And we're working on devices for him that can help manipulate signals moving to and from these nerve plexi and understand those. So these self-wrapping coiling devices that can fit around the stomach. We're doing some really neat work in cochlear implants.
Fortunately, a copy of his paper fell into the hands of an eager young PhD student, Ernst Ruska. Ruska built his first prototype by coiling up some wire and surrounding it with iron — taking care to leave a gap in the middle. Then, when he passed a current through the coil , it induced a donut-shaped magnetic field through the metal and across this gap.
The other way, depending on where it's located and how big it is, is to do a coiling , which is what they did with me. They did it an emergency coiling procedure, which is pretty crazy. So they go through an artery in your thigh.
You're pulling focus. You're double-checking batteries. You got to-- I mean-- and you're coiling all these ropes, right? So when you're filming climbing, you can't have ropes in your frame, which means that as he's climbing up and you're moving up,
Often, that causes a traumatic insertion, and you're scraping cells, and doing a lot of damage as that cochlear implant is going in. Well, with the self-coiling shape memory polymer-based electrode, what we can do is we can time the recovery force of that material. What you'll notice is that we're never really touching either of those walls as we're inserting this device, and so we can have these modiolar-hugging self-wrapping
When it heats up, these materials can change shape, can change stiffness. So in this case, we're self-coiling a matrix address transistor array around a two-millimeter cable. Here is one of these materials sort of in the flesh in real life.
off, you know, that's a shot every few seconds as the strobe recycles. looked up, as she was coiling her rope on top of this little boulder.
One way is clipping, which is, literally, you go in and you surgically almost, like, put a clothespin and close off the aneurysm. The other way, depending on where it's located and how big it is, is to do a coiling , which is what they did with me. They did it an emergency coiling procedure, which is pretty crazy.
surrendered to modern medicine just in time for the pollen surge in April. It had begun right on schedule the week she returned from Vermont, flickering behind her cheekbones as the year turned, sneaking tendrils of pain along the facial nerves, coiling around her ears and scalp. At her appointment with the internist, she got a prescription for Septin, the best of a bad lot, and asked for Ambien which she had been given but was not yet brave enough to use. Instead, she lay in bed timing the pounding in her head against the dull