Science

Balance Vest Helps The Impaired To Stand

Balance Vest Helps The Impaired To Stand

I always love a good innovative technology story, and here’s a new one for you: Researchers at UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology have created a vest which helps those with impaired mobility walk. [...]

Get Better Faster With This $3 Wound Recovery Device

Get Better Faster With This $3 Wound Recovery Device

What the ‘F’!  I had no clue that applying negative pressure (i.e. suction) to a wound, yeah those things that bleed, could cause it to accelerate the healing process.  Now an MIT student – they’re taking [...]

California Gets Its First Salt Water Desalination Plant

California Gets Its First Salt Water Desalination Plant

Finally, praise the Lord and thank God!  I’m not remotely religious but with announcements like this get me so darn excited.  What am I talking about?  California just got its first full scale seawater desalination plant.  [...]

Dean Kamen’s Luke Arm Shakes Its Way On To The Colbert Show (video)

Dean Kamen’s Luke Arm Shakes Its Way On To The Colbert Show (video)

Dean Kamen, an inventor and tech enthusiast, was on The Colbert Report last night to show off his latest invention: a super cool robotic arm. The Luke Arm (a Star Wars reference, of course) is from [...]

Bionic Eyeballs, Need We Say More

Bionic Eyeballs, Need We Say More

Bionic eyeballs, cameras implanted into human eyes, sound pretty crazy. But a company called Bionic Vision Australia says they have a working prototype of said technology. They’ve collaborated with the University of New South Wales to [...]

Heatswell Cup Grows A Sleeve When In Contact With A Hot Beverage (video)

Heatswell Cup Grows A Sleeve When In Contact With A Hot Beverage (video)

Drink coffee or tea much from one of the many fine coffee establishments scattered throughout the world?  If so, then you know how damn annoying those heat sleeves can be when they slide off and cause [...]

200 Page Per Minute Scanner Built By Japanese Research Team (video)

200 Page Per Minute Scanner Built By Japanese Research Team (video)

With e-books quickly becoming more and more popular, one can forget about the vast amounts of printed books yet to be digitized. Masatoshi Ishikawa, a professor at the  University of Tokyo, is trying to get those [...]

Will Punxsutawney Phil Be Next To Lose His Job To A Machine?

Will Punxsutawney Phil Be Next To Lose His Job To A Machine?

Well, folks, it’s almost Groundhog Day again, and you know what that means.  No, the post office doesn’t get yet another screwball holiday off to screw up your Netflix queue–it means that once again, Punxsutawney Phil [...]

The Da Vinci Robot Si HD Is A Surgery Machine…Literally.

The Da Vinci Robot Si HD Is A Surgery Machine…Literally.

In Calgary, robots do surgery. That’s the surprise of the day from the folks up in Canada as Rockyview General Hospital is the first hospital in Canada to lay hands on a da Vinci Robot Si [...]

Cambridge Computer Laboratory Declares The ADE 651 A Fraud

Cambridge Computer Laboratory Declares The ADE 651 A Fraud

You guys remember a few months ago when we were talking about the ADE 651, supposed to be the world’s greatest bomb detector because it could literally sniff out explosives from up to half a mile [...]