Plastic Foam for Body Parts [video]

Plastic Foam for Body Parts [video]

by | November 2, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News

  Researchers at Cornell University have a new polymer foam with characteristics that can be useful when making prosthetic devices or replacement organs such as a functioning heart. One feature is that the material can be poured into molds to create items of a...
Cloth Display Uses LEDs [video]

Cloth Display Uses LEDs [video]

by | September 14, 2015 | Enabling Tech

One of the problems with wearable Health Tech devices is that they tend to be small. In fact, the smaller they are, the better because they are more likely to “disappear” into the wearer’s daily life. But as we’ve discussed before, this does...
Smart Cap Detects Spoiled Food

Smart Cap Detects Spoiled Food

by | 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...
Printing New Hands for Children [video]

Printing New Hands for Children [video]

by | August 5, 2015 | Medical

This is an amazing time to be alive. All sorts of new technologies have converged to make the impossible possible. In this particular case, 3D printing, computer-aided design, and digital communications have resulted in a worldwide organization of volunteers who...
Experiment Creates Glowing Threads

Experiment Creates Glowing Threads

by | July 2, 2015 | Enabling Tech

This picture may not be all that compelling at first glance. It looks like someone has a wire with some white stuff on it. Or maybe the wire is glowing from electricity running through it. Here’s the scoop; that white section is indeed emitting light, but...