Bioluminescent Skin

This new discovery allows skin to chemically glow based on the amount of glucose in the area.  It uses hydrogels which bond to glucose to create the glowing area of skin, which can be used as an embedded blood sugar sensor of sorts.While diabetes is the obvious first application, think of all of the other […]

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Mini-Sensor Can Read Your Mind

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 […]

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