A LOLLI TO LULL HICCUPS
Inspiring eighth grader Mallory Kievman from Connecticut has invented a promising cure for hiccups. This isn’t your average science fair project, Kievman with the assistance of her pops has won “prizes for innovation and patentability (the pops are patent-pending) at the Connecticut Invention Convention competition for young entrepreneurs. And the University of Connecticut’s Innovation Accelerator is sending over some MBA students to help her out this summer,” according to New York Times. What started it all was simply a nasty bout of hiccups, after testing a 100 kitchen sink remedies like drinking saltwater, sipping water out of an upside-down cup, eating spoonfuls of sugar, slurping pickle juice. The result is […]
‘SMART PILL’ + PATCH + APP = MHEALTH IN 2012
While fitness and health tracking sensors are all this rage this year, a new “smart pill” system is designed to take it one step further. Proteus Biomedical’s smart pill system — launching in the UK — consists of microchip-embedded medication tablets that track patient adherence via a nifty smartphone app and sensor patch worn on the skin. The UK-based retail pharmacy chain Lloydspharmacy signed a deal with Proteus Biomedical (backed by Novartis) to launch this edible microchip, dubbed Helius, first in the UK. For consumers, the packages will include sensor-enabled pills, a peel-and-stick sensor patch worn on the body, and a mobile health app. The patch records when a pill […]