by | Jun 3, 2014 | Uncategorized

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...

by | Apr 3, 2014 | Uncategorized

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...

by | Oct 22, 2013 | Uncategorized

Technology of the Future Three centuries ago, the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton wrote, “I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea shore, while the great ocean  of truth lay undiscovered before me.” BBC documentary about technologies of the...

by | Oct 14, 2013 | Uncategorized

neuromorphogenesis: A blueprint for restoring touch with a prosthetic hand New research at the University of Chicago is laying the groundwork for touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs that one day could convey real-time sensory information to amputees via a direct...

by | Oct 14, 2013 | Uncategorized

fastcompany: “Big data is going to make us all healthier. What kind of diet should certain people be on? Are there things people are doing that make them really high-risk for cancer? There’s a whole group of people who are 100-plus and have no disease. Why?”...