How Robots could cure Paralysis
via @jsbaranski, CEO of the National Stroke Association…
A New Empi
I was given an Empi machine Tuesday. It’s an electrotherapy device that ” produces a mild electrical current transmitted via lead wires to electrodes placed on the skin.” This is how it looks on my arm. On Wednesday, I saw this via @FastCompany [http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671273/watch-body-parts-get-zapped-to-the-beat-in-this-wild-music-video#1]…
Neuromuscular Stimulation in the Comics
A lot for a Bioness user to like in this one. Neuromuscular Stimulation in the Comics [http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2012/09/01]…
Electric Mind
> In The Electric Mind [http://blog.atavist.com/post/23186952683/in-the-electric-mind-jessica-benko-tells-the] , Jessica Benko tells the story of a radical new technology, a pioneering group of researchers, and one woman’s effort to transcend her paralysis. It took me a little while to realize that I had seen this story…
Steven Peace
Oscar Pistorius running in the Olympics on blades was cool; Steven Peace [http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/08/21/paralyzed-after-massive-stroke-cyclist-en-route-to-london-paralympics/] riding in the Paralympics with Bioness might be even cooler.…
Backyard Brains and OT
Jad Abumrad posted this yesterday. > After my talk on Sunday, this guy show me how to hook up a severed cockroach leg to an iPad pic.twitter.com/LwMTcCVZ [http://t.co/LwMTcCVZ] — Jad Abumrad (@JadAbumrad) August 21, 2012 [https://twitter.com/JadAbumrad/statuses/237901870914469889] As the video from…
Folklife Festival Highlight
Label this one From-the-department-of-stuff-I-never-thought-I’d-never-do. At the Festival of American Folklife on the National Mall.…
Frontiers of Malware
> In what amounts to a fairly shocking reminder of how quickly our technologies are advancing and how deeply our lives are being woven with networked computation, security researchers have recently reported successes in remotely compromising and controlling two different medical implant devices. Such implanted devices are becoming more and…