Category: Technology & Devices
Smartphones used to diagnose ear infection
Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden have developed a method that simplifies the diagnosis of ear infections (otitis media). The software-based method automatically analyses images from a digital otoscope and enables highly accurate diagnoses. The method is described in the […]
Lip reading technology spells out words when audio fails
A new lip-reading technology could help in solving crimes and provide communication assistance for people with hearing and speech impairments. The visual speech recognition technology, created by Dr Helen L. Bear and Prof Richard Harvey of UEA’s School of Computing […]
Sterile Box offers safer surgeries
Rice University students and their mentors have created a sterilization station for surgical instruments that can help minimize risk of infections to patients anywhere in the world. The station built into a standard 20-foot steel shipping container houses all the […]
Mayo Clinic app helps patients lose weight
Heart attack recovery patients who used a digital health app were lost four times as much weight than those who underwent 12 weeks of cardiac rehabilitation alone. The study included 80 patients — 68 years old, on average — who […]
Google glass meets organs-on-chips
Organs-on-chips is a hardware and software system that can mimic the human body system. Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) developed organs-on-chips to test drugs and accurately predict the body’s response. But monitoring the results of such experiments from […]
3-D printing could help fix damaged cartilage
Researchers found a way to produce cartilage tissue by 3-D bioprinting an ink containing human cells, and they have successfully tested it in a mouse model. The development could one day lead to precisely printed implants to heal damaged noses, […]
This necklace hears what you eat
University at Buffalo computer scientist Wenyao Xu, who is creating a library that catalogues the unique sounds that foods make as we bite, grind and swallow them. The library is part of a software package that supports AutoDietary, a high-tech, […]
Why are some people more attached to their smartphones?
Some people frequently check and re-check their mobile phones. Once this impulse is triggered, it may be more a question of not being able to leave the device alone than actually hoping to gain some reward from it. These insights […]
New program could improve hearing aid use for older adults
A new hearing aid adjustment program created by Kari Lane, assistant professor at the Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri, may help increase hearing aid use for those who need them. “Being able to hear is very […]
Smartphones could detect skin cancer
Dermatologists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) think that using smartphones as microscopes could improve the detection of skin cancer in developing countries. A smartphone microscope can be made with a 3 mm ball lens, […]
