Important Innovations Collection

The Technology Being Deployed is Unprecedented at the Tokyo Summer Games Source:  Toyota Miraitowa and Someity - The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Mascots Tokyo 2020 Olympics for Athletes and Latest Technology For the Tokyo 2020 Olympics a big crowd pleaser will be the technology deployed.  The official game mascots are two adorable robots - Miraitowa and Someity, just unveiled at Toyota headquarters in Tokyo, Japan  The humanoid meeters and greeters are programmed to show facial expressions as they greet athletes and fans . There's a lot more technology beyond the mascots including a unique tele-presence for fans to remotely interact with athletes. New Automated Helpers Toyota and Panasonic are teaming up to develop automated field helpers during the games. The automated machines will help officials at throwing events by retrieving javelins and hammers during competitions.  Robots with cameras will broadcast live action and give fans a sense of virt...

First Test for CTE in the Living Source:  Stock Image Game-changing Discovery by Boston University Scientists Boston University research scientists have just announced a big breakthrough in brain research on CTE, Chronic Traumatic Encepthalopathy.  CTE is a fatal brain condition caused by blows to the head, particularly common in football and other sports. Until now, there was no way to diagnose it in the living. BU Discovered An Abnormal Protein Tau Linked to CTE The researchers examined the brains of ex-NFL players who died and found the abnormal protein tau that is an indicator of CTE in many of their brains.  The breakthrough is, for the first time, the scientists are able to detect signs of CTE through the presence of tau in living patients.  BU scientists brain scanned 26 living, ex-NFL players and 31 ordinary people with no history of brain injuries. The scans lit up much more frequently for tau in the football players indicating they are suffering ...