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Oct 25, 2015
Samsung’s latest batteries make unusual wearables possible
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: energy
Samsung’s latest battery prototypes could lead not only to more powerful wearables, but also to unusual ones. The first model called Band is meant to be attached to smartwatch straps, as its name implies, to add as much as 50 percent of the device’s original battery life. Stripe, on the other hand, is the thin, bendy strip the model above is holding in her hands — and the more versatile between the two. Since it’s extremely thin (it has a depth measuring 0.3mm), it could be used to create all kinds of wearables, such as smart necklaces and headbands, or even interactive clothing designs. According to Samsung, it has higher energy density than current comparable batteries, though it didn’t name any particular brand and model.
Oct 25, 2015
California Hyperloop Test Track Will Start Construction Soon
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Construction on the first Hyperloop test track will begin soon in California. It’s going to be expensive.
Oct 25, 2015
Watch 12 Cars Morph From Concept to Reality
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Oct 25, 2015
23andMe Launches New Consumer Test Service to Check for Genetic Disorders
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in category: genetics
Two years after the FDA took action against the DNA-testing start-up, the company is now offering carrier screening tests for 36 conditions.
Oct 25, 2015
Quantum skeptics now predict a working computer in 10 years
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: computing, quantum physics
Even D-Wave’s detractors are starting to feel like quantum computers are getting close, though only for some applications.
Oct 25, 2015
Scientists Connect Brain to a Basic Tablet—Paralyzed Patient Googles With Ease
Posted by Phillipe Bojorquez in categories: biotech/medical, mobile phones, neuroscience
That was the year she learned to control a Nexus tablet with her brain waves, and literally took her life quality from 1980s DOS to modern era Android OS.
A brunette lady in her early 50s, patient T6 suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), which causes progressive motor neuron damage. Mostly paralyzed from the neck down, T6 retains her sharp wit, love for red lipstick and miraculous green thumb. What she didn’t have, until recently, was the ability to communicate with the outside world.
Oct 25, 2015
Two-party politics has killed independent’s day
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, life extension, transhumanism
Transhumanism featured in The Times of London, a major UK paper. Sorry, you do need a subscription, I think:
Zoltan Istvan is campaigning for the White House by promising voters everlasting life. He is the Transhumanist party’s presidential nominee and he is touring the US in a vehicle shaped like a coffin that he calls the immortality bus.
He believes that technology will eventually allow humans to live for ever. His message, he says, is connecting with the millennial generation who were born from the early 80s onwards. But he has little money and his bus, which is very old, keeps breaking down. “I know what the chances are,” he told me of his attempt to capture the Oval…
Oct 25, 2015
Fighting Aging With Gene Therapy: An Exclusive Interview With Liz Parrish, The Pioneer Who Wants To Keep You Young
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, health, life extension, neuroscience
Nice interview by The Longevity Reporter about BioViva Sciences Inc.
Liz Parrish isn’t your average CEO. A passionate advocate for change, her.
company BioViva is leading the fight for healthy longevity with pioneering.
gene therapies targeting Alzheimer’s, sarcopenia and even aging itself.
Parrish dreams big, but she’s a woman of action. She’s even demonstrated.
her commitment by testing cutting-edge therapies on herself. Could her.
efforts change how we think about aging? Is gene therapy the future or are.
we moving too fast? We caught up with the woman herself to find out more.
