Being a diabetic is certainly no walk in the park with all of the food restriction, and blood level monitoring, but maybe this new OneTouch Delica System can help to make things a little less painless. This new device has a thinner lancet which is applied swiftly within a straight line to do away with vibrations that cause unnecessary pain. Clinical studies show that only 20% of people who tested the device registered any pain, while the other 80% said it was the most comfortable lancing that they had ever used. [MedGadget]
This technology may well save millions of visions when applied globally. The lenses incorporate antiobiotic nanosilver particles to both monitor pressures inside the eye and direct micro agents to relieve these pressures. The contact lense shares similar structure to that of current day contact lenses. The structure uses 8 x 8 grid of nanosilver lines that yield 64 pressure points-each capable of scanning and reporting pressure activities within the eyes. The benefit is that user does not need to remember constantly applying medicines every once in a while, many patients with bad eyes have the tendency to forget their medicines that could had saved their vision in 6-12 months. [Discovery]
A Dublin, Ireland based company called Lincor Solutions has created the MEDIVista which is a touchscreen LCD display designed to be used by patients, doctors and nurses for a variety of different purposes. The LCD display is mounted to the side of a hospital bed which the hospital staff can use to display x-rays or medical information, and the patient can use for entertainment (no pr0n). Users can watch IPTV, listen to the radio or audio books, make VoIP calls, surf the ‘net, check email, as well as play web and network based games. What a cool device eh! It still won’t make the hospital food taste any better though and it won’t tell you your nurse’s turn-ons, so tough cookies. [MedGadget]
