The Role of 3D Printing in Custom Prosthetics has transformed how clinicians, designers, and patients imagine replacement limbs and adaptive devices. Additive manufacturing enables a shift from one-size-fits-all components to personalized sockets, hands, feet, and adaptive aids that fit the wearer’s anatomy, lifestyle, and goals. Historically, prosthetic components were shaped around generic dimensions or required costly manual modifications by skilled technicians. With 3D printing, digital models can be created from patient scans, manipulated ...
Medical Technology & Innovations
In recent years a broad ecosystem of wearable devices has begun to permeate everyday life, transforming how people observe and interpret one of the most intimate aspects of health: sleep. What began as simple activity trackers with a pretend sleep checklist has evolved into sophisticated systems that continuously collect data through multiple sensors while the user goes about daily routines and then returns a comprehensive map of nocturnal patterns. The promise of wearables in monitoring sleep rests on the idea that sleep is not a static event ...
In recent decades, the field of surgical technology has undergone a transformation driven by rapid advances in digital design and manufacturing. The advent of three dimensional printing, also known as additive manufacturing, opened a pathway from traditional mass produced instruments to individualized tools tailored to the unique anatomy of a patient or the specific requirements of a surgical team. Historically, surgeons relied on standardized instruments that could be adapted only within the constraints of conventional manufacturing. The emerg...
Wearable technology encompasses a broad family of devices designed to be carried on the body or integrated into clothing and accessories, enabling continuous collection of physiological signals, movement data, environmental context, and behavioral patterns. At its core, a wearable is a compact sensor suite paired with a processing unit and a communication channel that links to a smartphone, cloud service, or dedicated app. The promise of these devices lies not in a single metric but in a holistic picture that combines heart rate, gait, sleep st...