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A new injectable, temporary pacemaker could help correct a heart arrhythmia in an emergency. This nanoparticle gel can regulate the heart’s electrical signals for up to five days before dissolving harmlessly in the body.Continue ReadingCategory: Medica… Continue reading Injectable pacemaker regulates heartbeat for 5 days then dissolves
Battery technology is the major limiting factor for the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles and grid-level energy storage. Marginal improvements have been made for lithium cells in the past decade …read more Continue reading Implantable Battery Charges Itself
Scientists at the University of Chicago have developed a new pacemaker that’s thinner than a human hair, wireless and operated entirely by light from an optic fiber. The non-invasive device could help regulate heart activity or even stimulate neurons i… Continue reading Ultrathin, wireless, light-operated pacemaker cuts invasive surgery
In retrocomputing circles, it’s often the case that the weirder and rarer the machine, the more likely it is to attract attention. And machines don’t get much weirder than the …read more Continue reading Clock Hack Gives DEC Rainbow a New Lease on Life
The leads that connect external pacemakers to the heart can potentially cause problems, either if they’re removed or left in place. German scientists are therefore developing an alternative, in the form of leads that get absorbed by the body.Continue R… Continue reading New pacemaker leads would dissolve in the body when no longer needed
Ordinarily, pacemakers correct irregular heartbeats by delivering an electric shock to the entire heart – which can be painful. An experimental new one takes a different approach, and it does so by encompassing the heart with light-emitting “petals.”Co… Continue reading Flower-like pacemaker uses light for pain-free defibrillation
Last year, scientists at Northwestern University announced a transient pacemaker that dissolves when no longer needed. They’ve now improved the device, and incorporated it into a linked suite of wearable sensors.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, Scien… Continue reading Dissolving pacemaker links up with wearables to better control the heart
When a pacemaker’s battery gets low, the whole implant typically has to be surgically replaced. Scientists are therefore developing a noninvasive battery recharging system, which utilizes externally applied ultrasound.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical,… Continue reading Implanted generator could use ultrasound to charge pacemaker batteries
While modern pacemakers have proven an invaluable and lifesaving medical tool, the way they regulate the pace of the heart differs from the varying beat of the organ in a healthy individual. Scientists see great potential in pacemaking technology that … Continue reading “Revolutionary” pacemaker tackles heart failure by listening to the lungs
In a breakthrough that could greatly ease the burden for patients recovering from cardiac surgery, scientists have developed a new type of temporary pacemaker that never needs to be removed. The world-first device does away with lead and batteries in f… Continue reading World’s first transient pacemaker dissolves in the body after use