Archive : Health & Medicine

The conventional days of health monitoring, where you used to go for periodic checkups to your doctor are now fast fading away, as technology for wireless health tracking is now being increasingly made available through the very clothes we wear. Now, one of the biggest wireless carriers in the U.S, AT&T, through its Emerging Devices division has [...]

Recently we wrote about an all new prototype t-shirt designed and developed by the scientists at the UC3M. Known as the ‘intelligent T-shirt’, it’s primary function is to monitor a patient’s vital signs and remotely alerting the doctors about any anomaly in the statistics. Now,  a new tech startup firm, Basis Science is gearing up for the [...]

From breathable fabrics to dresses that come embedded with computing devices, clothing lines of the 21st century are increasingly being integrated with cutting edge technologies to make our lives all the more easy to lead. Now, a leading team of scientists at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in Spain has unveiled an all new t-shirt that [...]

If you are hard of hearing and were looking for a way to watch movies in the theatre, you might just have ended up watching the video and not listening to anything. Or you might have bugged your friends to tell you what the conversation was all about. Thus, here is a cool new solution that allows deaf people to read what the conversation is by wearing [...]

In today’s lightning fast lifestyle coupled with the stresses of office work, we all need to keep a close watch on our diets and focus on healthy eating to carry on without the hindrance of unwarranted health conditions. For those of you, who focus on maintaining their weights, you need something more than mere exercises to keep yourselves in shape. [...]

Elderly care is a priority and a challenge in modern life. The nuclear family setup poses various obstacles to taking care of our aging parents and grandparents. However, the rise of new gadgets and technologies promises new solutions to elderly care. The Aid by Lithuanian designer Egle Ugintaite is a case in point. The Aid is something of a new age [...]

The ever elusive and mostly fictional cure to human aging could be as near as within the next twenty five years. Highly renowned and respected biomedical gerontologist, Dr. Aubrey de Grey has expressed his optimism that in the next two decades, doctors could very well be able to cure aging, thereby effectively removing the element of disease. If and [...]

Hair is a very essential part of our appearance, except for those who choose to be bald. For those who want hair, or more hair it can be a very daunting task to maintain and take care of hair. As we get older, hair growth changes and hence it is difficult to have thicker hair as we get older. Those who are balding or who have skinny hair, need not fret, [...]

Bifocals and progressive lenses suck. They are old technology. Very old. PixelOptics has a more 21st century – liquid crystal lenses that adjust the focus in a split second for different types of focus when you need it. All you need to do to change lenses – which are designed to fit into any frame of glasses – it touches on the touchscreen. [...]

We’ve seen robots controlled by Kinect before, but never seen robots with such important tasks as well. A group of engineering students at the University of Washington are using Microsoft’s peripheral to guide the actions of robot surgeons. Scientists and engineers have been working for years on methods for integrating video game technology [...]