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A Happiness Monitor

Monitoring staff "happiness"
Let’s first consider this quote: “You might think that happiness is something ineffable, an elusive state of being [MORE]

Insight for Daily Living

Memoto Camera
For designing “health smart” homes, for locating “roamers” with Alzheimers, for monitoring a special at-risk patient, an [MORE]

An Amazing Device: the Cooling Glove

Cooling Glove
Be sure to look at the video attached to this piece.  It describes how a rapid, but controlled [MORE]

High Speed Camera Sees Cancer in Blood Sample

Breast Tumor Cell
Scientists at UCLA have developed an imaging system that consists of a microscope camera with a shutter [MORE]

Electronic “Skin”

Sensitive Skin
Thus far, robots haven’t had to worry about tactile allodynia—tenderness of the skin to touch.  But they may soon [MORE]

3-D Printer in a Briefcase

3D Printer
So far this year, Tagline has carried stories about 3-D printing of bones (Jan. 17 and Mar. 13), [MORE]

Printing Living Organs

U Penn 3D Printer Tissue
One of the problems in growing organs in tissue culture is creating the vascularization that [MORE]

“Magic carpets” for Eldercare

Smart Carpet
“Personalized healthcare” has many dimensions, but a sensored rug that not only can detect falls, but can learn [MORE]

Hematopoietic Stem Cells Grow Laryngotracheal Implant

Voicebox Implant
Earlier this year, surgeons in Sweden successfully implanted a trachea that was taken from a cadaver and “regrown” [MORE]

Swallowable Ultrasound Device

Ultrasound Pill Chip
ZetrOZ (Ithaca, NY) is known for making a wearable ultrasound device to treat inflammation and chronic [MORE]

New Bionic Eye

Bio-Retina
Nano Retina, Inc. (Herzeliya Petnach, Israel) has devised a bionic eye that could allow some blind people to [MORE]

Vein Finder Glasses

o2amp glasses
2AI Labs (Boise, ID) has begun marketing its eye-glasses that have filters to amplify visualization of blood flow [MORE]

The Human Microbiome Project So Far

Human Microbiome Project
With $170m funding some 200 scientists at 80 institutions, the has sought to identify a [MORE]

Automated Cleaning of Automated Equipment

Zipclean Robot
This piece is about a cleaning robot that’s designed for use in the air conveyors of beverage bottling [MORE]