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Jan 7, 2019
CES 2019: Scientists have developed a blood pressure monitoring app to replace the 100-year-old cuff
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, mobile phones
Startup Biospectal could help 1.6 billion people suffering from hypertension by using a smartphone and an app to check for high blood pressure.
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- Shelby Brown
Jan 7, 2019
Military hopes 3D printing bones can help combat veterans’ injuries
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: 3D printing, military
TUCSON, Ariz. – A lab in Arizona is hoping to help wounded veterans – through 3D printing.
Arizona’s Orthopedic Research Lab is hoping to use the technology to help military veterans with bone injuries.
Dr. John Szivek, who runs the University of Arizona Orthopaedic Research Lab, said the lab received a $2 million grant from the Department of Defense to create 3D bone printing to help military personnel.
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Jan 7, 2019
Samsung is getting into robots
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cyborgs, robotics/AI
The company is showing several prototypes at CES, including an exoskeleton and a home robot.
Jan 7, 2019
This is how Elon Musk plans to use SpaceX to give internet to everyone
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites
You get internet! And YOU get internet!
The Starlink satellite launch is just the beginning of SpaceX’s plan to cover the globe with internet.
Jan 7, 2019
TresClean: The #TresClean Project will develop high- throughput laser-based texturing for fluid- repellent and antibacterial metal surfaces using innovative industrial high-average power ultrashort-pulsed lasers in combination with high-performance scanning heads
Posted by James Christian Smith in categories: biological, food
These technologies will be applied to produce self- cleaning and aseptic machine parts for food industry.
Project will develop high-throughput laser-based texturing for fluid-repellent and antibacterial metal surfaces using innovative industrial high-average power ultrashort-pulsed lasers in combination with high-performance scanning heads. These technologies will be applied to produce self-cleaning and aseptic machine parts for food industry (e.g. components in contact with biological foods) and home appliances (e.g. dishwashers) by utilising a beam deliverary method over areas that can reach 250mm2.
Jan 7, 2019
Share Your Thoughts and Gain Perspective with IBM Project Debater
Posted by James Christian Smith in category: robotics/AI
#ProjectDebater –Speech by Crowd is an experimental #AI platform that uses your arguments to create pro and con narratives on topics of debate.
Jan 7, 2019
LG flexes roll-up TV as screens start to bend
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: electronics
LG on Monday unveiled a roll-up television screen as a trend of bendable displays began taking shape at a consumer electronics extravaganza in Las Vegas.
Jan 7, 2019
Bill Gates warns that nobody is paying attention to this state-of-the-art scientific technology that could make inequality even worse
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical
Gene editing is one of the most promising new approaches to treating human diseases today.
It also raises “enormous” ethical questions, Bill Gates recently warned, and “could make inequity worse, especially if it is available only for wealthy people.”
“I am surprised that these issues haven’t generated more attention from the general public,” he said in a December blog post, adding that “this might be the most important public debate we haven’t been having widely enough.”