Health and Hygiene Category - Page 5

Let’s face it–if you’ve got a dog, chances are he (or she, depending) is like one of the family. Some even refer to beloved pets as “furbabies”. And though the thought of losing your dog is a heartbreaker to say the least, the remedy may be worse than the problem [...]

Precision is the hallmark of machinery–humans may be adaptive as all get out, but their hands shake almost imperceptibly (even some times, perceptibly) due to things as simple as their pulse moving through their hands. And the folks out at McGill University have shown just how precise a robot can [...]

I once knew a guy who had a hearing aid. He had a trick he liked to pull that, when he didn’t want to talk to someone, he’d pretend it wasn’t working so as to just “Eh? What?” his way through a conversation until the victim (or, in his case, [...]

Used to be, way back when, when you were tired you just went to bed and that was the end of the story until the sun came up or the rooster crowed and it was time to start thatching the roof and getting the plow animals to work. But now, [...]

It’s a great day when I can actually start with robot news, because I’m terribly fond of robots and they usually make for good stories. And today I’ve got a real beauty to bring up–the Sofie (Surgeon’s Operating Force-feedback Interface Eindhoven) surgical robot.

Look for this to be the newest form of liveblogging as people hook themselves up to a new Dutch invention that displays their vitals round the clock. It’s called the Body Area Network, and while it bodes well for medical research and similar personnel, it also has the potential to [...]

The folks out at MIT have brought us a lot of great inventions, folks, but this may well be one of the oddest and most useful too–their Medical Lab Mirror will actually measure your pulse and display it right before your eyes…while you’re brushing your teeth.

Starting at some point next year, according to reports, you may well see folks who formerly were unable to walk tromping around your area in exoskeletal devices from the folks at Berkeley Bionics. Dubbed the eLEGS system, they offer incredible promise…at an incredible price tag.

If you like the thought of a robot that will roll nonchalantly around your house sweeping up in its wake, then no doubt you’ve considered a Roomba. Though after many have found themselves disappointed with its performance (I once heard it described as “like a blind drunk”), there’s some word [...]

Checking your blood sugar? There’s an app for that. Sometimes it unsettles me, considering the sheer number of things for which “there’s an app for that” applies. But the folks at Sanovi-Aventis have done it, and with a little plugging in via the Dock Connector, your iPhone can take blood [...]