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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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Wearables for a World Without Disease: Interview with imec's Chris Van Hoof
Medgadget was recently invited to attend the imec Technology Forum conference in Antwerp, Belgium. Imec is a non-profit R&D innovation organization specializing in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. Like many digital hardware companies,...
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Klue Hand Tracking Tech for Behavior Change to be Tried at Stanford, Crossover Health
Klue, a Silicon Valley company that's working to better utilize data gathered from wearable body trackers, is now working with Stanford University and Crossover Health, a primary care medical group, to study the effectiveness of Klue's modules...
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Computer Models of Arm and Hand Anatomy to Improve Function of Prosthetic Devices
New users of advanced prosthetic devices have to undergo tedious training routines in order for the computer that controls the given prosthesis to understand the wishes of the user. Sensors are used to measure the electrical activity of the...
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