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Eye Robot: Teeny Robot Swims Through Eyes, Delivers Treatments

, Mar 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

Recently, we reported on a millimeter-scale computer that can be implanted in the eye to treat glaucoma. Now, there is more technology that can help patients suffering from macular degeneration. The Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) has developed a new tiny robot that can be steered through your eye. Read The Full Story

TSA Body Scans May go Beyond Airlines Soon

, Mar 3rd 2011 Discuss [6]

So the TSA may have plans to use the full body scan technology used at airport checkpoints in mobile scanning units that it can set up at public events and train stations, as well as using mobile x-ray vans to scan pedestrians on city streets. Yeah, you read that right. This is according to some newly uncovered documents published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) on Wednesday. The documents were obtained from the Department of Homeland Security via a Freedom of Information Act request. Read The Full Story

First Millimeter Scale Computing System – Coming to an eye near you

, Feb 22nd 2011 Discuss [1]

The University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has created a prototype for what is believed to be the first complete millimeter-scale computing system. The prototype is an implantable eye pressure monitor for glaucoma patients. The whole system measures just over 1 cubic millimeter, and has an ultra low-power microprocessor, a pressure sensor, memory, a thin-film battery, a solar cell, and a wireless radio with an antenna that can transfer data to an external device held near the eye. Read The Full Story

IBM and Nuance – “Dr. Watson is on his way”

, Feb 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

This week IBM's Watson has been going up against Jeopardy champs in the Jeopardy challenge. Now, IBM has announced that it will collaborate with Nuance to apply Watson's advanced analytics to the healthcare industry. The initiative will combine IBM's Deep Question Answering (QA), Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning capabilities with Nuance's speech recognition technology and Clinical Language Understanding solutions. They hope to assist doctors in making patient diagnoses, by helping them to process large amounts of information more quickly. Read The Full Story

Doctors in Germany Create Swallowable, Remote-Controlled Stomach Submarine

, Jan 19th 2011 Discuss [2]

Right now, doctors only have a couple of choices when it comes to looking into the human body. Trying to discover a person's ailment in their intestines is tough, as it usually means that an endoscopy has to happen. Inputting a camera, connected to a long cable, down someone's throat isn't always what a patient is looking forward to, and the alternative isn't any better. And while capsules with cameras in them exist today, it's hard for doctors to see what's happening inside, as the movement is controlled by the person's innards. But, doctor's from Germany are looking to change that with a new remote-controlled capsule that can be swallowed. Read The Full Story

Israeli Hospital Using Apple iPad to Help Treat Patients with Help of Microsoft’s Chameleon

, Dec 21st 2010 Discuss [1]

Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center is said today to be the first hospital to use the iPad to interact with Microsoft's Chameleon software for use in hospitals. Dr Yoram Liwer, chief executive of Mayanei Hayeshua, spoke with Reuters on the matter, saying they've now got access to the same program and database they'd have on their computers now on their iPads, working in a much more mobile manner: "The patients' data are in the computer ... so physicians who are out of hospital but on call can see X-rays and ultrasounds through their iPad and give more intelligent advice to staff in the hospital." Read The Full Story

The Daily Slash: December 14 2010

, Dec 14th 2010 Discuss [0]

Today you'll totally get your hands on a HP ENVY 17 3D Laptop when we totally unbox it. Get funky really quickly with Philip in an article by the name of Five 80s Tech Movies That Deserve a Refresh. Take a sweet ride through the world of Gingerbread on our Nexus S review. Then WIN A FREE Google Cr-48 Laptop in a SlashGear Google Chrome OS giveaway! Oh and what's this? Win a Google Cr-48 at Android Community too? That's wacky! It's a massive amount of exclusive content and a completely fantastical amount of everything else here on The Daily Slash! Read The Full Story

Voim Smartphone Concept for the Visually Impaired

, Dec 14th 2010 Discuss [0]

Behold a concept for a phone by the name of Voim (seeing in Korean.) This phone is designated as a smartphone by its designers Youngseong Kim & Eunsol Yeom, working both with braille via a full face silicon panel on the front and a camera and earpiece on the back. A simple concept whose implications are fantastic: the front of the phone changes form as new screens are reached, braille dots prodding upward into the panel for simple reading by the visually impared. And what's the camera and earpiece for? Such lovely things! Read The Full Story

Electronic Chip to Block Pain Signals Being Developed in Australia

, Dec 14th 2010 Discuss [6]

Researchers in Australia are working on helping those in the world who suffer from chronic back pain with a chip that'll block that pain from reaching the brain. They've yet to try the device on humans, but they're confident that it'll work. I should hope so! Also this sort of thing frightens me. What happens if you get a giant stick jabbed into your back and you can't feel it? What then, science? You'll have stick-back syndrome. But this device will be more precise than all that - blocking only the pains that are useless to the human brain, the kind that never go away. Read The Full Story

AIDS cure with stem cell transplant found claim German doctors

, Dec 14th 2010 Discuss [17]

As breakthroughs go, finding a cure for AIDS would be pretty high on the list, and that's what Berlin doctors believe they have achieved. US citizen Timothy Ray Brown was treated for acute myeloid leukaemia in 2007, with doctors carrying out a stem cell transplant using bone marrow resistant to HIV infection. That marrow lacked the CCR5 co-receptor on CD4 cells - to which the most common form of HIV initially binds with - and by replacing all of the patient's infected CD4 cells, the HIV has seemingly been eradicated. Read The Full Story

Panasonic’s HOSPI Robot Brings Nurses Drugs When They’re Needed [Video]

, Dec 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

In the medical field, there's a push to make robots a real presence. Whether that means they take over certain aspects of a particular job, or even just remove the need for a person as a whole, it doesn't matter. And the new HOSPI robot from Panasonic is one of those robots. While it may not take over an orderlie's job over night, you can see how a few improvements could indeed put the robot into every hospital in the world. Read The Full Story

Hospital patients may get vitals monitored with microwaves in the future

, Nov 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

Before becoming a full time geek, I had a real job that required a degree in the medical field. I spent over ten years in the hospital and clinical setting and the thing I hated the most about the job was having to wire people up with electrodes for EKG and vital sign monitoring. Sometimes people are just plain gross. Think about the nastiest, grossest, haven't bathed in a week skanky woman and then think about having to see her hooters and stick little stickers all over her chest… epic suck. Read The Full Story
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