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“Visual Odometry”
Visual Odometry
It takes a lot of technology to simulate a sense of vision. But researchers at Auburn University [MORE]
D Space
Library science may not be the most obvious field of medical automation, but surely it is the most advanced [MORE]
3-D Printable Protein Cages for Bacterial Zoos
3-D Printed Cages
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have used 3-D printing to fabricate protein cages in [MORE]
“PAM50” Test Kit for Recurrent Breast Cancer
Personalized cancer treatment depends upon subclassifications of patients’ diseases, such as breast cancer’s sub groups: luminal A, luminal B, [MORE]
A Tunable “Eye”
Iris Component of Imaging Device
Minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery depends on having good vision inside the body. This piece describes [MORE]
Graphic Healthcare Spending
Because every “cost-saving” innovation has to address healthcare economics, this graphic should be useful in explaining which metric a [MORE]
Artificial Larynx Successfully Implanted
Artificial Larynx
Designed to be implanted in two stages, engineers and surgeons in Stasbourg, France have successfully given a 65 [MORE]
An Ultimate “Transformer:” Smart Phone to Artificial Pancreas
Smart Phone / Artificial Pancreas
Leaving at least one patient in an experimental trial feeling like a “Super Hero,” a [MORE]
Finger Pulsometer Detects Aortic Stiffness
This piece does not report a new way of taking blood pressure during sleep (when BP is lowest), but [MORE]
Kaiser’s Model Hospital at Garfield Innovation Center
Kaiser Permanente Innovation Center
In a former 37,000 sq. ft. warehouse, Kaiser Permanente created its Garfield Innovation Center (San Leandro, [MORE]
Raman Spectroscopy for Highly Sensitive Odor Detection
Physicists at the science and technology university, ETH Zurich, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA) have developed [MORE]
Automated Screening for Glaucoma
Optic Disc
By taking a picture of the fundus of the eye, and then dividing that image into hundreds of [MORE]
Spray-on Medication Delivery
TransDermal Delivery Solutions Corporation (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) is developing several spray-on medications which the company believes offers quicker [MORE]
Artificial Muscles for Robots
robots with Artificial Muscle
“Electroactive” polymers, which can stretch many times their length in response to a variable electric current, [MORE]