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A new artificial skin can detect close objects and could be used in consumer electronics and robots, or even given to burn survivors.
Source: InverseCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Implanted Magnets for Prosthetic Control | Medgadget - 1 year(s) ago
Engineers at MIT have developed a system that could let users of robotic prostheses to more sensitively control their bionic limbs. The technology involves implanting pairs of small magnetic beads into muscles. When the muscles contract, the beads move closer together, allowing prosthetic devices to more precisely calculate a user’s intentions and mirror these. Current systems measure the…
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Mashup Score: 0Implanted Magnets for Prosthetic Control | Medgadget - 1 year(s) ago
Engineers at MIT have developed a system that could let users of robotic prostheses to more sensitively control their bionic limbs. The technology involves implanting pairs of small magnetic beads into muscles. When the muscles contract, the beads move closer together, allowing prosthetic devices to more precisely calculate a user’s intentions and mirror these. Current systems measure the…
Source: www.medgadget.comCategories: Future of Medicine, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0The Bionic-Hand Arms Race - 2 year(s) ago
The prosthetics industry is too focused on high-tech limbs that are complicated, costly, and often impractical
Source: IEEE SpectrumCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Slice Engineering technology helps Island Mission Support 3D print prosthetics for remote amputees - 3D Printing Industry - 2 year(s) ago
Island Missions Support has begun using a Slice Engineering hotend to 3D print prosthetic limbs for those living in remote Guatemala.
Source: 3D Printing IndustryCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 4Reimagining Prosthetic Control: A Novel Body-Powered Prosthetic System for Simultaneous Control and Actuation - 2 year(s) ago
Globally, the most popular upper-limb prostheses are powered by the human body. For body-powered (BP) upper-limb prostheses, control is provided by changing the tension of (Bowden) cables to open or close the terminal device. This technology has been around for centuries, and very few BP alternatives have been presented since. This paper introduces a new BP paradigm that can overcome certain…
Source: MDPICategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 4What happens to prosthetics and implants after you die? - 2 year(s) ago
Millions of people are fitted with prosthetics, breast implants, and pacemakers – so what happens to them when their owners die? Frank Swain investigates
Source: www.bbc.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
What I’ve been googling: apparently pacemakers explode during cremation but breast implants turn to goo? https://t.co/GMCdYe5yOS
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At the University of Waterloo in Canada, researchers have developed a microfluidic-based pneumatic system that adjusts the pressure within the socket of a lower limb prosthesis. The aim is to achieve the ideal pressure and adjust the fit of the prosthesis to compensate for changes in the size of the residual limb because of swelling. Current lower limb prostheses require users to change silicone…
Source: www.medgadget.comCategories: Future of Medicine, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Complex surgical site infections (SSIs) and revisions for these infectious complications following total knee and hip arthroplasties are associated with significant economic costs.
Source: Journal of Hospital InfectionCategories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1Brain Commands, Prosthetic Hand Obeys - 2 year(s) ago
The latest milestone advance in the field of mind-controlled artificial limbs brings us one step closer to seamless integration of human and machine. In a recent study, three amputees simply thought about moving an individual finger of their prosthetic hands and were able to do so.
Source: IEEE SpectrumCategories: Future of Medicine, Latest HeadlinesTweet
Now, researchers have developed a new electronic skin that may even be more touch-sensitive than human hands. It cannot differentiate between temperatures for now, but it's excellent progress, especially for the world of #prosthetics. https://t.co/2ld0DcLdoK