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Artificial Cornea Gives Hope To The Blind

Major advancements in technology like this one are what makes the future worth looking forward to. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have invented an artificial cornea that may well be the key to restoring sight for our people with damaged corneas. “Our artificial corneas are based on a commercially available polymer which absorbs no [...]

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Navigate Without GPS. Just Navizon And Your Laptop

Investing in a GPS unit used to be the only way to get a portable navigation system up and running. Not with Navizon now. Navizon has been available for many phones running on Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian or Java. But with the release of Navizon Desktop yesterday, both your PC and Mac laptops can now [...]

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Gadget To Heal Broken Bones Twice As Fast

Any breakthrough technology that helps our body and health is technology worth mentioning. A new project by Queensland University of Technology has created a device that can speed up the time taken to heal fractured and broken bones by two times. Figuring out how bone cells heal is the key. “This device is about trying to [...]

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Robo-Scallops That Carries Drugs Through Our Bodies

Dr. Claus-Dieter Ohl and his team of researchers from the University of Twente in the Netherlands has created a device that mimics the movement of sea scallops, which can be used to carry drugs to difficult-to-reach places of our bodies. What’s amazing is that the device needs no power and hence no wires. It also has [...]

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Technology Breakthrough: A Cure For Blindness

Dr. Keith Mathieson from the University of Glasgow’s department of physics is all set out to combat the two common forms of blindness. And what he uses is a technology very similar to the digital cameras that we’re all familiar with. Dr Mathieson said, “By implanting a device into the eye, we hope we will be [...]

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World’s Small Camera. So Tiny That It’s Swallowable.

OmniVision Technologies has developed a breakthrough camera chip that is only 1/18-inch in size. That makes it the world’s smallest camera thus far, as the closest thing in the market right now is merely a 1/12-inch. The entire of this OV6920 camera chip measures only 2.1mm by 2.3mm! It is meant for usage in the medical [...]

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Robot Does World’s First Unassisted Heart Surgery

For the very first time, a robot surgeon has managed to conduct a heart surgery without any human assistance. The 50-minute surgery was performed on a 34-years-old patient that was suffering from atrial fibrillation (heart flutters). While the operation was done in Milan, Italy, the creator of the robot surgeon, Dr. Carlo Pappone, was monitoring the [...]

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