POSTS TAGGED AS medical devices

Gesture-Controlled Electronics

We’ve seen gesture-controlled games, like Wii and Kinect, become popular among kids and assisted living residents.  Now, car makers [MORE]

Material with “Switchable Wettability”

HHM
Here’s a piece about a new material which, by changing pressure, light, temperature, chemical signaling or electro-magnetic fields, could [MORE]

Sensors in Personalized Medicine

Last summer, researchers at Stanford introduced what they called an “integrated microfluidics-waveguide sensor” that could detect and count T-cells [MORE]

Issues in Wireless Device Engineering

This piece does not specifically address the low power sensors and wireless networking issues in healthcare (e.g. asset tracking, [MORE]

Biomedical Material Based on Squid Beak

Squid Beak
Before he retired from the US Senate, Wisconsin’s William Proxmire made a point of handing out “Golden Fleece” awards [MORE]

Perspective on Implantable Devices

Dissolvable Electronics
This piece is a teaser, as it touches on new materials for implantable medical devices leaving one wanting [MORE]

How Sensing Technology Can Change Healthcare

Printable Skin Electronics
Qualcomm’s $10m “Tricorder” X-Prize competition now has 267 registered teams, with the next round coming in September.  [MORE]

Stretchable, Wireless Rechargeable Batteries for Wearable Monitors

Stretchable Battery
Two desirable properties of wearable health monitors are a comfortable fit, and wireless rechargability. Electrical engineers at the [MORE]

Graphene Antennas for Faster Wireless

One of graphene’s extraordinary properties is that electrons can move through it with almost no resistance—many times faster than [MORE]

Six New Materials for Medical Technology

Microsupercapacitor
This remarkable half dozen includes inexpensive graphene supercapicators, DNA coated calcium phosphate for bone repair paste, nanowire-based electrodes for [MORE]

Interesting New Hydrogel

DNA Hydrogel
Hydrogel, a material made of charged polymers, is widely used in biomedical engineering for such things as biosensors, contact [MORE]

Mobile Devices During Power Outages

Here’s a rub against telemedicine, mobile devices, and distance monitoring.  What happens when a storm like Hurricane Sandy knocks [MORE]

“First Inventor to File” Major Change in US Patent Law

Seattle Copyright Lawyer
It’s worth remembering that Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell filed their patent caveats for the telephone [MORE]

Smart Connected Homes

Home Health Home
Note the numbers in this piece about the value of home telehealth monitoring:  35-56 percent reduction in [MORE]