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Huggies Smart Belt Lets Expecting Dads Vicariously Experience Baby’s Kicks

by Editors on Jun 12, 2013

Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies brand of diapers, wants to help expecting fathers participate in their kids lives even before it’s time to go diaper shopping. The company partnered with Ogilvy & Mather, Argentine advertising firm to create a pair of belts worn around the belly by both the mother and father, which let dads feel the baby kicks in real time. The belt worn by the mother senses and localizes kicks as they happen and immediately transmits the data to the belt worn by the father. In turn, dad’s belt replicates the sensation of the kicks and gives visual cues to where the kicks are originating. Here’s a quick video of the prototype project:

 

(hat tip: Gizmodo)

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Popular Surgeon Simulator 2013 Game Hits Steam Store (w/ video)

by Scott Jung on Mar 1, 2013
Popular Surgeon Simulator 2013 Game Hits Steam Store (w/ video)

A month ago, a game called Surgeon Simulator 2013 made its quiet debut on the internet, but quickly went viral. Its rise in popularity was probably due to the fact that players were posting gameplay videos on YouTube, which, needless to say, made us really glad they weren’t actual surgeons. Some of us here at Medgadget even gave the game a try, with one of our editors noting that “It was entertaining for awhile until I dropped both lungs off the surgery table and left the saw on inside the patient till he bled to death.”

While we gave a collective chuckle at the game’s novelty, the folks at Steam, who distribute widely popular games such as Portal and Bioshock, gave it a more serious look. They recently announced that Surgeon Simulator 2013 had been named one of the newest additions to its Greenlight collection and it will be available for download on the Steam store. That means more frustratingly messy heart and brain transplants for everyone to enjoy. Although, if you’re a medical school student, we’d recommend sticking with alternative methods.

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in the news... / not funny / Rehab / Urology

Automatic Sperm Extractor for Automatic Sperm Extraction (video)

by Editors on Sep 25, 2012
Automatic Sperm Extractor for Automatic Sperm Extraction (video)

There appear to be problems within the Chinese society, as exhibited by a new $2,800 device being introduced to a hospital in Nanjing that helps to automate the extraction of sperm for donation.  In America, due to an apparent glut of sperm, such technology would probably be used to help quadriplegics, but in China it’s designed for infertility patients that would prefer to be aroused by the machine.

According to the Daily Mail, the director of the urology department at Zhengzhou Central Hospital believes this is a more comfortable option for some patients over the “old fashioned” method. The device’s operating nozzle adjusts to proper height, is temperature controlled, and will undulate at the desired speed for a desired effect.  Most helpful is the built-in screen that can play the viewing material of your choice.

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etc. / Neurology / not funny

DIY Biofeedback Game Controller Uses Your Guns to Find the Princess

by Scott Jung on Dec 16, 2011
DIY Biofeedback Game Controller Uses Your Guns to Find the Princess

If you’re noticing that your 20-hour Skyrim gaming marathons are causing you to lose muscle definition, you might want to check out Advancer Technologies‘ “USB Biofeedback Game Controller.” It’s a DIY project based on our favorite Arduino microcontroller and contains electromyography circuit boards to detect electrical activity in muscles. The kit comes with four muscle sensors that can each be programmed to control four buttons. For example, squeezing your hand could trigger the button to make a character move, and flexing your bicep could cause the character to jump.

It’s probably the nerdiest way to show off the power of your guns (and the strangest way to control Mario), but it’s certainly an interesting and offbeat use of electromyography!

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More Fun With the Da Vinci Surgical Robot: Grape Peeling

by Scott Jung on Oct 6, 2011

It brings us great relief knowing that the same robot that can perform complicated surgical procedures in the morning can help prepare lunch for the hungry surgeon after the operation is over.

Here’s a video from the North Bristol NHS Trust in the UK showing the da Vinci surgical robot peeling a grape:

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etc. / not funny / Ob/Gyn

Experience Pregnancy With the Mommy Tummy 8.0 Simulator

by Scott Jung on Sep 22, 2011
Experience Pregnancy With the Mommy Tummy 8.0 Simulator

Sympathy pads are so last year! To allow men to better experience the joys of pregnancy, Kosaka Lab at the Kanagawa Institute in Japan has developed “Mommy Tummy 8.0″, a high-tech simulator that replicates many of the joys of a full-term, 10-month gestation period in only two minutes.

To use the simulator, the user (the dad) places a special jacket on himself. The jacket is connected to a water tank which fills the jacket with water to simulate the weight gain of the fetus. The water is even warmed to make the experience more realistic. A vibrator in the jacket simulates the baby’s heartbeat and various balloons throughout the jacket can inflate, simulating the baby moving and kicking in the womb. There’s even balloons in the chest area to simulate breast development.

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Phone Oximeter – The Musical

by Scott Jung on May 20, 2011
Phone Oximeter - The Musical

Romance! Suspense! Freddie Mercury singing! It’s everything you’d want marketing a medical device, right?
Perhaps not for every medical device, but researchers at the University of British Columbia‘s Electrical & Computer Engineering in Medicine have put out this campy YouTube video to demonstrate a very real device that integrates an FDA approved pulse oximeter with your smartphone.

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“The Dentist Of Jaipur”

by Gene Ostrovsky on Apr 29, 2011

Here’s a short thought-provoking and bloody documentary by German filmmaker Falk Peplinski about the latest dentistry advances happening on the sidewalks of Jaipur, India:

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Functional Bad Ass Wheelchairs

by Gene Ostrovsky on Apr 18, 2011
Functional Bad Ass Wheelchairs

Humor site Cracked.com is profiling stories of five souped-up wheelchair projects. If you already have four wheels and a frame, might as well install a flame thrower on it. Or how about a motorcycle with a wheelchair docking system?
Link: The 5 Most Incredible Stories of Pimped Out Wheelchairs…

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