Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The National Air and Space Museum Delegate Dinner



This year's TEDMED nightlife includes a night at The National Air and Space Museum. This Delegate dinner celebration features all-access to the museum, phenomenal food and a conveyor belt of desserts. 


Hive Hopes For The Future: Visualdx, The ARTS And CRAFTS Of Diagnosis

Hive Hopes For The Future is a segment focused on the technologies featured at the TEDMED Hive. 
(Art and Craft...Sorry guys I can't resist a good tagline!!!)

 Art Papier and Noah Craft are dermatologist who have come to TEDMED with an innovation in diagnostic programming and they want you to see it. On average, twenty-five percent of initial diagnoses are wrong. Visualdx is a diagnostic decision support tool. It allows you to create searches based on anything from symptoms to patient history, and then refine your search based on co-morbidities and further demographics, to arrive at possible diagnoses. For example, search the patient’s symptom of a rash>on a child>confined to trunk>patient also has sore throat>Voila! An array of possible diagnoses is propagated; many accompanied by a library of images, enabling doctors to confirm the diagnosis, demonstrate to patients and educate students.
(Get it here: http://www.visualdx.com/)

Hive Hopes For The Future: Emotiv Is Reading Your Mind

Hive Hopes For The Future is a segment focused on the technologies featured at the TEDMED Hive. 

An EEG is a device that measures brain activity. Emotiv has harnessed the power of brainwaves via EEG headset, to allow you to control the digital world with your mind. Delegates wear headsets, which measure brain activity, thereby allowing them to manipulate shapes and play video games using only their brain waves. This technology can be applied to anything from electronic wheelchairs to everyday web surfing. 

Manzari Brothers: A Signal In The Noise



Teen dance sensations, John and Leo tap into the soul of health. 
(I apologize for the video quality. The Manzari brothers can also be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN6uUBeYCWQ)

ZdoggMD



ZdoggMD, a doctor mashing medicine, music and megalomania in an effort to educate and entertain.

I Can't Explain It, But It's Happening


 
Richard Simmons dance-along. And yes, I believe that is the director of NIH shakin it in the second row.

Backstage With Special Corespondent, Michael Codini

Harvard grad and fellow GWU medical student, Michael Codini, backstage with none other than exercise enthusiast Richard Simmons. Mr. Simmons sends these words of wisdom to you now "Those with egos are not my amigos."

Look for his TED talk later today!