Tag: medical
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IBM’s Watson To Work With Apple Watch
Earlier this week we reported on IBM’s Watson supercomputer – the thinking engine that has just released its own cookbook. When out of the kitchen, Watson also manages to find the nanoseconds of time from its busy schedule to work with health professionals analyzing genetic sequences to build personalized medicines for patients. A key step…
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Qualcomm Gears Up For ‘Internet of Things’
More from the CES event now, as Qualcomm have announced through the event that their ubiquitous Snapdragon chip range is getting ready to make it out onto the newly christened ‘internet of things;’ a proposed massively connected network of internet devices which all are connected to the internet. A big announcement from company president Derek…
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Doctors Can Now 3D Print Knee Parts
Doctors can now use 3D printing to replicate body parts, or specifically in this case the inside of someone’s knee. Using the new technology, it’s now possible to replace damaged internal pieces of fragile joints with replicated ‘scaffolding’ which the body can grow new tissue around. The meniscus is a part of the knee joint…
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Scanadu Scout Brings Star Trek Tricorder Tech to IndieGoGo
Qualcomm’s challenge to create a self-diagnosing medical tool based on Star Trek tech has been answered by NASA based research co. Scanadu.
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Medical Tattoo Could Monitor Heart Rate & Brain Signals via Epidermal Electronics
Some find them unsightly and grotesque, while others find them an art form, but whichever way you look at them a tattoo might help save your life one day – or so believes Dr John Rogers of the University of Illinois who gave his opinions on “epidermal electronics” to the American Chemical Society board at…
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Medical Tattoo Could Monitor Heart Rate & Brain Signals via Epidermal Electronics
Some find them unsightly and grotesque, while others find them an art form, but whichever way you look at them a tattoo might help save your life one day – or so believes Dr John Rogers of the University of Illinois who gave his opinions on “epidermal electronics” to the American Chemical Society board at…
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Nintendo 3DS: The Last Stand – Handheld to be rebooted with extra joystick & ‘medical-approval’
It seems Nintendo isn’t willing to give up all hope on the failing handheld 3DS – just yet. Despite investors pushing the struggling games co. into the mobile market, Nintendo is taking its portable gaming strategy back to the drawing board – rebooting the once so promising 3DS and addressing some of those issues that have…
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Nintendo 3DS: The Last Stand – Handheld to be rebooted with extra joystick & ‘medical-approval’
It seems Nintendo isn’t willing to give up all hope on the failing handheld 3DS – just yet. Despite investors pushing the struggling games co. into the mobile market, Nintendo is taking its portable gaming strategy back to the drawing board – rebooting the once so promising 3DS and addressing some of those issues that have…