Health and Hygiene Category - Page 6

Lemoptix Projector Smaller Than Pico [Lemoptix, a Spinoff of EPFL, Creates a Projector With a One Cubic Centimeter Head]

By on Wednesday, 15. September 2010

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.

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DARPA Looking For Remote Controls For Human Mind [DARPA Developing Ultrasound That Can Access Human Mind]

By on Wednesday, 15. September 2010

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 [...]

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Japan Develops Touchable 3D System [Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Develops i3space, A Tactile Feedback System]

By on Friday, 27. August 2010

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.

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Cleveland Set To Shell Out $2.5 Million on RFID-Equipped Trash Cans [RFID Trash Cans in Cleveland Monitor Quantity of Recyclable Waste, Issue Fines If Over Certain Amount]

By on Monday, 23. August 2010

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.

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Yurina Robot Helps Lift, Carry, and Probably Frighten Hospital Patients [The Yurina is a Robotic Bed That Can Move Patients Via A Giant Arm]

By on Monday, 16. August 2010

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 [...]

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Japanese Developing Wheelchair That Automatically Follows Person Next To It [The Saitama University's Human-Robot Interaction Center Develops Homing Wheelchair]

By on Friday, 13. August 2010

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 [...]

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LG SmartDiagnosis Washers and Dryers Tell You What’s Wrong–Musically! [LG SmartDiagnosis Plays Series of Tones to Alert Repairmen To Problems]

By on Thursday, 12. August 2010

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 [...]

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University of Calgary Makes Tiny Computer Brain [A Combination of Silicon and Human Brain Cells Goes Into The University of Calgary's New Neurochip]

By on Wednesday, 11. August 2010

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.

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Nanochip Detects Oral Cancer At A Glance [Simple Test Can Determine 93 Percent Accurately For Oral Cancer]

By on Tuesday, 10. August 2010

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 [...]

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Blood Sugar Sensor Implant Coming Soon? [University of Tokyo Working on Implantable Blood Sugar Sensor That Projects Colored Light Depending on Levels]

By on Monday, 9. August 2010

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.

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