by Alfred Poor | May 20, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Consider hair. It keeps our heads warm (though this is less effective for some of us who are follicly-challenged). It can reduce friction between surfaces. But hairs do much more than that. They keep us from falling over, due to the tiny cilia in the inner ear that...
by Alfred Poor | May 3, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
In many ways, we are witnessing a perfect storm of technology that drives the explosive growth of the wearable Health Tech industry. In addition to low-cost, low-power, miniature sensors and sophisticate wireless data transmission, 3D printing provides advantages...
by Alfred Poor | April 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Grace Kabelenga was born in 2008 in Zambia with what was described as severe craniofacial deformities, but that is an understatement. The bones in the middle of her face were missing, as well as large portions of her skull and the bones that separate her brain from...
by Alfred Poor | September 23, 2015 | Medical
Nerve injuries are incredibly difficult to repair. Regrowth of nerve tissue is complex, and getting the right connections made makes recovery from injury or disease very rare. Researchers may have come up with an approach to solve this problem. Scientists used a...
by Alfred Poor | April 28, 2015 | Medical
When a San Francisco motorcycle rider left the hospital with his newly-broken finger strapped into an uncomfortable and “ugly” splint, he decided that he could do better. According to an article on 3D.com by Debra Thimmesch, Luke Iseman dusted off his...