7 Healthy Tech Innovations from Imperial Researchers

This is a combination of 7 Amazing Technological Innovations that address Health Challenges


A patients experience of the Doctors surgery and the operating theatre could be transformed by these Great Innovative Prototypes. Courtesy of Imperial college Researchers, London, United Kingdom.

1. SNP Doctor

DNA Electronics (DNAE) an Imperial spin-out company

SNP Doctor is an handheld device that analyses DNA to forecast the response of Patients to their prescribed Medication.


2. iKnife

Dr. Zoltan Takats, Department of Surgery and Cancer

iKnife is an "intelligent Knife" that is designed to tell surgeons immediately whether the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or not.


3. Digital Plaster
Toumaz Healthcare, a spin-out company from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering

The digital plaster with a registered Trademark name "The wireless sensium" digital patch can monitor a patients vital signs remotely and continously, in order to make it possible for patients to be cared for at the comfort of their Homes.


4. iSnake
Professor Guang-Zhong Yang and Professor Lord Ara Darzi, Institute for Global Health Innovation

The isnake is a robotic surgical device thats programmed to navigate independently through the body of a patient, and is controlled by the surgeon with a remote control.


5. Artificial Yeast

Imperial Researchers are working on a man-made chromosomes, the UKs contribution to the first entirely Artificial Yeast.

Researchers hope to complete the Synthetic genome by 2017, and use it to design new strains of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Yeast that can ultimately create valuable chemicals, antibiotics, Vaccines or biofuels.

Imperial is one of the World leaders in the field of synthetic biology, where researchers re-engineer cells to develop microscopic devices that can be used to address a range of global challenges.

The college is home to a new £24 million centre called SynbiCITE which aims to speed up the development of these technologies. It will be a national resource, involving researchers from a further 17 academic institutions acros the UK as well as 13 industrial partners, including the research arms of the Microsoft, Shell and GlaxoSmithKline.

6.Psychedelic Science

Two imperial studies have provided the most detsiled picture to date of how psychedelic drugs work.

In the first study, 30 healthy volunteers had psilocybin-the active ingredient in magic mushrooms-infused into their blood while they were inside magnetic resonance imagine (MRI) scanners.

The scans showed that activity decreased in hub regions of the brain-areas that are especially well-connected with other areas.

The second study found that Psilicybin enhanced volunteers recollections of personal memories. This effect could make Psilicybin useful as an adjunct to Psychotherapy, suggest study authors Professor David Nutt and Dr. Rbin Carhart-Harris, from the Department of Medicine.


7. Tackling Malaria

Staff in the Department of Life Science are breeding Mosquitoes and Analysing their intereaction with the Malaria parasite Plasmodum in the hope of finding new ways to tackle the disease.

Malaria Parasite affects well over 300 million people annually. Mosquitoes which are primarily responsible for the transmission of the disease, are bred and stored at a tropical 80 per cent humidity and 28 per cent centigrade in the Labs at Sir Alexander Flemming Building- conditions similar to those found in their natural habitats in Africa, India and Asia.

Souce: Imperial College, London

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Tech Trine Alan Rickman Infamous legendary Harry Potter character Suverus Snape died of Cancer

It was a shocking news hearing about the death of the legendary character in the Harry potter Movies- Alan Rickman.

It was reported that he died of Cancer, he happened to know about just a week before his death.

Hes an unforgettable movie character as seen in Harry potter as Professor Severus Snape and he played the villain Hans Gruber in the movie Die Hard and other and many other movies too.

##. Meet the 10 year old Kid who scored full marks in Java Exam in less than 19 minutes

It amazes me to, but not unexpected, 10 year old boy Ronit Shah makes his Indian family proud after he successfully scored all 100 in his Java exams and more amazing in just about 18 minutes, an exam which ordinarily was scheduled to last 150 minutes.

Ronit said he has a knack for playing around computer related programs and that may have made his successful in the exam, he said

"I developed so much love for computers that I started learning animation, coding programming
after standard 1. I took a holiday to practise for JAVA standard edition 6 program exam. I used to reach my computer institute to practise at11.30am and come home by 6 pm. That is how I managed to complete my online exam in 18 minutes.”

###. Meet The World’s First large-capacity 13TB SSD-13000M for $13k

A Japanese Electronic company - Fixstars is thinking bigger by  rolling out  a 13 TB drive thats sizeable enough to fit in to your laptop for $13,000.

The $13k price tag was not officially disclosed on Fixstars website but in a report by PC world, a spokesperson for the Japanese firm- Shien Zhu explained that  the company price for the drive is near an  estimate of 1$ per gigabyte, the product was targeted at firms and Enterprises.

Fixstars disclose that the drive will have “read speeds of up to 540 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 520 MB/s,” which can be likened to most solid state drives available for sale on the market at the moment.

The drive with its capacity is the biggest SSD drive at present compare to what 6TB drive you can get in market as of now.

Satoshi Miki, CEO of Fixstars Corporation, explained that, “Continuing the development of the world’s highest capacity SSD product line, we are pleased to take capacity one step further and present the SSD-13000M. The Fixstars SSD series has been highly regarded for their distinct reliability on steady read/write performance that lasts over time. Having met user expectations for higher capacities, Fixstars will continue to innovate and provide unique storage solutions to it’s customers in Japan and in the U.S.”

This a great innovation for business computing, CH/VFX connection, video streaming and generally in the field of  computing science.

The company says the drive will be made available for purchase from next month.

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Tech Ed Australia 2006 and Tablet PC in Motion

A new Tablet User enjoying Vista

This year Tech.Ed Australia 2006 has closed with Tablet PC on its mind. Meandering through the Exhibit Hall, Hands-on Labs and listening to guest Speakers you quickly realized that Tablet PC had in fact made a splash. Could it be attributed to the availability of several new products, like Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) and others; or perhaps the fact that clients were hounding developers for more Tablet related applications? Whatever the reason the effect was evident across several aspects of the Tech.Ed arena.


Dr. Neil Roodyn holding a Samsung Q1

First there was MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Dr. Neil Roodyn, forever enigmatic and eternally evangelizing the merits of the Tablet PC SDK (Software Development Kit). On this occasion his interpretation of Microsoft’s soon to be released Operating System, Windows Vista, and its Inking capabilities left several attendees jostling for a chair at the Tablet PC Hands-on Labs. His presentations covered off topics such as ‘Sync Center,’ ‘Defining an Ink Canvas’ and a memorable rendition of Vista’s ability to receive inking hints via ‘Factoid Strings.’ These certainly were an enlightening array of sessions.


Nick Randolph with Samsung Q1 and TabletKiosk EO

Then there was MVP [.NET Compact Framework] Nick Randolph. Not only was Nick armed with an Ultra Mobile PC for his demonstration but he seemed to be doing his best to evangelize the platform as an answer to “mobility” vs. the “portability” we currently experience in the marketplace. During his presentation regarding ‘Wiping your Mobile Device Remotely’ he repeatedly reminded the audience to think outside-the-square and remember to also include UMPC as a Mobile Device.


New User enjoying 3D Inking on Vista

The Hands-on Labs are always popular and this year they did not fail to impress. Thanks to Dr.Neil’s persistence, and clever negotiation skills with colleagues in Redmond, Tech.Ed Australia found itself in the hands of no less than eight Toshiba M400 Tablet PCs with the Windows Vista Operating System pre-installed. Attendees were overheard to gasp and cheer as the inking capabilities of Vista, and a new Graphical User Interface (GUI) took users on a pen experience like no other.


Hugo Ortega on Stage Talking Tablet (UMPC)

Then there was the official Microsoft Mobility Stand. Even here, in and amongst all the phones and handheld devices, there lay an Ultra Mobile PC. This now infamous form-factor had passers by lining up to garner there own impressions as they stroked through the UMPC Touch Pack, and fumbled through DialKeys. Attendees definitely weren’t short of an opinion, and they weren’t afraid to vocalize it either. At one stage even Australia’s own Tablet PC Guy Hugo Ortega was invited on stage where he hosted a brief session regarding the UMPC platform and Microsoft’s OneNote 2007 Beta; this was a ‘Mobility Wipeout’ to go down in history thanks to a fired up Roger Lawrence and Rick Anderson too.


New Users making the most of the Pen

In Closing, and as in Starting, it was the words of Microsoft Australia’s Frank Arrigo that inspired and conjured feelings of ore and excitement of things to come. It became apparent from its inception that Tech.Ed Australia was destined to proclaim Tablet PC as an acceptable format for conducting one’s information gathering; even at the Blogger’s Brunch held on Day One, and hosted by Frank Arrigo himself, there were no less than three Ultra Mobile PC’s busily accepting digital ink and making use of the Tablet PC’s hand-writing capabilities.


Frank Arrigo/LS800/Sudoku - need I say more!

As the applauding crowd subsided and onlookers soon became bystanders it was clear that Tech.Ed 2006 had drawn to a close. Tablet PC had certainly made itself heard and even found a home with both new and experienced users. At this stage it was a fact which Frank Arrigo chose not to hide at all that caught my attention, i.e. his recent attainment of a Motion LS800 mini Tablet PC. With nothing left to do Frank had but one thing on his mind: Sudoku-in-Ink! Acting as our fearless leader and head of the evangelistic food-chain in Australia he wasn’t afraid to show it off either.

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