speeCup Portable Bluetooth Speaker: The speeCup is a Siri/S voice activated portable Bluetooth speaker. This portable 8" tall speaker connects via Bluetooth, has a range up to 30 feet and can also be connected using auxiliary cable directly to your car or home stereo system. It also features gesture control and plays music and functions as a handsfree speakerphone in your car. urv Guitar: This stringless digital guitar lets you to learn and play songs using touch, gestures and more. The d...

Everykey: Everykey is a stylish wristband that replaces keys and passwords; it utilizes AES 128-bit encryption to grant access to key and password enabled devices. This Bluetooth enabled band gives immediate access to your password-protected gadgets, physically locked items including doors, car doors, bike locks, and more. It works with Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android, and iOS. Nudge: Nudge is the nifty notification wristband that notifies you about important work email, or a phone call tha...

It looks like an ordinary bicycle wheel with an oversized center. But packed inside that unassuming hub is a veritable Swiss army knife’s worth of electronic gadgets and novel functions. The new wheel, developed by researchers at MIT, can store energy every time the rider puts on the brakes, and then give that power back to provide a boost when going uphill or to add a burst of speed in traffic. But there are also a variety of extra functions hidden within the hub of this new wheel, which is ...

Connection from Audiovox plugs into your vehicle's OBD II port and once you register your vehicle online, it begins sharing information with you. It allows you to know how fast your son is driving, or if your daughter is using her smartphone in the vehicle, and it alerts you whenever grandpa drives outside of a predetermined safety zone. It allows you to block cellphone usage inside the car, gives you details of driver performance, fuel usage, track you vehicle and more. It improves your safet...

Just plug the Automatic Link into your car’s data port. Your car and smartphone will automatically connect whenever you drive, wirelessly. The Automatic Link talks to your car’s onboard computer and uses your smartphone’s GPS and data plan to upgrade your car’s capabilities. The Automatic Link includes a built-in accelerometer that can detect many types of crashes. Automatic uses your phone’s data connection to immediately report the crash to 911* with your name, location, and vehicle desc...

Researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center have developed diagnostic mapping system for making and recording differential measurements of periodontal structures of a dental patient. The invention employs first and second ultrasonic sensors controlled by a dental hand-piece to make measurements of the cemento-enamel-junction (CEJ) of each tooth and the depth of the periodontal pocket or cavity of the tooth relative its CEJ. These measurements are visually displayed, recorded (or mapped), and c...

A directional, cylindrical antenna of ~0.095-in. (~2.4-mm) diameter has been developed for localized delivery of microwave radiation for heating (and thus killing) diseased tissue without excessively heating nearby healthy tissue. By "localized" is meant that the antenna radiates much more in one radial direction than in the opposite radial direction, so that it heats tissue much more on one side than it does on the opposite side. Prior compact, cylindrical antennas designed for therapeutic l...

Wipro Ltd has a health monitoring solution called Wipro Assure Health that improves affordable patient care through wearable devices, and a cloud-based clinical decision support system. An extension of this is the Wipro Assure Health Maternity Care Solution, which helps customers by enabling management of high-risk pregnancies with remote assessment of the foetus and the mother. The solution includes a small wearable wireless foetal-maternal monitoring device that can be accessed on a mobile ...

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies to provide clinical health care at a distance. It helps eliminate distance barriers and can improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities. It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency situations. Although there were distant precursors to telemedicine, it is essentially a product of 20th century telecommunication and information technologies...

Retinal Light Processing Using Carbon Nanotubes The Vision Chip is targeted to treat Age-related Macular Degeneration, and other degenerative diseases of the retina by replacing a compromised retinal photoreceptor system with an array of equivalent external photoreceptors and carbon nanotube (CNT) "towers" (bundles of CNTs) that provide a pathway to transmit signals from the external photoreceptors to an active layer of retina. NASA has patented a new technology called the Vision Chip, an ...

With Lumify, high-quality portable ultrasound is available almost anywhere. Just subscribe, download the Lumify app, plug in the transducer, and you're set. Meet patients at the point-of-care, make a faster diagnosis, and deliver care whenever it's needed. https://youtu.be/HRLHtnza2jM Royal Philips launched the Lumify smart ultrasound device, offered as part of a “novel subscription model.” Customers with subscriptions, which Philips said start at a monthly price of $199, receive equipm...

Foot Drop Management, Post Stroke The STIMuSTEP system is a highly recommended treatment that helps correct dropped foot in chronic stroke patients. Since the product was entered into the market in 2004, many patients worldwide (mainly within Europe) are benefiting from it. The use of FES to treat Foot Drop is N.I.C.E (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) recognised, following the Interventional Proce...

Smart medical devices for patients   Cue IoT Advantage: self-diagnosis Benefit: Enables preventive care Cue’s multi-use wand and corresponding cartridge increase the ways that patients can track their own health. With this smart medical device, patients can take their health into their own hands—testing their nasal fluids, saliva and blood. Quell IoT Advantage: pain relief Benefit: Improves quality of care Quell Relief is worn below the knee like any brace—but its embedded sens...

Smart medical devices for doctors Medtronic IoT Advantage: Monitoring Benefit: Enables preventative care Medtronic’s digital blood-glucose meter measures the glucose levels of patients’ tissue fluids with a sensor that wirelessly connects to patients’ and clinicians’ digital devices. This smart medical device alerts clinicians to adjust a patient’s therapy up to 30 minutes before a patient’s health condition escalates to a critical stage. Biotronik IoT Advantage: Monitoring Benefit:...

Cochlear Implant A cochlear implant is an electronic medical device that replaces the function of the damaged inner ear. Unlike hearing aids, which make sounds louder, cochlear implants do the work of damaged parts of the inner ear (cochlea) to provide sound signals to the brain.   Deep brain neurostimulator Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neurosurgical procedure involving the implantation of a medical device called a neurostimulator (sometimes referred to as a 'brain pace...

DocuSign is a San Francisco- and Seattle-based company that provides electronic signature technology and Digital Transaction Management services for facilitating electronic exchanges of contracts and signed documents. DocuSign’s features include authentication services, user identity management and workflow automation. Signatures processed by DocuSign are comparable to traditional signatures based on the product's compliance with the ESIGN Act as well as the European Union’s Directive 1999/93/EC...

University of Maryland electrical engineering researcher Mehdi Kalantari has developed a tiny wireless sensor that monitors and transmits minute-by-minute data on a bridge's structural integrity that he estimates is one-hundredth the cost of a wired network approach. wireless sensors are designed with less than five millimeters in the thickness, and are comprised of four thin, flexible layers. The SenSpot is built using four level of senses, the first detects and measures structural parameter...

EDC or Embedded Data Collector is at the heart of Smart Structure’s SmartPile® surety and structural integrity measurement system. The ultra-rugged wireless design allows the sensor to be embedded into concrete during the pouring and curing process where is becomes a permanent part of the structure (a unique process to Smart Structures patented in 33 countries). The SmartPile EDC communicates wirelessly to the Smart Structures Work Station where data is collected aggregated and processed o...

PayPal is debuting Beacon, a new add-on hardware device for merchants that leverages bluetooth technology to enable consumers to pay at stores completely hands-free. Essentially it is a small hardware device, that runs on its own WiFi, plugs into an outlet and serves as a ‘beacon’ to other connected devices. Any store running compatible point of sale systems, including Erply, Leaf, Leapset, Micros, NCR, ShopKeep and Vend, will simply plug a PayPal Beacon device in a power outlet in their stor...

The International Space Station is a big, climate-controlled environment that houses six people at any given time. As you can probably imagine, these humans produce odors just like the rest of us. So how do NASA and other space agencies make the International Space Station a decent-smelling place to live for those stuck there for months at a time? There is no washer or dryer on board the International Space Station; no cosmic laundromat waiting to take astronauts' quarters each Saturday morni...

MonBaby is an award-winning baby monitor that snaps onto any article of a child’s clothing, just like a button. MonBaby’s uniqueness lies in its universal form factor. Use it as your child grows! Any onesie or pajama works. MonBaby takes a different proactive approach to monitoring. Breathing movements, body position (on the back or on the stomach), fall detection, proximity removal. Monitor your baby proactively with MonBaby Breathing and Rollover Baby Monitor in a Smart Button! MonBaby ...

As computing devices become smaller and more numerous, powering them becomes more difficult; wires are often not feasible, and batteries add weight, bulk, cost, and require recharging/replacement that is impractical at large scales. Ambient backscatter communication solves this problem by leveraging existing TV and cellular transmissions, rather than generating their own radio waves. This novel technique enables ubiquitous communication where devices can communicate among themselves at unprecede...

SOCCKET is a soccer ball that harnesses and stores energy from play for later use as portable power source in resource-poor areas. The sOccket is a soccer ball that captures the energy during game play to charge LEDs and small batteries. After playing with the ball, the child can return home and use the ball to connect a LED lamp to read, study, or illuminate the home. The sOccket is a soccer ball that captures the energy during game play to charge LEDs and small batteries. After playing with...

Microsoft has demonstrated an early prototype of a Kinect-powered shopping cart, which is being developed for Whole Foods by Texas-based company Chaotic Moon. The project is called the “Smarter Cart” and it uses a tablet and scanners to read the items you place inside, check whether they’re on your shopping list, cross them off and ring them up. The motorized cart can follow you around the store and has voice recognition and speech so you can give it instructions and it can let you know if th...

New measurements from a NASA satellite have allowed researchers to identify and quantify, for the first time, how climate-driven increases of liquid water storage on land have affected the rate of sea level rise. A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth’s continents to soak...

PositiveID develops biological detection systems for America’s homeland defense industry as well as rapid medical testing. PositiveID is focused on the development of microfluidic systems for the automated preparation of and performance of biological assays in order to detect threats at high-value locations, as well as analyze samples in medical environments. PositiveID’s microfluidic technology alleviates all existing problems by replacing robotics with integrated microfluidics, reducing cos...

NeuroLife, was invented at Battelle, which teamed with physicians and neuroscientists from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center to develop the research approach and perform the clinical study. Ohio State doctors identified the study participant and implanted a tiny computer chip into his brain. Device allows paralyzed man to swipe credit card, perform other movements. That pioneering participant, Ian Burkhart, is a 24-year-old quadriplegic from Dublin, Ohio, and the first person...

Vida provides expert, personalized, on-demand health coaching and programs from a network of experienced health care providers and leading medical health care providers and leading medical institutions. Vida assigns you a health coach that is an expert in nutrition, fitness, and motivational psychology. These coaches are available 24/7 through text messages and weekly video check ins as well. They help make sure you are adhering to your physician’s recommendations and compliant with your trea...

Most of us spend a great amount of time daily looking at device screens. Computers, tablets, and smartphones are marvelous for all the access to information, communication, entertainment, and creative opportunities they present. What’s not so great is we are exposed to much more blue spectrum light from computer, tablet, and smartphone screens with LED (light emitting diode) backlights than we do from other common forms of lighting. The two most immediate concerns with too much blue light exp...

By 2020, every single product that Samsung sells will be connected to the Internet of Things. It's plan is to make all of the new IOT products as an open platform so that developers around the world can develop new and innovative usages. SAMSUNG WANTS THE INTERNET OF THINGS TO BE TOTALLY OPEN In essence, Samsung's idea is that just about every device you have — and even products like chairs, that you don't normally expect to see technology in — will be connected and talking to each other. ...