Robots in the Operating room A patient visited a doctor after severe pain in his abdomen, doctor after examining him suggested to undergo laparoscopic surgery as a stone was detected in his kidney.. When the patient enquired about a probable date and duration of the surgery, he got shocked with the doctor’s response. The doctor […]
Home Automation Home automation or smart home generally involves a method/system for controlling any type of device in home such as washer/dryers, ovens or refrigerators/freezers, lighting and heating, ventilation & air conditioning(HVAC) etc remotely/wirelessly (let’s call it automatically) such as by detecting the presence of human beings. In 1898, Nikola Tesla invented a method for […]
Knee Braces Are you an accident-prone person who has had a periodic timeline of minor or major accidents throughout your life? Or, are you a sports-enthusiast who has to, many a times, put thy body in line to deliver much anticipated performance? Or, on the contrary, if you are a person who has/had issues with […]
Insulin pumps- What’s current? Any alternatives? According to WHO (World Health Organization), around the world approx 422 million people were living with diabetes in 2014, compared to 108 million in 1980. A fourfold increase in just three and half decades. It has nearly doubled in adult population (age over 18 years) since 1980, rising from […]
An Artificial heart Heart is the engine of our body that pumps blood into various vessels. The organ works rigorously beating 100, 000 times a day to keep our body freshly supplied with oxygen. But what will happen if our heart stops beating? Is this the end of our life? The answer is no. Today, […]
Self-balancing gyro-stabilized scooter – The new era of solo-commuting Next-generation solo transportation phenomena that took the world’s two-wheeled market segment by a storm in the year 2014, was the gyro-stabilized self-balancing scooter. The trend still continues with a list of celebrities who have taken it to the social network themselves riding on this hoverboard-like scooter. […]
Passenger Safety Systems Passenger Safety has been an issue almost from the beginning of mechanised road vehicle development, which dates back to the 1700s. This is evident from the fact that nearly 1.3 million people die world-wide in road crashes each year, and an additional 20 – 50 million are injured or disabled. With crashes […]
X-rays In 1895 while working in his lab at Wuerzburg University in Germany, Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen came to realize that world could change forever. He observed a fluorescent glow projected off crystals placed near a cathode-ray tube. That discovery triggered curiosity and with it the technology of the X-ray was born. Through his discovery, […]
Supercapacitor Body Panels The increased patenting activity and research articles, in the area of complementing or substituting the conventional ways of powering the vehicles, stand as evidence that the world is realizing the scarcity of fossil fuels and the importance of environment. It is time that many of us are bound to shift our vision […]
Bioremediation: A Green Revolution The Problem: The character of many of the pollutants and the rate at which they can pollute results in a rapid deterioration of the environment. Inorganic pollutants include heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury, lead, zinc and the like; nonmetallic compounds like arsenic, selenium, radioactive nuclear waste, and so on. Organic […]