using the jellfyish - and its tentacles equipped with repeating patterns of sticky structures - for inspiration, researchers have built a microchip coated with long strands of repeating DNA sequences that bind to specific proteins on cancer cells as they float by in the blood stream.
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Ridogulous Labs has developed the Smart Collar, a dog collar that works with a smartphone app and a proprietary algorithm to ensure that your canine compan.
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Suspected brain injuries can be difficult to diagnose, and expensive CT scanners are the best way to look for edemas and hematomas. But CT scanners are large, expensive, ionizing, and require specialists to operate.
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The human brain is a fragile, and quite fallible, thing. Nowadays we rely on Google and quick texts to obtain information instead of study or wracking our noggins in a feverish frenzy. In short, the ... Delete the scoop?
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As Stacey Burr (member of the conference advisory board and VP of adidas Wearable Sports Electronics) said in her opening address, topics ranged from “bras to tanks and DARPA to DIY.” In the crowd were CEOs, students, ... Delete the scoop?
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“The Future of Wearable Technology” by PBS Arts: Off Book takes a look at the state of the art in wearable technology, from fashion, to health, to the DIY community. As computing moves from our desktops to our phones, we ... Delete the scoop?
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Robotic arm prostheses are rapidly advancing in terms of strength, speed, and the way they interface with the human body. Delete the scoop?
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Have you heard that Google Glass will let you snap photos by winking? Why that’s still going to feel weird.
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Fight Jet Lag With This Wearable Light - Mashable Mashable Frequent travelers who constantly fly across multiple time zones know how hard it is to even maintain a semblance of a "normal" sleep schedule.
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The term 'prosthetic' is now attributed to the branch of surgery dedicated to replacing missing or defective limbs, but to the Ancient Greeks it was an altogether more assertive concept meaning 'to add', 'to advance' or 'to give power to'. Delete the scoop?
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Serious burns are horrible enough when they happen, but complications that arise from opportunistic infections can be lethal, particularly in children with weak immune systems. Delete the scoop?
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View the agenda for Smart Fabrics 2013 to preview all of the upcoming innovations that you'll be able to see at this year's conference in San Francisco. Delete the scoop?
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Phys.Org Smarty pants: Wearable electronics will recharge your life - Science News Phys.Org You could have a jacket that's a wearable mobile phone, with a flexible electronic screen printed on the cuffs, flexible phone circuit boards woven into the...
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As the technology industry sets its sights on wearable computing, it's time for fashion and luxury brands to take the space seriously, or risk losing highly lucrative real estate on the emerging battleground of the human body.
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Interesting that thye reduce the human body to: two wrists and one face. Again its here where an engagement with contemporary jewellery designers could open up their perception of where an object can be worn ont he body and how. Delete the scoop?
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This past week at TEDMED the Medgadget editors did not get too much sleep, so when we heard that a new sleep-improvement device has come on the market we decided to learn more. Turns out we had covered this one for the first time back in November.
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3dprinter.net collected some homemade 3dprinted medical devices. MediBrace by juniortan. Finger Splint / Finger Protector by carbonbased. See more medical devices on 3dprinter.net. Source: 3dprinter.net.
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