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16/07/2020

Forget the finger-prick blood test. The South Korean research team POSTECH have developed a smart light-emitting diode (LED) contact lens for diabetic DIAGNOSIS, MONITORING and retinopathy TREATMENT 👁
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The transparent contact lenses have micro-LEDs and photodetectors built in. This allows it to measure glucose concentration in the conjunctival blood vessels by analysing the NIR light to give a accurate blood-sugar reading in real time!
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Many people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes monitor their blood glucose level to help to manage their condition and reduce the risk of health complications such as amputation and blindness. This disruptive technology could potentially change the the way diabetics - who prick their fingers as many as 10 times daily - get diagnosed, monitored, and treated.
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The wireless smart contact lenses are made using the same material used in commercial soft contact lenses. The only small visible feature is a micro LED display. The electrode and base of the wireless smart contact lens are see-through and do not obstruct the wearer’s vision.
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Professor Hahn said: “We developed a smart LED contact lens that can diagnose diabetes and treat diabetic retinopathy with light for the first time in the world. We are planning to commercialise these smart contact lenses and smart wearable medical devices in collaboration with Stanford Medicine.”

🔹 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/17/eaba3252 @ London, Unιted Kingdom

04/07/2020

Researchers at Graz University of Technology in Austria have developed a wafer-thin “tattoo” electrode device for measuring brain activity use to diagnose and monitor conditions like epilepsy, seizures, and head trauma.
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The technology involves adhering temporary tattoo electrodes to the skin in the same way that a child might press on a temporary tattoo, to record electroencephalography (EEG) brain activity. It is cheap, and can be produced using an inkjet printer!
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Clinical tests have found the new technology also delivers EEG measurements as accurately as traditional electrodes.
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Furthermore, traditional EEGs require a wet conductive gel, which progressively dries out within a few hours. The ability to record measurements without the need of a conductive gel allows for consistent measurements over a long period of time making the data more reliable.

🔹Popularmechanics.com @ London, United Kingdom

01/07/2020

The Butterfly IQ scanner . Butterfly's Ultrasound-on-Chip™ technology replaces the traditional transducer system with a single silicon chip, commonly used in electric consumer devices. That means - one probe, whole body ultrasound starting under $2k.
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The Butterfly is about the size of an electric shaver so it’s as portable as a stethoscope. It is battery-powered and contains microchips rather than piezoelectric crystals, making it a lot more robust. Just plug it into a smartphone/tablet and you are ready to go!
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Butterfly iQ’s single probe delivers a 2D array of 9000 micro-machined sensors emulating any type of transducer - linear, curved or phased.
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But the scanner also has huge potential in rural areas and lower economically developed regions, to check for things like pneumonia, where the nearest X-ray machine may be hours away and the only CT and MRI scanners may be in the nation’s capital. Recordings of the scans can also be sent to colleagues in other regions for second opinions.
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“Two-thirds of the world’s population gets no imaging at all...When you put something on a chip, the price goes down and you democratize it”

🔹 https://www.butterflynetwork.com @ London, United Kingdom

31/10/2018

FibriCheck, a Belgian firm, won FDA clearance for its smartphone application that is capable of spotting signs of irregular heart rhythms such as atrial fibrillation, simply by using the phone’s camera.📱
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FibriCheck is a software-only solution that only requires the user to place his/her finger☝️on the camera of the smartphone to measure the cardiac rhythm anywhere and anytime!
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The app utilises photoplethysmography to watch for changes of the vessels within the finger as blood pumps through with each beat. E.g. A regular rhythm within normal speeds indicates a healthy heart 🧡 @ London, United Kingdom

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