Year 2006 was full of medical discoveries and there are thousands of medical gadgets that come to forefront in the year. It is never easy to pin down the top ten or twenty out of such a huge record, as every discovery or invention has some special relevance in the particular field. Here are some of the top medical gadgets of the year 2006 that got recognition and appreciation all over the world. Hope you will also acknowledge the pioneering or ground-breaking work!
‘ Blind Reader: Let’s blind people to go throw any type of printed text and fulfill their desire to read as similar as people with normal site. Blind Reader translates the text, be it scanning the text in books or some other printed work, into Braille that further is displayed on a special screen for the blind to lay their hand and go through it. All they have to do is slide the portable reader over any text, which it then scans and translates into Braille on the top surface.
‘ TruTouch: An Alcohol testing systems that can check the alcohol percentage on your system by analyzing your skin.
‘ MOBILETT XP CR: Siemens has developed a new mobile X-ray system that comes with computed radiography (CR) reading technology and allows instantaneous image Display, processing and archiving. It has the capability to store 500 to 1000 exams in its large memory and can transmit images to PACS via DICOM interfaces.
‘The Mitsubishi D702iF: A cell phone dedicated to NTT DoCoMo works more than a run-of-the-mill cell phone by monitoring the lady’s biological rhythm or the menstruation cycle. 
‘Infinity TeleSmart: A WiFi line of telemetry monitoring to provide the service of a full-size patient monitor, wrapped up in a patient-worn telemetry device for adult and pediatric patients, which basically is designed with the needs of clinics and hospitals in mind.
‘ Panorama 1.0T MR Simulator: A new simulator with R/T option is specially designed for radiation oncology. The Panorama 1.0T offers scanning and processing with the single click of the mouse and boosts the operator’s effectiveness by 30%. The Panorama 1.0T is the only high field open MR system boasting high performance body diagnostic imaging capabilities.
‘ Innova Massage Chair: Eases out your body from the whole day exhaustion and saves your money as well as precious time to visit a massage parlor. Allowing 32 types of advance technology massages controlled with the remote, the new SensorScan massage system automatically adjust the massage to the needs of different backs with a refined control panel, which can analyze the back muscles at over 350 massage points providing the optimal massage, placed in the armrest of the chair.
‘ XStrain, Advanced Cardiac Technique: This latest technology from Esaote is a breakthrough in imaging systems. It integrates a new method to estimate and quantify endocardial velocities of contraction and relaxation and also measure the local deformation of the heart. This technology will help researchers explore and quantify the aspects of heart’s physiology which till now was not possible with the present ultrasound technologies.
‘ ProScribe Clinical Wireless Display: facilitates the doctors and nurses to fetch the patient’s data instantly no matter which part of the hospital they are in. The device named ProScribe could be further used to recommend medication or fix lab appointments without any delay.
‘ Pupil, The Robotic Wheelchair For Visually Handicapped: features an adjustable chair that extends to the height of the person and when not in use, it can be pulled in. An Image processing engine changes the route as the robotic wheelchair confronts any obstacle on the move. Its QR codes help it to determine the location.
