Category: Technology & Devices
A wearable antenna to ease health monitoring
Keeping a tab on patients can become a tad easier for doctors as scientists have designed a new flexible antenna that could be stretched and easily integrated into wearable health monitoring devices. The use of silver nanowires makes the devices […]
New technique to combat cancer
A team led by Vijay Kumar Kutala, associate professor of clinical pharmacology in NIMS, in collaboration with Srigiridhar Kotamraju, senior scientist from IICT developed the technique to deliver curcumin into the cell’s mitochondria by tagging it with a chemical moiety […]
Innovations to help ease pain
Twenty Product Design and Innovation and Engineering students showcase their final-year projects at Ngee Ann Polytechnic Our Space. Last Friday is the last day of the showcase. SINK Work for elderly cleaners could some day be less back-breaking, thanks to […]
Colour-coded smart tags will tell if food is spoiled or not
Scientists have come up with new colour-coded smart tags which will tell the customers if the food has spoiled without even opening the container. The tag, which would appear on the packaging, can also be used to determine if medications […]
Float your woes away… in a tank
SINGAPORE – Since December, more than 100 people from all walks of life – among them couples, a national athlete and a local celebrity – have streamed into an unassuming semi-detached house in Siglap. There, they pay for the opportunity […]
Toshiba unveils disease-detecting breathalyser
TOKYO: Japan’s Toshiba on Tuesday unveiled a breathalyser which it says can detect a wide range of diseases just 30 seconds after users blow into the machine. The device, about the size of a small dishwasher, has a nozzle in […]
UAE scientists working to develop early detection tool for Parkinson’s disease
The toll Parkinson’s disease has on individuals can be devastating. Caused by the degeneration of nerve cells in a central part of the brain, it can make walking difficult or even impossible, and cause sufferers to shake. Often, it leads […]
Software to help design health care products
In a first, researchers have developed a computer-aided design tool to create genetic languages to guide the design of biological systems. Known as ‘GenoCAD’, the open-source software would help synthetic biologists capture biological rules to engineer organisms that produce useful […]
New prosthetic foot features Solvay’s ultra-high performance Torlon PAI
FITBIONIC Inc, an upstart developer and manufacturer of next-generation prosthetic technology, based in Boulder, Colorado, US, has launched its first product – an innovative prosthetic foot that features high load-carrying bearings made of Torlon polyamide-imide (PAI) from Solvay Specialty Polymers. […]
Hitting the sweet spot in blood sugar testing
SINGAPORE – To add to the inconvenience of watching everything they eat, diabetics often face a convoluted process to monitor their blood sugar levels constantly. But one Singapore firm has come up with a far simpler solution. The longstanding method […]
