Topic: Medical Devices

Defective Medical Products - Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators

Guidant had an idea to develop an implantable cardiac defibrillator that captured the world by storm, but ended up in a nasty recall of 7 models of their medical product.READ»

NJ Plastic Surgeon | Silicone Breast Implants | Jersey Shore

Are silicone breast implants safe? NJ best plastic surgeon, Dr. Anthony Lombardi, answers.READ»

SmartHand: Cyborg Limbs Will Feel Like User's Own

SmartHand is a European collaborative project to develop a next-generation robotic prosthetic limb, and as part of the project Swedish researchers have successfully demonstrated a neat psychological trick that makes wearers feel like ...READ»

Body Fluid-Powered Fuel Cell Could Turn Pacemaker Patients Into Steve Austin

Fuel cell technology is hyped as a possible future power system for electric vehicles, but it's actually got a plethora of uses: The latest, and perhaps greatest, is a glucose cell for medical devices that could get its "fuel" from your body.

Granny 2.0

Your cyborg grandma and her defibrillator implant may need a software patch.READ»

Reimagining the Prosthetic Arm

Students at New York's School of Visual Arts rethink what a prosthetic arm can be.READ»

An Artificial Knee, for Just $20

High-tech prosthetics can easily cost $50,000. They're a luxury usually afforded only to Westerners. But an engineer at Stanford has just unveiled an artificial knee that costs a mere $20. Last year, Joel Sadler was presented ...READ»

Bionic Legs, i-Limbs, and Other Super Human Prostheses You'll Envy

Save your tears for Tiny Tim. A boom in sophisticated prostheses has created a most unlikely by-product: envy.READ»

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It's Not the Suit, It's the Sizzle: What Tony Stark Can Teach Medical Companies

The true function of medical devices may be to keep you alive, but the purpose is to enable you to live--to really live.READ»

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How Toumaz Is Building a Complete Ecosystem for the Networked Body

Alison Burdett Director of Technology Toumaz Abingdon, England Building the Plumbing Alison Burdett, 42, developed the Sensium, a tiny chip-based wireless system for medical-device developers that is sold through Texas ...READ»

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Scalpel, Forceps...iPhone?

Two product developers debate the pros and cons of non-dedicated medical devices READ»

Holy MOMA! An Eames-Inspired Prosthetic Leg

You read that right: For an undergrad design project at Carnegie Mellon, Joanna Hawley came up with the funny, strange concept of a prosthetic leg inspired by the famous Eames Lounge Chair. As she writes: Prosthetics generally lack ...READ»

Toyota Unveils Wheelchair Propelled by Thoughts Alone

We'll still have to wait a few years to mind-meld with our Camrys, but researchers at Toyota have unveiled an advanced brain sensing system that controls the movement of a wheelchair by reading a user's thoughts alone. By processing ...READ»

Are Silicone Breast Implants Safe?

Are silicone breast implants safe? NJ plastic surgeon, Dr. Anthony Lombardi, answers.READ»

Amputee Gets Real-Feeling, Thought-Powered Cybernetic Fingers

What if you could wire up your nervous system to a robotic hand so well that it actually felt like your own? Would you be a real-life cyborg or Six Million Dollar Man? Yup. It's not only the future of prosthetic limbs. It's the ...READ»

Artificial Knees, Made to Order

ConforMIS, which creates custom knees using rapid prototyping, just raised $50 million in venture financing.READ»

Fantastic Voyage

Cyberonics' medical implant is the size of a chocolate-chip cookie, and it could--could--be worth $2.8 billion someday. But as this dramatic tale of innovation and entrepreneurship shows, saving lives can be one tough business.READ»

Unexplored Complexity

We live in complex, changing world. Your design research methods better keep up.READ»

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8 Incredible Health Innovations That Transform Lives

New technologies are helping close the gaps for those with physical disabilities. Each day, the physical capabilities that technology gives us is incredible, and we're not just talking about texting friends at lightening pace, or the ability to see our energy consumption in real time.READ»

Re: February 2010

Off-Court Success Successful, hardworking, savvy, and humble; at the pinnacle of the game; and leveraging his good fortune on the court to have broader impact -- Steve Nash sets the example in many ways ("Transition ...READ»

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NASA Tech Worms Its Way Into Your Heart, Via Medtronic's Attain Ability

Here's another poke in the eye for people who gripe that the space industry is a waste of money: Technology originally developed by NASA as an insulator for spacecraft has been incorporated into a new implantable medical device ...READ»

Prosthetic Flipper Turns Amputees Into Mermen

Swedish designer Richard Stark's Neptune concept could help amputees swim.READ»

Agnosticism, Ad Agencies, and End Runs

Two articles in today's New York Times highlight relatively new approaches to advertising. In the first, Melody Petersen takes a look at how medical device manufacturers are making an end run around doctors and appealing to consumers ...READ»