New Contact Lens Technology to Help Diagnose and Monitor Medical Conditions
Written by AZoOpticsMar 11 2021
A new contact lens technology that can enable diagnosis and monitoring of medical conditions could soon be available for clinical trials.
New contact lens technology to help diagnose and monitor medical conditions may soon be ready for clinical trials. Image Credit: Pete Kollbaum.
A research group from Purdue University collaborated with chemical, mechanical and biomedical engineers, together with clinicians, to create the novel technology.
The researchers facilitated commercial soft contact lenses to be used as a bioinstrumentation tool for unobtrusive tracking of clinically significant data linked to underlying ocular health conditions.
New contact lens technology from Purdue University to help diagnose and monitor medical conditions may soon be ready for clinical trials. The team enabled commercial soft contact lenses to be a bioinstrumentation tool for unobtrusive monitoring of clinically important information associated with underlying ocular health conditions.
Mobile technology helps give voice to nonverbal autistic children during pandemic
Noel Nyquist and her daughter, Elle, complete a language learning activity using SPEAKall! (Purdue Research Foundation image)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University technology to assist nonverbal children on the autism spectrum is helping families around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced schools and clinics to rely more on remote options.
The award-winning SPEAKall! application functions as a smart device communication board and language learning platform that teaches students to associate words and images.
In the application, students choose digital cards and move them to the speech bar, then the application reads the sequence aloud word by word. Hearing how the words sound can encourages the autistic learner to make an attempt at saying the word with his or her own voice.
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“This is a quick way to tell friend from foe.”
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