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The University of Toronto in Canada has developed a pair of robotic grippers that can apply as little of 20 nanoNewtons of force on an object, using its three-millimeters-long arms to grab cells 10 micrometers across and transport them....
POSTED Thursday, May 8, 2008
We've all heard of oxygen bars springing up designed to increase your health, but Japan has once again upped the ante on such trends by introducing IV drip cafes. Tenteki10, located in the swank area of Ebisu, Tokyo, offers customers...
POSTED Friday, May 2, 2008
A team of engineers at the University of California at Berkeley have developed a technology that allows medical imaging to be sent via cellphone, a prospect that could have huge ramifications for regions with little to no medical technology or...
POSTED Thursday, May 1, 2008
Recently we showed you the lengths Japanese hay fever suffers go to stave off pollen, but we overlooked a less cumbersome and decidedly more fashionable option called the Nose Mask Pit. Created by Bio International Japan, the mechanism fits snugly...
POSTED Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Pedometers that count the number of steps you take have been around for decades, but how do you translate that figure into what's needed to burn off that last Double Beef Whopper with Cheese? Seiko has come up with...
POSTED Sunday, April 27, 2008
The RP-7 robot assistant is designed to enable surgeons and doctors to have a virtual presence with patients. It performed a more sentimental assignment, allowing Army Staff Sergeant Erik Lloyd, currently on tour in Iraq, to interact with his...
POSTED Tuesday, April 22, 2008
I've got good news and I've got bad news. The good news is that in the future, surgery will be quicker, less painful, allow for faster recover times, and not leave any scars. That's great! The bad news? All of...
POSTED Monday, April 21, 2008
Researchers at Osaka University in Japan aren't kidding around about cyborgs. They are looking into ways for robotic limbs to be controlled in real-time by the power of thought, and one such method is by performing invasive (or open-skull)...
POSTED Thursday, April 17, 2008
Scientists are hard at work making heart surgery less invasive and safer. That's good news. They're doing it by making a robotic snake that can go into your mouth and tinker in your heart from there. That's terrifying! But also,...
POSTED Tuesday, April 15, 2008
While I'm sure there are a few wheelchair bound people who still have full use of their legs, it seems logical to conclude that most people who need the use of a wheelchair will also have a tough time...
POSTED Monday, April 14, 2008
Antibiotics are a seriously important part of modern medicine, but due to certain infections becoming antibiotic-resistant, they can't be doled out as plentifully as some would like. That might change in the near future, however, due to a new advancement...
POSTED Monday, April 7, 2008
Spinal injuries that leave people paralyzed are currently incurable, one of the most feared and rehabilitating things that can happen to you. But researchers at Northwestern University are looking to change that for good, as they're hard at work on...
POSTED Saturday, April 5, 2008
Radiation sickness seems like a real downer, what with the slow, painful death and all. But with nuclear energy being the cleanest and best way to juice up our cities and potential space homes being exposed to radiation via solar...
POSTED Saturday, April 5, 2008
A scientist from CSIRO Textile and Fiber technologies has developed a new arm contraption that will help athletes "get in the groove" as they describe, or improve muscle memory. The system is integrated into a sleeve, similar to those...
POSTED Friday, April 4, 2008
You know what makes doctors really frustrated? When you don't take your medicine. Or when you only take it "sometimes" or forget to finish the bottle. According to one study, patients taking their medicine the wrong way cause 40%...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Walletex, whose already thrown its hat into the MP3-player ring is ready to tackle another item much in need of a digital upgrade — medical records. The closest the medical-record industry has gotten to technology is motorized shelving units...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The VereFlu is a portable flu detector that's no bigger than one of your fingernails. It's built around STMicroelectronics’ In-Check lab-on-chip platform, and with just a single sampling it can tell the difference amongst Influenza A and B viruses, such...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
This X5 HairLaser contraption promises to help stimulate hair growth by blasting "15 distinct points of coherent laser light directly to your scalp at the optimum power and wavelength," in short 10-15 minute spurts three times a week. It's a...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
Apparently, pure oxygen is a real pick-me-up. So if you find yourself getting really sluggish at work and don't want to rely on coffee to give you a burst of energy, this portable oxygen bar wants to be your alternative...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The Nutri-Weigh & Go Dietary Computer Scale has a database of 1400 foods that it knows, keeps a weekly record of what you eat and it's small enough that you can take it anywhere and always know exactly what you're...
POSTED Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The BT2 monitor is a device worn on the wrist by individuals that keeps tabs on all kinds of internal vital functions at any given time. It is made by Exmocare and the intended purpose is to give employers...
POSTED Monday, March 17, 2008
You know that feeling when you misplace something, but in your mind you can picture the item sitting on a shelf, counter or somewhere else? Personally, it's one hell of an annoyance, but now a new device from Japanese...
POSTED Friday, March 14, 2008
The one statistic that a scale provides is scary enough as it is, so who in their right mind would ever want to know other stats like your body fat, body water, muscle mass, BMI and BMR. Not only...
POSTED Thursday, March 13, 2008
A scientific study published this month shows that the robotic dog Aibo is as effective as a real dog for treating loneliness in nursing homes. It has long been known that animal-assisted therapy (longhand for bringing a dog to...
POSTED Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Researchers at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology have cooked up a system called MagneTrace that will know what pills you took, and tell your doctor to boot. Worn either as a necklace...
POSTED Thursday, March 6, 2008
Sometimes I wonder if some things can really be upgraded using technology. Take the walking stick that blind people use, for example. It's pretty straightforward — you simply hold it in front of you to make sure you don't bump...
POSTED Thursday, March 6, 2008
The PANTHER, or PAthogen Notification for THreatening Environmental Releases, can detect the presence of 24 harmful airborne pathogens — E. coli, anthrax, the plague and the like — in as little as three minutes, beating out the standard 20 required...
POSTED Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Researchers have discovered that isotopes in the water you drink are incorporated into your hair as it grows. It also turns out that those isotopes have a high correlation with U.S. geographic regions: this means that a single strand...
POSTED Thursday, February 28, 2008
This crazy contraption is the Anecova Silicon Womb, a synthetic device designed to go inside women to allow in-vitro fertilization to happen with as little fuss as possible. The doodad holds eggs in it, with the holes in the side...
POSTED Thursday, February 28, 2008
Brain surgery is pretty difficult, I assume. It seems really precise, and if you make a slip up or two you could really screw somebody up for life. There's too much pressure! That's why I'm not a brain surgeon. Yes,...
POSTED Wednesday, February 27, 2008
It's not often that we get to cover the latest and greatest in bra technology, but now NuMetrex has given me the opportunity with its heart-rate tracking sports bra. The lower band in this bra contains electron sensors that...
POSTED Tuesday, February 26, 2008
In Japan, they take avoiding allergies much more seriously than we do here in the States. While here we simply get sick and complain about it, perhaps while spending a few billion dollars on over-the-counter medication for it, in Japan...
POSTED Monday, February 25, 2008
While water filters are all the rage at the moment, with them being an obvious and great way to make sure you aren't getting any unwanted bacteria or other assorted filth from your tap water, they may not be the...
POSTED Thursday, February 21, 2008
We've seen some pretty goofy MP3 players in our day, from this one that claims to massage you to this one that claims to help you relax and concentrate. The latest in the "wellbeing plus music" category is the...
POSTED Thursday, February 14, 2008
Energy is everywhere, we just never harvest any of it. Heck, just walking around is us burning the energy we got from eating food, but we're just letting it all go to waste. For shame! The new electricity-generating knee brace...
POSTED Friday, February 8, 2008
Those who suffer from aichmophobia, or a fear of needles or pointed objects, should take note. Pantec Biosolutions has you in mind and has developed P.L.E.A.S.E., a painless laser epidermal system used to deliver drugs, medications and vaccines without...
POSTED Friday, February 8, 2008
On this special playground in Manchester, England, the elderly don't watch the kids play — they jump right in themselves. The area is said to be built after a German model, and contains equipment that is designed to provide...
POSTED Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Technology is pretty hard on our hands, and only getting more so: typing on a keyboard, twisting your fingers around a video game controller, thumbing your cell phone. With all that strain on your digits, you may be wondering...
POSTED Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Coming up with a sensible excuse for your sweetie, before making a trip to the local watering hole to down a few cold ones, has never been easy. If Philippino inventor Billy L Lalang gets his way however, you'll...
POSTED Monday, February 4, 2008
Here's an interesting technical upgrade for prosthetic legs that I never thought about before: giving them the ability to "talk" to each other via Bluetooth. The future is now! Outfitted out double amputee Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill, they use...
POSTED Saturday, January 26, 2008
Conventional x-ray machines, as invasive as they are, can leave a lot to be desired when it comes to telling what, exactly, is going on in there. For example, a block of chocolate is indistinguishable from some kinds of...
POSTED Friday, January 25, 2008
While it looks a bit like a motorcycle helmet with PC fans slapped all over it, researchers at the University of Sunderland in England believe that patients affected by Alzheimer's who wear their apparatus will experience improvement. The helmet...
POSTED Friday, January 25, 2008
Remember the episode of Seinfeld, when Kramer manages to lose Jerry’s sneakers? By the end of the episodes the pair were on a bus heading to Florida in a vain search to retrieve the shoes. This wouldn’t be necessary...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
You may not be aware, but your body needs light, or at least prefers it, to keep its systems running in a healthy manner. This is the driving idea behind a gadget like the Soft Laser Wand, which uses...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Being an expectant mother has got to be pretty stressful. With all that worrying, craving strange foods, and wearing pants with elastic waists, you've got a lot on your mind, or so movies about pregnant ladies have led me to...
POSTED Friday, January 4, 2008
Despite looking like a technicolor steampunk nightmare, this UV-C room air sanitizer is a very capable device that can kill germs of all types. It uses UV lights to zap 99.9-percent of air-born germs without having to put a...
POSTED Thursday, January 3, 2008
Pants and shirts using the Warrior Wear Integrated Tourniquet System by Blackhawk Products Group, a supplier of military and law enforcement gear, enable the wearer to automatically cut of blood flow to any wound with one hand. Warrior Wear...
POSTED Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Well, another year is in the books and after a night of drinking has been recovered from, it's time to look at that list of New Years resolutions that you are already regretting. The most popular resolution is always...
POSTED Wednesday, January 2, 2008
I guess any surgical robot is bound to be a little gross, but this picture of the i-Snake wrapped around a human heart is a little too Whitley Streiber for my tastes. The thing was invented at the Imperial...
POSTED Saturday, December 29, 2007
It may not be the most stylish watch around, but it can definitely get the job done for the heavily medicated. This watch has two crucial features — the maximum of six daily alarms that can be set, and...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
The NaturalPoint SmartNAV 3 allows you to control your computer cursor without using your hands — an obvious boon for those who suffer from debilitating pain or hampered mobility. Instead, you plug in the USB sensor, put it atop...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Staring at cute posters of cats and fish on the ceiling of a dentist office is so 1990s. The future is here, and it surprisingly looks like a technology from a 1990s television series. The relaxView B.V. is a...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
InstyMeds is like an ATM, but instead of dispensing money, it dispenses drugs. Legal drugs, of course. It simply cuts out the need for a pharmacist by reading a barcode on your prescription, then doling out the medication you...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
Taking a page out of NASA's book, Nicole Schmiedel has designed the COR Insulin Wristwatch. This watch is designed for those with type 1 diabetes. Using piezo-electric technology, similar to what is used on satellites, the watch will power...
POSTED Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The gumEase G100 promises to alleviate the pain that goes along with having dental work done by chilling nerves until they're numb — no need for drugs or needles. The G100 is a flexible container filled with a solution...
POSTED Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Some South Korean scientists with experience with cloning have created a genetically engineered cat that glows in the dark. Yes, it's creepy. How'd they do it? To clone the cats, Kong's team used skin cells of the mother cat....
POSTED Wednesday, December 12, 2007
A research group run by Microsoft in Cambridge, England, has developed a digital camera called the SenseCam for Alzheimer's and dementia patients. It hangs around the patient's neck and takes wide-angle lens pictures that capture most of what the...
POSTED Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Here's a gadget you probably don't want to hear about so soon after Thanksgiving: a belly fat measurer. Made by Tanita of Japan, all you have to do is relax for a while under the AB-101 while it scans...
POSTED Friday, December 7, 2007
It's been in the works for years, but design Paul Wessel has finally gotten Nintendo to buy into his diabetes games that uses real blood and a glucose-level detector. The premise for the device and game is fairly simple...
POSTED Thursday, December 6, 2007
Okay, it's not that hard of a quiz, but this would be one hell of a small, and likely painful, dunk tank. It's okay, nobody ever likes the people forced to sit in the dunk tanks anyway. This is...
POSTED Monday, December 3, 2007
We don't advise attempting to heal your eyesight at home, but if you're the mad scientist type willing to try, the Eye Power might be the product for you. Using ultrasonic technology, the Eye Power is meant to help...
POSTED Thursday, November 29, 2007
We've finally created the robot version of Hell: force one to sit, eternally, in a dentist chair and have it's mouth operated on. Could we make it worse? Why not give the bot sensitive teeth, eh? Unfortunately for the...
POSTED Wednesday, November 28, 2007
What is it with technology and pseudo-neuroscience these days? First, we experienced the dubious MC Square, and now a doctor has begun selling perfumes with similar "proven" effects. Scentology, according to Dr. Rachel Herz "Is NOT aromatherapy. Aromatherapy is based...
POSTED Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Here's an invention nobody was asking for: the solar toothbrush. Yeah, I know, most toothbrushes don't require any power at all, let alone power from the sun, but this one does. Apparently, it uses the sun's rays to clean your...
POSTED Tuesday, November 27, 2007
There are already prosthetic arms out there that allow people to grab things and use a fake hand with some success, but they all lack the sense of touch that allows people to really use their hands to the fullest....
POSTED Tuesday, November 27, 2007
A group of researchers at Boston University have been working at the Speech Prosthesis Project, a project aimed at being able to read "speech" directly from the brain. Using electrodes implanted in the brain of a paralyzed man, they've been...
POSTED Monday, November 19, 2007
The MC Square is a "light and sound machine" that purports to help its users with stress relief, relaxation, memory improvement, better sleep, and concentration enhancement. The technology is even backed up by scientific studies. Sounds great, right? The...
POSTED Thursday, November 15, 2007
Glucose, schmucose. If you want to get the low-down on your diabetes, it all begins in the feet. Zephyr, a New Zealand-based company has developed a sort of shoe insole that has the ability to detect diabetic peripheral neuropathy,...
POSTED Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Remember that big no-touch screen that Tom Cruise liked to use in Minority Report? A German research institute has come up with something similar. It's made a screen that projects CAT scan results in 3D form. Physicians can then...
POSTED Friday, November 9, 2007
Australian GPS Sports offers teams the ability to wire their players up and get the lowdown on their performance. The SPI Elite, pictured above, can be worn either affixed to a vest or strapped to an athlete's back. Coupling...
POSTED Tuesday, October 30, 2007
It's hard to say if this little tool would actually work or not, but the Zilopop Stainless Steel Lollipop claims to be able to freshen your breath. It's shaped like a small disk on a stick, and even has its...
POSTED Monday, October 15, 2007
Healfast is the latest and greatest in medicinal bandages, or at least designer Donn Koh hopes so. The Healfast is his conceptual design that uses a weak electronic field to prevent infection in the tissues surrounding a wound. This...
POSTED Monday, October 15, 2007
A smartypants Harvard doctoral student has done the seemingly impossible: figured out how to keep ice frozen at body temperature. The research came out of trying to make diamonds completely smooth for use in medical implants. By placing an extremely...
POSTED Saturday, September 29, 2007
Frequent breast exams help prevent death from breast cancer, while bras (preferably external) help prevent excess sagging and bouncing. Researchers in the U.K. decided to combine the two (breast screenings and bras, that is) to introduce a "smart bra" for...
POSTED Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The luxury of unhindered mobility isn't shared by all of us. Restoring functionality to the disabled — whether they've experienced the loss of movement, sight, and so on — is one branch of medical science that seems limited only...
POSTED Friday, September 7, 2007
You'd think we'd have Star Trek to thank for the gadget above, but not this time. When Weta Workshop brought the computer-generated character of Gollum to life in The Lord of the Rings, the team probably didn't know its...
POSTED Tuesday, September 4, 2007
No, this isn't the latest iPod knockoff to come straight from the streets of China; it's actually a rather large (and shiny) hearing aid (with wireless remote). Many people who are hard of hearing try to hide their disability...
POSTED Sunday, August 26, 2007
There are plenty of bionic hands out there at this point, but how many of them are powered by rockets? Not many. The Vanderbilt arm, however, breaks the trend of arms that aren't powered by mini rockets. Finally! The...
POSTED Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Let's face it, cigarettes are a crude nicotine-delivery system. They add dozens of toxic substances to the smoke, when all those smokers wanted was just a dose of their favorite drug. Now there are much safer ways than old-fashioned...
POSTED Thursday, August 16, 2007
Israeli doctors have invented a new kind of breast augmentation: the internal bra. While the laser bra, which you can get in Los Angeles (naturally), is little more than a nip, tug, and tuck, the Israeli procedure, called Cup&Up...
POSTED Thursday, August 16, 2007
Ever since the advent of 3D printing, researchers have been trying to figure out how to replicate organs and bones for use in surgeries. Printed organs are still many years away, but researchers in Japan have already begun testing 3D-printed...
POSTED Monday, August 13, 2007
Think cyborgs are purely science fiction? If the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has anything to say about it, they'll be reality by the end of the decade. The APL has given itself until 2009 to create a prosthetic hand...
POSTED Wednesday, August 8, 2007
A man with brain damage who's been stuck in a coma-like state for the past six years recently had electrodes implanted in his brain. While before the surgery he could only communicate via small finger an eye movements, he's...
POSTED Friday, August 3, 2007
We may be decades away from eating meat that's been grown in a lab, but we should be starting to benefit from lab-grown skin in the very near future. Scientists at L'Oreal have invented a product called Episkin, which...
POSTED Monday, July 30, 2007
Tick off another science-fiction idea that's entered the science-fact column: A dog in the U.K. just became the world's first to receive a prosthetic limb. The pooch, named Storm, developed a tumor in his leg earlier this year and needed...
POSTED Wednesday, July 18, 2007
There are few things worse than losing a hand, especially a dominant hand. Fortunately for those stuck in such a lousy situation, technological advances in prosthetics have made leaps and bounds in recent years, culminating in devices like this...
POSTED Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Dan Bishop's Vitals monitoring system takes the medical bracelet to a new level. Designed to ease up on the tedious workload that taking vital signs involves, the concept medical wristband can monitor the wearer's temperature, pulse and blood pressure....
POSTED Friday, June 29, 2007
Until we can shrink a submarine full of scientists in skin-tight jumpsuits down to the size of blood vessels, robots will have to do our medical bidding. Dr. Nir Schwalb and Oded Salomon of the College of Judea and...
POSTED Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Ever chopped part of your finger off in a bagel slicer? I'm more of a waffle man myself, but if you've ever sacrificed a chunk of skin to the bagel gods, you know that getting skin grafted on is...
POSTED Tuesday, June 26, 2007
I freaked out the first time Abe Lincoln broke down in the Hall of Presidents, and it took the better part of the day before the attraction was reopened. If good ol' Abe had been able to tell his...
POSTED Wednesday, May 16, 2007
The thing about surgery is that it involves cutting. Which hurts. Yeah, there's anesthetic and everything, but when you're conscious again, all that cutting can add to an already a long and painful recovery. What if there were a...
POSTED Monday, April 23, 2007
Body augmentation and modification is at the forefront of style and tech right now, but sometimes women are not entirely happy with the results of breast augmentation surgery. That's where these adjustable breast implants can be a godsend, letting...
POSTED Wednesday, April 18, 2007
This concept medical gear aims to provide first responders with the best information possible about the people they're treating. As soon as they get to the scene of an accident, they can stick Bluetooth Band-Aids (pictured right) on each...
POSTED Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Yes, this is a stethoscope that attaches to an iPod. No, it isn't for lousy doctors who want to listen to Pink Floyd while also checking on your heart. It actually records heartbeats, allowing doctors to listen later on...
POSTED Thursday, February 1, 2007
Look out, Band-Aids — you're about to become obsolete. Researchers at MIT and Hong Kong University have come up with a liquid that can seal wounds in seconds. Composed of peptides (fragments of proteins), the liquid forms a gel when...
POSTED Thursday, October 26, 2006
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