Health

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

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

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

Distractions from e-mail, tweets, and Facebook updates are destroying our productivity and creativity.

The global economy may run on countless streams, waves, and pools of information, but unrestrained, that tidal wave of data is drowning us. It washes away our productivity and creativity, and swamps our social lives.Read More

There's a reason restaurants keep the kitchen doors closed

It can be tough for restaurateurs to turn a profit and Slashfood has uncovered some of the ultra-dirty deeds even the best restaurants commit in order to pinch pennies.

Read on for true stories about the subtle, sneaky and downright disgusting ways restaurants cheat to save a buck - and how you might be paying the price.Read More

Bed-Shaped Robot Transformable into Wheelchair.

In Bed Mode

Panasonic Corporation, a leader of electronics technology and innovation, today announced the development of a bed-shaped robot which can be transformable between a bed and a wheelchair with the user staying in bed or wheelchair. The Robotic Bed is designed to help people with limited mobility maintain an independent lifestyle, reducing the need for assistance and expanding their mobility.Read More

The Placebo Effect

When a sugar pill makes a patient better, that effect is called the placebo effect. The phenomenon is related to the perception and expectation which the patient has; if the substance is viewed as helpful, it can heal, but if it is viewed as harmful, it can cause negative effects, which is known as the nocebo effect. Placebo effects continue to be a scientific mystery.Read More

The German anatomists behind the Body Worlds exhibitions that display preserved cadavers plan to stage a new show solely dedicated to sex, they said in an interview.Read More