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REM Sleep Monitor
Aurora Lucid Dreaming Sleep Mask
Aurora (San Diego, CA) is accepting preorders for its “iWinks” sleep monitor. If you can [MORE]
LABONFOIL Diagnostics
LABONFOIL Lab-on-a-Chip
Just as its name implies, this diagnostic device is a lab-on-a-chip, but one made on foil rather than a [MORE]
The Hospital that Tracks Everything
Intelligent Hospital Control Desk
This piece reviews a bevy of efficiency technologies for hospitals—altogether representing incremental rather than disruptive innovation. As [MORE]
Pressure Sensor for the Bladder
Bladder Sensor Chip
Bladder pressure can be, at the least, uncomfortable, but for patients who have nerve dysfunction, bladder pressure [MORE]
Smart Phone for Teleotolaryngology
Multi-User Otorhinoendoscope Prototype
One of the chief obstacles telemedicine faces is overcoming the enormous investments that uphold less effective practices, much [MORE]
Craig Venter’s Aging Database Project
Craig Venter
In 2003 Craig Venter’s Celera Corporation tied the government’s Human Genome Project in sequencing human DNA, and now Venter [MORE]
Gene Therapy that Prevents HIV/AIDS
Modifiying T Cells
Gene therapists at the University of Pennsylvania have used a gene editing technique (zinc finger technology) to induce [MORE]
Orthotic Exoskeleton for Ankle Rehabilitation
Soft Pneumatic Exoskeleton
Relying on four artificial muscles and several sensors, this soft orthotic exoskeleton from the Wyss Institute at [MORE]
Fraunhofer’s “Safe@Home” Fall Monitor
Emergency Sensor Box
Imagine a device about the size of a smoke detector, mounted on a room’s ceiling that detects falls [MORE]
Ad for Piezoelectric Accelerometers
Compact, Plug-n-play Accelerometer from Measurement Specialties
While this is an unpaid, unsolicited advertisement for motion detectors, it is among the kinds [MORE]
Monitoring Influenza
Influenza Virus
In 2018, the world will mark a centennial since the great influenza pandemic that killed far more people than [MORE]
CVS Adopts EPIC EMR System Prior to Services Expansion
Minute Clinic
How will we know when CVS, Walmart, Walgreens, et al in retail healthcare make their strategic move into the [MORE]
Expanding RFID
Iotera-RFID
Two pieces here discuss development in radio frequency identification tags—passive or battery-less tags developed at Cambridge University that are [MORE]
Growing Cartilage from Stem Cells
Fats Cells for Ears
Some 6,000 to 8,000 babies are born each year in the US with microtia—a non genetic birth [MORE]