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WiFi Radio Signals Let MIT Researchers Track Movements of People
Patients that wander away from their beds are a constant headache for nurses, while those that stay bedridden for too long can create problems of their own. New technology from MIT may soon allow hospital staff to see in real time the location...
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Personalized Physical Therapy at Home Using Real Specialists and 3D Camera
Artificial hip and knee replacements require quite a bit of physical therapy post surgery to achieve the desired results. In many places and for many people, a rehab clinic may be too far away or time too short to receive regular therapy. At...
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Braille Displays for People with Poor Vision Now Have Own USB Standard
In the modern world of technology, disabilities can limit access to certain technologies simply because there are no standards in place. One such example are Braille displays that only worked on some systems and it wasn't trivial to...
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Wristband with a Myriad of Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients
At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration in Berlin, Germany researchers are working on a sensor and software package that would help people developing dementia to slow down the disease progression and improve their and their...
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Artificial Sensory Nerve Made of Flexible Organic Electronics
Scientists at Stanford and Seoul National University managed to build artificial tactile sensory nerves out of flexible organic electronics. The system is able to detect pressures down to 1 kilopascal and to do so in clusters that mimic the...
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First Prosthetic to Really Let The User Feel Its Presence
Even the most advanced modern prosthetic devices don't give the user a proper sense of the orientation of their mechanical appendage. This is in contrast to our native arms and legs that we can move quite accurately without having to look at how...
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Blind People Can Now Play Car Racing Video Games
Blind people and others with serious visual impairments aren't known for playing a lot of video games. Yet, a graduate student at Columbia University has developed a system that allows completely blind people to drive racing cars in video games....
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Responsive DBS for Parkinson's Disease Adapts to Patient's Changing Needs
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease management has been shown to be quite effective in controlling the symptoms of the disease. Yet, the technology currently available to patients is rudimentary in that the neurostimulation...
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Smart, Pressure Sensitive Stool Helps to Improve Posture and Avoid Sitting Too Long
At Germany's Fraunhofer Institutes for Industrial Engineering and for Silicate Research, a team has developed a smart stool that monitors a person's sitting posture and the time spent sitting down. The data is used to motivate users to change...
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