POSTS TAGGED AS gizmag.com.

Bruise Trousers

Bruise Trousers
In developing sporting equipment for Paralympic athletes, a group of engineering students at Imperial College London created lycra trousers [MORE]

Sound Amplifying and Analyzing Stethoscope

Thinklabs Stethoscope
The human body is a noisy environment, not even counting external sounds. Ancient Chinese physicians trained to detect hundreds [MORE]

3-D Printing During Surgery, the BioPen

Biopen
“[A] new BioPen developed at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia . . . . is designed to let [MORE]

Levitated Lab-Grown Cartilage

Ultrasound Tweezers
Ultrasonic tweezers July 8 2014“Beam me up, Scotty” may be a little closer to non-fiction based on traction beam [MORE]

Panasonic’s Robotic Bed/Wheelchair

Panasonic Robot Bed

Pansonic’s “Resyone” robot features a wheelchair with a full body length cushion that also is half a bed [MORE]

Mini Heart Implants to Improve Circulation

Mini Heart
Much of regenerative medicine-thinking has focused on using stem cells to grow new organs—hearts, bladders, livers, lungs, etc.  This [MORE]

Google Glass for Parkinson Patients

Google Glass Used for Parkinsons
Parkinson’s sufferers experience many difficulties beyond the unsteady gait.  Tremors can make it difficult to use [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]

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]

Block-Cell Printing

Block Printing New Cells
Block-cell printing of organ tissue, as it is done at the Houston Medical Research Institute, works like [MORE]

Insole Trackers

Moticon OpenGo insole
At a recent wearable sensors conference in Europe, Moticon (Munich, Germany) attracted much attention for it “OpenGo” [MORE]

“Living Liquid Crystal” Diagnostics

Bacteria in Living Liquid Crystal
When we think of liquid crystals, the LCD’s of nearly every electronic device come to mind.  [MORE]

Self-Healing Polymer

Dynamicpolyurea
This piece describes a “dynamic polyuria” developed at the University of Illinois, which has stretchable and self-healing characteristics as might [MORE]

Wearable Sensor Measures Body Movements

Mbody Suit
Kuopio, in central Finland, is a small city with many physically fit university students who are involved in competitive [MORE]