Smart Telescopic Contact Lens

Posted on June 11, 2016 by

Researchers in Switzerland are working to develop magnifying contact lenses that zoom in and out with a wink. The innovative new vision-enhancing system, the first of its kind, includes a set of telescopic lenses and smart glasses that can distinguish between blinks and winks so that the user can easily flick between zoomed and normal vision. The visual aids, which are still in the prototype stage, could be useful for those with visual impairment, which affects some 285 million people worl...

Smart Bracelet

Posted on June 11, 2016 by

Snowcorn is a bracelet like concept device with sixth sense which includes a built-in projector, a camera and Wi-Fi connectivity. Moreover, this device can be placed anywhere on around your neck or chest. The transparent part of this device is a screen that can show basic functions or time and more complicated controls are done by the projected UL. You will be able to customize it with your desired color and style. This device will allow you to scan a business card to include the person’s par...

Inhalable insulin

Posted on June 11, 2016 by

Afrezza® is an inhaled human insulin indicated to help improve glycemic control in adults with diabetes mellitus Inhalable insulin is a powdered form of insulin, delivered with a nebulizer into the lungs where it is absorbed. Inhaled insulin is another option for people with diabetes to control their blood sugar. It works for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The FDA has approved an inhaled, rapid-acting, dry-powder formulation of recombinant human insulin (Afrezza–Mannkind/Sanofi) for tre...

iSwimband is the first portable and personal drowning detection system for parents and caregivers.

Posted on June 10, 2016June 10, 2016 by

Swimband is a personal water safety system that is designed to prevent accidental drowning for toddlers. iSwimband is a Bluetooth device that connects to a smart phone or tablet to alert parents if a swimmer has been underwater for a long period, or a non-swimmer has entered the water. Swimband is the world's first wearable wireless sensor designed to notify you immediately with audible/visual alerts on your smartphone, tablet and linked speakers if a swimmer has been submerged dan...

Abbott glucose monitor eliminates finger sticks

Posted on June 10, 2016 by

Blood glucose monitoring technology has evolved since the test strip. Now there are electrochemical sensors being developed that employ a two or three electrode system and are convenient to use. (Vashist, Zheng, Al-Rubeaan, Luong, & Sheu, 2011). The Abbott company has been a pioneer in diabetes monitoring systems. They are starting to roll out a new glucose monitoring system in select markets and should be worldwide in the near future. The FreeStyle® Libre Pro Flash Glucose Monitoring...

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...

Microsoft HoloLens used to explore human body using augmented reality technology.

Posted on June 7, 2016 by

Cleveland Clinic has partnered with Case Western Reserve University to release a Microsoft HoloLens app that allows users to explore the human body using augmented reality technology. The HoloLens is a headset that superimposes computer generated 3D graphics onto a person’s field of view, essentially blending reality with virtual reality. The HoloAnatomy app lets people explore a virtual human, to walk around it looking at details of different systems of the body, and to select which are show...

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....

New Innovative Medical Devices

Posted on June 4, 2016 by

BodyMedia FIT Armbands If you ever wondered just how much calories you burn in a day, or how much your walk to the office helps you stay in shape, then the BodyMedia Armbands will be something that you only dreamed about. State of the art sensors pick up even the tiniest detail and can send it to your smartphone for a complete graph of your calorie burn over the day. A great tool to have if you are preparing to take a diet. You will end up running in the park to beat yet another record… ...

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...

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...

Biostamp

Posted on June 2, 2016 by

John Rogers, a materials science professor at the University of Illinois with a bold vision: Someday, he believes, we will all have sensors on our bodies that send information to a mobile phone, similar to the way a car’s sensors feed the vehicle’s computer. While all biostamps have a few common characteristics—they stretch like skin, include flexible circuits, and can be powered wirelessly— different functions require different sensors. The butterfly sensor on the left is desig...

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...