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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 | February 14, 2017 | General News, Medical
One of the touchstones for futurists is science fiction, and for many, the Star Trek television series in all their iterations presented worlds that could be. In Star Trek: Next Generation, Geordi La Forge (played by LeVar Burton) was blind, but he could see with the...
by Alfred Poor | February 8, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical, Podcast
Here’s the fourth and final installment of Alfred Poor’s Health Tech highlights from CES 2017. In this segment, he covers a pair of vision topics: an inexpensive device for a smartphone that gives an eye exam, and glasses with lenses that change shape so...
by Alfred Poor | January 26, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
We’ve written about LumiWave before; the company makes arrays of infrared-emitting LEDs to provide pain relief and speed healing. The company has scientific research that shows this treatment can be beneficial even for bone fractures and hard-to-heal tissues...
by Alfred Poor | January 23, 2017 | General News, Health
One of the ways for a person to get a concussion is to suffer a blow to the head. Many sports — including “non-contact” sports such as soccer — can result in head impacts during the course of routine play. The problem is that not all impacts...
