Medical

Infrared Cameras at Tokyo’s Narita Airport Are Designed to Spot People With Fevers

At the arrival terminal of Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, right before the passport check-in desk, you’ll walk past a small station like this. It’s an infrared camera, a part of Japan’s ongoing war on germs, designed to spot people with fevers.Read More

Revealing the brain's hidden connections

Van Wedeen, a Harvard radiology professor, is awestruck: "We've never really seen the brain - it's been hiding in plain sight." Conventional scanning has offered us a crude glimpse, but scientists such as Wedeen aim to produce the first ever three-dimensional map of all its neurons.Read More

3D printer builds artificial tissue replacements cell by cell

A San Diego company is developing technology to "print" artificial blood vessels for transplant. The initial goal: Create an arterial graft for use in coronary bypass surgery.Read More

The Esteem Totally Implantable Hearing Device (TIMED) is a totally implantable hearing system that is implanted under the skin behind the ear and in the middle ear space. The Esteem's purpose is to help improve hearing in adult patients who have mild to severe sensorineural hearing loss, and who have at least 60% or better discrimination of words (WRS).

The goal is to provide comfortable, natural sounding, high fidelity sound to participants with sensorineural hearing loss by direct driving of inner ear fluid.Read More

Amazing medical research may be a little too convenient

A researcher at a Russian university has developed a powdered form of alcohol that will soon make the consumption of vodka and other alcoholic drinks more convenient.Read More

Researchers from Israel have developed a miniature robot that is expected to be widely used in the medical field. Measuring only 1mm, the robot could move inside vessels (at a speed of 9mm per second) to deal with clogged arteries and drug injections.Read More

Dynamic Controls has integrated an iPhone with its power wheelchair electronics, enabling power wheelchair users to enjoy all the benefits of an iPhone or iPod touch.

The solution connects a user's iPhone or iPod touch to the wheelchair system via Bluetooth® to display chair information in real time as well as speed in kph or mph and compass heading.Read More

The GE Vscan ultrasound scanner.

Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, announced a low-cost and very portable ultrasound scanner called the Vscan.

"It's about the same size as a BlackBerry," Immelt said, holding up a white device that appeared to fold in the middle like a flip-phone. The top of the device showed an ultrasound image (of a patient's liver, we were told), while the bottom showed control keys.Read More

French designer Julien Bergignat teamed up with L. Charron-Huysecom to design a clip-on monitor called “Tarius” that detects UV rays. Finished in Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP), the device can be clipped onto a jacket to monitor the level of dangerous UV rays and take necessary precautions if the levels become too high.Read More

The Fitbit accurately tracks your calories burned, steps taken, distance traveled and sleep quality. The Fitbit contains a 3D motion sensor like the one found in the Nintendo Wii. The Fitbit tracks your motion in three dimensions and converts this into useful information about your daily activities.Read More