UF 'smart home' demonstrates concept of automated elderly help and care
... automatically determines how long to cook them to sensors that track an elderly person's whereabouts in the ... by cell phone. If a visitor comes to the door, sensors pinpoint which room the resident occupies, and a camera beams the visitor's picture to a TV screen t...Hearing aid research gets federal boost
... directional microphones, novel optical electronic sensors and novel signal processing. As principal investig...hnology, an expert in optical sensors. The optical sensors will replace and improve upon the variable capacitors in traditional hearing-aid technology. By "rea...Brain signals from the paralyzed or injured captured by computer
...ty. The technique relies on the fact that multiple sensors acting together provide the central nervous system...nt feedback for controlling movement. For example, sensors called muscle spindles that are embedded in muscle fibers measure the length and speed of muscle str...New studies show factors responsible for enhanced response to music
...al, which is detected in brain waves recorded from sensors placed on the scalp. Neurons that generate the P2 response are located in a region of the auditory cortex known as the secondary auditory cortex, and are activated about 0.15 seconds after acoustic signals have reached the brain. Previous research h...Vital sign device improves resuscitation monitoring
...nd his study co-authors are integrating Vital Dust sensors with iRevive, a pre-hospital, mobile database, to automate the process of capturing patient information. One of the unique features is that the radio can adjust the power for transmitting information, Welsh said. "If a patient's heart rate slows...2003 winners of Collegiate Inventors Competition announced in NYC
...ar substance, such as a toxin. As the microscopic sensors find the toxin, they join together as a red spot to mark the toxic pollutant. Her advisor on the smart dust project is Michael Sailor, who receives $10,000....Device measures force used to deliver a baby
...plicated births. Previously, inventors have placed sensors in gloves or on the hands, interfering with doctors' grasp. Allen's students came up with a less intrusive system, in which three electrodes are attached to the forearm and connected to a small metal box that rests in the doctor's pocket. The box col...Talented Hokies research brain impacts while battling Aggies
...- or gravity -- forces. During football games, the sensors transmit real-time impact data to a sideline computer system that keeps track of a range of head impact data for each player wearing the HITS sensors. "Football helmets receive a lot of impacts that will register but that don't indicate injury," sa...UI researchers use SIREN driving simulator to study driving risk factors
...r and study what affects driver behavior. Multiple sensors collect information from the simulator including the positions of the steering wheel, the brake and the accelerator pedals. Cameras observe the driver's gaze and also the driver's feet, and a device mounted on a baseball cap worn by the driver allows...Research pinpoints variations in sit-up techniques
...icipants did each type of sit-up eight times, with sensors attached that detected the electrical signals of each muscle contraction. The signals were fed into a computer so that the exact muscle activation of each sit-up could be measured and recorded. The results surprised the researchers. For instance, the...Researchers find way to improve musical performance
...ion. Neurofeedback monitors brain activity through sensors attached to the scalp which filter out the brainwaves. These filtered brainwaves are then 'fed back' to the individual in the form of a video game displayed on screen, and the participant learns to control the game by altering particular aspects of t...Researching a workout device to help keep the balance system in shape
...ed motion capture system. At the same time, other sensors record body accelerations and the vertical forces that occur during each foot-fall; all this while subjects identify symbols on a computer screen to measure visual acuity. With this unique set-up, Bloomberg and his group can determine how the nervou...Capturing airborne pathogens, breath tests for lung cancer
... single-cell level. The researchers hope the LTRS sensors will find broad applications for rapidly sensing t...nosis of cellular disorders. In addition, the LTRS sensors can be used as a valuable tool to study cellular processes within single living cells or intracellul...New biological sensors for detecting blood glucose developed by Hebrew University, U.S. Scientists
... paved the way for development of highly efficient sensors for measuring blood glucose in diabetic patients. The research, based on the use of nanotechnology, is described in the current issue of Science magazine. The Hebrew University research team is headed by Prof. Itamar Willner of the Hebrew Unive...Laser technology helps measure pollution from NYC buses
...obile step van laboratory with fast response laser sensors that provided emission results every second. The laser sensors generated a low-power light beam that measured pollutant levels in samples of the target vehicle's e...Engineering researchers are designing the ultimate fabrics, for casual or military wear
...tents or camouflage nets. The electronic wires and sensors woven into the fabric will perform the complex pro...ing deployed by the enemy. Within the fabric, the sensors and their connecting wires will communicate with one another to create patterns of information. This...Ouch! The receptors mediating acidic pain sensation
...timuli it is the result of messages sent from pain sensors in the periphery of the body to the brain. These pain sensors or nociceptors often lie beneath the skin and detect and signal the presence of tissue-damaging st...Swallowing a tiny imaging capsule aids in diagnosis of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding
...wice each second by radio frequency to an array of sensors worn around the patient's abdomen and the signals are digitally recorded on a device that is later downloaded. The patient swallows the capsule in the morning and wears the recording device for 8 hours. The capsule is eliminated and discarded. A ga...Foot pressure device may stamp out muscle loss
...amic pressure device hooked up to their feet while sensors placed on their skin picked up changes in the electrical activity in their leg muscles, which indicates the muscle is contracting. "We could control when the pressure was applied to our subjects' feet, and vary the application relative to when the s...Market potential exists for superconductivity in medical, energy, transportation sectors
...hnologies, from medical devices to metrology, from sensors to accelerators. Many more are expected as the fie...clude: Medicine Ultra sensitive superconducting sensors can non-invasively detect minute magnetic signals from the human body, aiding in the early detection...