to trigger a “call for help”, one needs to either stretch [...]
Researchers Develop Ingestible Pill-Sized Endoscope
01/14/2013, It is estimated that three million Americans are suffering from Barrett’s esophagus, a disorder in which the lining of the esophagus is damaged by stomach acid. This is often the end result of untreated gastroesophageal reflux diseases. The procedure of [...]
LED Ice Cubes Detect Alcohol To Warn You Of Over-drinking
01/11/2013, Drinking can be quite the dangerous activity when you’ve lost count of how many drinks you’ve had. Sure – pounding down drink after drink can be fun, but the results of those drinks can make for one bummer of an [...]
This Pump Will Suck Food Out Of Your Stomach To Help You Lose Weight
01/11/2013, One of the biggest New Year’s resolutions made every year has got to be to lose weight. We don’t know what it is about starting a new year that gets people thinking they can actually start working out, eating well [...]
Bullet Train Digital Thermometer
01/10/2013, A thermometer is not the most exciting device to own, but then again, when you can lighten up someone’s through a clever design, why not? After all, didn’t the wisdom of the ancients say that laughter is the best medicine? [...]
Larry The Vomiting Robot
01/04/2013, Most robots are meant to be helpful to mankind, whether they are at the assembly line of a factory to help assemble a vehicle, or to spray paint a particular gadget before it is ready for mass release, or in [...]
Space Radiation Accelerates Alzheimer’s Disease
01/03/2013, It looks like insomnia isn’t just a problem for astronauts in space. According to a new research, space radiation may speed up the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists have discovered that a specific kind of space radiation known as high-mass, [...]
Researchers Develop Battery-Less, Heart-Powered Pacemakers
01/02/2013, Researchers at the University of care working on a pacemaker that can harness the power of the beating heart. If successful, the promising pacemaker will be battery-less and can possibly last a lifetime. As you know, pacemakers are devices that [...]
Jumbled Text Messages Could Be Indicative Of A Stroke
12/31/2012, We’ve all seen funny screen captures where the autocorrect function of our smartphones results in rather embarrassing and unintended messages, but at the same time it looks like maybe the next time you receive a jumbled text message, there is [...]
