Step by step, bionic engineers are transforming lives in ways that barely could have been imagined until recently.
This CBS News story is about bionic limbs that replace wheelchairs, retinal implants that bring sight to the blind, and synthetic telepathy that reads thoughts and transmits them electronically through a computer and wireless network to control bionics or communicate without formal language.
As the world’s population gets older, how are we going to manage? Innovative approaches are being developed at the MIT AgeLab James Crabtree, comment editor at Financial Times Magazine, wrote an excellent article on the challenges…
Based almost entirely on a 2013 article by Stacy Lu, Freelance Writer and TEDMED.com Blog Editor [with editor update added 2/28/2019] Imagine a comprehensive, clinically relevant well-patient checkup using only smartphone-based devices. The data is immediately readable…
Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders calls for an expanded version of Medicare for All, and Andrew Yang calls for a Universal Basic Income. But how realistic are these proposals?
The following 2011 story of nano-scale technology caught my eye but may need an introduction. It’s about the ability to embed sensors and other electronic components into a flexible film that’s half the thickness of a…
By Wayne Caswell The rapid and accelerating pace of tech innovation has profound implications for healthcare delivery & payment, aging, and disability employment, but regulations that support that are spotty or nonexistent. The good news “Durable…
Each year as the annual Consumer Electronics Show approaches, the news media is filled with marketing hype about the elusive Smart Home market. But this market is just as misdirected today as it was in 1957. Whirlpool was…
BBC Health News reports that Two blind British men have electronic retinas fitted.
Related presentation at TedMED:
Neuroscientist developing non-surgical artificial retina to potentially reverse some types of blindness … http://youtu.be/qQcrXOhdLvw