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How to develop a healthcare app: a summary guide for 2022

August 27, 2022 Karan S

Planning to build a healthcare app? Consider reading this piece on how to make a medical app. See, the world is moving towards modernized solutions, allowing users to get the most out of their devices, software, and apps. The same is the case with the medical industry. Back in the day, there were blood pressure monitors, EKG machines, and whatnot. But, now, that thing has evolved into something no one expected. With a touch of a finger, you can get essential information related to your health metrics. And honestly, these…

Keep Cool in Your Cool Home during Summer

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 Karan S

Inexpensive Ways to Cool Your Home this Summer In the summer, we all want to keep our homes cool. The best way to do this is by using an air conditioner. But for some, this is not an option. Luckily, there are many ways to stay cool without having to use an air conditioner in your home. These include strategically opening windows and using fans, ensuring enough light in your home, and even staying hydrated with plenty of water. The goal should be to keep your home at a humidity…

Top 3 noise cancelling headphones

July 7, 2019July 11, 2019 Karan S

This is our quick preview of our leaderboard for Noise Cancelling Headphones. Noise-Cancelling Headphones are earphones that decrease undesirable surrounding sounds using dynamic commotion control. This is particular from passive earphones which, in the event that they decrease surrounding sounds by any means, use techniques like soundproofing. However, Noise-cancelling headphones make it conceivable to tune in to audio content without raising the volume too much. It can likewise enable a traveler to rest in a loud vehicle like a carrier. In flight conditions, these earphones increment the signal-to-noise proportion altogether…

Eye Contact Lens with LCD HUD

December 10, 2012December 10, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

You may not be ready to be a Cyborg yet, but the technology has already made you one. We can’t live without the smart devices and soon these machines would be part of us. We’ve seen how Mind-controlled Bionic Leg has proved that Cyborg are not just near, they have already arrived. By-product of a latest research has brought an actual LCD screen to the Contact Lenses. What that means is that all those SciFi movies that showed retina-based displays right on the eyes are coming to life. For now,…

First Mind-controlled Bionic Leg [Human Cyborg]

November 5, 2012November 8, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

Singularity - theoretical emergence of greater-than-human superintelligence through technological means. Singularity virtually means one day Humans would one day unite with the Machine. An early stage of the phenomena is often named as Cyborg. Cyborg is nothing but a human aided by machine, in order to become superhuman. Whether you’re ready or not, its here. First human Cyborg has arrived. A New technology has enabled a mechanical leg to be operated by human brain, using nerves, just like an actual leg and muscle would. Zac Vawter is that first lucky person to get…

Ultrasound Surgery - Healing without Surgery, Pain

December 26, 2011December 26, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Human ability to see light & sense sound have been one of the best abilities. On one side we can hear and cherish music and on the other, we cherish voices of our loved ones. Sound can do one more great thing, it can heal various problems that were previously treated using surgeries only. Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of…

Retrieve, Record Image, Video Data from Brain

September 24, 2011September 24, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

You must have seen several Sci-fi movies where the bad guy makes the superhero sit in an oscillator and capture his past events from his brain. It may look like a distant dream but the first step has actually been taken. Scientists at UC Berkeley have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips. Soon, this advancement would make it possible to record and reconstruct your own dreams on an ordinary computer. Its not April 1st, and this is happening for…

Test Eyesight Online, on Computer

July 2, 2011July 2, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Computer geeks and regular users addicted to the web and TVs, tend to have weaker eyesight. Doctors recommend few best practices to keep eyesight in a good shape, but other than that you should get them checked every year or so. Prevent Eyesight from getting Worse Here’s a quick way to prevent eyesight from getting worse: Its always good practice to give your eye muscles rest in-between long stresses. Watching a screen continuously can stress our eye muscles, best way to relax them is to focus on an distant object/text for couple of seconds…

Count calories in Meal using iPhone Camera

April 8, 2011April 8, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Health conscious or just curious, you can now shoot photo of your meal to get instant calories figures for the food you are just about to have. Meal Snap brings calorie counter to the iPhone in a intuitive way. Its as easy as it can get, just shoot a photo of your food and Meal Snap goes to the servers and returns back with the number of calories you’re about to consume. As far as I played with the app, Meal Snap appears seems promising but with one exception. It…

Secrets of InfraSound, Sounds below 20hz

December 22, 2010December 22, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Music amazes everyone. For most, its an addiction and few spend their life studying sounds. For years, audiophiles had been hearing audible frequencies (20 Hz - 20Khz) & synthesizing the perfect sound. But there are few Secrets about Sounds that you don’t actually hear. Infrasound is a sound that is lower in frequency than 20 Hz (Hertz), lower than the “normal” limit of human hearing. We mostly hear infrasound through our ears, but at higher levels it is possible to feel infrasound vibrations in various parts of the body. Examples…

Flexible LEDs can be planted to Humans to aid Health, Style

October 18, 2010October 18, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear LEDs? Yeah its the decorative lighting or lately an HDTV. But what may never had struck your mind is that LEDs could be used in future for betterment of human health. Researchers in the US, China, Korea and Singapore have collaborated to develop flexible ultra-thin sheets of inorganic light emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodetectors for implantation under the skin for medical monitoring, activating photo-sensitive drugs, and other biomedical applications. John Rogers from the University of Illinois at…

How Human Brain MultiTasks Activities

April 17, 2010April 21, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Often we compare current computer processors with human brain, we consider human brain to be superior at certain things: It’s ability to learn, adapt and react. But how does our brain react to multitasking? We might have adopted quad cores on the desktops, but a new study reveals that human brain is capable of processing only two tasks at a time, something close to a HyperThreading on a single core processor. When faced with two tasks, a part of the brain known as the Medial Prefrontal Cortex (MFC) divides so…

Cell Phones, WiFi and Health Effects

October 23, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

Five years back when I first bought my WiFi router, I was so excited with the possibilities - Freedom from 10m long Ethernet cat6 cables at home. Networking became much easier. I knew what did I do wrong, right at that moment itself - An unhealthy decision. During my grad, I was always interested in RF and Networking. And now even as part of my daily job, I understand how things in software and networks can bring different kinds of illness to humans. Not many people know that continued exposure to powerful…

Hardware Assisted Limb (HAL): Now Even your Grandmother can Walk

September 10, 2009September 10, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

When you watched Ironman and G.I. Joe, I bet you might have dreamed of a getting suite that grabs you in and makes you walk on its own and do the un-doable. Well, half of the dreams can now come true. Thanks to Japanese robotics venture called Cyberdyne, robot-suit “HAL” (Hybrid Assistive Limb) is now available for rent. Yes, it’s not for sale. A single leg version rents for $1,570 a month, while a two-leg unit goes for $2,300 a month. Cyberdyne has yet to announce when HAL will go…

Swine Flu - Prevention, Cure, Symptoms, Myths, Facts - Seasonal Flu and H1N1 differences

August 12, 2009August 12, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

It’s evident that if these days you get a seasonal Flu, one would still think of potential risk of Swine Flu. No matter how much Medical science has advanced over the period of years, yet, they have failed in simple thing — Spreading the correct message. Our governments, media, everyone has failed to spread the correct message. Today, most of us don’t know enough about Swine flu, rather what we know simply scares us from this “Deadly Flu”. I suffered from a season flu, that let me research a lot in…