by Bruce Brown | March 17, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
The U.S. Department of Defense’s wildest group of scientists routinely sponsors competitions and throws out challenges to attract the country’s best engineers and scientists. Tasked with finding solutions to seemingly impossible problems, the Defense...
by Alfred Poor | March 9, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
A picture is worth a thousand words. It’s no wonder why medical imaging is so important, because we can gather so much more information in much less time if we can look at a picture rather than a written description. Imaging technology is an important part of...
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by Bruce Brown | March 8, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each year approximately 1,500 babies in the United States are born with upper limb reductions and about 750 are born with lower limb reductions. While every incident is significant, the relatively low...
by Alfred Poor | March 8, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical, Podcast
In this week’s podcast, you’ll hear about some innovative technologies that could change lives. A tiny chip measures the speed of blood flow using light, a lightweight and low-cost exoskeleton is made from fabric and air, and miniature magnetic coils...
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by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Scientists have studied ways to interface a human brain with a robotic device. One goal is to let a person control a robotic prosthetic limb using his or her mind. It’s a complex problem that is difficult to solve. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and...
by Alfred Poor | March 1, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical
In this week’s Health Tech podcast, you can hear about a transistor that uses heat as the switching signal instead of electricity, about a standby switch that uses zero power, and about how stomach acid can be used to power smart pills and other ingestible devices....
