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Mar 22, 2016
Clarius Introduces Wireless Ultrasound Transducer for Your Smartphone
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: health, mobile phones
Clarius Mobile Health, a firm based outside of Vancouver, Canada, is unveiling a wireless ultrasound transducer that uses your Android or Apple iPhone as the display and control system. There aren’t many details provided by Clarius about the product, but the company expects these ultrasounds to be used for procedures such as nerve blocks and for helping to deliver needle injections. The device has yet to receive clearance from the world’s regulatory bodies.
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Mar 22, 2016
Should You Get Paid For Your DNA?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Mar 22, 2016
Scientists have seen the shockwave from a star’s collapsing core for the first time
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: military, space
Astronomers have for the first time seen a shockwave generated by a star’s collapsing core and captured the earliest minutes of two exploding stars.
An international team of scientists found a shockwave only in the smaller supernova, a finding that will help them understand these complex explosions which create many of the elements that make up humans, the Earth and the Solar System.
“It’s like the shockwave from a nuclear bomb, only much bigger, and no one gets hurt,” says Brad Tucker from the Australian National University (ANU).
Mar 22, 2016
Can Google Expand Cuba’s Censored Internet? — By David Talbot | MIT Technology Review
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: education, internet, media & arts
“President Obama seems to think Google can help increase Internet access in a country that has not historically been interested in unfettered connectivity.”
Mar 22, 2016
A first look at Liam: Apple’s massive robot that takes apart old iPhones
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI
Mar 22, 2016
Floating city made out of garbage
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, habitats
Mar 22, 2016
What happens when you pair a top Hollywood stunt driver with one of the world’s best drone pilots?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: drones
Mar 21, 2016
Viewpoint: Quantum Hoverboards on Superconducting Circuits
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: quantum physics
Mar 21, 2016
Robot-Built Landing Pad Could Pave the Way for Construction on Mars
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: materials, robotics/AI, space
A robot has built a prototype launch-and-landing pad in Hawaii, potentially helping pave the way for automated construction projects on the moon and Mars.
The robotic rover, named Helelani, assembled the pad on Hawaii’s Big Island late last year, putting together 100 pavers made of locally available material in an effort to prove out technology that could do similar work in space.
“The construction project is really unique. Instead of concrete for the landing pad, we’re using lunar and Mars material, which is exactly like the material we have here on the Big Island — basalt,” Rob Kelso, executive director of the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration (PISCES) in Hawaii, told Hawaiian news outlet Big Island Now. PISCES partnered with NASA on the project, which is part of a larger program called Additive Construction with Mobile Emplacement, or ACME for short. [The Boldest Mars Missions in History].
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