by Leroy Hurt | Dec 8, 2013 | Sectors.Health
Via Instapundit and MIT Technology Review: “…researchers at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University have developed a new kind of interface that can convey a sense of touch from 20 spots on a prosthetic hand. It...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 29, 2013 | Sectors.Health, Sectors.SciTech
Via Instapundit and Daily Mail: A headset detects the tongue’s position when the user flicks that magnetic stud. Touch a spot on the right bottom tooth to go right, for example. The headset wirelessly beams that information to a smartphone the user carries. An...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 29, 2013 | Sectors.Health, Sectors.SciTech
Via Instapundit and Daily Mail: A headset detects the tongue’s position when the user flicks that magnetic stud. Touch a spot on the right bottom tooth to go right, for example. The headset wirelessly beams that information to a smartphone the user carries. An...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 29, 2013 | Sectors.Health, Sectors.SciTech
Via CNBC and Drudge: …doctors and scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) are developing cutting edge prosthetics to improve the lives of amputees. Today, advances in technology are enabling amputees to ride bikes, grip bottles and even run. The...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 29, 2013 | Sectors.Health, Sectors.SciTech
Via CNBC and Drudge: …doctors and scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) are developing cutting edge prosthetics to improve the lives of amputees. Today, advances in technology are enabling amputees to ride bikes, grip bottles and even run. The...
by Leroy Hurt | Aug 4, 2013 | Issues.Miniaturization, Issues.Surveillance, Sectors.Health, Sectors.SciTech.Electronics
Tooth fillings acting as radio receivers may be nothing more than a myth, but scientists at the National Taiwan University are developing an artificial tooth that would send rather than receive transmissions. They’re working on embedding a sensor in a tooth to...