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These Boots Make Walking Easy Even When Carrying Heavy Loads

May 11, 2014 Leave a comment

These boots were made for walking (more effectively).

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SCiO : Your Sixth Sense. A Pocket Molecular Sensor For All ! by Consumer Physics, Inc. — Kickstarter

May 10, 2014 Leave a comment

Come meet our team and see a live demo. Dror, our CEO & co-founder, and Sagee are going to make it to DISRUPT NYC, Wednesday May 7th. You will get a chance to try out the SCiO experience with a hands-on demo of our working prototype and interact with the team. All are invited if you are around!

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Making the “Luke” Bionic Arm

May 10, 2014 Leave a comment

Today the FDA approved the marketing of Dean Kamen’s DEKA Arm, the robotic prosthetic affectionately known as the “Luke arm,” after Commander Skywalker’s famed replacement limb in The Empire Strikes Back. (Installed and poked by medical droid/action figure 2-1B, if memory serves.)

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In-Depth: Top 200 paid iPhone apps for medical professionals

May 10, 2014 Leave a comment

By MobiHealthNews’ count there are currently more than 35,000 unique, health-related apps available in various app stores. That includes everything from fitness and diet tracking apps to clinical decision support apps for doctors.

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IBM invents ’3D nanoprinter’ for microscopic objects

IBM scientists have invented a tiny “chisel” with a nano-sized heatable silicon tip that creates patterns and structures on a microscopic scale.

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Biological Scaffold Kick-starts Muscle Regrowth after Extreme Injuries

 

Five people who suffered serious leg injuries have been able to regrow muscle tissue in their legs thanks to a new regenerative medicine treatment. The new treatment requires intensive surgery to remove scar tissue, after which a biological scaffold is sutured in.

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Stanford bioengineers create circuit board modeled on the human brain

Stanford bioengineers have developed faster, more energy-efficient microchips based on the human brain – 9,000 times faster and using significantly less power than a typical PC. This offers greater possibilities for advances in robotics and a new way of understanding the brain.

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Segterra raises $2.5M for direct-to-consumer, blood analysis platform InsideTracker

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Segterra, developer of the InsideTracker platform, has raised $2.5 million in funding led by strategic investor Henry Kauftheil, who is chairman of real estate investment firm ACG Equities and CSO and co-founder of stealthy consumer health startup SelfHealth.me.

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Brain Implants Could Give People Perfect Memories And Night Vision

Soon, they could give people super senses and radically improved memory and focus. Brain implants, also called neuroprosthetics, are used to restore hearing and vision loss, but as our technology and brain knowledge improve, the applications will become almost infinite.

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Mobile health monitoring to be $8B market in 2019

The market for mobile health monitoring and diagnostics was worth $650 million in 2012, according to a new report from Transparency Market Research. The firm projects that the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 43.3 percent from 2013 to 2019.

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