Treadmill for infants with Down's

• The scientists have invented the tiny treadmill to help infants with down's syndrome to walk earlier as compared to before. This is considered as one of the best inventions of the year.
• The infants with down's syndrome learn to walk after 24 to 26 months as compared to the normal children who learn to walk between 12 to 16 months.
• The tiny treadmill developed by Dale Ulrich of the University of Michigan help develop the fore muscles and support drive to stand up.
  

New goggles that turns night into day!

• The scientists at the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre have developed the night vision nightgoggles that helps the people in air ambulance services.
• This technology was already used in military operations and spy missions. The night vision goggles can enhance light by 10,000 times. The Vanderbilt's 3 life bases are already using this technology and the 4th base is likely to be trained by early 2010.
• The night vision goggles helps one to see a lit cigarette 10 miles away.
• The night vision goggles helps pilots and nurses in scene landing as it helps them to see trees, power lines, high terrains and other hazards on the ground.
• The night vision goggles works by absorbing the light from the moon,stars and other sources and is saved in a tube which helps to amplify the image on a phosphorus screen that is seen through the eye piece.
• The pilots and nurses need a 5 hour training programme in using the night vision goggles and the pilots need additional hours of training on the sky including take off, landing and emergency handling and transmission from night vision to normal vision.
• The night vision goggles resemble the binoculars and are mounted on the front of the helmet.
• The night vision goggles have a disadvantage of loss of peripheral vision as it is looking like between two tubes.

A device to diagnose cermical cancer in minutes.

• A good news for cervical cancer patients. Thanks to the British scientists who have developed a device which reduces the diagnosis of cervical cancer to just a few minutes instead of weeks.
• The device called APX looks like a TV remote control with a pen like probe on its end.
• The device eases the trauma of smear testing for women.
• The APX developed by Sheffield University operates by passing a very mild electric current into the cervix and monitoring it through its cells. It is a completely painless procedure. The cancerous cells are detected as they conduct electricity faster as compared to healthy cervical cells.
  

Not able to keep a tab on your drinking limits.Your smart phone can help you!

• Now your smart phone can also help you to keep a tab on your alcohohol consumption with a free application launched by UK health minister on Monday.
• The device which can be downloaded to your smart phone will allow the rsers to see how many units of alcohol is there in their drinks. It will also provide the total units of alcohol comsumed by the users and give personalised services as regards their drinking habits.
• People generally underestimate the quantum of alcohol consumed by them and exceed the safe limits. The application can be downloaded from iTunes and nhs,UK.
  

Lightsleeper, a device to help insomniacs to sleep.

• Are you the one suffering from sleep disorders and taking aid of soeeping pills. You have a good news. Lightsleeper is here now to make you sleep and get rid of sleeping pills.
• The Lightsleeper, a device to help the insomniacs is designed by Kate Evans of Central Lancashire University to help tackle her sleepless nights.
• The Lightsleeper costing around 125 pounds works by spreading a blue light across the ceiling.
  

Body clock with parts that never wear out.

• British scientists are working on regenerative thearapies that could provide elderly people with long lasting body parts.
• To begin with the project aims to provide long lasting hips, knees and heart valves.
• The Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Leeds University has already performed a hip transplant that could last for life.
• According to scientists, the combination of the cobalt chrome metal alloy sockets and ceramic balls provide the joints a long lasting life.
• The scientists are also working on transplantable tissues and organs that the body can make on its own to avoid the fear of rejection. The process involves the taking out of the required part from a healthy donor or other animal and the cells are gently stripped away using a combination of enzymes and detergents. The heart valve scaffold is then trasplanted into the patient without any fear of rejection. Trying this on animals and 40 patients in Brazil have shown promising results. Trials are also being conducted on donor skin for burns patients.