Insta360 Air turns Android phones into 360-degree VR Cameras, now available in US and Europe

March 8, 2017 Leave a comment

Real-Time Image Stabilization on the Way – The Insta360 Air, a smartphone add-on that instantly turns Android phones into 360-degree cameras, is now on sale across the United States and Europe.

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Microsoft’s HoloLens: How these surgeons can now voyage around patients’ organs

March 8, 2017 Leave a comment

Using Microsoft’s HoloLens platform, researchers in Oslo have developed a way of turning traditional two-dimensional medical images into 3D augmented-reality models for planning surgery and navigating around organs during operations.

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There’s A Virus Infecting Our Medical Devices With Identity Stealing Malware

March 7, 2017 Leave a comment

We’re slowly learning that while appliances connected to the internet, aka the internet of things, might be convenient, they’re also a hacker’s paradise, because in our haste to make them easy to use, we’ve made them woefully insecure.

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The Legend of Zelda’s Hyrule Has Been Recreated in VR

March 7, 2017 Leave a comment

Virtual reality may be the way of the future for gaming, but for Nintendo, it’s a thing of the past. Over 20 years ago, Nintendo tried to release the Virtual Boy long before technology could give players a true VR experience.

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Crowdsourced Medicine Is Transforming the Diagnosis of Rare Disorders

March 7, 2017 Leave a comment

Patients trust their doctors to diagnose them accurately — and quickly. But when a patient has a rare condition or non-specific symptoms, getting that accurate diagnosis can become a costly process that takes months or even years. Maybe crowdsourced medical diagnosis could do a better job.

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This Father 3D Printed A Bionic Arm For His Infant Son, And Now Other Kids Can Have One

March 6, 2017 Leave a comment

When Ben Ryan’s son Sol was born, an injury during delivery led to a blood clot in his arm—and at the age of 10 days, the arm had to be amputated.

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Google’s Deep Learning AI project diagnoses cancer faster than pathologists

March 6, 2017 Leave a comment

The hardest job for a pathologist is to determine whether or not a patient has cancer. Many lives hang on that one decision. But the task is so vast and difficult that agreement between different pathologists studying the same slides can be as low as only 48 per cent, according to reports.

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Cryopreserved organ banks on the horizon with nanowarming breakthrough

March 6, 2017 Leave a comment

Donor organs could in the future be cryogenically frozen and defrosted when required thanks to a new nanowarming method developed by scientists.

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A digital revolution in health care is speeding up

March 3, 2017 Leave a comment

WHEN someone goes into cardiac arrest, survival depends on how quickly the heart can be restarted.

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LG’s SteamVR headset is a bulky yet promising HTC Vive alternative

March 2, 2017 Leave a comment

For the past year, the only two contenders in the PC virtual reality space were the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. Not anymore. A few days ago, LG announced its own PC-driven VR headset, which was made in collaboration with Valve.

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