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Bionic Eye Implant Approved for U.S. Patients
. The retineal
implant device from
Second Sight,
Sylmar CA has received FDA
approval, allowing the company to market the device to patients with
advanced retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease leading to blind-
ness. It is the first device to gain approval in the US,“This enables
people who are completely blind to see enough to improve their mo-
bility,” says Mark Humayun, a professor of biomedical engineering at the
University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Read the full report
in
. Heyrex
, New Zealand,
biosensors attach to collars and monitor
movement. Owners can access detailed
reports of how much time their pet has
spent napping or chasing its tail by logging
onto a website.When the dog behaves
out of character, an email or text is sent
to the owner. At a cost of $149.95 and
a monthly fee of $9.95 to access data, pet
owners would need a serious interest in
their pet’s well being.
has developed a series
of new mid-infrared spectrometers, which have been integrated into
compact gas sensors, branded as “GasSensors”. Gas sensors developed
in a European project now enable the implementation of cheaper and
smaller instruments with equal or higher speed and sensitivity than
current laboratory-grade instruments. Production of super-sensitive
and portable measuring devices is made possible by a photo-acoustic
gas sensor with innovative parts such as an interferometer and a MEMS
cantilever. While a laser is needed as infrared light source for the high-
est sensitivity, novel IR LEDs are sufficient for measuring fairly small gas
concentrations in lower cost portable devices.
