#Medical device

Author: Dan Maloney / Source: Hackaday That first glimpse of a child in the womb as a black and white image on a screen is a thrilling moment for any parent-to-be, made possible by several hundred thousand dollars worth of precision medical instrumentation. This ultrasound machine cobbled

Author: Byron Reese / Source: Gigaom Dean Kamen is an engineer, inventor, and businessman. He holds hundreds of U.S. and foreign patents, many of them for medical devices including the iBOTTM mobility device, the first wearable infusion pump, the first wearable insulin pump for diabetics. He is

Author: Donald Papp / Source: Hackaday Glucometers (which measure glucose levels in blood) are medical devices familiar to diabetics, and notorious for being proprietary. Gentoo Linux developer [Flameeyes] has some good news about his open source tool to read and export data from a growing