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by Alfred Poor | December 10, 2015 | General News, Medical
Medical imaging is a modern miracle; doctors are able to peer inside the human body and detect injuries or abnormal growth such as cancer tumors. This digital data can be presented as two-dimensional images: slices through the body at regular intervals. One problem is...
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by Alfred Poor | August 13, 2015 | Medical
When you think about it, a contact lens is really a prosthetic device. It’s an object that we put on a part of the human body to help it function better. But some patients with limited vision need much more than a contact lens. They need a device that can...
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by riddhi | August 7, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Virtual reality headsets are known to leave some people with headache and nausea within minutes of usage. According to experts, this is because current virtual reality headsets don’t simulate natural 3D images. Assistant Professor Gordon Wetzstein’s new...
by Alfred Poor | August 6, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Here’s a wearable for food packaging. Researchers at UC Berkeley have come up with a “smart” cap that can detect food that has gone bad. Working with scientists at Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University, they created a cap that measures...
by Alfred Poor | June 23, 2015 | Medical
In science fiction movies, doctors of the future can just wave a handheld device to create live images of functioning organs hidden within a patient’s body. The future is getting closer; CardioInsight has created a one-time use vest that is part of a system that...
