By David Pincock, on April 30th, 2010
The gifts of health technology…. Here’s a collection of some amazing x-rays taken over the past few years:
A Florida man was stabbed in the head by an unknown assailant in 2007, resulting in a gruesome image that doesn’t even look real. But Michael Hill survived the ordeal, and is currently the Guiness World Record [...]
By David Pincock, on April 23rd, 2010
Courtesy of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
For all my farsighted friends out there, some health technology that could change your life. A scientist in Spain has developed a new type of contact lens that temporarily corrects Hyperopia overnight so that users can go without contacts during the day:
Pauné’s design is the first contact lens capable of [...]
By David Pincock, on April 21st, 2010
An interesting topic for [...]
By David Pincock, on April 12th, 2010
Microsoft already has Healthvault, their electronic health records solution but this is not a full scale EHR(electronic health record) solution. The company already has is deeply involved in ERP solutions (with Microsoft dynamics) and even CRM… So why haven’t they tackled health care head on?
An article by Austin Merritt tackles this question and according to him, [...]
By David Pincock, on April 6th, 2010
There’s few cooler health technology video clips on the web than Stephan Colbert roll out on an advanced wheelchair created by Dean Kamen. Here’s the clip: Clip 1
The second clip is their discussion on the role of technology in America. Check it out here: Clip [...]
By David Pincock, on April 1st, 2010
Courtesy William West, AFP/Getty Images
It may not be as high-tech as Jordy’s visor in Star Trek but a research group in Australia has created a ‘bionic’ eye that can restore partial vision to those with degenerative vision loss.
It consists of a miniature camera, mounted on glasses, that captures images and [...]