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more about #medicine more comments → P3nnst8r: Does it give you x-ray vision? more » dingus: By that logic, Tom Waits is a one man anti-anti smoking campaign. more » stevewoz: I wish they could add this to my Droid. more » spannu: Sorry, but that's the definition of a good kung-fu movie. Anyone who wants better latency is misguided. more » Noobs-R-Us: What happened to stem cells? I would rather they create one in the lab and implant that. more » 2 replies by: Yeay! Now while I'm getting a colonoscopy I can pretend I'm just being raped by a giant hostile robot! Hazzah! ^_^ more » STiger: 1 2, and 6 look like Star Trek sets. I'd probably enjoy being in 2. more » OddManOut: What's wrong with the red one ? It's got a nice warmth and richness to it, like sunrise/set or fire light. I'd probably find that fairly soothing fo... more » Morgan Culp: So does this mean that Sharon will be doing my physicals? more » gabuzecs: The green one that look's like Avatar is awesome. more » spookyu: What impresses me is the openness of the rooms themselves. Too often have I see 'open' imaging devices crammed into rooms that can barely hold the dev... more » jepzilla: It may just be a concept today, but when I see photos like those it makes me think 'damn, living in the future rules.' more » Michai: Nice images, super cool light design. more » yantelope: I've seen a lot of lighting reps pushing their fluorescent lighting fixtures with designs and patterns behind them with varying degrees of success but... more » The5thElephant: UP UP LEFT DOWN A X A X B R-button for God Mode! #thiscyborglife more » -
#medicine
Bionic Lenses Aren't Just for Cataracts Anymore
As someone who's been nearsighted since I was a kid, I'm loving the new developments in intraocular lenses. There's a new procedure gaining popularity that could give me super vision, without the irreversibility of LASIK. More » -
#medicine
New Artificial Larynx Could Give Cancer Patients a Natural Sounding Voice
An ad with someone telling you to quit smoking in the cold robotic voice of a mechanical larynx is powerful imagery. This new artificial larnyx could screw up that whole angle for anti-smoking advocacy groups. More » -
#lighting
Finally, Hospital Lighting Reminiscent of a Cylon Base Ship
Granted, the green-tinged fluorescence of most hospital rooms is by no means comfortable, but Philips' solution, seen here, looks like a straight-up alien probe chamber—or so I've heard. More » -
#thiscyborglife
Your Deteriorating Internal Organs, Reduced to an Xbox Game
3D medical imagery has always been fascinating to me: generating 3D models from film footage is still a fledgling tech, while medical professionals render guts on a daily basis. And sometimes, apparently, connected to Xbox controllers. More » -
#upgrades
If 1950s Men Redesigned the Human Form, We'd Be Horrors
"While the human body has never been equaled [in] all-around master engineering, a number of glaring weaknesses do exist in man's basic equipment," stated a Mechanix Illustrated article from August 1956, which enlisted experts to suggest upgrades. More » -
#medicine
Electronic Circuits That Melt Into Your Body
It makes me nervous too. I'm not so keen on the idea of circuits enveloped in a silk substrate, which melts into your body leaving just nanometers-thick layers of electronics. But it's for the best, trust me on this one. More » -
#cellphones
In Addition to Making You Look Like a Douche, Cellphone Holsters May Also Reduce Bone Density
Bad news, people who carry their phones on your belts: according to Turkish researchers, you may be at risk for reduced hip bone density. More » -
#science
Fiber Optic Cable In Your Skull Can Reprogram a Brain
Stanford scientists discover that by changing a mouse's neurons to respond to light, they could use fiber optic cables to influence the mouse to do certain things. The trick is to insert plant genes into the brain first. More » -
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Exos Braces Heal Your Bones, Look Cooler Than Casts
Say goodbye to old-school casts for broken bones. Exos Medical's braces, splints and casts are adjustable, breathable, lightweight, clean and waterproof. The only drawback is that you can't have girls sign them. More » -
#cancer
Electroscalpel Hunts Down Cancer Like a Cougar at a High School Kegger
When surgeons dig around inside of you trying to cut out a tumor, they're actually going off of pre-op info to find the tumor. An electroscalpel, combined with a mass spectrometer, will let them map cancerous cells in realtime. More » -
#concepts
A Glimpse Into What's Hopefully the Future of Healthcare
You know Frog Design even if you don't know Frog Design. Their ideas influenced companies including Sony and Apple. And in a recent piece for Fast Company, they presented a thesis on a tech-savvy future for healthcare that's worth reading. More » -
#medicine
Brain Surgery Simulator is Like Trauma Center, But Legit
Brain surgeons in Halifax, Canada can now do dry runs of brain surgeries using models of their patients. Their new simulator uses MRI images to allow them to go to town on digital copies of busted brains. More » -
#science
New Breathalyzer Detects Lung Cancer
Breathalyzers have been around for years, letting cops determine just how drunk you were when you plowed into their parked car. But now, a new breathalyzer has been developed that can detect lung cancer. More » -
#science
MRI Video of Two People Having Sex Is, Uh, Really Something (NSFW)
Back in 1999, Pek Van Andel and three of his colleagues did a research study to take MRI images of a couple having sex. Now, the video is on the internet. Oh my. More » -
#hearingaids
New Hearing Aids Double As Headphones, Reduce Grandpa to a Living, Breathing iPod Accessory (UPDATED)
In their steady march toward decrepitude, tech-savvy boomers will confront some weighty questions: How will we pay for Social Security? What's up with rap music? Why can't I connect my BlackBerry to my hearing aid? Well, good news! More » -
#medicine
World's First Wireless, Internet-Connected Pacemaker Installed
Bionic people of the world rejoice, for your heart ticks and booms booms will be transmitted through the internet from now on. A New York woman has got the world's first wireless pacemaker, which allows constant remote monitoring via web: More » -
#science
This Blue Rat May Have the Secret to Avoid Spinal Cord Injuries
It's not a negative. It's not frozen. This rat's skin is blue and its color may be the secret to avoid spinal cord injuries and paralysis, according to a new study by neurologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center. More » -
#cellphones
Cellphone Microscope Gets Power Boost, No Parasite Is Safe
UC Berkeley's CellScope microscope transforms an ordinary cellphone camera into a powerful high-mag microscope. And now it has been given an upgrade that makes it possible to take color shots of parasites and bacteria labeled with fluorescent markers. More » -
#medicine
"You Can Call Me Ripley"
This is Sarah May Scott. She got a grave spinal cord injury in 2005. And if everything goes well, she may start walking again: More » -
#medicine
Robot Crawls Through Veins to
A new robot, just one millimeter in diameter, can crawl through your veins to treat arterial blockage or deliver targeted medication. More »KillHeal You
