Retinal Implant Can Restore Vision

by Alfred Poor | October 18, 2016 | General News, Medical

The retina is a lining of nerve cells at the back of your eyeball that converts light into impulses that are transmitted to the brain via the optic nerve. If this fragile lining is damaged, your vision can be limited or lost completely. Many diseases and conditions...

Brain Implant Enables Sense of Touch for Robotic Arm [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 17, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

The potential of a brain-computer interface (BCI) is at once exciting and amazing, if seemingly out of reach. The technology to hook up specific areas of the brain to control the motion of an external device promises freedom for many people with injured or missing...

Wristband Designed for Accurate Heart Measurements

by Alfred Poor | October 17, 2016 | General News, Health

Does the world need another smart wrist band? The developers at Rooti Labs in Taiwan think so. They have developed the W/Me2, a band with the primary goal of accurately measuring the wearer’s heart rate. At face value, this may not seem to be a lofty goal. After...

VGo Remote Student Robot Lets Homebound Students “Attend” School

by Bruce Brown | October 14, 2016 | General News, Health

  Robots can take many forms. This one can go to school and provide a telepresence for homebound students. The goal for school-aged children who are ill, injured, or have disabilities is usually to get them back to school as soon as possible. If adaptive...

Electrical Nerve Stimulation Beats Migraines [video]

by Alfred Poor | October 14, 2016 | General News, Medical

As many as 100,000 people in the U.S. suffer from migraine headaches every day, and the pain can be so debilitating that they are unable to perform their normal daily activities. This leads to more than 150 million lost workdays and productivity losses in the tens of...

Powered Plastic Glove Assists with Grasping Activities [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 13, 2016 | General News, Medical

People recovering from a stroke or spinal cord injury must often relearn how to perform many of the activities of daily living (ADLs). Some of those activities require assistance, either from caregivers or assistance technology. Grasping can often be beyond the...