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AccuVein AV300 – first portable, non-contact vein illumination device

AccuVein AV300 is a non-contact, portable vein illumination device, very useful for doctors, to minimize the hassle of having to stick the needle in many times for finding the vein on a patient’s arm. And of course, this reduces the number of times the patient has to suffer from the needle-stick pain.

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Body Check Ball analyzes percentage of body fat, muscles and bones

Body Check Ball – a small palm-sized gadget that allows the users to check their body fat. You can use it anytime you feel like while at home or at work.

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5 innovative ways of cell phones for medical use

Helen of Cellphones.org has compiled 5 innovative ways of how cellphones are used to save life and help monitor the user’s health. Each has its usefulness and surely opens your eyes after the jump.

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Sneezer Beam – effective relief for hay fever and allergies

SneezerBeam is a little handy gadget that is able to give you a relief if you suffer from hay fever or any other nasal allergies. This little device has no side effect, it’s drug-free, what it uses is light to shine into your nostrils to clear your blockages and allergies.

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IntuApps Swine Flu tracker app for iPhone

Swine Flu (H1N1) has spread pretty rapidly over the globe. World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alert level of this virus to phase 4, which is just one level lower than a flu pandemic.

The scare of the Swine Flu may have put many a halt to traveling. But if you’re a brave geek who still insists on traveling around the globe during the “peak season” of the Swine flu. You shall consider to equip yourself with the iPhone Swine Flu tracker app, to keep you alerted which countries are those high-risk that you shouldn’t step into.

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NASA’s e-nose is able to sniff out cancerous brain cells

NASA has developed a new electronic nose, which its initial purpose is to monitor the air quality on Space Shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station. But scientists have found that it can also be used to differentiate healthy and cancerous cells in human brain.

The NASA e-nose is able to detect contaminants within about one to 10,000 parts per million. With this capability, this e-nose is also able to differentiate odor differences between normal and cancerous brain cells. This e-nose will surely add a new chapter into the medical field. It’s now attracted a number group including Brain Mapping Foundation, City of Hope Cancer Center, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to start testing this technology.

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OLED light plasters for skin cancer treatment at home

Polymertronics is another UK company besides Lumicure that has started developing OLED light plasters, which are claimed to be very useful in skin cancer treatment.

Polymertronics’ OLED light plasters will be used in photodynamic therapy, in which light-sensitive drugs are to be applied as cream to the skin, which can then be activated by red light. Once activated by red light, the drugs will be able to effectively kill tumors on the skin.

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Wrist-worn Gait Monitoring system

Engineers, clinicians, and the school’s Institute of Aging of University of Virginia have teamed up with AFrame Digital to develop real-time gait monitoring system. The device will be made like a wrist watch that can be worn by patient to monitor gait at real time.

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Prosthetic leg costs $20 only

Prosthetic limbs are very expensive. I’ve heard most of them could cost you a couple of thousand dollars. Only amputees who have thick wallet can afford to regain their ability to walk.

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Little Sleep Machine plays soothing music to cure your Insomnia

If you’ve been having hard time to fall asleep at night, a little easy way to get you to fall asleep might be playing some soothing music. Here comes a digital sound player, called Little Sleep machine, which provides you with up to 3 hours of soothing music to help you get into your dreamland in just few minutes

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