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Extreme Sports Enthusiast Overcomes Limits, Inspires Others
Reggie Showers has a true passion for life. He’s a two-time world motorcycle drag racing champion, a pilot, a rock climber, and a certified snowboard instructor. He’s also a double amputee. At age 14, Showers was playing on top of some boxcars in a railroad yard when he got too close to the wires used to power the trains. Thirteen …
PLM Helps Medical Device Makers with Compliance Woes
Of all the industries facing serious challenges around regulatory compliance, the medical device sector appears to be caught in a particularly thorny trap. On the one hand, manufacturers in this space are up against unprecedented pressures to get more and more innovative products to market faster on a global basis. At the same time, however, new regulations continue to emerge, …
Forget Carbon Fiber, Silk is the Next Super-Material
Natural silk like that produced by spiders and silkworms could be a cheap, sustainable, and environmentally friendly alternative to glass, plastic and traditional materials used in manufacturing. Two research teams—hailing from the United States and France—exploring the properties of silk and its particular application in the medical field will present their latest findings this week at the Frontiers in Optics …
Embrace Warmer Could Save Infant Lives in Rural Communities
Every year, 15 million babies worldwide are born preterm and over one million of those babies die shortly after birth while others suffer lifelong disabilities, according to a new report from the March of Dimes Foundation, the World Health Organization, and others. The Born Too Soon report finds that prematurity is the leading cause of newborn deaths and the second …
3D Technologies Help Custom Prosthetics Hit Their Stride
A growing number of researchers and manufacturers are turning to 3D design tools like CAD and 3D printers to accommodate the increasing complexity and highly customized nature of next-generation prosthetics. Gone are the days when a prosthetic foot or brace is a one-size-fits-all design, forcing users to deal with a multitude of discomforts or contend with limited mobility in terms …
Doctor Droid: iRobot and InTouch Health Unveil Medical Bot
How would you feel if, at your next hospital visit, a robot turned up at your bedside instead of a real-life flesh and blood doctor? Bedford, Mass.-based iRobot is hoping you won’t mind. iRobot will unveil its first medical robot in Santa Barbara, California this week. The robot, which stands five feet tall, is designed to allow doctors to carry …
On Valentine’s Day: A Brief History of the Mechanical Heart
Love, the unmapped genome of human emotion. It’s right up there with dark matter and whatever it is that makes peanut butter so delicious. We may never be able to reverse-engineer a concept so intangible. But today, we can do a pretty good job of reconstructing the mechanics of the human heart. The first mechanical heart is also one of …
Myomo Neuro-Robotic Arm Brace a Powerful Rehab Tool
Find a prevalent problem and solve it – any MBA worth their tuition will enthusiastically volunteer this as the surest way to start a successful company. What started in Woodie Flowers’ lab at MIT as research into prosthetics, became a solution for stroke victims struggling with hemiparesis. Named the mPower 1000, the Myomo (My Own Motion) neuro-robotic arm brace uses …
Implant May Provide New Hope for Heart Failure Patients
Thirty-three percent of adults in the United States over the age of 20, and 53 percent of nursing home residents have hypertension (high blood pressure), according to the most recent CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) data. That’s a whopping $69.4 billion each year in healthcare costs, and with an aging population and increased cases of cardiovascular disease, it’s …
‘Tis the Season of Miracles with Microsoft Kinect
Ever since Microsoft embraced the hackers of the Kinect modding community, there has been a huge spark in global innovation across industries [see How Kinect is Changing the World of Retail]. Some of them are borderline miracles in my humble opinion. ‘Tis the season of miracles isn’t it? Give the gift of sight. Navigational Aids for the Visually Impaired (NAVI) …
