How many times have pulled up to a light and felt your car vibrate because of the heavy bass beat coming from the car next to you? Probably quite a lot. Now that low barely audible but definitely felt beat can power a medical sensor created by scientists at Perdue.
AIDS is a horrible disease and the tiniest victims, babies born with the disease are in desperate need of help. Enter social media leaders who plan to partner with bankers and consultants to reach a goal of 0 births of babies with AIDS by 2015.
If your fridge has everything from a lettuce with icicles on it to butter that’s beginning to curdle, help could be on the way. A Norwegian firm has found a way to put tiny thermometers directly onto the packaging of individual food items.
On the road to developing regenerative body parts, scientists at Oregon Health and Science University, combined the parts of six different embryos to create three chimera monkeys. In another unrelated but eerie bio/tech blend, scientists from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have developed new type of data storage using Salmon DNA. Monkeys or memory sticks? Both use biological building blocks to create new technologies.
Have you read Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs? If you are persistent and keep you eyes open, you will be able to get most if not all of the really good quotes, out of context, from the book without actually buying it. Whatever the case, while you make up your, here are a few more tastes that just might get you to buy.
DNA testing is used in proving paternity, CSI investigations, the Innocence Project, food safety testing and infectious disease determination. You can even trace your genetic ancestry. New testing hardware can give you PCR results in less than three minutes. That advancement could mean DNA results in as little as five to ten minutes.
Microsoft’s cloud based products like Office 365, along with products from Google and other companies are cloud based meaning that they are accessed by our computers but aren’t stored on our hard drives. These programs are stored on servers scattered around the world. When something happens to either the servers, power grid or satellites used to provide those programs, those programs go down leaving you without access to services vital for your business and the documents and data stored on line.
Apple’s chairman isn’t done yet, but we’ve clearly entered a new phase. As the company founder eases back and his handpicked successor Tim Cook steps into the spotlight, now’s a good time to take in the feats and achievements that have defined Steve Jobs and American technology for more than three decades.
Pesticides and fertilizers have certainly left their marks on rural America, but electricity and the telephone are at least the equal of those world changing technologies. Now, the Obama Administration is bringing farmers and small towns into the 21st Century.
Almost four years ago online health records were the next big thing in health care. People could record all of their health information online. They could share their records with hospitals and physicians offices to create some consistency between family doctors and specialists, and easy access to patient history if they wound up in the hospital. Both Google and Microsoft created online programs. Google has just declared the end of its program in January 1, 2012. Does this mean the end of Microsoft’s HealthVault?
With Cat Head Studios Tattoo Simulator, you can take a picture of your future tattoo and a picture of the body part you want it to go on and see how it will look. You can enlarge or reduce the size, rotate it, and move it. If you so desire, you can even send the finished picture to friends, family and foes.
According to a study done by researchers at Cornell University, using the social networking site Facebook tends to increase one’s self-esteem. Not surprising, given the biased nature of the experience.
Man took on machine this week. And the machine won a crushing victory.
A California beach town is looking at ways to use Facebook to curb drunk driving. The city council is considering the proposal to allow police to post mug shots of drunk drivers.
A researcher was a victim of theft that resulted in losing a laptop with valuable data that could lead to a possible cure for prostate cancer. The researcher is offering up a reward for the return of the laptop with no questions asked.
Although most of today’s luggage has wheels to aid in getting it into the airport and on the plane, it can still put strain on your back and knees. Many carry-ons are still over the shoulder bags that can wrench your shoulder and back. Etsuo Miyoshi, the CEO of Walkin’ Bag, is a polio survivor who designed a carry-on bag to reduce back, neck and leg strain.
It is being reported by several media outlets that Nintendo has issued a warning that its newest system, the 3DS 3D gaming console, is not safe to use in 3D mode if you are a child under 6 years of age.
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