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Bodycap develops innovative solutions, promoting new uses and is placed at the service of world players in the health and well-being.
Dec 6, 2015
60 Minutes On This Bicycle Can Power Your Home For 24 Hours
Posted by Matthew White in categories: energy, habitats
Would you exercise for an hour every day if the workout powered your home for twenty-four hours?
People often complain about the high costs of energy and the fact that they “never have time to workout.” This invention certainly solves both conundrums.
And, most importantly, this free power invention has the potential to lift the 1.3 billion people who presently live without electricity out of poverty.
Dec 6, 2015
Google files patent for ‘needle-free’ blood-drawing system
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in category: biotech/medical
WATCH: Google has recently filed a patent for a blood drawing system that is completely needle-free. It could be used to test blood glucose levels for diabetics. Jenny Sung explains.
Dec 6, 2015
Longer Life in a Pill May Already Be Available at Your Local Drug Store
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
To most of the scientific community, “anti-aging” is a dirty word.
A medical field historically associated with charlatans and quacks, scientists have strictly restricted the quest for a “longevity pill” to basic research. The paradigm is simple and one-toned: working on model organisms by manipulating different genes and proteins, scientists slowly tease out the molecular mechanisms that lead to — and reverse — signs of aging, with no guarantee that they’ll work in humans.
But it’s been a fruitful search: multiple drug candidates, many already on the market for immune or psychiatric disorders, have consistently delayed age-associated diseases and stretched the lifespan of fruit flies, roundworms and mice. Yet human trials have been far beyond reach — without the FDA acknowledging “aging” as a legitimate target for drug development, researchers have had no way of pitching clinical trials to the regulatory agency.
Dec 6, 2015
Could RoboBees Ever Take the Place of Real Bees?
Posted by Bryan Gatton in category: robotics/AI
Researchers are developing tiny flying robots that can do many things bees do — and even some things that they can’t. Could they serve as stand-ins for the real insects?
Dec 6, 2015
Beyond the Boundary — The Greatest Challenge: Manned Interstellar Travel
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
By Andreas M. Hein in Artificial Intelligence and Science Fiction. Beyond the Boundary: Exploring the Science and Culture of Interstellar Spaceflight.
Dec 6, 2015
Beyond ‘Back to the Future’: Experts Serve Up Tech Predictions for 2045
Posted by Alexandros El in categories: drones, electronics, transportation
Just How Much Did ‘Back to the Future’ Get Right about October 2015? 2:19.
In “Back to the Future Part II,” Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel from 1985 to October 21, 2015, to find a world filled with flying cars, hoverboards and self-drying jackets.
Those predictions didn’t exactly pan out, although people are working on each of those concepts. (Screenwriter Bob Gale did get a lot of things — from drones to fingerprint scanners — right, as he told TODAY earlier this year.)
