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Posts Tagged ‘Medical Gadgets’

Internal Bra

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Aug 15th 2007 No Comments

I really don’t know how to say this other than to state that technology has come to a point where what’s important is better looking breasts. I mean why else would some Israeli (shouldn’t they be the last ones worried about this) scientists be developing/testing an internal bra?

By internal I don’t mean further integrated into clothing, I mean under-your-skin surgically integrated. Sadly, from this point on in the article, I don’t know where to go other than to the gutter, but I will try and keep it as informational as possible.

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I recently received a CardioChek portable blood test system from Polymer Technology Systems. The gadget is used to test your blood for a number of different things including Total Cholesterol, HDL Cholesterol and Triglycerides.

I’m only 22 years old, skinny, and tend to live off of pizza and whatever I can cook in the microwave, so I don’t really care about my cholesterol. I thought about how exactly to test out this product, as this would be my first medical gadget that I’ve reviewed. After consulting one of my fellow writers, I decided that since the target audience for this product would not be the 20-something age group, I would need to find a someone else to help me out.

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For years scientists have been unable to study living cells on slides, that is all changing thanks to the folks at Nanopoint. Their new Celltray is like combining a microscope slide with a life-sustaining environment.

Post329Slide

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The RP-7 robot plays doctor

By Abby McVay on Tuesday, Jul 17th 2007 No Comments

Pretty much everyone has had at least one if not several bad experiences in hospitals. Well this robotic doctor was created to try to make your stay at the hospital a little better.

rp-7 robot doctor

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PillCam ESO 2Are you worried about how everything is working on the inside? No, not your computer’s insides, your insides. There are some pretty exciting gross pics after the jump of just what you can see with the new PillCam ESO 2.

The PillCam is basically a small camera that they have crammed inside of a giant pill. It has just recently been approved by the FDA. So just swallow this huge pill and it will start clicking pictures at a rate of 14 images per second.

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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.

Spartan DXTM

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The Vitality GlowCap

By Abby McVay on Tuesday, May 29th 2007 No Comments

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.

glowcap

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Exoskeleton for rent

By Chris on Monday, Apr 23rd 2007 No Comments

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.

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robot armBetter 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 of the armed services who have lost limbs through various kinds of explosives; Dean showed the prototype in action during TED, with a video of a soldier using the arm to write.

The video is yet to appear on his site, but apparently shows the solider using it to scratch his nose, pick up a pen and perform other delicate actions.  Of equal importance on a mental level is the fact that it can be covered with a perfect, mirror-image cast of the individual’s other arm.

InfoWorld [via BoingBoing]

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 RFID tags and – according to Philips – has a “ground breaking” hand grip.

Philips MCA 

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