Tag Archive for 'medical-gadgets'
Have you dreamed of being a CSI? Maybe you’re secretly assembling your own crime lab. If this is the case, then you’re definitely going to need a DNA Analyzer. That’s the only way to be certain that you’ve got the right guy.
Taking your pills can be difficult to remember and frankly not everyone needs a day sorter. Really, those things are even inconvenient for the people that are stuck using them. This pill cap might be a great alternative.
A while back ago Cyberdyne showed off their latest Hybrid Assistive Limb exoskeleton HAL-5. It was designed with the idea of letting the elderly and disabled rediscover their lost strength.
Better known, perhaps, for titting about on a Segway, Dean Kamen occasionally reminds us all that he’s an inventor not to be underestimated. For every two-wheeled steed in Steve Wozniak’s stable there’s an equivalent “let’s do some good” development like the IBOT balancing wheelchair. Latest on the list is a robotic prosthetic arm for members [...]
First off I ignored this Philips medical tablet, thinking I was seeing stories about Motion’s C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant. But it turns out that the high-tech medic has a choice of touchscreens for their virtual practice. This one, excitingly, not only has a 10.4-inch display, digital camera, WiFi and Bluetooth, it can read barcodes and [...]
Given the current climate of litigation, it’s actually statistically more dangerous to attempt to resuscitate an unconscious person in the street than it is to dance naked in a pit of angry, poisonous snakes. Get one thing wrong and before you know it, you’re up in the dock trying to explain why jabbing someone in [...]
Phantom Limb Pain (PLP) is something difficult to conceptualise if you’ve not experienced it. People who haven’t had to have parts of their body amputated don’t immediately understand that, when injury is experienced somewhere on them, it’s the brain that registers what we know of as “pain”. Yet for amputees it can be a debilitating problem, [...]
If I told you that I knew about a new gizmo for your bedroom that vibrates in a pleasing and relaxing way and requires mains electricity to work its magic, would you slap me?
Before my cheeks get beaten red raw, I’ll explain that it’s Kaffe Matthew’s deeply curious Sonic Bed, which apparently lulls occupants with [...]
The world’s first surgery in zero-gravity on a human patient will be performed this Wednesday by a team of French doctors. The surgery will be performed on the European aircraft, Zero-G, which has been designed to simulate gravity-free conditions by flying up and down in a parabolic pattern. This creates between 20 to 22 seconds [...]
During a senior citizen’s charity barn dance last year, my grandmother was the victim of a very slow hit-and-run incident when one of the other participant’s wheelchairs ran over her foot. With tragedy like this lacing our streets on an almost bi-daily basis, it’s a corn-fed shock to the system that wheelchair users are not [...]
