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This Flexible Sensor Sticks To Your Skin And Measures Your Blood Flow
To better monitor diseases that may affect how blood flows<p>The blood coursing through your arteries and veins bring necessary nutrients to organs throughout the body as well as take waste away. But conditions such as diabetes, kidney disease, and certain types of inflammation can limit blood flow to …
This HUD For Doctors Proves Less Is More For Future Wearables
Vivi, a Google Glass-like device, helps keep doctors up to speed in the operating room.<p>For all of its promising ideas and potential, Google Glass can, at best, be summed up as a noble failure. In trying to appeal to as broad of an audience as possible, the resulting device offered little in the way …
Google GlassUnlimitedHand Allows You To Feel Virtual Reality
Another step toward complete immersion into the virtual world.<p>In a bid to make virtual reality more immersive, Japanese design brand H2L has created the UnlimitedHand. The device is strapped to a users forearm and combines haptic feedback with multi-channel electronic muscle stimulators to allow …
What does virtual reality mean for the healthcare industry?
Consider the following scenario: A woman in a remote rural area of a developing country is due to give birth in a few days. She has no access to a …
Virtual Surgery: Training Med Students on a 3D Cadaver
The Michigan Immersive Digital Experience Nexus (MIDEN) could bring virtual reality to medical school and beyond.<p><b>The 3D model of a cadaver floats like a</b> hologram in front of neuroscientist and dentist Alexandre DaSilva. Using a video-game controller, he can slice away sections of the body, as well …
Augmented Reality System Helps Military Surgeons Treat Wounded Warriors
Scientific collaborators at Purdue University and the Indiana University School of Medicine have been working on new technology to help surgeons on …
Virtual reality in a cereal box
Kellog's has packed a virtual reality (VR) experience in to its Nutri-Grain 500g size box, linking it to a smartphone app. Once the exclusive domain …
Virtual Reality4 Ways Sci-Fi Tech Is Already Revolutionizing Medicine
The next time you have surgery, your doctor might have practiced on you in virtual reality first.<p>You might not get a robot best friend, or a trip around the world in virtual reality any time soon. But in one field, some of these ultra-hyped trends are actually looking like the technologies of today.<p>…
Cyborgs, third ears and body hacking: How the future of technology is inside us
Science fiction is full of stories in which the machines take over and humans are left subservient to their own creations, but according to some …
How To Design A Safer Operating Room
Infection in the OR can be deadly. A new design concept by NBBJ aims to reduce the risk.<p>Getting an infection during surgery is a serious problem. Surgical site infections, which occur in the part of the body operated on, in the skin, tissue, organs, or an implant, can prolong hospital stays by more …
Handsfree3D Printing Medical Tools in Haiti and Beyond
By Danielle Perretty<p>Haiti is both a land of beauty and a land of suffering. Among the awe-inspiring mountain views and coastal areas, eroded lands …
3D PrintingFDA clears ReWalk exoskeleton that lets paraplegics walk again
Following the EU's lead, the US finally allows people with spinal cord injuries to buy the motorized system that lets them independently stand upright, turn, and walk.<p>The ReWalk exoskeleton has helped countless paraplegics be able to walk again. But, until now, not just anybody in the US could buy …
ExoskeletonsOlder adults who exercise stay mobile longer - Futurity
New research offers more evidence that exercise is key to staying mobile as we age, even for frail older adults.
Handheld terahertz cameras could replace MRI - Futurity
Thin sensors that use carbon nanotubes to detect terahertz waves could offer a less intrusive way to screen passengers at airports or to scan for …
TumorsChip implant no bigger than a grain of rice is powered by wireless breakthrough
Human trials expected soon<p>A new method for wirelessly powering medical electronics like pacemakers and nerve stimulators could mean new possibilities for treating illnesses and mitigating pain. As reported in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</i>, a team led by Stanford electrical …
One Of America’s Largest Hospitals Brings Google Glass Into The ER
Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, one of America’s largest hospitals, is testing Google Glass in their ER so doctors don’t have to break eye contact with patients while treating them.<p>Patients at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center (BIDMC) might notice something different if …
Google GlassThe Microscopic Future of Surgical Robotics
Chances are, you aren’t, and never will be, an astronaut. So the recent revelation that NASA is funding the development of a somewhat gruesome-sounding surgical bot—a fist-size contraption that would enter a patient’s gas-engorged abdomen to staunch bleeding or remove a ruptured appendix—isn’t …