Meet Ally: an AI assistant for digital accessibility
Integrated into the control centre dashboard Ally is your personal expert for achieving digital accessibility. The software lets you scan your entire system for WCAG compliance and get a comprehensive overview with detailed reports and real-time improvement suggestions, all while ensuring your data stays private. Ally also analyzes audit errors, describes faulty code, and provides troubleshooting tips to empower companies’ and individuals to resolve accessibility challenge efficiently.
Faster production time with 3D printing
Now used extensively for creating and accelerating the production process in assistive devices, 3D printing is an affordable, easily assessable tool. Uses include made-to-measure prosthetics, replacement joints, dental implants and hearing aids to mention but a few. For instance, with 3D printing technology the production time it takes to produce a person’s new hearing aids has now gone from more than a week to less than a day.
VR is for more than movies
In the medical field VR helmets are being used to give full sight inside a patient’s body so that surgeons can rehearse procedures. It can also help people ‘unlearn’ chronic pain and provide people living with mental health issues overcome fears. Recent data shows that 2 hours of VR based treatment for fear of heights can reduce patient anxiety by sixty-eight percent.
Smart and smarter bandages
With thin electronic layers with sensors to help improve healing and reduce scars, today’s wireless smart bandages offer faster, more effective wound healing. Sensors can trigger more stimulation to promote tissue closure. In latest news, a team of researchers from the UK and France developed a bandage, embedded with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to bathe wounds in sterilizing ultraviolet light – the benefit – to prevent the growth of bacteria without the use of drugs like antibiotics.
Red light therapy
Applying non-invasive light to produce a positive response in cells has become an innovative modality for reducing inflammation and increasing production of ATP, collagen and DNA. According to experts red light therapy can help patients recover fasting by acting on light-reactive molecules called chromophores. Just like the chlorophyll in plants, chromophores trigger a cellular response when exposed to certain wavelengths of light.
