designersofthings: Apple Announces HealthKit & iOS8’s Health Hub App Apple has long been rumored to be coming out with a health app and yesterday’s WWDC confirmed it’s here. Health will be released with iOS8 in the Fall for iOS devices. The app aggregates all of...

txchnologist: Virtual Cadavers Offer New Opportunities In Medicine Computer-generated models are starting to let researchers and students peer into the body without needing a real human stretched out before them. Virtual dissection tables have been built at places...

futurescope: Interactive Live Holography – From Science Fiction to Science Fact Introducing live medical holography – the world’s first 3D holographic display and interface system, initially for medical imaging applications. To learn more...

fastcompany: Microsoft Kinect is now a real-time sign language translator. From the article: A new Microsoft Research project has achieved a major milestone: Real-time machine translation of sign language using Kinect. Researchers in China created the prototype Kinect...

The Bionic Man Comes to NYCC The Bionic Man is different from advanced, DARPA-hardened robots , in fact, it can’t really walk that well at all. Instead with $1 million, Meyer, Walker and a team of engineers created the robot as a walking and talking showcase of human...