MRI, disrupted. Mary Lou Jepsen’s background in consumer electronics, computers, TV, VR, wearables, healthcare and software at Google x, Facebook, and Oculus has led to the creation of Openwater — a company that will...
Disney Research’s Magic Bench is a mixed-reality technology that lets multiple users interact with animated characters, with out headsets or handheld devices. When seated on the Magic Bench, one sees a mirrored image on...
William Watterson and Richard Taylor an the University of Oregon are in the early stages of developing fractal-shaped electrodes for use as retinal implants to restore sight. They believe that the square shape of previous...
James Hendrix and Alzheimer’s Association colleagues are conducting a study to see how PET scans could change the nature of Alzheimer’s diagnosis and treatment. 4,000 of 18,000 subjects have been tested to date, with a stunning...
UCSD’s Timothy O’Connor and Darren Lipomi have developed The Language of Glove — glove that wirelessly translates American Sign Language into text, and controls a virtual hand to mimic sign language gestures. It was...
Mina Gheiratmand, Serdar Dursun, and University of Alberta colleagues used IBM AI tools to try to identify schizophrenic traits based on a person’s brain blood flow. 95 participant fMRI images of schizophrenia-diagnosed and healthy...
University of Tokyo professor Takao Someya has developed a hypoallergenic, adhesive, continuous health sensor. The device can be worn comfortably for a week because of its nanoscal mesh elastic electrodes. This allows the skin...
Rice University’s Jacob Robinson, with Yale and Columbia colleagues, are developing FlatScope — a flat, brain implanted microscope capable of monitoring and triggering neurons modified to be fluorescent when active. While capturing greater detail than...
The Sync Project has developed a novel, music-based, non-pharmaceutical approach to treating pain, sleep, and stress, Parkinson’s gait issues. Recent studies showed Parkinson’s patients improved their gait when listening to a song with the...
Zhao Ni and Yuan-ting Zhang of the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed an ultra-thin, waterproof, cuffless blood pressure sensor that can be worn on the wrist, woven into clothes or bed sheets, or...