Portable, consumer-level device capable of collecting and interpreting large amounts of data to accurately diagnose specific medical conditions

Posted on June 10, 2016June 10, 2016 by

By leveraging technological advances in wireless monitoring, artificial intelligence, and affordable point-of-care biomedical processes, new opportunities in consumer-driven, in-home, medical diagnostic tools are not only possible, but they are the future of health care. Many of us have spent hours navigating through a disjointed, complicated health care system, the failures of which are frustrating to both patients and providers. What if, instead of waiting several weeks to get an appointmen...

CardioMEMS HF System measures and monitors real-time 24×7 pulmonary artery (PA) pressure and heart rate in heart failure patients.

Posted on June 10, 2016 by

CardioMEMS HF System measures and monitors the pulmonary artery (PA) pressure and heart rate in certain heart failure patients. The System consists of an implantable PA sensor, delivery system, and Patient Electronics System. The implantable sensor is permanently placed in the pulmonary artery, the blood vessel that moves blood from the heart to the lungs. The sensor is implanted during a right heart catheterization procedure. The PA sensor is about the size of small paper clip and has a thin, c...

Car Jump Starter Mobile Battery Charger

Posted on June 8, 2016 by

Indigi® Car Jump Starter Mobile Battery Charger Power Bank As Emergency Car Battery Booster 12800mAh Cellphone Laptop Backup Power Source Smallest, lightest, and most powerful portable 12 Volt Car Vehicle Jump Starter - Power Bank Power Source for All iPhone, iPad, iWatch, Galaxy Phone, Smartphone, Android Phone, Smartwatch, Watch Phone, Laptop, Notebook, MP3/MP4 Player, GPS, Camera and PSP so on Built-in 12800mAh power bank with 12V DC output, it features a key switch to choose...

The Triple Therapy Knee Pain Reliever

Posted on June 8, 2016 by

This is the hands-free device that combines LED light treatment with vibration and compression massage to ease pain and stiffness in the knee. Only available from Hammacher Schlemmer, it is ideal for addressing the symptoms of arthritis, bursitis, edema, and injuries without medication. The reliever consists of a vibrating shell that fits around the patella and a surrounding ring of 12 LEDs. While the nodes systematically vibrate to massage muscles surrounding the knee, kneading out tension a...

Aurai is an innovative and practical water-propelled eye massager

Posted on June 8, 2016June 8, 2016 by

The Aurai is an innovative and practical water-propelled eye massager that helps you relieve eye strain and stress. the Aurai eye massager consists of two parts including an eye mask measuring 6.5 x 2.76 x 2.56 inches and a controller measuring 8.27 x 1.77 x 1.97 inches. The eye mask has a minimal, sleek and ergonomic appearance. Using its adjustable and detachable strap, the eye mask fit on a variety of wearers. Unlike most regular eye massagers using rigid vibration, Aurai utilizes a uni...

Reliefband® is a wearable technology for the treatment of nausea and vomiting associated with pregnancy or motion sickness.

Posted on June 8, 2016 by

The ReliefBand was designed to specifically combat nausea and vomiting. The technology uses programmable pulses "with highly specific waveform, frequency, and intensity to stimulate the median nerve on the underside of the wrist," according to the company. You can turn Reliefband on and off, or up and down in 5 settings to suit your individual needs. Reliefband works within minutes, without the side effects or drug interactions of medications. Just slip it on your wrist, adjust the intensit...

Referendums held in Switzerland to introduce basic income.

Posted on June 7, 2016June 7, 2016 by

Referendums held in Switzerland in 2016 to introduce a basic income. The idea of giving everyone in society free money—a universal basic income—has been getting a lot of attention recently. The Finnish government is planning a big experiment, where up to 100,000 people could get about $1,100 a month. Four Dutch cities will probably run trials this summer. And several other cities and states, from Canada to Spain, are interested. This June, Switzerland will be the first country to actually ...

GE Healthcare’s innovative pocket-sized ultrasound

Posted on June 6, 2016 by

Innovative Handheld ultrasound Vscan and Vscan with Dual Probe An intuitive pocket-sized ultrasound device that enables medical professionals including cardiologists, general practitioners, OB/GYN, primary care, emergency physicians and intensivists to easily image at the point of care - transforming the physical exam with more information to determine the optimized course of treatment for patients. St. George's Hospital in South London has started using Vscan, a small device, similar to a ...

Shapie new 3D selfie

Posted on June 6, 2016 by

3D scanning manufacturer, Artec, has created a 3D body scanning booth where 12 seconds of scanning results in a “Shapie” figurine. The Artec Shapify Booth is 3D body scanning and selfie making automated machine. Use it to sell hundreds of high quality personal figurines every month. Scan your customer in 12 seconds. 5 minutes later a detailed 3D model is created automatically. These beautiful and lifelike ceramic figurines are printed using 3D printers. They look hand-painted, but are prin...

Engineers at UC Berkeley are developing a new ‘Smart bandage’

Posted on June 6, 2016 by

Engineers at UC Berkeley are developing a new type of bandage that does far more than stanch the bleeding from a paper cut or scraped knee. Associate professor Michel Maharbiz explains how the smart bandage works to detect bedsores. (UC Berkeley video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Phil Ebiner) Thanks to advances in flexible electronics, the researchers, in collaboration with colleagues at UC San Francisco, have created a new “smart bandage” that uses electrical currents to detect early tissue dama...

Smartphone Based Blood Pressure Monitoring

Posted on June 6, 2016 by

Xiaomi Technology in collaboration with the American company iHealth Labs have developed smart phone blood pressure monitoring device.. The device looks a little different from the classic tonometer: the appropriate size cuff is connected to the docking The device looks a little different from the classic tonometer: the appropriate size cuff is connected to the docking stanitsa, which is connected to the smartphone with preloaded software platform. The application retrieves the data and outpu...

Acoustic engineering transcribes crackling knee sounds into moving graph

Posted on June 5, 2016 by

You’ve injured your knee. A doctor straps a listening device to it, and the noises you hear coming out of it are cringe-worthy. “Crackle! Krglkrglkrgl! Snap!” Your knee isn’t breaking; it’s only bending, and in the future, those sounds could help doctors determine whether the convalescing joint is healthy yet, or if it needs more therapy. Research engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing a knee band with microphones and vibration sensors to listen to and measure the ...

Flu Vaccine in Painless Skin Patches Under Development at Emory, Georgia Tech

Posted on June 5, 2016 by

Flu vaccine delivered through painless microneedles in patches applied to the skin could soon be an alternative to delivery through hypodermic needles, according to researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Using new grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling approximately $11.5 million over five years, researchers from the two institutions plan to develop a new vaccine product using the microscopic needles. "A vaccine administered through a sk...

CUR a wearable patch that delivers high frequency impulses to block pain signals directy

Posted on June 5, 2016June 5, 2016 by

Thimble Bioelectronics, a California-based company that focuses on developing digital pain management products, announced on this week that it is working on a wearable pain relief patch. Similar in look, size and shape to an ordinary band-aid; the product is based on Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), a type of therapy that uses low-voltage electrical current for pain relief. Just place it where it hurts. The optimal waveform, amplitude, and modulation pattern settings are au...

‘Medical Feather’ device helps find patient’s veins easily and painlessly

Posted on June 5, 2016 by

Medical Feather is an innovative medical device concept that allows simple procedures to do intravenous easily and painless. It consists of Doppler ultrasound and thermal patch. Doppler patient’s veins easily helps finding patient’s veins easily, it saves more time instead of finding it manually. Thermal patch is used to mark the area where medical staff can make proper injection. Medical Feather was designed by Adrian Borsoï, a young entrepreneur and industrial design student from France....

Linky foldable electric longboard

Posted on June 4, 2016 by

Linky electric longboard is a foldable electric longboard, it can compact to half the length when not in use, making it small enough to fit inside a backpack. That’s right, no more accidentally hitting people with your unwieldy deck when taking the train or walking in a crowd – at this size, you can conveniently squeeze the whole thing into whatever bag you have on hand. Linky in the palm of your hand. A full length longboard, when folded, thanks to our patented system, it’s 400...

Painless Laser Epidermal System Gives You Meds With No Needles, No Pills

Posted on June 4, 2016 by

Painless Laser Epidermal System (aka P.L.E.A.S.E.), a new drug delivery system that puts meds into your body by shooting you with lasers. Pew pew, indeed. Created by Pantec Biosolutions AG, the transdermal drug delivery method works by blasting your skin with lasers to create micropores where medication can be absorbed. The process is touted to be completely painless for all parties involved (both the patient and the doctor), unless somebody mistakenly arms the laser with deadly force and fil...

Hoseless, Maskless, Cordless Micro-CPAP Device

Posted on June 4, 2016 by

Airing has invented a micro CPAP device that has no hoses, no cords, and no masks. And we did it for one reason: too many sleep apnea patients don’t wear their CPAP masks at night. And who can blame them with those awful masks, cords, and hoses. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is a form of positive airway pressure ventilator, which applies mild air pressure on a continuous basis to keep the airways continuously open in people who are able to breathe spontaneously on their own. It i...

Exoskeleton Harvests Energy While Walking

Posted on June 3, 2016June 3, 2016 by

THE POWERWALK® KINETIC ENERGY HARVESTER The PowerWalk enables users to produce 10-12 watts of power as they walk. Over the course of an hour, walking at a comfortable pace, users wearing a harvester on each leg can generate enough power to charge up to four smart phones. The system typically can generate enough power from one hour of walking to recharge four smartphones. The product is initially intended for military use; if a soldier can generate extra electri...

Mom’s pick for innovative products that have before and after life

Posted on June 3, 2016June 3, 2016 by

The Peg Perego Tatamia High Chair Sometimes a baby swing is the only way to get a fussy baby to calm down — Liz used to claim her babies were motion junkies — but they take up so much room. Same problem with my high chair: I need it, but it’s bulky to have sitting around the kitchen when its not in use. Well believe it or not, we’ve found one product that serves both functions. The Peg Perego Tatamia high chair can work as an infant swing and reclining seat for nap time, but it a...

Innovative gifts

Posted on June 3, 2016 by

Lumen Oil Candle Shadow Projectors Invented by artist Adam Frank, this modern little oil candle casts an enchanting shadow from a tiny, stainless steel tree. As the flame flickers, the shadow of the tree moves like a light breeze is rustling its branches. A unique twist on a normal candle. Give one to your favorite hostess or light several at your next dinner party. The shadow's intensity and size will be affected by additional light in the room - the darker the room, the better the results. Co...

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY COULD HELP DETECT HEALTH RISKS, DEPRESSION

Posted on June 2, 2016 by

Engineers at Michigan State University working with folks at Bell Labs have developed WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY that could help detect health risk, depresion. It may be small, so small it’s hardly noticeable, but it could someday save lives. “It” is wearable technology that can monitor a person’s eating, drinking, coughing and even social habits, and that’s information a health care provider could find useful when treating someone dealing with obesity, diabetes, asthma or even depression. Thi...

Wearable system that monitors and predicts asthma attacks

Posted on June 2, 2016 by

Researchers have developed an integrated, wearable system that monitors a user’s environment, heart rate and other physical attributes with the goal of predicting and preventing asthma attacks. The researchers plan to begin testing the system on a larger subject population this summer. The system, called the Health and Environmental Tracker (HET), is composed of a suite of new sensor devices and was developed by researchers from the National Science Foundation’s Nanosystems Engineering Resear...

Home Urine Test Scanner

Posted on June 2, 2016 by

Bowden and Gennifer Smith, a PhD student in electrical engineering at Stanford, detail their new low-cost, portable device that would allow patients to get consistently accurate urine test results at home, easing the workload on primary care physicians. Other do-it-yourself systems are emerging, but the Stanford engineers think their approach is inexpensive and reliable, in part because they base their system on the same tried and trusted dipstick used in medical offices. https://youtu.be/...

Innovative Products

Posted on June 1, 2016 by

The CordCruncher Headphone features elastic sleeve that allows you to customize the length of the cord anywhere from 16 inches to 3.5 feet. Lovethink Pillow: This smart pillow is fully adjustable in both softness and height; it monitors your sleep and knows the best time to wake you up. It combines with ThinkSleep to create a perfect sleep system and gives suggestions to improve your sleep. The Creek Wi-Fi clock features home automation and security, smartala...

Research on how flowers communicate with bees

Posted on June 1, 2016June 1, 2016 by

Although it's known that flowers communicate with pollinators by sending out electric signals, just how bees detects these fields has been a mystery – until now. Using a laser to measure vibrations, researchers found that both the bees' antenna and hairs deflect in response to an electric field, but the hairs move more rapidly and with overall greater displacements. Researchers then looked at the bees' nervous system, finding that only the hairs alerted the bee's nervous system to this sig...

Online security device

Posted on June 1, 2016June 1, 2016 by

Cyborg Unplug: This anti wireless-surveillance system for the home and workplace detects and forestalls selected devices known to pose a risk to personal privacy. Invizbox provides an easy solution to give you back control over who & what you choose to disclose your personal information to. Armored Cloud - An Enterprise Solution for Privatizing the Public Internet Armored Cloud is easy to use. In just three steps, your team can privately access the interne...

‘Gecko vision’: Key to the multifocal contact lens helping see colors at night

Posted on May 31, 2016 by

Nocturnal geckos are among the very few living creatures able to see colors at night, and scientists' discovery of series of distinct concentric zones may lead to insight into better cameras and contact lenses. The key to the exceptional night vision of the nocturnal helmet gecko is a series of distinct concentric zones of different refractive powers, according to a study published in the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's peer-reviewed, online Journal of Vision("The pupil...