Press Releases

A new pediatric medical device being developed by Georgia Tech and Emory University could make life easier for every parent who has rushed to the doctor with a child screaming from an ear infection. Soon, parents may be able to skip the doctor's visit and receive a diagnosis without leaving home by using Remotoscope, a clip-on attachment and software app that turns an iPhone into an otoscope.

The Georgia Tech Leadership Challenge Complex is an innovative, on-campus educational lab that welcomes nearly 4,000 people a year. The course and accompanying workshops are specifically designed for groups. Participants climb cargo nets, walk a tight rope and hop from suspended platforms. The course ends with either a zip-line ride or leaping off the 40-foot high structure (while harnessed). Groups of all sizes can reserve a session by contacting the Georgia Tech Leadership Course at (404) 585-1585.

Researchers at Georgia Tech and Atlanta's Shepherd Center have created a wireless, musical glove that may improve sensation and motor skills for people with spinal cord injuries (SCI). The gadget, Mobile Music Touch, was successfully used by individuals with tetraplegia who suffered their injury more than year before the study, a time frame when most rehab patients see very little improvement for the remainder of their lives. Visit here to learn more: http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=140221.

Georgia Tech's Travis is a smart-phone enabled, robotic musical companion that can respond to and enhance musical experiences. The first application developed for Travis allows the robot to listen to and analyze rhythms played by humans and respond by choosing songs with similar beat and tempo from the phone music library. The robot then dances to the music using a set of expressive gestures that fit the desired tempo and genre. Travis was developed in collaboration with Media Innovation Lab at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzelia, Israel. For more, visit http://www.gtcmt.gatech.edu/research-projects/travis.

The H1N1 swine flu vaccine was distributed November 11, 2009 to students and employees at Georgia Tech.

Georgia Tech Associate Professor Young-Hui Chang discusses the biomechanics of running and why the joints in your hips, knees and ankles "talk" to each other. For more, visit http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=143521.

A team from Georgia Tech, led by Post Doctorate Fellow Mario Romero (School of Interactive Computing) has designed BrailleTouch for touchscreen mobile devices. The prototype app allows visually impaired people to easily type and opens the door for everyone to text or type without looking at the screen. For more information, visit http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=110051

Metro Atlanta high school students are learning computer science by writing code for hip-hop beats. They are using a program designed by researchers at Georgia Tech called Earsketch, remixing samples and loops to create their own tracks. To learn more, visit http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=139831.

The Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition is hosted annually at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The two-day event is recognized as the world's best for music innovation. 23 inventors, composers and designers from 9 countrie are competing. The 2012 dates are February 16-17. For more information, visit http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=109781

NuSTAR telescope launches into orbit and Physics professor David Ballantyne comments.