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• TEDMED 2009: Summary

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 498
  My friends at Medgadget have recently attended the interesting TEDMED 2009 event. I hope I can make the next one. Here are the entries they wrote focusing on the newest innovations in medicine. TEDMED 2009 – Day 1 TEDMED 2009 – Day 2 TEDMED 2009 – Day 3 TEDMED 2009 – Day 4 (The Final Day) ...
  3 weeks ago

• Steve Wozniak Showing Off a Prized Gadget

  
  Better Health — Authority: 484
  One of the attendees to this year’s TEDMED was the venerable Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple Computer. Steve is an engaging person so he wanted to show us his NIXIE tube wrist watch and how he uses it to intimidate fellow airline travelers. It ain’t medical, but is surely amusing: *This blog ...
  5 weeks ago

• Shareable Ink Turns Paper Forms Into Digital Entry System

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 629
  At TEDMED last week we spoke with Dr. Vernon Huang from Shareable Ink , a company that provides a digital solution for physician practices that prefer to stay with paper. We were a bit skeptical at first, having seen other "digital pens", but Shareable Ink is impressively simple, ingenious, and intuitive to use. ...
  5 weeks ago

• Medgadgets Sci-Fi Writing Contest: Return of the Prose

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 629
  We are excited to announce our annual Medgadget Sci-Fi Writing Contest! Now in its fourth year, the competition is designed to showcase fictional stories written by our readers, stories that transport us into the future of medicine. Whether it is a hitherto unknown ethical dilemma that will come up many years from now ...
  5 weeks ago

• TEDMED 2009 - Day 4 (The Final Day)

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 629
  Its over. TEDMED just ended with yesterdays morning session of talks by Ken Kamler, surgeon and mountaineer, oceanographer Dave Gallo, another short talk by VisualMD founder Alexander Tsiaras, an insightful talk by David Blaine, who told the story behind how he held his breath for 17 minutes and 4.4 seconds, and a ...
  5 weeks ago

• TEDMED 2009 - Day 3

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 629
  The third day of TEDMED came and passed in a blur, with twenty three talks, the filming of some great video content for Medgadget, lunch outside on the lawn, and a few cups of coffee to keep us going. As with yesterdays overview, we cannot cover all the talks so well focus on a subset that stood out. Another Jill ...
  5 weeks ago

• Knome Personal DNA Sequencing Services

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 629
  Yesterday we spoke with Ari Kiirikki of Knome , a company that provides full DNA sequencing for people willing to dish out $68,000. This is a bargain considering the price just dropped from $99,000. Of course this isnt for everybody, but people willing to spend the money are promised some tangible benefits. Heres ...
  5 weeks ago

• XVIVOs David Bolinsky on Benefits of Scientific Animation

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 629
  We had a chance to catch up with David Bolinsky, co-founder of XVIVO , a company that does some amazing animations for the life science companies and organizations. We asked him to briefly speak about what his company does and how high quality visualization can help people understand medical concepts. XVIVO ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Woz Showing Off a Prized Gadget

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 629
  One of the attendees to this years TEDMED was the venerable Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple Computer. Steve is an engaging person so he wanted to show us his NIXIE tube wrist watch and how he uses it to intimidate fellow airline travelers. It aint medical, but is surely amusing:
  5 weeks ago

• Interview with Philip Low About Roche and NeuroVigil Partnership

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 629
  Yesterday Philip Low of NeuroVigil spoke at TEDMED and demonstrated the amazing iBrain technology his firm developed to monitor and interpret EEG signals. Today NeuroVigil announced a partnership with Roche that would provide the iBrain for use in outpatient clinical trials. We were lucky to be able to grab a few ...
  5 weeks ago

• TEDMED 2009 - Day 2

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 629
  We had a long and eventful second day at TEDMED, filled with plenty of laughs, thought provoking technology, spitting into vials for 23andMe , embarrassing ourselves in front of med tech celebrities, and even a conversation with Aubrey de Grey over a clam bake dinner on the beach. Yesterday sessions featured twenty ...
  6 weeks ago

• Patch Adams on Medical Technology

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 629
  Yesterday at TEDMED we got a chance to speak with Patch Adams , the world famous physician, author, and activist. Being the eccentric that he is, we were wondering what novel medical technologies he uses in his practice to help people deal with their conditions. Here is the premiere of the uncut interview as it ...
  6 weeks ago

• TEDMED 2009 - Day 1

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 629
  A bladder grown at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Yesterday we settled into our hotel room in San Diego, grabbed a burger, and went straight to session one of TEDMED. The first set of speakers consisted of a beat poet and performance artist Sekou Andrews , synthetic geneticist Craig Venter , ...
  6 weeks ago

• Were off to TEDMED Tomorrow

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 629
  Keep an eye on the blog this week, because tomorrow two of your editors head to TEDMED to feast on the latest and greatest in medical technological and cultural innovations. The line up of speakers and attendees is quite impressive, and for the rest of the week well be wandering around chatting up and interviewing as ...
  6 weeks ago

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