Eye-tracking devices might help some patients communicate even when mechanical ventilators make it impossible for them to speak, a small pilot project suggests.
Researchers offered eye-trackers to 12 patients on ventilators in intensive care units (ICUs) at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, during 2013 and 2014. All of the participants were cognitively capable of communication and able to convey comprehension by blinking, nodding their head or some other motion.
El Banco Europeo de Inversiones (BEI) expondrá el próximo noviembre en Bilbao las ayudas para financiar actividades de I+D+i en los próximos siete años.
El centro de investigación en NanocienciaCIC nanoGUNE, junto a otros promotores, ha creado su quinta empresa spin-off: Prospero Biosciences SL (Prospero). El objetivo de Prospero es valerse de las ventajas que ofrece la nanotecnología para desarrollar un innovador detector de moléculas que será integrado en espectrómetros de masas; unos instrumentos de medición que permiten, entre otras cosas, analizar con gran precisión los diferentes elementos químicos que forman un compuesto y que constituyen una de las industrias de instrumentación analítica de mayor crecimiento a nivel global.
El pasado jueves Toyota Motor Corp. comenzó a vender un dispositivo de seguridad que permite a un coche comunicarse con otros vehículos o semáforos, en lo que forma parte de un esfuerzo para cambiar la percepción que tienen en Silicon Valley de la tecnología japonesa para automóviles.
Por otra parte, Robot Taxi Inc., con sede en Tokio, ha anunciado el inicio de un servicio experimental de taxis sin conductor para el próximo año, siguiendo así la senda de Google Inc., que también ha hecho pruebas de coches sin piloto en las carreteras de Estados Unidos.
Bionic hands startup Open Bionics now makes Iron Man and Elsa-themed hands and arms for the smallest of amputees – kids.
Open Bionics hopes to get kids excited about their prosthetics with designs from Marvel, Frozen and Star Wars.
“[Kids] won’t have to do boring physical therapy, they’ll train to become heroes,” reads the Open Bionics website about the announcement. “They’re not just getting medical devices, they’re getting bionic hands inspired by their favorite characters.”
Donald Ingber is known as a pioneer in the organ-on-a-chip field. But the founding director of Harvard University’s Wyss Institute apparently has some other ideas up his sleeve—like a method of clearing dangerous infections from the blood, a technology that has formed the basis for his latest startup.
Procyrion, a Houston biotech developing a device to treat chronic heart failure, has raised $10 million.
The company has built a circulatory support pump named the Aortix that essentially serves as a crutch for the heart, aiding the organ to push more blood through the circulatory system and to vital organs. The device, which is thinner than a pencil, can be implanted in the aorta of heart failure patients via a catheter threaded through the femoral artery.
A transition phase, a sea change, a revolution – the recent developments in the automotive industry have been called many things. But what is clear is that something big is happening: our industry experts around the globe are seeing digitization cause a blurring of lines between traditional OEMs, suppliers and new players from the software and IT industry. Innovative technologies, services and business models are emerging and market positions are being redefined in many quarters.
GE announced today the creation of Current, a startup that combines energy hardware with a digital backbone to make power simpler and more efficient for customers.
The company, which is backed by GE’s balance sheet, brings together GE’s LED, Solar, Energy Storage and Electric Vehicle businesses as a one-stop shop for early customers like Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton Worldwide and others.
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