Pill Dispenser To Keep You On Track
When forgetting to take medication on time can lead to a bad day or night, having a helper to keep you on track can greatly improve your life. [M. Bindhammer]
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Medical Hacks
Revisiting Folk Wisdom for Modern Chronic Wound Care
In the constant pursuit of innovation, it’s easy to overlook the wisdom of the past. The scientific method and modern research techniques have brought us much innovation, which can often
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USB Borescope Lets Doctors Hone Intubation Skills on the Cheap
One of the most critical skills in emergency medicine is airway management. Without a patent airway, a patient has about four minutes to live, so doctors and paramedics put a
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Soft Robotic System for In Situ 3D Bioprinting and Endoscopic Surgery
The progress of medical science has meant increasingly more sophisticated ways to inspect and repair the body, with a shift towards ever less invasive and more effective technologies. An exciting
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3D Printed Artificial Nose is Totally Vegan
Prosthetics are complicated, highly personal things. They must often be crafted and customized precisely to suit the individual. Additive manufacturing is proving a useful tool in this arena, as demonstrated
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Grow Your Own Brain Electrodes
Bioelectronics has been making great strides in recent years, but interfacing rigid electrical components with biological systems that are anything but can prove tricky. Researchers at the Laboratory for Organic
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Missing Finger Gets A Simple Yet Fancy Replacement
The possibility of a table saw accident is low, but never zero — and [Nerdforge] has lost a finger to this ever-useful but dangerous contraption. For a right-handed person, losing
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A Low Budget DIY Vibrotactile Stimulator For Experimental CRS
Modern techniques of Coordinated Reset Stimulation (which is usually administered with invasive deep brain stimulation) can have a miraculous effect on those suffering from Parkinson’s disease. However, the CRS technique
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I’ve Been Printing on the Dragon Railroad…
We know many people who put much effort into building model train setups. But [Rambros] has an entire set 3D printed, and the files are open source, so you can
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Designing a Simpler Prosthetic Finger
Prosthetic limb design is an area where desktop manufacturing has made huge strides, but there’s always room for improvement. For example, take a look at [Ian Davis] and his attempts
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