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Tag Archives: body 2.0
Scanadu Raises $2M For Medical Tricorder (video)
Star Trek fans rejoice, the Tricorder is here. Medical tech startup Scanadu has created a scanner that appears to have [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged android, App, body 2.0, iPhone, scanadu, tricorder, X Prize
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Patients Control Computer Using Only Their Minds (video)
A temporary surgical implant enabled patients to “talk” to a computer. Just by thinking the words aloud in their head [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged body 2.0, brain, brain-computer interface, longevity, medicine
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Programmable Bio-Nano-Chips: First Viable Medical Lab on a Chip?
We often find out too late what’s happening inside our bodies when it’s stricken by disease or cancer, but those days [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged Bio-Nano-Chip, body 2.0, cancer, Diagnostics, heart disease, hiv, Implantable Chip, Medical Devices, Rice University
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The Pills Have Eyes: Microchipped Medicine Is Coming
Open wide! Earlier this month, Swiss pharma giant Novartis announced it will be seeking regulatory approval of “smart pills” embedded [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged body 2.0, chip-on-a-pill, medicine, microchip, personalized medicine, smart pill
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Body 2.0 Here We Come: Fitbit Tracks Your Vital Signs 24/7
In the midst of the data and gadget revolutions, a new, crossbreed movement is emerging: around-the-clock health information tracking devices. [...]
Ingestible Chip that Reminds You to Take Medicine begins trials
_ Not everyone likes taking their medicine. Between just plain forgetfulness and a dislike for taste or side effects, many [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged body 2.0, clinical trails, new england healthcare institute, Novartis, proteus, proteus biomedical, raisin
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MEDSignals Creates a High Tech, User Friendly Pillbox
Here’s a piece of genuine elderly-friendly technology. It’s simple enough that Grandma can use it, but the whole thing rings [...]
Tim Ferriss’ New Book: Become a Superhuman
Everyone knows that building the perfect body takes years of hard work and an iron will. Everyone except Tim Ferriss. [...]
Sensor Sensibility: New Information from Toumaz CEO
It’s time to let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. For anyone who has visited the [...]
Posted in AI, Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged body 2.0, Italian Footballers, Life Pebble, monitoring, Sensium, smart patch, Texas Instruments, Toumaz
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The eScale: Broadcast your Weight to the World
If Reality TV has taught us anything about weight loss it’s that the more people who are watching you, the [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged body 2.0, Body Trace, eScale, GSM module, monitoring, obesity, smart toilets, weight loss
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Will Your ID Soon Be a Microchip Under Your Skin?
Yet another sci-fi milestone is upon us: microchips implanted under your skin and used to identify you. The VeriChip is [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Singularity
Tagged bionic, body 2.0, chip implant, cyborg, implant, microchip
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Proteus Ingestible Microchip Hits Clinical Trials
About a year ago, we brought to light a brilliant company that could be described as a predecessor to body [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged body 2.0, body monitoring, ingestible pill, proteus, wireless body
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Ingestible Intelligence: The SmartPill
Technology is advancing at a rapid pace in all studies of medicine and, luckily for all, those with gastrointestinal problems [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged body 2.0, ingestible pill, medecine, Science, smart pill, Technology
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Braingate Frees Trapped Minds
It is a horrifying concept: being buried alive. Even more terrible is the prospect of living trapped in our own [...]
Posted in AI, Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged body 2.0, implant, locked-in syndrome, mind reading, neurotechnology, prosthetic
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Intestinal Implants make Cyborgs out of Diabetics
Modern medicine may not have reached the level of the Bionic Woman, but intestinal implants are turning more and more [...]
Smart Toilets: Doctors in Your Bathroom
To those unfamiliar with Japanese culture, certain trends may seem unusual: manga and anime, the love affair with robotics, tea [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged body 2.0, Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Practical Technology, Toilets, Vital Signs
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Body 2.0 – Continuous Monitoring Of The Human Body
Did you ever stop to think how silly and also how dangerous it is to live our lives with absolutely [...]