Ultrasonic Periodontal Structures Mapping Device

Posted on May 10, 2016 by

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...

NASA – Directional Microwave Applicator/Antenna

Posted on May 10, 2016 by

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’s medical remote monitoring wearable device

Posted on May 9, 2016 by

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 technologies can provide clinical health care globally

Posted on May 9, 2016 by

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...

NASA Vision Chip

Posted on May 9, 2016 by

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 ...

Philips – Lumify smart ultrasound device

Posted on May 8, 2016 by

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

Posted on May 8, 2016 by

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

Posted on May 8, 2016 by

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

Posted on May 8, 2016 by

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:...

‘DocuSign’ – Sign and approve documents online

Posted on May 7, 2016 by

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...

‘Senspot’ – Realtime LIVE structural integrity measurement device

Posted on May 7, 2016 by

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...

Paypal’s New Hands Free Payment

Posted on May 7, 2016 by

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...

Space cloths to help control odor

Posted on May 6, 2016 by

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 – a Breathing Movement Monitor

Posted on May 6, 2016 by

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 ...

Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air

Posted on May 6, 2016 by

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

Posted on May 6, 2016May 6, 2016 by

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’s ‘smarter cart’ that recognizes what is in the cart and it follows you in the store.

Posted on May 5, 2016 by

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...

Device allows paralyzed man to swipe credit card, perform other movements.

Posted on May 5, 2016 by

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...

Personalized Health Coach

Posted on May 4, 2016 by

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...

Virtual Reality Rollercoaster

Posted on May 3, 2016 by

Alton Towers has opened its 'world first' virtual reality rollercoaster 'Galactica'. The theme park says it is the first fully-dedicated virtual reality. Galactica uses motion sensors next to every seat to link the physical twists and turns to computer graphics played on headsets worn by the riders. The video takes thrill seekers on a 189-second flight from a space station through an asteroid belt to the canyons of an alien world. Simon Reveley from Figment Productions, which created th...

University of Washington has developed a new handheld, pen-sized microscope

Posted on May 2, 2016 by

Handheld, miniature microscope being developed by University of Washington mechanical engineers could allow surgeons to “see” at a cellular level in the operating room and determine where to stop cutting. The new technology, developed in collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Stanford University and the Barrow Neurological Institute, is outlined in a paper published in January in the journal Biomedical Optics Express. The handheld microscope, roughly the size of a pen, ...

International Baccalaureate® (IB) – international education that develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills

Posted on May 1, 2016 by

Founded in 1968, the International Baccalaureate® (IB) is a non-profit educational foundation offering four highly respected programmes of international education that develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills needed to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world. Schools must be authorized, by the IB organization, to offer any of the programmes. The International Baccalaureate® aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a...

Smart Nutrition Bottle revolutionizing personal wellness

Posted on April 30, 2016 by

LifeFuels is a health technology company devoted to bringing responsive intelligence to nutrition and hydration management. We need to fuel our bodies properly in order to live life well. But nutrition is complicated, and nutritional regimens are difficult to adhere to. The LifeFuels Smart Nutrition Bottle simplifies nutrition and hydration management by dispensing the products that you need to help you live a happier, healthier life while you're on the go. FuelPods are inserted in the top...

New drug-delivery capsule may replace injections

Posted on April 29, 2016 by

Pill coated with tiny needles can deliver drugs directly into the lining of the digestive tract. Given a choice, most patients would prefer to take a drug orally instead of getting an injection. Unfortunately, many drugs, especially those made from large proteins, cannot be given as a pill because they get broken down in the stomach before they can be absorbed. To help overcome that obstacle, researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have devised a novel drug capsule coat...

Japanese AI program has co-authored a short-form novel that passed the first round of screening for a national literary prize

Posted on April 26, 2016 by

Japanese AI program has co-authored a short-form novel that passed the first round of screening for a national literary prize. The novel is actually called The Day A Computer Writes A Novel, or “Konpyuta ga shosetsu wo kaku hi” in Japanese. The meta-narrative wasn’t enough to win first prize at the third Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award ceremony, but it did come close. Hitoshi Matsubara and his team at Future University Hakodate in Japan selected words and sentences, and set parameters...

Blockchain – Leading distributed transaction database concept for next generation ‘fintech’

Posted on April 25, 2016April 25, 2016 by

A block chain or blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously-growing list of transaction records hardened against tampering and revision. It consists of data structure blocks—which hold exclusively data in initial blockchain implementations,and both data and programs in some of the more recent implementations—with each block holding batches of individual transactions and the results of any blockchain executables. Each block contains a timestamp and information linking it t...

Innovative Solar Powered products

Posted on April 19, 2016 by

SolPower 9000 Patio Umbrella Now you can lounge under the cover of the SolPower 9-Feet Patio Umbrella with your cell phone, tablet, digital camera or other USB charging device-and never worry about battery life. Running low? No need to get up, just plug your device into one of the USB ports on the umbrella pole and get an instant charge. Features 2 built in USB ports and UV resistant fabric. Solar-Powered Beach Mat Powered by a five-watt solar panel and a built-in thermal fridge, the Bea...

Cool iOS projects for kids

Posted on April 16, 2016April 16, 2016 by

iOS projects for kids : Bluetooth Controlled Snowflake Sweater: LED matrix snowflake sweater with Bluetooth control. The animation and color can be controlled using the Adafruit Bluefruit LE Connect app for iOS or Android. (https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixel-matrix-snowflake-sweater?view=all) 3D Printed Halo Energy toy: an app-enabled sword built using an Adafruit Feather BLE 32u4 micro-controller. Lets you change the animation or color of the LEDs. (https://learn.adafruit.com/hal...

Cleaning with sound waves

Posted on April 12, 2016 by

Sound may not be a normal cleaning product in your house, but it is just the thing for cleaning delicate jewelry, surgical instruments, lenses, and many other small, intricate objects. Soon, it could also make cleaning big objects like houses or machines much more efficient. Cutaway view of a loudspeaker. One model of an ultrasonic cleaner. This benchtop size is used by jewelers, cosmetic and tattoo professionals, dive shops, light manufacturing facilities, maintenance facilities and more. Ph...

Hyundai car augmented reality app

Posted on April 11, 2016April 11, 2016 by

To make life easier for car owners, Hyundai has built an augmented reality app called the Virtual Guide. It allows owners to use their phones to get more familiar with their cars and learn how to perform basic maintenance. All you need to do is hold up your phone and the digital guide will tell you what to do. You can use the app to get an augmented reality view of the engine compartment or interior of the car, with floating digital dots illustrating different points of interest like the w...