EBR Pacemaker
Startup company, EBR Systems (Sunnyvale, CA) is developing a new generation of pacemakers that rely on ultrasound signaling [MORE]
Touch Sensor
Touch-screen devices rely on a phenomenon known as time domain reflectometry, which occurs when there is a change [MORE]
Virtual Nurse "Elizabeth"
Researchers at Northeastern University have figured out how to leap the chasm between electronic information exchange and [MORE]
Virus Self-Assembly
Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a process of assembling bacteriophage on glass to create [MORE]
Remember how your mother nagged you about standing straight? Now there’s a sensor device, “Lumoback,” that vilbrates if you [MORE]
BP Monitoring App
Researchers at the University of Southern California’s Center for Body Computing and St. Luke’s Hospital are working [MORE]
Read this piece thinking not about performance athletes but of people in need of distance monitoring-e.g. CHF patients discharged from [MORE]
Holographic Microscopy
Swiss scientists, at the Brain-Mind Institute in Lausanne, have used laser light to show change in neurons based [MORE]
Office Bot Robot
Telepresence robots have had limited use to date, in part because Wi-Fi and cellular services have restricted [MORE]
The transparent circle is nanomaterial that mimics the protein VEGF.
Using an injectable liquid that contains nanoparticles engineered [MORE]
Microelectronics
Materials Science professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has developed a flexible, stretchable thin silicon patch [MORE]
Phone sensor via skin tattoo
By designing polymer nanoparticles that contain a capture molecule, a charge neutralizing molecule and a [MORE]
DNA Sequencing Technology
Earlier this year, Tagline carried a story about “desktop sequencing” based on Ion Torrent’s semi-conductor approach which [MORE]
Virtual Shopping
It’s not surprising that hospitals are searching for ideas that create new revenue streams, in the face of [MORE]