A content management and delivery system for providing targeted content to a user. The system includes a kiosk and sensors for determining whether a user is proximate or within the kiosk and for sensing a user's visually perceptible features.

A storage device stores general content, received primarily from local broadcasters. An experience recommendation engine (AI/ML based) recommends targeted content to a user. The targeted content is selected from the general content based on the emotional state of a current user, as that state is predicted based on the visually perceptible features, and based on a predicted future user behavior or a future user emotional state after exposure to the targeted content. A device at the kiosk presents the targeted content to the user.

In one embodiment, a health monitor for a warm-blooded non-human animal is disclosed. The health sensor is configured to capture health information of the non-human animal. The health monitor includes a display including a light source. The health monitor includes and an evaluating module configured to compare the health information to a first threshold based on a hypothermic condition of the non-human animal, generate a comparison that determines if the health information is less than or equal to the first threshold, and based on the comparison, generate a first alert.

The present invention describes methods of identifying, detecting, imaging, isolating and locating cancer cells in a subject. The method involves the use of near-infrared (NIR) organic carbocyanine dyes, particularly, near infrared heptamethine cyanine dyes and the detection of the fluorescence of these NIR dyes. The uptake of these dyes by cancer cells and not by normal cells, as well as their high intensity, among other things, allow for the detection of cancerous cells in a subject and facilitate their subsequent isolation. Further, detection of many tumor types and tumor cell populations under cell culture and in vivo conditions are described.

A device for measuring body temperature comprising: a first surface for thermal engagement with a body; a second surface substantially opposed to the first surface such that, in use when the first surface is engaged with a body, the second surface is exposed to a thermal environment of the body; first and second temperature sensors encapsulated within a first material; and a second material located between the first and second temperature sensors and intersecting a first axis passing substantially through the first and second sensors and the first and second surfaces; the device being configured such that the net thermal conductivity across the device is greatest along the first axis; and the second material having a volumetric heat capacity which substantially exceeds that of the first material.

Aspects disclosed in the detailed description include an ingestible power harvesting device and related applications. An ingestible power harvesting device includes a cathode electrode and an anode electrode that can catalyze a power generating reaction to generate a direct current (DC) power when surrounded by an acidic electrolyte. The cathode electrode and the anode electrode are coupled to an encapsulated electronic device that includes power harvesting circuitry configured to harvest the DC power and output a DC supply voltage for a prolonged period. In examples discussed herein, the prolonged period is at least five days. The DC supply voltage powers an electronic circuit in the encapsulated electronic device to support a defined in vivo operation (e.g., controlled drug delivery, in vivo vital signs monitoring, etc.). As such, the ingestible power harvesting device can operate in vivo for the prolonged period without requiring an embedded conventional battery.

The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to various devices, systems and methods for gently restraining an unanesthetized laboratory animal, particularly for facial recognition applications. In some applications, the laboratory animal may have been previously cannulated.

A portable kit for generating a digital image of a faecal sample suitable for microscopic analysis, comprises a faecal sample preparation device configured to receive a faecal sample and a faecal flotation fluid, filter a suspension comprising the faecal sample and the faecal flotation fluid to provide a filtrate, a translucent faecal sample support, and a portable digital imaging module. The portable digital imaging module comprises a housing, a camera/microscopic lens assembly configured to generate a digital image of the faecal sample on the sample support, an illumination system, a seat for receiving the faecal sample support disposed between the camera/microscopic lens assembly and illumination system, a memory for storing the digital image, a communication system for communicating the digital image to an off-site image processing module via a communications network, and a battery operatively connected to the camera and microscopic lens assembly, memory and communication system.

A cannula insertion system includes: a contact sensor positioning system arranged to determine a suitable location for insertion of the cannula, where the contact sensor positioning system includes: a contact sensor having a contact surface to be placed at least partially on the human or animal body to enable measurement with the contact sensor, a positioning device configured to support and position the contact sensor, and a control device arranged to control the positioning device to position the contact sensor in a desired position. The contact sensor positioning system includes one or more sensors to determine a position and/or contact force related parameter representative for a position and/or contact force of the contact sensor, and a processing device to process the position and/or contact force related parameter and to provide a position control signal to the control device, where the contact sensor is an imaging sensor.

The present invention relates to an Ocular Videography System for tracking eye movements of an animal, in particular rats, comprising a camera system suitable of being positioned on the head of an animal to track eye movements of at least one eye of the animal, a head mount on which the camera system is fixed or fixable, wherein, at least one image sensor as well as at least one decoder, for decoding a signal detected by the image sensor, each being comprised by the camera system, and wherein the camera system, and in particular a camera of the camera system, is designed in such a way that it detects a movement of the eye and/or a movement of the head of the animal in a vertical and/or horizontal and/or a torsional direction to an optical axis of the camera system and/or of the optical axis of the animal's eye without interfering with the animal's natural motion dynamics.

The present disclose generally relates to a multichannel low-noise amplifier. At each input to the multichannel low-noise amplifiers, a plurality of transistors can be connected in parallel. This parallel connection decreases the voltage noise beyond what is possible using a single input transistor at each input. As an additional benefit, the initial operating region of the input transistors is not changed. The multichannel low-noise amplifier can be incorporated on a single integrated circuit chip to amplify biological signals to facilitate selective recording of a property (e.g., amplifying neural signals to facilitate selective recording of neural activity).