November 2011
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October 2011
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Mind-goggling →
IF YOU think the art of mind-reading is a conjuring trick, think again. Over the past few years, the ability to connect first monkeys and then men to machines in ways that allow brain signals to tell those machines what to do has improved by leaps and bounds. In the latest demonstration of this, just published in the Public Library of Science, Bin He and his colleagues at the University of...
Oct 31st
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September 2011
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The computer that predicts the future →
stoweboyd: Charlie Brooker of the Guardian writes about Naulitus, a Uinversity of Illinois supercomputer that reads the news and predicts the outcomes of what it’s reading… except it’s keepers have been finding out it’s been right about the Arab Spring and Bin Laden’s location only retrospectively. Maybe they should stop analyzing Nautilus output, and hook him up to Tumblr, and we could just...
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August 2011
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July 2011
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HBS Student Creates Smartphone App To Detect... →
Attach a lens to the back of a Windows 7 phone, take a drop of blood from the patient and you have instant results and huge improvement over the “current ‘state-of-the-art’ malaria detection method used in these areas [which] involves a cotton swap test that results in only 40% accuracy.”
Jul 8th
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June 2011
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brycedotvc: What the above video lacks in audio and production quality it makes up for in its prescience for the future. Sure you could go drop $150 on the Ray Ban website for a pair of Wayfarers OR you could spend the same amount for this pair of HD enabled, socially networked, video streaming sunglasses and its companion iPhone app on Kickstarter. This project is the brainchild of former FLIP...
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April 2011
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March 2011
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November 2010
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“The test consists of a single-use USB dongle-sized component containing a...”
– New tech lets you pee on your phone to check for an STD
Nov 9th
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October 2010
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June 2010
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“Australia on Tuesday unveiled a prototype bionic eye designed to restore sight...”
– Australia reveals prototype ‘bionic’ eye found via mikehudack
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February 2010
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Aptera - Three wheeled electric car to be sold in...
Aptera Motors has Gullwing doors, up to 100 mpg, environmentally-friendly, aerodynamic, two-seater, three wheeled electric car. submitted by cjx3illo
Feb 27th
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“NTT DoCoMo has created headphones that sense eye movements. For instance, you...”
– Looks can’t kill but might control your phone (via mattlehrer)
Feb 23rd
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Feb 16th
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Feb 9th
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BioBus: Mobile Science Laboratory
The BioBus is a mobile science laboratory. Students on board explore the world around them with research-grade microscopes, and make their own discoveries under the guidance of professional scientists. Awesome Foundation NY have awarded January’s $1000 grant to Ben Dubin-Thaler’s Cell Motion BioBus. They’ll be celebrating with Ben at the First AF-NY Award Ceremony on Monday February 8 at 8 pm,...
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January 2010
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Anthony Atala discusses growing new organs at TEDMED At 11 minutes in he shows a desktop printer, printing a 2-chambered heart!!! Its still experimental and against my policy for this site but the idea of using unnatural organs is amazing and needs to enter the people’s consciousness ASAP.
Jan 21st
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December 2009
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“By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome,...”
– Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time
Dec 31st
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Tis the time to be amazed: A 38-year-old man has regained vision in his blind eye thanks to a new stem cell therapy. It won’t cure all blind people, but it’s a giant leap. Here’s how it works. Englishman Russell Thurnbull got attacked with ammonia 15 years ago during a street fight. As a result, he got an extremely painful condition called Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency, which...
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The 50 Best Inventions of 2009 - TIME →
via jayparkinsonmd:evangotlib:smarterplanet:masstrovato
Dec 11th
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November 2009
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Cough into your mobile phone for instant diagnosis
Software being developed by American and Australian scientists will hopefully allow patients simply to cough into their phone, and it will tell them whether they have cold, flu, pneumonia or other respiratory diseases. [more]
Nov 17th
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October 2009
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“North Carolina State University engineers have created a new fingernail-size...”
– Computer World: Engineers create fingernail-size chip that holds 1TB of data via @gmc
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