Thursday 27 March 2014

Medical Miracle With Technology, Woman Gets A 3D Printed Skull

The 3D printing is a evolving technology yet, since it foundation several objects printed out, even body parts and now a new Medical miracle happen in Germany an entire Skull is added to 3D printed body parts list including a fingertip, hand, eyes, arm, jaw. A 22 year old Dutch woman nearly dead needed a new skull to replace the existed so an Australian company 3D printed a plastic skull at Utrecht University's University Medical Center in Netherlands. The operation took 23 hours to put the skull on to head and now she’s return to work and hard to find that she ever had any surgery. Before the operation, the woman head were too large and abnormal, and thickness put too much pressure on her brain which causes her unconsciousness and headaches.


Cnet posted “Implants used to be made by hand in the operating theater using a sort of cement which was far from ideal, Verweij said of the procedure, according to Dutch News. Using 3D printing we can make one to the exact size. This not only has great cosmetic advantages, but patients' brain function often recovers better than using the old method. Verweiji says that although portions of skulls have been swapped out in the past, this is the first time an entire cranium has been replaced in a patient. And I bet this is the first time you've ever seen a plastic skull get attached to a real live brain.”
The 3D printing technology is evolving and many expert companies in the fields have raised millions to develop and Sharpe it more. Several 3D printed items in the list which are slightly bigger then we can imagine.

Wednesday 19 March 2014

Mr Chips Ex-IVY Chef Planning To Open London Restaurant Chains

Des McDonald, Ex-CEO of the company behind the Ivy and Le Caprice, is planning to launch his two new restaurants in London along side with Bebo Kobo, Lisa Vanderpump and other restaurant owners in UK. Mr. McDonald was the head chef at Ivy in mid 20s and he’s up to open four more eateries for his Brands. The Fish & Chip Shop and Q grill for almost 20 sites in London only. He had opened a Fish & chip shop back in May Last year in North London, meanwhile his latest venture, the 150 cover, BBQ Grill will be planned to open with a launch in Camden this week. Two Fish & Chip Shops will open in Shoreditch, East London and Fulham, south west London, and three new location will be picked for Q Grill, probably opening in ShoreDitch and Soho too and the Islington site made a huge revenue about £1.5m since from its launch.

UK Site TeleGraph Said “In addition to working on his own brands under his company Des McDonald Restaurants Etc, the chef-turned-restaurateur has agreed to be a consultant for the new Holborn Dining Room brasserie on behalf of the Rosewood London hotel. However, the former chief executive of Caprice Holdings does not consider his plans overly ambitious for a first business venture. “I like to be busy,” he said. “I’d get bored doing one restaurant; I’m used to doing more than one thing. This business is an early start and a late finish so there’s lots of hours to fill in the day.”
Mr. McDonald are planning to make his restaurants into chains with 10 more locations each in London, before go for bigger bet to go nationally. The toughest challenge for him to find out more affordable site upon which they build his brand and finding a supportive bank to finance.

Thursday 13 March 2014

Security Startup Shadow Networks Has Raised Over $10 Million

Shadow Networks, a sneaky new company with high Knowledge Engineers, has announces a $10 Million in round of funding from US Securities and Exchange Commission under its previous Name ZanttZ Inc. Shadow Networks is a Security startup from United States of America and specialized in Network security Technology development for the US government and develop virtual emulators where Programmers cam simulates cyber attacks. Firm provided a whole lot of services to US government to programmers letting know of the any online attack, by which they can figure out the vulnerabilities in their Networks. The investors including Paladin Capital Group, a DC based Funding firm, interested into defense technology investments, Yaletwon Venture Partner and two other undisclosed venture firms. Online threat is evolving with the tech advancement so Shadow security was launched to tackle such hackers and attackers.



Former Shadow Networks executive “These APTs exist and they try to establish a beachhead in the company that gets targeted. Once they’re in there they’re trying to get to the crown jewels, Shadow Networks is providing these highly scalable honey nets to create virtual infrastructure to obfuscate targets. It increases your attack surface and creates these shadow networks around your infrastructure. The company’s technology is so impressive that even investors who aren’t backing it are willing to sing its praises — like Red point Ventures partner John Walecka, who named-dropped the company in an op-ed on the state of security technology”




This New Capital, Shadow Networks chief Executive and Company Co-founder Eric Winsborrow said, will be used  to simulate the attack into the matrix to know exactly what was the flaw, by which attacker breached the security. Also this tech was similar to putting the attacks inside the Virtual Networks called matrix, like agents in Matrix movie.

here is the TEDx Conference speech 



Wednesday 12 March 2014

High-Tech Electronic Headband May Help Prevent Migraines

If you are suffering from the migraines, there is the devices in the market, which could help you prevent anything which cause of the headaches. This Medical device made by Cefaly Technologies in Belgium, called Cefaly, which is an electronic headband which sits on your forehead at your ears and just above the eyes. Self glued electrodes sends a miner electric current to the skin and the mussels the below the device to give the rest to the nerve, which is the main body element causes migraine. Although the Food and Drug Administration given the approval to the device to use by prescription and also warn that no more use after 20 minutes a day. It is available in some countries including Canada with $300 dollar price tag. Company also did a survey involving 2300 users in Belgium and France to test it and concluded that 53% of contestant reported being satisfies enough to buy it and recommend it to other.


Cafaly said “This device is a promising step forward in treating migraine headaches, as it addresses an important part of what we believe triggers and maintains a migraine attack," Dr. Myrna Cardiel, a clinical associate professor of neurology at NYU Langone Medical Center and NYU School of Medicine, told Health Day. She added that the 53 percent positive rating is on par with "most oral migraine preventive medications. Perhaps the best finding is that no serious side effects have yet to be associated with the headband.”


Now a day’s Tech companies are very concerns about the user health for example Apple to launched a fully featured Smartwatch to users to monitor their full health report like heart rate, pulse and Blood pressure so users doctor can get a full report for month.



Wednesday 5 March 2014

Ex-Apple Engineer Launches Moov, The Next Generation Wearable Fitness Tracking Device

The upcoming technology era is all about Wearable, Smartphone and Tables. Companies working to introduce medical devices by which user can get a full checkup report right on their Phone display. Ex-Apple Engineer founded a company Moov, dedicated to develop Wearable Fitness Devices, which tells how to improve your workout and get most out of it. Its s wrist watch like Band, which uses the 9-axis sensors powered with software and algorithms to track each and every body movement in space with using any camera, these sensors will give you tips to run with giving much strains on your Knees or pick up the weights with suitable force. It is a fiber disc, half a dollar coin sized, you can it to track different movements like on your ankle, arm or wrist, you can also mounted on equipments like Cricket bat, or Tennis racket or golf sticks.

Meng Li, cofounder of Moov said “It’s pretty clever. When you’re running, the Moov will give real-time audio tips right through your headphones about how to shorten or lengthen your stride or speed up. And even better, the app can run while your music plays, only interrupting to hit you with a helpful tipI see it as my AI coach who not only tracks my moves, but works out with me in real-time: watches out for me on how to avoid injuries; whispers to me the secrets of losing weight while I do cardio; yells at me when I cheat; and encourages me to beat the pros.


Device basically built by Nikola Hu, Ex-Apple and Halo Game Engineer and Meng Li and Tony Yuan, the firm is powered by a crowd funding from several Investors, and now they seeking $40 K raise, by which they can arrange a initial shipment of 650 Moov units at $59 for a piece. The device will be available to summer, supporting on only iPhone.

Here is the official video from the company