I’m sure that most of our readers who are parents know how important it is when a child learns to walk. I have three young children who have gone through that particular rite of passage, but I take for granted that there are a lot of toddlers who can’t walk at all.

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Ithaca College Tots program uses Wii Balance Board

Where most of us are at, infants have a real fighting chance, even when there are complications with their birth.  However, there are still plenty of areas of this world where that isn’t the case.  The Embrace was designed just for those developing countries.  This instant infant warmer will keep infants warm during those crucial hours after a premature baby has been born. This has the potential to reduce infant mortality in areas of the world that are heavily poverty-stricken.  It uses hot water and gets to the ideal 37-38 degrees Celsius.  Once it has reached that temperature it wraps up the infant tight to make sure they stay warm.  Amazingly, unlike other medical products this has managed to stay at a reasonable price.  They’ll be mass produced and sold for all of $25 to clinics everywhere.  It’s already had a trial run and did quite well in saving Nisha, an infant who needed a little boost in body heat

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Embrace Infant Warmer for developing countries

I’ve never felt the need to own his and hers thermometers.  After all, they all check your temperature well enough.  Sure, some are better to use on squirming children, but between men and women it’s all pretty much the same.  However, the Japanese feel very different than I do as it turns out.  Instead of sharing a thermometer, they have a special washable thermometer just for women. This Celsius thermometer features a backlight that’ll allow for you to even read the temperature in the dark.  Again, yet another thing that I didn’t think I needed.  It’s always so nice to have vendors out there to let you know what you didn’t know you always needed.  Like a pink little thermometer that can be washed up after you’re finished

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Washable Thermometer Just For Women

This is GE Visible You, on display at the Shanghai Expo. As you can see, it can help the user to act out their body as a living X-ray. I’m sure that you’re probably wondering how this could be, as X-rays create a lot of harmful radiation

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GE Visible You makes you a dancing skeleton

This Smart Helmet, developed by Northeastern University researchers, is designed for skiers, even though I never remember skiing with a helmet on. Of course, I never biked with a helmet on either, and I think that is a requirement now. I don’t know about wearing a helm on the slopes.

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Smart Helmet detects how hard you have crashed

Some of you might remember the story about Oscar the bionic cat , and how he was given legs to walk again. Rex is a set of bionic legs that is ready to make a person walk again. I have included a video after the jump of Hayden Allen, a man who has not been able to walk for five years

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Rex bionic legs helps this man to walk again

Some of us absolutely hate swallowing pills, simply because our gag reflex will kick into action whether we like it or not.

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Automatic Pill Grinder could help the older folks out

Nothing I like reporting more than reporting on tech from science-fiction that becomes science fact. Especially when it comes to Star Trek , the original series

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Hypospray from Star Trek is real, but with lasers

In case you are one of those people who think that First Person Shooter games are nothing but a vain activity, then you should know that they are sometimes used to train for combat. I’m sure that comes as no surprise, as what could be better for training a soldier to go into enemy territory than an FPS game. Believe it or not, these are also being used to train medics.

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FPS games to teach medics

I am not old enough to remember a time when a rescue dog consisted of a Saint Bernard with a small barrel of brandy around its neck. Fortunately, we are doing things differently now. Here’s another development in rescue dogs with this project from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.

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Messenger Dogs get a technical upgrade