All the stories tagged with: Medical
Cybernetic Implants on the Way
05/22/2008, I don’t know about you, but if you think it is appealing to have a cybernetic arm implant, would you voluntarily have one installed? That means sawing off a perfectly good limb, my friends, and not having some Sith Lord [...]
Dreamfit for Bikers
05/19/2008, Bikers will tell you that news of them never being able to ride again, feeling the thrill of being on your own bike with wind blowing against your face is definitely heartbreaking. Thankfully, the Dreamfit bike (a highly modified Honda [...]
Blood-Pressure Sensing Underpants
05/19/2008, Looks like a pair of underpants isn’t just meant to keep your privates in place anymore these days, as scientists have come up with a rather novel method of sensing your blood pressure, by including a blood pressure sensing system [...]
Baseball Cap monitors Brain
05/19/2008, You’ll never look at a baseball cap the same way again with this specially modified headgear that is able to “continuously monitoring high-temporal resolution brain dynamics without requiring conductive gels applied to the scalp”. This superior baseball cap hides five [...]
Echolocation Hat for the Blind
05/16/2008, Check out this interesting invention – an echolocation hat that is meant for blind folks or those who have extremely poor vision. It uses the theory of echolocation (bats navigate their way around with this principle as well) that helps [...]
SpongeBob Digital Thermometer
05/16/2008, There is just something about SpongeBob SquarePants that freaks me out, and this one definitely takes the cake. The Musical SpongeBob Digital Thermometer takes a mere nine seconds in order to get an accurate readout, featuring a large night light [...]
Klini Sound Wave Chair
05/14/2008, Just when you thought that you’ve arrived with a new La-z-Boy chair in your living room, along comes the Klini Sound Wave chair. This special recliner uses sound, vibration as well as guided imagery to invoke a rapid, effortless and [...]
Mosquito Proof Jacket
05/14/2008, Don’t you just hate those pesky mosquitoes when they seem to appear out of nowhere, especially during the summer? Napapijiri knows all about your aversion in getting bitten by mosquitoes and have developed this so-called Mosquitor Proof Jacket. Apparently this [...]
Memento Memory LifeBook
05/13/2008, This LifeBook isn’t one of those fancy-pants notebooks from Fujitsu, but is instead known as the Memento Memory LifeBook in full. Designed to be a “wearable mobile product solution”, Memento aims to help folks suffering from dementia by helping them [...]
Teste Touch Looks Fun
05/12/2008, This larger-than-life pair of testicles is known as the Teste Touch, and it was specially designed to reflect an actual scrotum that expands and contracts based on its surrounding environment. There is an integrated temperature sensor within that makes it [...]
Tae Kwon Do Vest
05/11/2008, Want to know just how deadly (or ineffective) your newly acquired tae kwon do kick is? Figure it out with the Tae Kwon Do Vest. This wearable project uses a bunch of piezoelectric sensors to measure the kick strength, translating [...]
Peak PlasmaBlade
05/08/2008, Peak Surgical has launched its PlasmaBlade, and this ain’t no plasma knife that you watch in the movies and read about in the comics. Instead, it is a cold cutter and a coagulator which has the ability to “cut freshly [...]
Self-Mounting Wheel Chair
05/05/2008, Researchers from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, US, has hooked up with a company called Freedom Sciences of Philadelphia to demonstrate the Self-Mounting Wheel Chair which enables users to dock the wheelchair onto a forklift themselves, thanks to an on-board [...]
