MIT Grad Student’s Invention Could One Day Prevent Falls For Those With Balance Problems

Your grandmother might have little in common with an astronaut, but both could benefit from a new device an MIT graduate student is designing to test balancing ability. The iShoe insole could help doctors detect balance problems before a catastrophic fall occurs, says Erez Lieberman, a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology who developed the technology as an intern at NASA.

More: continued here

Filed under: Medical Devices on July 25th, 2008