Monitoring Brain Blood Flow with a Wearable Ultrasound Patch

Engineers have developed a wearable ultrasound patch that can offer continuous, non-invasive monitoring of blood flow in the brain. The soft and stretchy patch can be comfortably worn on the temple to provide three-dimensional data on cerebral blood flow — a first in wearable technology. Watch this video to learn more about this soft and stretchy patch that can be comfortably worn on the temple.

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Meet the Air Curtain: An Invisible Mask to Kill Viruses, Block Nearly All Aerosols

An air curtain shooting down from the brim of a hard hat can prevent 99.8 percent of aerosols from reaching a worker’s face. Air curtain technology is precisely designed to protect wearers from airborne infectious pathogens, using treated air as a barrier in which any pathogens present have been inactivated and no longer able to infect you if you breathe them in. Watch this video to learn more about the technology.

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Helping Amputees Walk Naturally

Watch this video to learn more about a new prosthesis — driven by the nervous system — which helps people with amputation walk naturally. The surgical amputation procedure, developed at MIT, reconnects muscles in the residual limb. The new surgical procedure gives people more neural feedback from their residual limb. With it, seven patients walked more naturally and navigated obstacles.

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Building a Bionic Eye Using ‘Bioinspiration’

Researchers have grown rodent retinal neurons on a fractal-patterned electrode, one that mimics the repeating branching pattern in which neurons naturally grow. It’s a step closer to making a bio-inspired bionic eye. Watch the video to see how the new type of retinal implant inspired by nature’s patterns, that may reverse vision loss.

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