Did you ever imagine as a kid, losing the ability to walk and getting a pair of robotic pants that your clumsily staggered around the house in?
Or…did you ever pretend you lost your eyesight and got a pair of ooky biomechanical “popping” eyes to peer at your friends?
Well, here they are 12 recent advances in robotics that even most kids did not imagine…
Advances In Medical Robotics
So goes the $6M Bionic Man…read on…
Tags: How'd they do that?, Is this SciFi...or what?, It works how?, On "old kids' tale"?, We KNOW how that works!
From the blog InnocentEnglish.com, these “Funny Doctor Chart Bloopers” from actual medical record entries are precious…
Discharge status: alive but without permission.
The patient refused an autopsy.
Exam of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized. (…sometimes even spell check won’t help!)
Rectal exam revealed…read more…
Welcome home Discovery and the STS-131 mission crew…we’ll miss you and the shuttle program:
Space Shuttle Landing –> Video: Discovery reaches Earth after delay
Images from NASA Discovery page
Space shuttle Discovery is seen from the International Space Station shortly after undocking Saturday, April 17, 2010. (NASA TV)
How exciting for all us techies!
Here’s to Mars?
Do feel like your metabolism is slowing down?
Are you worried about getting fat?
Dismay no longer ladies…sorry guys…but now moderate drinking has been proven not only to help keep your heart healthy but keep your weight level over the years…and what a great way to cope with the Great Recession!
“Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston asked more than 19,000, normal-weight U.S. women aged 39 or older how many alcoholic beverages they typically drank in a day, and then tracked the women for around 13 years,” according to editors at Canada.com. They found that those women who abstained from drinking wine, beer or alcohol were most likely to gain weight, and those who drank two drinks per day were most likely to maintain their weight from 13 years prior.
(Photo courtesy of Chris Barria, Reuters)
But the best drink to keep the pounds / kilos off?…of course, was red wine.
Now gals can Go Red in just another way – You go girls!
Tags: It works how?, This is healthy for me?, What IS Happiness?
Orthopods! Here’s a new twist for external fracture fixation…
not just a cast but…a Casttoo!
Both a waterproof and X-ray permeable alternative to plain autographable casts, Casttoos are on the rise. (Thankfully) artwork on casts is not (yet) regulated by the FDA…and neither are Casttoos. But they are lots of fun for orthopaedic patients of any age. And the best part is that docs or patients get to create them themselves!
How about a shark infested jungle:
…or an x-ray of your fracture:
Just a couple of ideas from the infinite number of Casttoo creators designs from the bookofjoe.
Docs can even download a hospital starter kit from Casttoo’s website.
…as Casttoo creators say “Happy Healing” to young and old alike!
