Transform Any Surface into a Touchscreen with this Device and Other Science Tech

Happy Monday! It’s another week and we’re back with more science and technology news to wake your inner geek.

Transform Any Surface into a Touchscreen with this Device

Are you one of those people who hate the fact that there are so many touchscreens in the world? Well, TouchJet’s Pond might be the ideal solution - allowing any surface to be converted into an 80-inch interactive touchscreen. The device, costing $599, debuted on Indiegogo and secured a funding of over $900,000.

Helen Thomas, CEO of TouchJet, explains why it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to share experiences because of different screens.

"More and more people, especially young children, are using touch technology because of smartphones, but as much as smart devices are connecting people around the world, people are isolated because everybody is sucked into a small screen. So that’s really the mission of the company, to create a shared experience. Now, when a family goes on vacation, they can watch a movie together wherever they are—if they are at a beach house, in the wild, or in a camp."

Monitoring Vital Signs using Ingestible Sensors

Vital signs can be measured using tests like ECG and pulse oximetry, or using wearable monitors. Both the methods require contact with the patient’s skin and some degree of pain. However, researchers at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research have developed an ingestible sensors that can measure heart rate, respiratory rate and temperature from the digestive tract.

"What we did with our technology is identify components that were compatible with ingestion. These are very small microphones similar to the ones that are used in common cellphones and actually listen from within the body and can extract the heart rate and respiratory rate," says Giovanni Traverso, Researcher at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.

The device hoists a small microphone in a silicone capsule that listens for heart and lung sounds, and decodes this information using advanced signal processing systems.

Lab-on-a-Chip Digitization Paves Way for More Accurate Medical Testing

Researchers at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with a way to assign digital codes to information obtained through microfluidic chips, allowing for much more accurate medical testing outside of hospitals and clinics.

"We have created an electronic sensor without any active components. It’s just a layer of metal, cleverly patterned. The cells and the metallic layer work together to generate digital signals in the same way that cellular telephone networks keep track of each caller’s identity. We are creating the equivalent of a cellphone network on a microfluidic chip," says Fatih Sarioglu, Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Microfluidic chips are referred to as ‘lab-on-a-chip’ technology, and can test small amounts of samples and make detections and separations with a high degree of accuracy.

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