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HIMS Brain HUBI biofeedback device relaxes your mind, makes you brainier from your fingertips

HIMS Brain HUBI biofeedback device is an interesting gadget that has arrived in Korea, which works like a brain trainer. The device provides biofeedback ports for your fingertips and connects to your computer on one end for training your brain.

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Robot nurse to deliver medication

Robots have been used extensively in hospitals or any therapy centers to assist patients. In Japan, robot is now to replace human to work as a nurse to deliver medication to the patients. This could hint that eventually human will lose their job of working as a nurse. (In certain countries, nurse is a pretty high-paying job).

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NANO BREATH cell phone checks breath for diseases

Bad gases such as CO2, NOx and ammonia (NH3) will come out of your mouth, if you’re one who carries some diseases. If you’re a health-conscious geek, you may like the idea of having a cellphone to check your breath for diseases as well as checking others’ breath before the diseases transmitted to you.

Applied Nanodetectors Ltd. (AND) is currently working on a prototype of a cell phone that can detect bad gases and from that on it can tell whether you’re a carrier of any diseases.

This cell phone simply checks the breath of the users to detect those gases. The phone has a chip that is integrated with various sensors that are sensitive enough to detect bad gases in the bad breath. It just takes minutes for the cell phone to trace the mentioned gases.

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Robot-assisted Therapy helps long-term stroke sufferers regain mobility

Here comes the good news for long-term stroke sufferers who have lost their mobility and stayed in a bed/wheelchair for several years. University of California at Irvine has carried a study of using robot-assisted therapy to help stroke victims to regain their mobility.

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Flex insulin pump – better diabetes management solution

It’s another solution for active diabetes sufferers to overcome diabetes. The Flex Insulin Pump was designed by Ellaluna Taylor, which acts as a “unique prosthetic skin” that is supposed to be worn under clothing.

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Snip Doctor – a handheld device to predict patients’ negative response to medication

Some patients have negative response to medication. In the past, there was no easy way to test out if a patient has any adverse reactions to prescribed medication. NHS has reportedly spent £460 million to treat 250,000 patients who are admitted to hospital due to adverse reactions to prescribed drugs.

Thanks to Imperial College London, they’ve successfully developed a handheld device that makes use of the analysis of genetical information, DNA, to predict if a patient would have any adverse reactions to any drugs to be prescribed.

The handheld device is called Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Doctor or SNP Dr in short and can be pronounced “snip doctor”. The device is able to identify the presence of specific DNA sequences in a patient’s genome, which might be the cause of any adverse reactions to certain medications.

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Breast Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) to replace mammography for effectively detecting breast cancer

A new breast cancer detection technology has surfaced, called Breast Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI), which has been tested to yield better result in early detection of breast cancer.

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Avoiding Diabetes made easy: Blood sugar monitoring tattoo

This is a cool invention that allows you to keep an eye more easily than the conventional method, by having a glance at the lovely tattoo on your arm or other parts of the body to learn your body’s glucose level to avoid diabetes.

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Remote controlled flying stretcher is able to keep four patients and stay aloft for three hours

RC flying stretcher is a medical evacuation aerial vehicle developed by Israel and recommended to be used in the battlefield to quickly carry those injured soldiers away and free them from danger. This flying vehicle is equipped with a fan which allows it to take off vertically like a helicopter.

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Foot Care Scale for ease of checking bottoms of diabetic feet

Insight Foot Care Scale is a special scale that is specially designed to ease the diabetic old folks for checking the bottoms of their feet for erythema and signs of inflammation. This special scale is equipped with a mirror which you can take a look at it to know the condition of your feet without having you to bend down or to twist your feet.

This foot care scale is nothing too much more special than a digital scare, excepts it has a mirror which allows ease of checking of the feet. Diabetic patients shall always take a frequent check of their feet, take good care of them to avoid or early detect foot pain, swollen feet, severe dry skin, tingling and numbness, and fungal toenails. Just stand on the scale sit on a chair, relax, lift your feet above the scale, the bottom of your feet will be shown on the mirror of the scale. So you can straightaway know the condition of your feet, for early detection of any problem of them.

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