This is a combination of 7 Amazing Technological Innovations that address Health Challenges


A patients experience of the Doctors surgery and the operating theatre could be transformed by these Great Innovative Prototypes. Courtesy of Imperial college Researchers, London, United Kingdom.

1. SNP Doctor

DNA Electronics (DNAE) an Imperial spin-out company

SNP Doctor is an handheld device that analyses DNA to forecast the response of Patients to their prescribed Medication.


2. iKnife

Dr. Zoltan Takats, Department of Surgery and Cancer

iKnife is an "intelligent Knife" that is designed to tell surgeons immediately whether the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or not.


3. Digital Plaster
Toumaz Healthcare, a spin-out company from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering

The digital plaster with a registered Trademark name "The wireless sensium" digital patch can monitor a patients vital signs remotely and continously, in order to make it possible for patients to be cared for at the comfort of their Homes.


4. iSnake
Professor Guang-Zhong Yang and Professor Lord Ara Darzi, Institute for Global Health Innovation

The isnake is a robotic surgical device thats programmed to navigate independently through the body of a patient, and is controlled by the surgeon with a remote control.


5. Artificial Yeast

Imperial Researchers are working on a man-made chromosomes, the UKs contribution to the first entirely Artificial Yeast.

Researchers hope to complete the Synthetic genome by 2017, and use it to design new strains of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Yeast that can ultimately create valuable chemicals, antibiotics, Vaccines or biofuels.

Imperial is one of the World leaders in the field of synthetic biology, where researchers re-engineer cells to develop microscopic devices that can be used to address a range of global challenges.

The college is home to a new £24 million centre called SynbiCITE which aims to speed up the development of these technologies. It will be a national resource, involving researchers from a further 17 academic institutions acros the UK as well as 13 industrial partners, including the research arms of the Microsoft, Shell and GlaxoSmithKline.

6.Psychedelic Science

Two imperial studies have provided the most detsiled picture to date of how psychedelic drugs work.

In the first study, 30 healthy volunteers had psilocybin-the active ingredient in magic mushrooms-infused into their blood while they were inside magnetic resonance imagine (MRI) scanners.

The scans showed that activity decreased in hub regions of the brain-areas that are especially well-connected with other areas.

The second study found that Psilicybin enhanced volunteers recollections of personal memories. This effect could make Psilicybin useful as an adjunct to Psychotherapy, suggest study authors Professor David Nutt and Dr. Rbin Carhart-Harris, from the Department of Medicine.


7. Tackling Malaria

Staff in the Department of Life Science are breeding Mosquitoes and Analysing their intereaction with the Malaria parasite Plasmodum in the hope of finding new ways to tackle the disease.

Malaria Parasite affects well over 300 million people annually. Mosquitoes which are primarily responsible for the transmission of the disease, are bred and stored at a tropical 80 per cent humidity and 28 per cent centigrade in the Labs at Sir Alexander Flemming Building- conditions similar to those found in their natural habitats in Africa, India and Asia.

Souce: Imperial College, London

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It was a shocking news hearing about the death of the legendary character in the Harry potter Movies- Alan Rickman.

It was reported that he died of Cancer, he happened to know about just a week before his death.

Hes an unforgettable movie character as seen in Harry potter as Professor Severus Snape and he played the villain Hans Gruber in the movie Die Hard and other and many other movies too.

##. Meet the 10 year old Kid who scored full marks in Java Exam in less than 19 minutes

It amazes me to, but not unexpected, 10 year old boy Ronit Shah makes his Indian family proud after he successfully scored all 100 in his Java exams and more amazing in just about 18 minutes, an exam which ordinarily was scheduled to last 150 minutes.

Ronit said he has a knack for playing around computer related programs and that may have made his successful in the exam, he said

"I developed so much love for computers that I started learning animation, coding programming
after standard 1. I took a holiday to practise for JAVA standard edition 6 program exam. I used to reach my computer institute to practise at11.30am and come home by 6 pm. That is how I managed to complete my online exam in 18 minutes.”

###. Meet The World’s First large-capacity 13TB SSD-13000M for $13k

A Japanese Electronic company - Fixstars is thinking bigger by  rolling out  a 13 TB drive thats sizeable enough to fit in to your laptop for $13,000.

The $13k price tag was not officially disclosed on Fixstars website but in a report by PC world, a spokesperson for the Japanese firm- Shien Zhu explained that  the company price for the drive is near an  estimate of 1$ per gigabyte, the product was targeted at firms and Enterprises.

Fixstars disclose that the drive will have “read speeds of up to 540 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 520 MB/s,” which can be likened to most solid state drives available for sale on the market at the moment.

The drive with its capacity is the biggest SSD drive at present compare to what 6TB drive you can get in market as of now.

Satoshi Miki, CEO of Fixstars Corporation, explained that, “Continuing the development of the world’s highest capacity SSD product line, we are pleased to take capacity one step further and present the SSD-13000M. The Fixstars SSD series has been highly regarded for their distinct reliability on steady read/write performance that lasts over time. Having met user expectations for higher capacities, Fixstars will continue to innovate and provide unique storage solutions to it’s customers in Japan and in the U.S.”

This a great innovation for business computing, CH/VFX connection, video streaming and generally in the field of  computing science.

The company says the drive will be made available for purchase from next month.

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