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Wouldn’t it be nice if your body sent you a text message reminding you to take your daily medication? These brand new microchip-implanted pills do just that, and more. Read on for the full story via brit
2020:
First wirelessly controlled drug-delivery chip successfully tested | KurzweilAI
Researchers from MIT and MicroCHIPS Inc. have developed and tested a programmable, wirelessly controlled chip to administer daily doses of an osteoporosis drug normally given by injection.
This is the first successful test of such a device and could help usher in a new era of telemedicine — delivering health care over a distance, say MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima, who had the idea 15 years ago.
Pharmacy on the chip
“You could literally have a pharmacy on a chip,” says Langer. “You can do remote control delivery, you can do pulsatile drug delivery, and you can deliver multiple drugs.”
(via journo-geekery)
2020:USB stick can sequence DNA in seconds
Philips just released a new iPad 2 app called Vital Signs Camera that uses the camera to measure your heart and breathing rate. It detects subtle beat-to-beat changes in the color of your face to measure your heart rate.
We’re slowly living in the future.
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 Minnesota report that their volunteers can successfully fly a helicopter (admittedly a virtual one, on a computer screen) through a three-dimensional digital sky, merely by thinking about it. Signals from electrodes taped to the scalp of such pilots provide enough information for a computer to work out exactly what the pilot wants to do.
(Source: azspot)
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The computer that predicts the future -
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 follow his stream?
The Martin jetpack will be available in 2012 for $100,000
iPhone device can test glucose levels via a “nano tattoo”
The future of healthcare is going to be awesome.
via brit
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You can shift this Prius bike with only using your mind…seriously.
The team set me up with a neurotransmitter helmet connected to an iPhone 4 mounted on the stem. The neurotransmitters are embedded in the helmet. Sync your brain bucket to your phone and you can switch gears simply by thinking about it.
Shifting couldn’t be easier. Think, “shift up” and it does in a blink of an eye. It’s faster and smoother than anything else I’ve ridden. It can be tricky, because you’ve got to keep your head clear — the neurotransmitters work off your brain activity, so if your mind is bombarded with grocery lists or thoughts chasing down that guy who blew by you, shifting could be tricky
First ping-pong, now this! If only this worked for TV channels.
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HBS Student Creates Smartphone App To Detect Malaria -
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.”