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 […]
Halleluiah, a resurrection to end all technology resurrections, the rebirth of the Polaroid film pack! This Zink printer, “inkless”, as they claim, uses the Polaroid “inkless” film pack technology to make high resolution pictures.
For you youngsters, Polaroid instant pictures were almost as ubiquitous as “Brownie” cameras during my adolescence and young adulthood. I think that […]
Here’s a technology that an old timer can love, as well as an increasing number of not-so-old timers. This article describes an “in vivo” (in the body) spectroscopy system that looks for soft plaque buildup on your arterial walls.
First, why would you care about soft plaque? Well, you could ask Jim Fixx, a marathon runner […]
Again, I am blown away by what come from the field of biomimetics (a big word for “the application of methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology”, thank you Wikipedia). The iridescent colors of a butterfly wing come from photonic crystals. The “lighted up look” […]
I have been a follower of the work in Terahertz radiation for a long time. Terahertz radiation lies in a range of frequencies from about 500 Gigahertz (above the highest cell phone range) to far infrared, or about 1700 Gigahertz. The significance of the terahertz frequency range is that you can get a great amount […]
