Gold Nanoparticles in Printed Touch Sensor [video]

by Alfred Poor | July 13, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

The sense of touch is one of the most sensitive and critical systems for a human body. The same system that can detect a puff of air can also work under hundreds of pounds of pressure. And we can distinguish between points as close together as a single millimeter. If...

Google’s DeepMind Teams With Moorfields For Early Eye Disease Detection [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 12, 2016 | General News, Medical

We’ve already seen strides in using artificial intelligence to help with healthcare tasks (see “IBM Watson Learns to See Medical Images” for one example). Now Google is taking aim at your eyes. Well, more precisely, Google DeepMind, a British...

New Pressure-Sensing Fabric

by Alfred Poor | July 12, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

The Internet of Things — and wearable Health Tech devices in particular — depend on sensors to gather data from the surrounding environment which then gets transformed into useful information. One key sense for these devices is pressure. This can tell you...

Synthetic Biomedical Dental Fillings Prompt Cell Growth

by Bruce Brown | July 11, 2016 | General News, Medical

Imagine a world without root canals. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful world? Typically people need root canals as the result of a failed cavity filling. When you have a cavity, a dentist drills out the decay and puts in a filling. If soft tissue inside the tooth...

Learning to Control a Phantom Hand [video]

by Alfred Poor | July 11, 2016 | General News, Medical

Amputees often report that they can feel a “phantom limb” where theirs used to be. One of the great challenges is not just to create prosthetic replacements that the patient can control, but that also provide sensations as they are used. This closing of...

Helmet Uses Magnetism to Treat Depression [video]

by Alfred Poor | July 8, 2016 | General News, Medical

We’ve covered devices that are designed to send electrical currents through your head (such as “Coffee, Tea, or Thync?”) but this is about a product that uses magnetic fields instead. Brainsway has created a padded helmet that a patient wears for...