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ThermaHelm is a helmet that could stabilize the temperature of the brain, and believed by its designer Jullian Preston-Powers, the helmet “has the potential to save thousands of lives around the world every year”. It contains two lightweight chemical packs— one is filled with water and inside the other is ammonium nitrate. And you may have guessed right, the two will mix and trigger a ‘cooling’ reaction when given an impact.

Jullian Preston-Powers said that, he got the inspiration after sustaining an injury during a game of basketball. When playing basketball with his friend, Jullian Preston-Powers accidentally hit his friend’s head with the elbow and then someone handed them ice-packs for their injuries. “It was so cold I couldn’t hold it for very long,” Mr. Preston-Powers said, “So I placed it in my friend’s motorcycle helmet and he accidentally put it on while the pack was inside. He was surprised by how good it felt and that’s when I had that eureka moment.”

An $815 version of the ThermaHelm also comes with video cameras, GPS and Bluetooth and it is expected to be launched in the UK in May this year. [Read the rest of this entry...]

So you’re an absent-minded person. And you’re ill. And it’s time to take medicine. But you are not looking for the pills—you’ve totally forgotten that. Many humans forget to take medicine on time, and that’s why the “Medi Flower” is invented. As all the tablets are packaged into cute flower stands, you can place them in a conspicuous place, so that you may easily notice them and take your tablets at the right time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Congratulations to Peter Lane, because he could see the world again, though partially, after had been blind for over twenty years. Peter was the first blind people to be implanted with a bionic eye at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Researchers from Israel have developed the mini robot that is expected to be widely used in the medical field. Measuring merely 1mm, the robot could move inside vessels (at a speed of 9mm per second) to deal with the clogging artery and inject some drug. And all its actions are controlled by the extracorporeal magnetic field, which means a real-time manipulation and a safety operation. Until now, scientists are still concentrating efforts on advancing the maneuverability of the robot, equipping it with a camera, for example.

Compared with traditional injection sets, the needle-free vaccine delivery patch from Iomai (now part of Intercell) features a transcutaneous vaccination technology and a patch form for vaccine. As a result, it promises a safer and healthier injection. Additionally, due to the patch form, vaccine could last up to six months without refrigeration. Currently, the standard production line is still being tested so that they could also be easily manufactured in developing countries. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Reform, to add new parts to an existing article or to reshape a dated appliance, has been proved again and again to be an effective way to creativity, just like the wheelchair with a weighing scale operated by a battery. Specially designed for disabled and elderly people, the new wheelchair saves both patients and doctors much trouble to conduct regular weight checks.

This is a USB-powered portable gadget called “dental camera” that helps you to check your teeth in photos. Featuring several LEDs, the camera can shoot pictures (640×480) or videos (1280×1024) and transmit them to a computer.

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The muscle tester, an achievement from bioengineering Institute of Rice University, is developed to fix palms, separate each figures, and measure the strength of certain hand muscles accurately. In that way, the device makes it easier for doctors from neurology department and surgical department to check out their muscle recovery condition of the patients.

Before you are going to date with some important person, have you checked your breath? To most people, whether their breath smells good or not is an inconvenient factor to appointments. So with the portable breath checker, you can easily identify the condition of your breath at anytime. Just turn the checker on and follow the instructions, you can then judge from the three iconic expressions on the screen to decide whether or not your breath is fresh enough.

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Of course, nobody likes to get injured. But, in case you are unfortunately injured, you have to suffer the physical pain and at the same time explain the reason you’re injured to your friends. This is an annoyance. If you use a sling like this, I guess you can explain less. What’s more, this kind of weird slings are gonna make you more humorous. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Kids are in general feared of liquid IV, and some children even begin to cry as soon as they saw this liquid. Actually, most of the liquid IV is water and saline which is similar to our daily food. So, why not just make the liquid IV seems like food?

Next time you take your baby to hospital, you can tell him, “You’re eating.” [Read the rest of this entry...]

There have been so many remedies of different kinds in the market, and it seems that we can choose a better one. But just because of these so many remedies, it is harder to make a choice.
This series of products directly tell you the usage by such simple words like “I’ve cut myself.” and ”I have a headache.” . In addition, the “help” is pretty helpful to attract your attention.

All the packages of this series of products are made from eco-friendly decomposable material. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Although back pain may not be fatal, it is still uncomfortable. In order to have an appropriate treatment, surgeons should first identify whether back pain originates within the bone or muscle tissue. However, it is not so easy until SPOC launched their new device.

This new device can tell you the accurate location where the pains came from. By following the exact indicator, you will sure recover in a shorter time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

To be really healthy and really safe, one ought to have a personal doctor with him wherever he goes. But this is not a business that can be undertaken in short time. If we can be diagnosed by a very doctor via cellphone, it may be a good alternative in this condition. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Aimed to provide a cheap, reliable way for doctors to get information from patients, researchers from UC Berkeley developed a cellphone Microscope. This unique device could provide up to 60X which is powerful enough to see malaria in a blood sample.

Although it is not convenient to diagnosed, doctor can still get some information via cellphone. [Read the rest of this entry...]