Just when you thought that you were safe from the “Fantastic Voyage” shrinkonauts, Phillips has patented a deep diving drug delivery system that will release its contents on-demand, through an RF link through your innards. The mini stomach diver has a control system, comm. link, drug storage, release hatch and power supply.
The idea is to […]
Not often do termites and biofuels cross paths, but this interesting piece from the Department of Energy really points to something worth thinking about. Anyone not on the ethanol payroll realizes that this particular boondoggle benefits only the corn grower, and no one else in the long run, especially those of us who actually eat.
That […]
This technology may well be the breakthrough that eventually clears the list of folks waiting for an organ transplant. Researchers at the University of Missouri print ‘bio ink’ particles (droplets which contain 10,000 to 40,000 cells) onto paper, and then allow these particles/spheres to grow and fuse together. The growing mass slowly morphs into a […]
This is a great example of out of the box thinking. It uses the excess energy of a beating heart to generate enough electricity to recharge the batteries in a pacemaker or batteries in an LVAD (Left Ventricular Assist Device) or other implanted body helper.
I must say that inventors have been tap dancing around this […]
Anyone remember the movie Firefox? In it, Clint Eastwood played a psychically wounded pilot who is tasked with stealing the latest Soviet super weapon jet, which was partially controlled by thoughts. Think “rocket fire” (in Russian of course), and a rocket fired.
This little esoteric piece of technology that the good scientists at NIST have come […]
