biotech and medicine in the future

smart contact lenses

• these are developed at California-Davis university
• contain conductive wires that continuously monitor pressure and fluid flow in the eyes of at risk-people

smart pill

• California based Proteus Biomedical made sensors that track medication use by recording exactly what time the drugs are ingested

portable dialysis

• more than 15 million adult americans suffer from kidney disease
• but an artificial kidney can clean blood around the clock

muscle stimulator

• Israeli company StimuHeal solves the problem of the time it takes broken bones to heal with MyoSpare which is a battery-operated device that uses electrical stimulators

rocket powered arm

• normally prosthetic limbs require big battery packs
• Vanderbilt university came up with an alternative