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Wirelessly Powering Electroceutical Devices for Pain Relief

Medical Chip for Power Transfer
As an alternative to large batteries which need to be replaced, as with pacemakers, Stanford engineers [MORE]

Wi-Vi Movement Tracking

Wi Vi
“Wi-Vi’ means wireless vision, and videos with this piece show how it can be used to monitor an [MORE]

Gesture Control in the OR

Touch Free Gestural Control System
Whether or not gesture control for moving equipment in an operating theater has an advantage in [MORE]

A Wearable “EKG for the Gut”

GI System Diagnosis
Consider this: ‘There is one brain that sits at the top of the spinal cord, but there is [MORE]

Diagnostic Pills and Medication Hybrids

Proteus Sensor Enabled Pills
Diagnostic pills—some containing cameras, others with sensors—could serve many needs in healthcare, perhaps none more so than [MORE]

Ultra-Low Powered Wireless Sensor

PsiKick Chip
A crucial limitation on the thousands of devices conceived to make up the “internet of things” is their power [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]

MIT’s Hearing Chip

Chip for Cochlear Implant
Cochlear implants have these components: a transitter affixed to the skull, a wire between the transmitter [MORE]

Bionic Eye Implanted

Bionic Eye
Last year, the FDA approved a vision device system consisting of a pair of glasses with camera, a belt-worn [MORE]

iHealth “Smart Cuff” for Hypertension/Endothelial Function Monitoring

iHealth Cuff
iHealthLabs (Mountain View, CA) manufactures several wireless devices for health monitoring—a scale, activity and sleep tracker, pulse oximeter, and [MORE]

Sensored Belt Allows Continuous ECG Monitoring for Two Weeks

EKG Monitor
Based on developing “dry” electrodes, which do not need a gel to transmit a heartbeat pulse to an [MORE]

Sprint’s mHealth Accelerator

Dr, Bill Crounse
Earlier this year, cellular provider Sprint announced its Mobile Health Accelerator Program whereby it will solicit applications [MORE]

Smart Diaper Tracks Baby’s Health

Smart Diaper
Recently, we’ve seen “smart” sox for infants that track their temperature and movement, and a growing number of [MORE]

A Smart Walking Cane

Iso Walk Cane
This piece is both a commercial advertisement and an appeal for funding, but the product and projections [MORE]