Health and Hygiene Category - Page 6

Projectors are great, especially when you can attach something like “biggest” or “brightest” on to the narrative somewhere. But “smallest” definitely works, and the upcoming projector from Lemoptix may well be one of the smallest ever seen.

Half of this point is an amazing, dizzying hope for the future, where diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are wiped out by a small thing you wear on your head, possibly inside a hat. And the other half is an Orwellian nightmare unlike anything man has ever seen. What could [...]

There was once an old Dilbert strip that said the driving forces behind technology were money and male hormones. It further posited that, should virtual reality ever get cheaper than dating, society itself was doomed. Ladies and gentlemen, behold your doom.

We’ve heard people telling government to get out of their bodies, their bedrooms, their houses and everything in between, but the city of Cleveland looks to take a bold step by being the first government everyone there wants out of their garbage.

Robots that double as hospital beds are strange enough, but to see one of them smiling at me is a combination best left unexplored. Of course, that means I’m going to have to explore the concept as I get a rare second piece of robot news in one day. Today [...]

Any time I hear about a strange new development involving robots, my first impulse is always to wonder, is it Japanese? It seems like Japan is getting to be the world’s go-to guy when it comes to automatons. And now, the Saitama University Human-Robot Interaction Center has brought me something [...]

Admittedly, most people don’t have problems with their washers and dryers. But when a problem does emerge, it’d be nice to know what that problem is instead of trying to search for parts that seem to have trouble. LG thinks they’ve got an answer for that with their SmartDiagnose line [...]

I don’t know whether to be horrified or amazed, folks–seems that the crew out at the University of Calgary has managed to create a kind of biological microchip comprised of silicon…and human brain cells.

I think it’s safe to say we all pretty much hate cancer. That’s not a real leap to say that we all hate fatal, often painful, diseases with no cure and just as painful treatment. So it’s definitely going to come as happy news to find out there’s a new [...]

Speaking as someone with a diabetic aunt, this can not come too soon for any diabetic out there, Type One or Type Two. But the University of Tokyo is hard at work on an implantable sensor that will tell, at a glance, the level of sugar currently in the bloodstream.