Company founded by Bristol student wins prestigious engineering award

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Company founded by Bristol student wins prestigious engineering award

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           The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) is recently prestigious awarded to a company which is developed a unique tectile senstion technology. Using tech tactile tile sensation technology can be control in between mid air using gesture.

Tom Carter is a student of PhD at University of Bristol and who is developed the Ultrahaptics technology. At Royal Academy of Engineering's AGM he and his colleagues awarded with Colin Campbell Mitchell Award.

This prestigious award to individual or six engineers of UK who has much hard work and contribution to develop this technology usable. This team developed the technology that people intract with machine through air with simple gesture using ultrasound.

Ultrahaptics technlogy allows user to intract with system and feel in the air like button to control ON and OFF without toching it, user can dial over air, 3D shapes and virtual force in mid-air.
University's Research and Enterprise Development team early support to commercialise this technology and University's EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account is funded.

Ultrahaptics joined the Bristol SETsquared Centre - the University's award-winning business incubator - hot on the heels of winning the University's New Enterprise Competition three years ago.

Ultrahaptics technology since founded it can be consider to use in commercial and replance the old technology button and interfacing devices with this cool ultrahaptical technology like home thether, radio, etc.

In Ultrahaptics technology the generic array of ultrasonic tranducer generates the ultrsonic sound in phase pattern and reflected ultrasound using to find the position, created three dimentional images shapes and textuer in middle air. For this techology a complex algoritham developmend by Professor Sriram Subramanian and Dr Ben Long which is also in team.

The outcome of the research has firmly placed the UK at the forefront of international computer human interaction engineering.

This team of Ultrahaptics quickly attracted many seed funding from the IP group from founded ultrahaptics since 2013.

By the end of 2014 this team get many funds and investement from Venture capitalists and government grants from  multiple commercial opportunities for the technology. In 2104 Jaguar Land Rover using ultrahaptics technology for there dashboards using gesture control with  more intuitive and safer by creating haptic feedback for the driver.


Tom Carter said: "It's a privilege to have our work be recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

"We see the development of this technology as the first step on a journey which will forever transform the way humans interact with computers, and the whole team at Ultrahaptics is very excited to be at the forefront of this era of change.”

Nigel Perry MBE FREng, Chairman of the Royal Academy of Engineering's Awards committee, said: "The Royal Academy of Engineering is delighted to award the Ultrahaptics team for their innovation.

"Ultrahaptics' technology has made a pioneering contribution to this hugely exciting field and provides an excellent example of how engineering research and ingenuity continues to advance the interface between society and technology."


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BrainSonix: Revolutionary Technology Shows How to Bring a Brain Back to Life

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BrainSonix: Revolutionary Technology Shows How to Bring a Brain Back to Life

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 Due to the sound of science a 25 year old man brain is alive again at  Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. This 25 year old man was in coma, a mishap in traffic cased several injury his brain.  Instead of electricity, this postmodern Prometheus was reanimated with the use of sound waves, 19 days after he initially fell into a coma.  Professor Alexander Bystritsky developed a new method of sonic simulation at  UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behaviour. They are professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences. Today to costly treatment for severe brain injury. But thy developed a successful "first in man" clinical trial which is alternate best solution as low cost.  Professor Bystritsky developed the BXPulsar 1001 LIFUP device privately at  BrainSonix Inc. This device generates tiny spear accosting energy i.e. ultrasonic pulses with 100 Hz frequency repeatedly and every pulse width 0.5 millisecond. Using this device it target specific malfunctioning neuron circuits using fMRI [functional magnetic resonance imaging] feedback and repair circuit using LIFUP to active or inhibit them Researchers administered 10 “sonications" for 10 minute with 30 seconds of interval. Before treatment patient show minimum sign consciousness  and understanding speech but after sonications treatment a day patient shows amazing sign of improvement.  he was able to reach for objects in response to prompts from his caregivers. After two days of treatment it show “Coma Recovery Scale-Revised” from CRS-R 15 to CRS-R 17 and third day patient can understand language with respond yes and no with head gesture . These are all behaviour consistent with emergence from a “minimally conscious state.” Professor Martin Monti told at UCLA Newsroom “The changes were remarkable. ”  They told that it is safe treatment because it isn't use much energy. The professor Monti were used Ultrasound technology  to target specific aera of brain called thalamus and without non-invasive. At UCLA  Professor Martin Monti is associate professor of psychology and neurosurgery  and ead author of a study detailing the new technique.

Today surgical procedure include an electrode inserts 3 inches in thalamus and administered the treatment in an MRI scanner. This procedure is simply risky. Ability to target to specific part of brian is very critical but repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for example is also non-invasive and effective, but not target very well because simulation area of brain is very large and complex. And it doesn’t incorporate neuroimaging, which helps isolate parts of the brain that require treatment.
cranial electrotherapy stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation are the other electrical and magnetic simulation devices are not targeted procedures. There are many question of Food and Drug Adminisration for their effectiveness. To get proper solution of this question professor Pault Vespa done many LIFUP test on sever patients and if they get average positive result then BrainSonix will go ahead on this project and building a portable device like "helmet" will some day might help to patients wake from vegetative states. This is the way excitement that new way using old technology.
Science of sound is nearly 3000 year old since Pythagoras wrote a mathematically, the piezoelectric effect discovered in 1880 by Jacques and Pierre Curie to generate and detect the ultrasonic waves, from 50 years till we are using ultrasonograpy tool which is also used for to get image of baby during pregnancy, It also used for anesthesiologists, cardiologists, neurologists, ophthalmologists, and urologists.
Science of sound is not only limited to medicine field but also covers many industrial field. Ultrasound cameras, for example, help companies in the oil and gas, aerospace, power generation, nuclear, and automotive industries diagnose infrastructure corrosion and flaws, thus protecting valuable assets and preventing major accidents and downtime.
         But BrainSonic is using new way ultrasonic technology as a therapy to overcome present therapy which having several limitation for patients suffering form brain injuries. Such patients can lose almost all autonomy, some of them on a temporary basis, some of them permanently.
With this new innovation and portable product the Research and Markets valued the global portable ultrasound device market at approximately $946.5 million in 2015. And it’s forecast to grow to $1.274 billion by 2021. Either it is requires to make potable product more rugged or making them useful work in medical field case cutting cost. BrainSonic annual growth rate 5% than other ultrasonic Industry.
Advancement in modern intensive care medicine case an average of survival in several brain injuries certainly improved . But their are many people don't recover from coma and rest of the life in unconscious or conscious state.
As the UCLA researchers point out, “These conditions place great emotional and financial strain on families, lead to increased burn-out rates among caretakers, impose financial stress on medical structures and public finances due to the costs of prolonged intensive care, and raise difficult legal and ethical questions.”
         But more than that, BrainSonix’s technology will help people talk, walk, and live normally again.
          Original News from http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2016/08/31/brainsonix-revolutionary-technology-shows-bring-brain-back-life/

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