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Personalized Bicompartmental Knee Implants from ConforMIS Go On Sale

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2008-08-05 16:21:18 by Michael in Medgadget
...knee implants. The iDuo Bicompartmental Knee Resurfacing System is shaped to the individual recipient from his or her CT scans, the big idea being to reduce the size of the implant and therefore preserve more of the natural bone. The iDuo is a bicompartmental resurfacing implant designed for patients whose arthritic damage is limited to...
 
Tags: bicompartmental knee implants, bicompartmental knee, bicompartmental, iduo resurfaces, iduo, iduo bicompartmental knee, knee, total knee replacement, patients
 
 
 
 
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Knee power used as energy source

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2008-02-08 16:00:13 by Edwin in Coolest Gadgets
...knee. Sounds like a no-brainer to help keep your BlackBerrys and PSPs juiced up at all times if youre the type who tends to do a whole lot of walking. This modified knee brace comes equipped with a drive train that is capable of converting mechanical energy into electricity, collecting lost energy whenever a person brakes the knee after...
 
Tags: energy, knee, power, mechanical energy, energy tree, knee brace, lost energy, power house, energy consumption
 
 
 
 
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iUni Resurfacing Knee Approved in US, Now Goes to Europe

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2008-02-26 08:32:00 by Michael in Medgadget
...knee arthroplasty system, already approved by the FDA, has now been OK'ed by European regulators with the CE Mark More about the device, taken from the product page at ConforMIS: How it Works The personalized iUni is designed to form fit onto the subchondral bone surface of the patient's femoral condyle, replacing the damaged cartilage with a...
 
Tags: iuni, knee, conformis iuni, bone cut, posterior bone cut, osteoarthritic knee, system, knee arthroplasty system, conformis
 
 
 
 
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First Video of Electricity-Generating Knee Brace [Electricity]

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2008-02-07 22:48:12 by Benny Goldman in Gizmodo
...knee brace that generates enough electricity to power 10 cellphones was demonstrated by scientists recently. The brace harvests the energy of a person's knee braking after taking a step, similar to the way hybrid car brakes collect energy to charge their batteries. The device only weighs 3.5 pounds, and does not need the intense effort that...
 
Tags: brace, knee brace, knee, power, electricity, power gps locators, energy, charge prosthetic knees, energy generators
 
 
 
 
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Knee brace generates electricity on the go

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2008-02-08 13:26:01 by Darrin Olson in SlipperyBrick
...knee brace that generates electricity from your steps. The brace takes advantage of the stop energy that occurs after swinging the knee forward which would otherwise dissipate as heat, much like braking on an electric or hybrid car According to the initial studies on the 3.5 pound prototype, a person walking at 2.2 mph was able to create...
 
Tags: brace, electricity, knee brace, brace takes advantage, hybrid car, knee forward, generator, power, pound prototype
 
 
 
 
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Knee Brace Generates Electricity

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2008-02-08 13:40:37 by Josh in Medgadget
...knee brace that has countless practical, medical, and military applications. "Walking is a lot like stop-and-go driving," explained Dr Max Donelan of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, lead author of the paper Within each stride muscles are continuously accelerating and decelerating the body Hybrid electric cars take advantage of...
 
Tags: knee brace, electricity, energy, prosthetic knee, max donelan, biomechanical energy, prosthetic, max donelan led, knee brace assists
 
 
 
 
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Electricity-generating knee brace fails the American Dream

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2008-02-08 09:01:00 by Paul Miller in Engadget
...knee brace. The device generates electricity in a method similar to regenerative breaking in a hybrid car, so the attempt is to harvest wasted kinetic energy in your knee from when your leg hits the ground and at other points in your stride. Hopes are to reclaim this energy for use to power gadgetry on your person, or perhaps a prosthetic...
 
Tags: knee, knee brace, watt, electricity, energy, extra watt, kinetic energy, researchers, researchers claim
 
 
 
 
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Electricity-generating knee brace fails the American Dream

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2008-02-08 15:02:06 by admin in Cool Gadgets and Gizmos
...knee brace. The device generates electricity in a method similar to regenerative breaking in a hybrid car, so the attempt is to harvest wasted kinetic energy in your knee from when your leg hits the ground and at other points in your stride. Hopes are to reclaim this energy for use to power gadgetry on your person, or perhaps a prosthetic...
 
Tags: knee, knee brace, watt, electricity, energy, extra watt, kinetic energy, researchers, researchers claim
 
 
 
 
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Power-Generating Bionic Knee

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2008-02-08 14:02:50 by admin in GadgetBB News Blog
...knee has been adapted from a knee brace. Although it is said that it could power a small device like a cellphone, it is not aimed at consumers. Instead it could be used by people who dont have an easy access to electricity, like workers in remote areas or explorers. The inventors hope to have a commercial product for field workers in five...
 
Tags: knee, workers, field workers, knee brace, easy access, power, inventors hope, commercial product, timesonline