The bacteria in your gut don’t just break down food. According to Dr. Veena Taneja, an immunologist at Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine, they can also can predict susceptibility for rheumatoid arthritis. Over 1.5 million Americans have rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disorder in which the body mistakenly attacks itself. The body breaks down tissues around joints, causing painful swelling in the joints. At present, scientists have a limited understanding of the processe...

Airing is designed to be the world’s first maskless, hoseless, cordless micro-CPAP device to combat obstructive sleep apnea. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is usually caused by a blockage of the airway in which soft tissue in the rear of the throat collapses during sleep. If OSA is untreated, it has the potential to lead to serious health problems from high blood pressure to cardiovascular disease to memory impairment. Typically, OSA is treated with “Continuous Positive Airway Pressure,” o...

Cramps plague women around the world; Livia, an instant pain relief solution, is a device which has the potential to end them. The “off switch” for your cramps, Livia is a drug-free solution for menstrual pain. With a single touch, the wearable device closes the "pain gates" by stimulating the nerves and blocking the pain from passing to the brain. The technology itself relies on the “Gate Control Theory.” Livia transmits a pulse that keeps the nerves “busy” so they are unable to transmit ...

Kevoâ€TMs Touch-to-Open technology you can simply leave your smartphone in your pocket or purse upon entering; no more fumbling for your keys. Just touch the lock to open for the ultimate convenience. No smartphone? No problem. Enjoy the same touch to open convenience with the included fob. You can send an electronic key (eKey) to family, friends, or visitors who have a compatible Smartphone so they can use their phone as a key too. Receive notifications of lock activity and manage the lock and ...

Live smarter by knowing more about the place you care about most. With Eve, see your home at a glance, right on your iPhone and iPad. The Eve family of HomeKit accessories gathers data on air quality, temperature, humidity, air pressure, energy consumption and more. Gain insights that help you improve your comfort, and make your home a smarter place.   https://youtu.be/CEHBGoG60mU   With Eve Room, Eve senses indoor air quality, temperature, and humidity. Eve Room is...

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS or TNS) is the use of electric current produced by a device to stimulate the nerves for therapeutic purposes. TENS, by definition, covers the complete range of transcutaneously applied currents used for nerve excitation although the term is often used with a more restrictive intent, namely to describe the kind of pulses produced by portable stimulators used to treat pain. The unit is usually connected to the skin using two or more electrodes. ...

Tiny bacteria could potentially charge your cell phone, according to a recent study conducted by Oxford University researchers. A group of scientists from Oxford University collaborated on a project demonstrating how the bacterial movement could be harnessed to assemble and power microscopic 'windfarms'. Published in the journal Science Advances, the study utilizes computer simulations to show how the chaotic swarming effect of bacteria, a type of dense active matter can provide a reliabl...

Tiny1 is the smallest, and arguably one of the smartest and most social astronomy cameras. Created by Grey Tan, Tiny1 allows you to capture the starry night sky and share photos in the palm of your hands.   The device includes an interactive star map to easily locate and shoot celestial objects. Augmented Reality Star Maps guide users to the stars and constellations. The map shows a user stars and constellations in real time and has a search function as well. Capture presets a...

Thousands of individuals lose or forget their wallet each day. Walli, a new smart wallet, is designed to target just that. The wallet connects to your phone via Bluetooth and notifies you when you leave it behind. It also sends a notification if a card or even your phone is left behind. The Walli app continuously monitors your wallet. As soon as you are too far away from your wallet, the app sends you a notification. If a user misses these notifications, Walli has the ability to track the ...

    The Pilot is the world’s first smart earpiece which can be used to translate between users who speak different languages. The brainchild of Waverly Labs, the device converges wearable technology and a translation machine to provide real-time translation. The Pilot includes two earpieces that use Bluetooth to connect wirelessly. Two earpieces can be used to listen to music if the user chooses, and only one is needed per user for real-time translation. The accompanying a...

Cricket is the future of ergonomic evaluations. Apply a comfortable wearable sensor that measures muscle tension and posture. Get guided effortlessly through streamlined workstation evaluations that follow OSHA standards. Get automated reports that quantify the effectiveness of your adjustments, and which isolate which muscle groups or activities need additional attention. Use a monitor throughout the work day and get feedback when tension levels are elevated or when you are using your worksta...

"Smart" clothes that can cool and heat and a new superfilter that will make drinking water safer are two commercial results of space technologies developed at NASA's Johnson Space Center recently recognized by the U.S. Space Foundation. The patented technologies are among those named to the Space Foundation’s Space Technology Hall of Fame for 2005. Established in 1988 jointly by NASA and the Space Foundation, the Space Technology Hall of Fame honors technologies developed for space which have...

'bPay' loop. Turn your watch or fitness band into a way to pay. Launched in partnership with Garmin and Mondaine. Barclaycard is introducing bPay Loop, a small case comprising a contactless chip, so that wearable owners can transform their existing watches and fitness bands into vehicles for contactless payments, highlighting a new commerce opportunity. At the heart of bPay is a pre-paid account that links to most major credit or debit cards. Download the bPay app for instant connectivity....

Microsoft HoloLens is the first fully self-contained, holographic computer, enabling you to interact with high‑definition holograms in your world. Microsoft HoloLens, the company's holographic, augmented reality headset. The market for virtual reality devices is expected to be 80 million devices per year by 2020. However, many of today’s devices and experiences do not work with each other, provide different user interfaces, interaction models, input methods, peripherals, and content. And m...

Fitness: By taking a vita measurement, Tinké measures 3 parameters (blood oxygen levels, respiratory rate, heart rate) and indicates your fitness level in 30 seconds. Wellness: By taking a Zen measurement, tinke provides a 60 seconds breathing exercise to practise mindful breathing, and indicates your level of relaxation at the end of the exercise via your heart rate variability. Monitor and chart your Vita and Zen measurements with Tinké. Know your progress and be empowered in taking active ste...

After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had completed was received on Earth at 8:53 p.m. PDT (11:53 p.m. EDT) Monday, July 4. “Independence Day always is something to celebrate, but today we can add to America’s birthday another reason to cheer -- Juno is at Jupiter,” said NASA administrator Charlie Bolden. “And what is more American than a NAS...

WiSee is a novel interaction interface that leverages ongoing wireless transmissions in the environment (e.g., WiFi) to enable whole-home sensing and recognition of human gestures. Since wireless signals do not require line-of-sight and can traverse through walls, WiSee can enable whole-home gesture recognition using few wireless sources (e.g., a Wi-Fi router and a few mobile devices in the living room). WiSee is the first wireless system that can identify gestures in line-of-sight, non-line-...

Chatterbot, a chatter robot is a type of conversational agent, a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via auditory or textual methods. 'ChatFuel' is an intuitive free bot builder with AI navigation. Chatfuel allows anyone to create their own bots on Telegram Messenger, without coding. Automatically send broadcasts to all your bot subscribers. https://youtu.be/mD6I1dXgzvA   The company also provides services to send...

AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With AWS IoT, your applications can keep track of and communicate with all your devices, all the time, even when they aren’t connected. AWS IoT makes it easy to use AWS...

Telehealth involves the distribution of health-related services and information. Distribution is via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. It allows long distance patient/clinician contact and care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring and remote admissions. As well as provider distance-learning; meetings, supervision, and presentations between practitioners; online information and health data management and healthcare system integration. Telehealth coul...

The cobas® HCV is a laboratory test used to measure the amount of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA (ribonucleic acid) in a patient’s blood. Viral RNA is genetic material from HCV. Hepatitis C is a liver infection caused by HCV. Hepatitis C is transmitted when blood or another body fluid from a person infected with the Hepatitis C virus enters the body of someone who is not infected. This can happen through sharing needles, syringes, or other drug-injection equipment, from mother to baby at birth, ...

Centuries ago, ships often sailed with crews numbering in the hundreds returning with tens. Cause of death: Scurvy – a severe depletion of Vitamin C. Today’s explorers cross miles of space with no hope of finding an island with food and nutrients along the way. All nutritional needs must be met aboard. “Nutrition is vital to the mission,” Scott M. Smith, Ph.D., manager for NASA’s Nutritional Biochemistry Lab said. “Without proper nutrition for the astronauts, the mission will fail. It’s that ...

Ray replaces your jumble of old remotes in one intelligent package. Controlling and managing your entertainment setup has never been this easy. A simple tap seamlessly switches between any of your entertainment devices. Connect to your entertainment system in minutes without cords or computers. Ray utilizes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and infrared to control hundreds of thousands of devices. Ray Personalizes Your TV Leveraging a powerful recommendation engine, Ray learns what you like and helps ...

MY UV PATCH is a real breakthrough in skin wellness. It coaches you to protect your skin from damage and premature aging. While using with the app, it will determine your personal skin-type, track your real-time UV exposure and alert you when your level of sun exposure might no longer be safe. UV PATCH is a real breakthrough in skin wellness. It coaches you to protect your skin from damage and premature aging. While using with the app, it will determine your personal skin-type, trac...

Kingii is the new wristband for all those who love water! If you need help to stay afloat, pull the lever and an inflation bag will pull you to the surface. Kingii is lightweight and can be worn in and around water. You can reuse Kingii by replacing the CO2 cartridge inside. The Kingii is a simple device; a plastic compartment holds an inflatable plastic bag and a CO2 cartridge. You wear this on your wrist, and if you are in danger in the water, you simply pull on a lever to release and in...

Cloaking device is a theoretical or fictional stealth technology that can cause objects, such as spaceships or individuals, to be partially or wholly invisible to parts of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. However, over the entire spectrum, a cloaked object scatters more than an uncloaked object.[1] Fictional cloaking devices have been used as plot devices in various media for many years. Developments in scientific research show that real-world cloaking devices can obscure objects from at...

Medtronic has been advancing artificial pancreas research and development for ... our path to the artificial pancreas, a study of our Hybrid Closed Loop (HCL) system. Type I diabetes comes with a lifetime commitment to maintaining health. Patients have to measure blood glucose levels and adjust insulin levels as necessary as indicated by multiple finger stick blood tests daily. Glucose monitors can reduce the number of finger sticks to two a day for calibration to be sure the monitor is worki...

Is your child obsessed with Minecraft? Do you find it difficult to maintain health screen time limits? The KoalaSafe parental control router makes parenting easier and kids healthier. This wireless router works on all devices. Not only is KoalaSafe for your desktop computer, you now have tablets with parental controls. It's a tool for parents to set up internet time limits, block inappropriate apps and sites, and see analytics of where kids spend time online, across all devices in the home, cont...

The iPhly allows you to ditch the bulky and expensive R/C equipment for something more portable, like your iPhone. We’ve seen remote control accessories before, but they only work with accompanying vehicles. iPhly actually has the ability to control anything from airplanes to RC cars that you already own. How does it work? The iPhly connects to your iPhone via the accessory port. The device uses a pre existing frequency module, or you can purchase one along with the product. The developer ...