Triage Wireless has developed a patch applied to the skin that continuously monitors a person’s blood pressure, heart […]
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A team from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) have been given the go-ahead to create a […]
Developed by Sonic Studio, BodyRest is a wearable device (PDA + headphones + sensors) that produces customized music […]
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Oregon Health and Sciences University researchers are testing a small device you can wear like a music player […]
Lucid Touch is a bioreactive sculpture that induces emotion using an affective feedback loop to control the flow […]
Insight – home use smear test kit, a project by industrial design engineer Maja Kecman, won the Big […]
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At present, the most popular mobility aid for the visually impaired is the cane. However, the cane is […]
Pig brain cells wrapped in seaweed could be implanted into patients’ brains to cure the degenerative condition Huntington’s […]
Teams at University College London and University College L.A. say they have been able to monitor people’s thoughts […]
Supporters of embryonic stem cell research say it may provide an important path to regenerative medicine, in which […]
A team of biomedical engineers has demonstrated that it is possible to grow healthy new bone reliably in […]
Sperm wriggling in a petri dish in the US have been manipulated using internet and laser technology by […]
MIT researchers have designed a nanoparticle that can burrow into a tumor, seal the exits and detonate a […]
I had previously reported on Paddy Hartley’s Face Corset. Scan has many pictures in an article written by […]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers are developing a tiny heat spreader to be used in a new device to […]
Cristina Bilsland is particularly interested in researching “mundane” issues and responding to them through product design. She has […]
For the Evidence Doll research project, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby have interviewed women about their sexual partners. […]
Two new products for the well-being of the elderly: A group of Stanford University students have designed a […]
Kill yourself whenever you feel like it or just have a finger with an extra joint. Fabian Seibert […]
More goodies from the Royal College of Art Show 2005: In this age of free speech and action, […]
Researchers from NYU medical school, the University of Tokyo and the MIT have demonstrated a technique that may […]
Most of the images feature students gathered around the cadaver, either actively dissecting or just posing, often wearing […]
The Designer Hymen Project was a concept product in 2004. Hymen prototypes were grown in a petri dish […]
Women living in remote areas who don’t have easy access to health care will someday be able to […]
Scientists have taken the first step towards creating human eggs and sperm in the laboratory using stem cells, […]
A high-tech plaster could keep a constant check on your health, thanks to a tiny electronic device, which […]
Neuroscientists will soon be able to grow human brain cells in petri dishes. “It’s like an assembly line,” […]
A consortium including Cranfield Impact Centre and Nissan Europe has developed a prototype bone density scanning system which […]
Heartbeats by Orna Portugaly, Daphna Talithman and Sharon Younger uses the partipants’ pulse to create virtual life. When […]
The Dream Recorder by Maria Paula Villamil is an emotion-responsive system which investigates what it would mean to […]
Aura is a prototype background communication device that aims to create a sense of emotional presence between two […]
myBio dolls are a collection of educational dolls exploring the emergence of biological hybrids in biotechnologies, and our […]
A team of scientists led by Matsuhiko Nishizawa, at Tohoku University, have developed a fuel cell that runs […]
A breath test that works out exactly how many calories you should eat has been launched in the […]
An artificial nose that can tell whether someone is ill from the smell of their breath is being […]
Suspended animation has been induced in a species of mouse which does not naturally hibernate. The mice felt […]
A team at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Korea has invented a portable medical kit that […]
A pilot study, that examined specific proteins and nutrients from cloned bulls and cows, suggests that meat and […]
‘Ere Be Dragons, by Nottingham-based Active Ingredient, is the prototype of a game for PDAs that takes you […]
Blowhard is a game, created by Ryan Schoelerman and Sky Frostenson, in which two players compete by breathing […]