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Inside the iPhone 4’s gyroscope
Gyroscopes are fascinating and electronic gyroscopes are even more fascinating. What you see above is a slice of the iPhone 4’s MEMs gyroscope, a little chip able to sense X,Y, and Z displacement on the fly.
The chip is the L3G4200D from STMicroelctronics and works this way:
When a user rotates the phone, the proof mass gets [...]
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Bionic cat!
Cat with prosthetic legs! This poor fellow (Oscar) was in an accident with a combine, losing his legs. An ambitious veterinarian took him to a neuro-orthopedic surgeon, who crafted little peg-legs for Oscar and embedded them directly into the bone. The skin and bone, led by injected cells, have grown right over the cat [...]
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iPad used to assist surgery in Flash-free Japanese OR
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Navy Surgeon General eyes Wii Fit, Dance Dance Revolution for boot camp
We understand that Wii Fit has dubious health benefits at best (whatever CTA Digital might say top the contrary), but apparently word hasn’t reached the Navy’s top brass. According to the Navy Times, recruits need more work than ever before to get into fighting shape, “given that many young people prefer computers and video games” to sports and physical activity. The solution, says Navy Surgeon General Vice Adm. Adam Robinson, is to use break in would-be sailers slowly, introducing “the equivalents of Nintendo’s Wii Fit or Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution” in basic training. This sounds rather silly to us, but what do we know? We’re lovers, not fighters.Navy Surgeon General eyes Wii Fit, Dance Dance Revolution for boot camp originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 05:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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World’s First Remote Heart Operation Using Robotic Arm
We’re not entirely sure that this is the way we want to be treated if anything happens in the future, but it’s good to hear that a cardiologist has completed the world’s first remote heart operation at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, UK. The procedure was done using the Remote Catheter Manipulation System built by New Jersey’s Catheter Robotics. One of the challenges faced by surgeons with these tricky procedures is the prolonged exposure to the X-Rays used to monitor the patient, but with this method, the operation can be performed over the Internet from anywhere in the world. Regardless of how high-tech things become, you’d probably still feel more comfortable if your surgeon was at least in the same building, right? Imagine what would happen if you have a flakey Internet connection…
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British surgeons using radiation beams to halt macular degeneration
We’ve seen more eyesight restoration efforts than we could easily count, but rather than tooting their horn about some theoretical discovery, boffins at Kings College Hospital in London are actually putting their hard work to use on real, live human brings. The new process, which goes by the name brachytherapy, is a one-off treatment for macular degeneration. In essence, surgeons carefully light up a beam of radiation within the eye for just over three minutes, which kills harmful cells without damaging anything else. A trial is currently underway in order to restore eyesight in some 363 patients, and everything thus far leads us to believe that the process is both safe and effective. As for costs? The procedure currently runs £6,000 ($9,889), but that’s still not awful when you consider that existing treatments involving injections run £800 per month. Hop past the break for a video report.
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