- Prototype contact lenses
Made in his Seattle laboratory, Babak Parviz has created new contact lenses which contain electronic circuits planning to add small LED to them and turn them into personal display screens the tinniest possible. Parviz is an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington He makes tiny but functional electronic devices and, using nanotechnology and micro fabrication techniques, integrates them on to polymers or glass using a process known as self-assembly. Contact lenses are made from flexible transparent polymers, just the sort of challenging material that Parviz is used to working with, "The driver is not to make something small. The driver is to make something that's cool and useful. Having a display in a contact lens is very useful." According to him the current display size in mobile phones hinders the process of miniaturization and that his contact lenses will help create display based gadgets cooler and smaller. - July 5, 2008 | Related Entries - Gadgets | Comments (0)
- Cell Phone That Manages Your Health
A unique cell phone that helps you keep fit, the Pantech Inhealth cell phone designed by Kristina Lee. It not only keeps track of your workouts, but also calculates the health value of your food intake by just smelling it using the eNose technology. It is also supposed to suggest you what food groups to intake to help you catch up on your dietary requirements. A conceptual phone for a health conscious person.
- July 5, 2008 | Related Entries - Gadgets | Comments (0)
- Shapeup with a Vibro belt
This is similar to Sauna belt. The only difference is that this doesn’t get you sweating but tingling. It can be fixed in an area that requires fat-loss and as it vibrates to send some thick sensations down your muscles, you fat starts loosing and your turn slim. Simple isn’t it?- July 3, 2008 | Related Entries - Gadgets | Comments (0)
- Honda To Test Its Walking Assist Device
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. will begin testing of its walking assist device as from July 1, 2008, collaborating with Shinseikai Medical Group, Kasumigaseki-Minami Hospital. The device was created to assist in walking by the elderly and other people with weakened leg muscles, but who are still able to walk on their own. With this device, the user's stride will be lengthened compared to the user's normal stride without the device and therefore the ease of walking is achieved. The compatibility and efficiency of Honda's walking assist device will be evaluated at Kasumigaseki-Minami Hospital during rehabilitation training to help people relearn to walk safely and efficiently. The testing also will identify and study areas of helpfulness and potential issues from different perspectives by the trainees, physical therapists, doctors and researchers. Currently, the device is in the feasibility stage. - July 2, 2008 | Related Entries - Gadgets | Comments (0)
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- A neural implant that evolves with the brain
Devices known as brain-machine interfaces could someday be used regularly to help paralyzed patients and amputees control prosthetic limbs with just their thoughts. University of Florida researchers are developing a way for computerized devices not only to translate brain signals into movement but also to evolve with the brain as it learns. Instead of just interpreting brain signals and routing them to a robotic hand or leg, this type of brain-machine interface would learn from a person's behavior over time and use the knowledge to complete the subsequent tasks more efficiently, sort of like an assistant, say UF College of Medicine and College of Engineering researchers who developed a model system and tested it in rats. - June 30, 2008 | Related Entries - Gadgets | Comments (0)
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- Gadgets that brain read, for the physically challenged
The NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese electronics company is working on some really weird stuff, including music players you control with your eyes, cell phones that require your fingers for more than just dialing and remote control like wristwatches, which could prove a boon for the physically challenged. In its present form, the digital music player is a set of headphones that performs various functions like adjusting the volume by rolling your eyes, or fast forwarding the track by jerking the eyes etc. The mobile phone is wearable on the finger like a ring and shaped like a small ball. - June 30, 2008 | Related Entries - Gadgets | Comments (0)
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- A Portable Spray Type Skin Gun to Heal Wounds Faster
Within the next five years, Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) researcher Anthony Atala aims to build a portable version of an inkjet printer capable of creating an entire organ on demand. They have just invested $250 million in this research. This portable version will print layers of skin tissue directly onto deep flesh wounds. For surface wounds, such as burns, the consortium is developing a handheld spritzer that sprays a thin layer of immature skin cells over the wound. These cells, called keratinocytes, are extracted from the patient's skin and stimulate healing in the wound. In a recent clinical test of the gun on 16 burn patients, all showed "excellent healing" after one to three weeks. - June 27, 2008 | Related Entries - Gadgets | Comments (0)
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- An Orthotist Gives A Puppy Robotic Legs
This tiny puppy was born without front legs but thanks to orthotist David Turnbill she moves around with wheeled prosthetic limbs. Hope, the aptly named two-legged Maltese puppy moves around by using a custom designed support device which uses a couple of model airplane wheels. Hope moved around previously by hopping but experts said her natural mode of moving in due course would damage her bones and spine. The pup now uses her hind legs to push her body forward and operate the wheeled prosthetic limbs. Each artificial limb can move up or down independently of the other, allowing Hope to turn around easily.
The spring-loaded prosthetic limbs are attached to a custom-fitted chest plate to allow Hope to lay down or sit up without removing the prosthetic. A cast was made of Hope's body in order to build the prosthetic device.When the puppy grows bigger she will need to have another device made for her. - June 27, 2008 | Related Entries - Gadgets | Comments (0)
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- Portable Blood Analyzer
Got too many ailments and need to go for medical diagnosis every now and then? The portable blood analyzer is perfectly useful during those times when you can’t even lift your backside off the bed even to go to the restroom. The hand held blood analyzer is used to measure level of blood and for conducting blood test. For testing blood, you just have to hold the small plastic disc given with the analyzer; hence this device could be used by anybody without any help. The portable blood analyzer is helpful for keeping a check on blood levels for people who’re frequently traveling. - June 26, 2008 | Related Entries - Gadgets | Comments (0)
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- Hybrid Interactive heart provides for uninhibited medical fun
If you have a profound curiosity in internal body mechanism, but you can’t stand the sight of a real autopsy, then the Hybrid Interactive Heart is your type of thing. It is a flash animation of the various and novel ways of exploring the beating heart by means of latest technology, where the viewer is capable of blending and even replacing the ‘normal’ opaque tissue with refractory ‘glass’, allowing for a unique vantage of the valves and chambers. The future additions may include blood flow as well. - June 25, 2008 | Related Entries - Etc | Comments (0)
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- Nanopump for diabetics
Being a diabetic is tough, but thanks to medical progress this disease has become more controllable. Debiotech and STMicroelectronics have come together to manufacture the Nanopump, a device that relies on micro fluidic MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) technology to help inject insulin into the patient. It is roughly four times smaller than the pumps available today, but can hold up to double the amount of insulin. Each pump actuation will inject 200 nanoliters of drug, offering a reproducibility rate which is better than 2%, placing it very near the physiological delivery of insulin. To be launched very soon.
- June 25, 2008 | Related Entries - Gadgets | Comments (0)
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- A highly affordable disposable hearing aid
Songbird hearing inc. is coming out with its disposable, cheap and discrete hearing aid, Flexfit. The $80 unit is radically less expensive than your average aid, which costs generally between $2000 - $4000, (plus battery replacements & maintenance charges later). The Songbird is rated for 400 hours of use, so it should be perfect for casual users who want or need to hear better in certain situations. For casual users, the apparatus would last say many months. - June 25, 2008 | Related Entries - Gadgets | Comments (0)
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- Disposable Any Brush: Brushing on the go
In a recent survey, it was stated that the principal cause for teeth problems resulted from irregular brushing habits. Heavy stomach, sleepy eyes and lazy self keep us from brushing at nights, you may say. But now you have no reason to escape from this monotonous hygiene activity, as the Revolutionary Any Brush is here to keep your dental qualms away. Creation of designer Yuanyan Li, the brush is specially designed to provide you the comfort of portable brushing with a convenient disposable package. - June 24, 2008 | Related Entries - Gadgets | Comments (0)
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- Nature scenes on Giant Plasma TVs not equivalent to outdoors
Watching outdoor scene isn’t by any means equivalent to watching the same scene in the outdoors. A recent study also suggests that measurements made on heart rates in mildly stressed people shows that “watching a nature scene on TV is as good as watching a blank wall (That’s an exaggeration) while the latter is much cheaper and eco-friendly.”(That’s an agreeable piece of info) This may mean that virtual reality provisions only for a brief suggestion of what an object or place look. Folks owning a virtual fireplace or aquarium can set it out before someone calls it fake!
- June 20, 2008 | Related Entries - News | Comments (0)
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- Cold spoons could cure puffy eyes
Puffy eyes could be a result of several conditions such as menstrual cycle, hormonal variation, pregnancy, medication and the most common of all, sleep. It’s primarily caused by fluid retention around the eyes and could be cured by several tricks. The most well known of the home remedies is putting cool cucumber and teabags on your eyes. But there is another remedy, which doesn’t cause any mess. Putting 2 refrigerated table spoons at the back of your eyes daily helps to reduce puffiness on a temporary basis. There are several other ways to cure this symptom. Hit WikiHow to know more.
- June 18, 2008 | Related Entries - News | Comments (0)
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