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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Magnetic levitation gives computer users sense of touch
Those wily computer geeks at Carnegie Mellon (who for my money, have it all over the MIT ubergeeks) have moved us all closer to a “perfect” machine interface with the development of a maglev feedback mouse. Dr. Ralph Hollis’s affordable mouse uses 6 coils of wire and […]
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 […]
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 […]
The physics of a golf swing is probably the most scientifically studied sports action ever. Recently, some scientists developed a system which translates the different variables of the swing into audio cues. For example, a slow swing corresponds to a low pitch and a fast swing to a high pitch. In addition, […]
Currently, there is a lot of effort going into improving preventative maintenance on costly machines to increase their lifetime. A big part of this effort is making sensor systems that perform well in these areas, which are typically hot, greasy, and all around brutal on electromechanical systems. This new type of MEMS temperature sensor was […]
