I’m on the move but here’s a quick Health / Medical / Scientific technology video about suspended animation. Enjoy!
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Courtesy Korea University Oh the future of health gadgets… Imagine using your body as a conduit through which to send and receive signals. Medical devices communicating with each other using your body as the wired. A group of South Korean scientists have demonstrated the ability to send information at 10MB/sec through a humans arm. [New Scientist] courtesy of University of Utah File this under wonky medical gadgets. Researchers in Utah have developed an armrest they feel will change the face of medicine. The device is supposed to increase the precision of hand movements by stabilizing the arm using force motors. This is definitely in the prototype stage, as you can see [...] credit: Daniel Terdimen A nice Saturday read, Daniel Terdimen over at CNET profiles Scott Summit, an industrial designer changing the way prostheses are designed and manufactured. Summit has many game changing points in his speeches, especially when discussing complexity and how in the future you will pay the same for complex models as simple. [CNET]
Eric Topol begins his talk by asking when the stethoscope was invented. Have a guess? It was 1816. Although the traditional stethoscope is still useful, there are better and more comprehensive means of monitoring the heart and lungs. How many other medical diagnostic tools haven’t undergone a major upgrade in almost 200 years? Medicine [...]
An interesting study featured in the journal BMC Neurology studied over a thousand teenagers and looked for causes of headaches. The result: computers, cell-phones, and video games are not associated with headaches. This is great news! The bad news is that listening to 1 to 2 hours [...] For those times when a needle free vaccine won’t work you need a good old fashioned syringe. The problem is that syringes, when reused, spread disease and are major cause of death in the world. Hospitals reusing syringes on multiple patients, drug addicts sharing their needles, or simply syringes left in the garbage all spread [...] Photograph by: Handout, Frank Wojciechowski Researchers at Princeton University have created tiny silicon implants that could one day power pacemakers, cell phones or any device requiring small amounts of power. The implants consist of ceramic strips which, when folded, produce electricity. The device is then sealed in silicone which makes it safe for implantation. These mini [...] The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which took place last month, is the largest technology trade-show of the year and medical technology certainly made its mark this year. Jonathan Linkous of the American Telemedicine Association discusses the trends in consumer health technology at CES and what it means for the health care industry.
For those of you not familiar with IDEO…they are one of the most innovative design consultancies in the world. Businessweek ranked them in the top 25 most innovative companies and they also happened to do consulting work for the other 24 companies in the top 25. You can read more about them here and here. When approached by Intercell [...] |
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