Smart Robotic Arms can Help Partially Paralyzed Man Feed Himself
A partially paralyzed man manages to feed himself with a help of robotic arms using brain-machine interface (BMI). A team led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, and the Department of Physical ...
Breath Biometrics: It’s Time to Sniff Out Your Identity
Your breath can now safeguard your valuable assets. A team of researchers developed an olfactory sensor for biometric authentication using your breath.
Biometric authentication like fingerprint and iris scans are a staple of any spy movie and ...
Electronic Implants Will Soon Replace Your Daily Pills at a Click
Forgetting daily medication as prescribed by your doctor can cause serious health problems. Don’t worry, a team of Swedish scientists are working on electronic implants that can one day replace daily pills and deliver drugs at a click.
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Monitor Sleep With a Self-Powered Smart Pillow
Researchers of a team have discovered a self-powering smart pillow that tracks the position of the head and providess a potential solution for the sleep problems . People who struggle to shut-eye may benefit from monitoring their sleep, but they ...
Smartphones Give Disease Diagnostics in Your Hands
A nanotechnology imaging device that is small enough to fit on a smartphone camera lens has made the diagnosis of certain diseases accessible and affordable for people in rural and remote regions. Looking into Diseases Made Easy
The COVID-19 ...
Wearable Device Monitors Glucose and Alcohol Levels Continuously
New continuous wearable device monitors the levels of glucose, alcohol and lactate. It is about the size of a stack of six quarters.
It is applied to the skin through a Velcro-like patch of microscopic needles, or microneedles, that are each ...
‘Smart Diaper’ – Know Your Health Status from the Bed
A flexible sensor that fits in a diaper measures multiple components in urine and can share those results over Bluetooth to provide real-time bedside analyses for incontinent, elderly, or infant patients is reported in ACS Applied Nano Materials ...
3D Printed Gloves For Rehabilitating Stroke Patients Developed
For rehabilitation of stroke victims and patients requiring physiotherapy, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) researchers have developed a soft, wearable device that influences the fundamental properties of light to sense a patient’s limb or finger ...
New Smartphone Technology to Detect Dengue
New smartphone-powered tests for dengue developed by researchers were found to improve rates over lateral flow testing kits.
The new diagnostic test, described in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, uses "lab on a strip" ...
Robotic Hand: 3D Printed Fingertip Feels Like Human Skin
Artificial fingertip with neural recordings was compared to the human sense of touch and it was found to be just like the human skin, reveal two papers published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
Machines can beat the world’s ...
New Tool Assesses Patients’ Kidney Disease–related Knowledge
A new instrument to measure chronic kidney disease (CKD) - and transplant-related knowledge in patients with moderate to severe CKD has been developed and validated by researchers.
The tool, called KART 2.0, was created by a team led by John ...
How are Heart Data from a Smartwatch and Skin Tone Related?
Consumers are increasingly using smartwatches and other wearable devices to measure their heart rate and rhythm and monitor their overall health during exercise. But according to a study presented at the 71st annual science session of the American ...
New Heart Ultrasound Helps Predict Dementia Risk
By using echocardiography (visual ultrasound of the heart), the researchers identified new measures associated with higher dementia risk. The findings of the study are published in JAMA.
“Atrial myopathy, a condition characterized by ...
Robots With Realistic Pain Expressions can Reduce Examination Errors
A new way developed by researchers helps generate more realistic and accurate expressions of pain on the face of medical training robots during the physical examination of painful areas.
The findings, published in the journal Scientific ...
New Robot With Heart can Control Your Anger
A new text message mediation robot has been developed to help users control their anger, reveal scientists from the Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems at the University of Tsukuba.
This device may help improve social interactions ...
