Category: Technology & Devices
Coke’s “Work It Out” Calculator Helps Consumers To Burn Calories
Coca-Cola has developed a new calculator to help consumers to find how long it takes to burn off various Coca-Cola drinks through different sports and chores like housework. The Work It Out Calculator has been launched by the Coca-Cola company […]
3D Tool to Track Malformations in Unborn Heart Created
A 3D map to pinpoint malformations in an unborn heart has been developed by scientists. Circulating blood cells drag on the endothelial cells (a layer of cells that lines the inside of certain cavities such as the growing heart) in […]
National Heart Centre develops world’s first human heart cell model of ARVC
SINGAPORE – Researchers at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) have successfully created a human heart cell model of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), an inherited heart muscle disorder which puts one at high risk of developing life-threatening arrhythmias and […]
New Exercise Music App That Plays Songs According to Your Heart Rate During Exercise
Searching for a song from phone playlists during exercise to get your heart pumping in rhythm will soon be a thing of the past with a new system that taps into the music-exercise combo. A team of researchers has come […]
Medicated Chewing Gum Helps Prevent Motion Sickness
New chewing gum formulation aims to prevent motion sickness. This research is being presented at the 2012 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition in Chicago, Ill., Oct. 14 – 18, an international event anticipating more than […]
Use Paper To Develop Actual Diagnostic Tests
The work by a University of Washington bioengineer produced a chemical trick to make paper-based diagnostics using plain paper, the kind found at office supply stores around the world. “We wanted to go for the simplest, cheapest starting material, and […]
Merck to Partner With Vaxxas for Needle-Free Vaccines
Global pharmaceutical giant Merck has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Vaxxas to further develop the technology to deliver vaccines without the need for needles. Vaxxas was formed by University of Queensland Professor Mark Kendall who is […]
By Measuring Heartbeats Gadgets Will Identify Their Users
Smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and other devices will identify users by measuring their heartbeats through their fingertips. The gadgets may soon recognize their owners at a touch. “ECG biometrics identifies people by their cardiac rhythm,” Foteini Agrafioti, an engineer at […]
‘Talking’ ATM makes banking easier for the blind
SINGAPORE – Mr Cheok Cheng Ann, 65, is blind and has memorised the precise points on an ATM touch screen near his Katong home. “I have to learn the positions by heart and be very careful when pressing the buttons […]
Australian researchers to develop a cream against skin cancer
Researchers have developed a peptide that imitates a melanoma-killing virus, in a biomedical engineering advance that could lead to the development of a cream to target and treat skin cancer, a latest study from Melbourne’s RMIT University showed on Monday. […]
