Posts Tagged «medical»
The ultimate selfie: New ultrasonic imaging tech fits in a smartphone, could let you view your own organs November 4, 2014 at 1:13 pm
Imagine a smartphone-sized device that creates a real-time 3D virtual window into your internal organs when you hold it up to your body — at a much higher resolution than conventional ultrasonography. This new tech would, I’m sure, make for quite a selfie. But that’s not where it all ends. The same technology will enable precise delivery of ultrasonic power to destroy cancer cells, or communicate with devices inside the brain.
Google’s smart contact lenses for diabetics: Another step towards the Google-powered cyborg January 17, 2014 at 9:28 am
Google X, the secretive research lab famed for its work on Glass and Google’s self-driving cars, has unveiled its next product: Smart contact lenses. The first smart contact lens, aimed at diabetics, takes a glucose level reading every second from the tears that wash over your eye when you blink, and transmits that data wirelessly to a nearby device. Google doesn’t say what device, but presumably a smartphone or Google Glass. Yes, if Google X has its way, we will soon all look like cyborgs, our bodies becoming networks of implants and augmentations.