Archive for the ‘Medical Technology’ Category
Georgia Tech researchers have developed a tongue-powered system that could transform a disabled person’s mouth in to a virtual computer that uses teeth as a keyboard.
“You could have full control over your environment by just being able to move your tongue,” said Maysam Ghovanloo, a Georgia Tech assistant professor who leads the team’s research.
The [...]
A report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests RFID chips could cause some medical devices to fail when in close contact. Radio frequency identification chips are used for corporate inventory tracking, library management and even passport data control. The chips are also used to power transit payment systems, animal identification and [...]
Over the last 20 years we have heard government after government complain that the young of today were spending too much time on their computers. Research showed that people were becoming fatter and fatter and family time around the table has all but disappeared. It seems that everything from the desktop to the [...]
Researchers at King?s College London have created a very unique experience for those who suffer from paranoia and dislike confined spaces, with the London underground one of the more common areas of society which people seem to have real fear about. King?s College has used the latest virtual reality technology to create a virtual [...]