iHear wants to give people with hearing loss an affordable device that they can easily customize at home with a Web-based hearing test. The startup’s goal is to ultimately make its hearing aids available for the 350 million people in the world who suffer from impaired hearing. Read More
Patients who rely on the use of coagulants to limit the formation of blood clots in their veins also require frequent and regular trips to the hospital for tests to monitor their blood flow. It’s a time-consuming side effect that researchers at EPFL hope they’ve solved with a portable test that relies on a smartphone’s display’s unique properties.
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Neil Harbisson is someone very special, as he claims to be a color blind artist who is able to ‘hear’ the various shades and hues, courtesy of a medical implant deep within his skull. This is definitely not the first time that a brain implant has helped humanity, as we have seen how a brain implant helped a 17 month old boy hear for the first time in his life.
Color Blind Artist ‘Hears’ What He Sees original content from Ubergizmo. 
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I can tell you first hand that suffering from a migraine problem is no fun at all. If you are familiar with the mythical Chinese folk character, the Monkey King, then you would know the kind of pain that the mischievous Sun Wukong goes through each time he goes overboard with his antics as the magical headband that he wears starts to constrict around his temple, causing him unbearable pain. Well, in real life, migraine pain is extremely real, with some of the more severe cases accompanied by other symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, dizziness and a sensitivity to sounds and light. While prescription and over-the-counter medications are available which might help, some migraine sufferers find it difficult to tolerate such medicine. The FDA has just approved the Cefaly headband-shaped device which relies on electrical stimulation in order to combat migraine pain.
Cefaly Headband Helps “Cure” Migraines original content from Ubergizmo. 
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We’ve already got machines that give ophthalmologists a close-up view of the inside and outside of the human eye. The problem is they’re big and heavy, expensive, and rarely accessible to those in third world nations. So researchers at Stanford University have created a simple iPhone add-on that lets almost anyone, anywhere, perform eye exams.
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A father and son team named Peter Binkley and Peregrine Hawthorn have worked together to create a prosthetic hand for Hawthorn to use. The hand is called the Talon Hand … Continue reading
A blood glucose meter for diabetics that plugs into a smartphone, the LabStyle Dario, is the latest peripheral to tackle mHealth, promising easier management of the condition. Launching in New … Continue reading
Scientists have apparently come up with an orgasm machine, where it is capable of delivering a climax at the single push of a button. This particular idea hails from a surgeon in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where the point of its existence is not to lead the whole world into a constant state of pleasure, but rather, to treat folks who suffer from orgasmic dysfunction. It will require surgery, of course, as the medical implant which is sized smaller than a packet of cigarettes needs to be placed within your body before it can work. Medical trials of this unique device are tipped to kick off later this year in Minneapolis.
Button Press Delivers Instant Orgasm original content from Ubergizmo. 
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A brain implant in Alex Frederick’s brain has allowed the little boy to hear for the first time in his 17 months of living, thanks to the presence of a brain implant that was performed in a Boston hospital. This particular device has yet to be approved in the United States for children, but this move ought to help change the perception. In fact, it has been implanted directly into his brain so that he can hear. It was not too long ago that Alex’s parents tried for a cochlear implant, which happens to be a 40-year-old technology that relies on electrodes to stimulate auditory nerves, but the surgery was not successful. With the Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI) however, a tiny antenna which has been implanted on the brainstem allows one to pick up signals from a small microphone that is worn on the ear, before relaying them back inside to the brain’s segment that is associated with interpreting sound in the form of electrical signals.
Boy Hears For First Time Thanks To Brain Implant original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Stanford ophthalmologists might usher in a new use for modern day smartphones with low-cost devices that turn your communications device into an ‘eye-phone’, which might be confused by some to be the iPhone if it were not spelled out properly. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have come up with a couple of affordable adapters which would allow a smartphone to shoot high-quality images of the front and back of the eye. These adapters would make it a snap for anyone with minimal training to snap a photo of the eye, sharing it without any security worries with other health practitioners, or to stash it in the patient’s electronic record.
Smartphones Could Be ‘Eye-Phones’ Thanks To Affordable Devices original content from Ubergizmo. 
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