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Archive for July, 2013

Scanadu Scout – measure your vitals instantly

Author Oskar Kuus July 25 2013 21:08 0 Comment
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This sounds a bit too good to be true, but this device seems to be a nice little tool for patients and medical workers. Basically this is a device that instantly can scan your vital signs and give you heart rate and ECG, blood pressure, temperature, respiratory rate and oxygen levels of your blood. Scanadu is a newly created company that recently finished their indigo campaign where they asked for  [ Read More ]

iKnife – scalpel that detect cancer

Author Oskar Kuus July 18 2013 19:42 0 Comment
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In the middle of the Swedish summer and my vague attempts to keep cool I found an interesting article about a scalpel. Doctor Zoltan Takats have invented a scalpel that can calculate if the tissue that it is cutting has cancer or not. When it cuts tissue with the help of heat, it generates some smoke that is in return sucked up by the scalpel and analysed and with some  [ Read More ]