AI-powered Transcribing Wearable Offers Silent Computing [video]

by Bruce Brown | April 9, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News

Imagine the ability to talk without speaking and hear without sound. What if you could take notes, make comments, compose emails, or write a novel electronically without any of the usual peripherals? A silent communications system based on subvocalization —...

Ultrasound Empowers and Instructs Wireless Implants [video]

by Bruce Brown | April 6, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News

Wireless implants that control or monitor bodily systems, functions, and organs or deliver medical payloads remain a top-priority for academic and private research labs. Minimally invasive implants offer appealing benefits although the technology is still in its early...

Injectable Bandages Halt Hemorrhaging and Speed Healing [video]

by Bruce Brown | April 4, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News

Hemorrhaging remains the greatest cause of death in otherwise survivable battlefield injuries. In a 2011 study of deaths after casualties reached a medical treatment facility from October 2001 to June 2009, the United States Army Institute of Surgical Research found...

Atom-thin Drumheads Have Cat-Like Hearing

by Bruce Brown | April 3, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News

Humans hear sound in relatively narrow dynamic (loudness) and frequency ranges, especially compared to other species. Cats and beluga whales hear sounds with wider loudness ranges and at much higher frequencies than humans. We’ve written about digital hearing...

Stored Brain Waves Can Reconstruct Images [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 30, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News

  How long does it take to make a good impression? According to new research from the University of Toronto at Scarborough, the correct answer is about 170 milliseconds or 0.17 seconds. Neuroscientists in Assistant Professor Adrian Nestor’s laboratory at...

Video Racing Game Interface for Blind Players [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 26, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News

New accessibility technologies for blind and visually impaired people usually entail head-mounted video components with some means of translating for or alerting users. Examples include eSight’s electronic glasses for the legally blind and the Horus headset....