http://www.acosap.org Medical & General news Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:57:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.acosap.org/brainspinal-cord-related/the-brain-and-new-technology/ http://www.acosap.org/brainspinal-cord-related/the-brain-and-new-technology/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:04:04 +0000 acosap http://www.acosap.org/?p=113 I just got back from Los Angeles (from seeing the attorneys) and it is time to get back in the saddle: From the brain to the computer, users such as people who are paralyzed, can now use a device to interface between commands from their brain and their computer. This new technology doesn’t require electrodes to be implanted into the brain, but uses a tight-fittling cap. An amplifier turns up the juice on the tiniest analog signals that eminate from the scalp, converting them into digital signals for the processing software on the computer.
Once extremely expensive, this new technology to help the brain talk to a computer is more accurate and less costly; about $5,000 per patient, and the scientists are working to bring that price down.
Patients’ home health devices talk to each other and wirelessly stream data to be viewed on one computer screen. This new system will use the 402-405MHz Medical Implant Communications Service (MICS) frequency band to communicate the data using theB luetooth Health Device Profile and the IEEE Personal Health Data specification. This new technology makes it easier for the patient to monitor information on the state his or her own health. Incidentially if you happen to require Los Angeles brain injury attorneys I must suggest this resource as they can help with various forms of traumatic brain injury as well as workplace, personal and spinal cord injury as well in the greater Los Angeles area.
How would the police and other enforcement teams like to have Superman help them to see through walls? Well, they don’t need the “man of steel” to penetrate walls with the The Prism 200. This small handheld radar scanner detects the movement and location of people in a room or building. It can penetrate through brick or even concrete walls. It can even sense breathing. The device can be used remotely. It displays several views for a more three-demensional picture.

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