This Invention Lets You Use Your Skin as Smartwatch Trackpad

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have come up with a way to expand the touch screen on a smartwatch by using the wearer’s skin around it. “We were looking at the way smartwatches are being used,” Gierad Laput, a Ph.D. student working on the team …
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Alphabet Inc: Google Diversifies Into Health With ‘Smart Lenses’ Patent

The patent was granted in late April after being filed in 2014. The invention and patent are credited to Andrew Jason Conrad, the head of Google’s biotech startup, Verily Life Sciences. One of the main technology pieces in this partnership is utilizing …
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Mosquito-repellent soap invention seeks to wash away Africa malaria threat

DAKAR – Two former students from Burkina Faso have designed a mosquito-repellent soap, which they hope could be a simple and affordable solution in the fight to end malaria, but more funds are needed to test the idea, according to the startup behind it.
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Makey Makey Invention Kit: Collector’s Edition crosses imagination with electronics — only $47.99

Give any adult the Makey Makey Invention Kit and they’ll all invariably have the same reaction: I wish I had something like this when I was a kid. But it’s probably best to just put the Makey Makey into the hands where they belong…because children …
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Invention helps students with dyslexia unlock hidden abilities

What if the words just jumbled up on the page? That is what it was like for Jamee Miller, among the estimated one in 10 Americans with dyslexia. “When it came down to reading, I was so focused on the paragraph and figuring out what I would be reading, so I …
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A chemistry professor has invented the world’s first drug-sniffing car

Dr. Guido Verbeck created the prototype by equipping a silver 2015 Ford Fusion Energi hybrid sedan with an advanced mass spectrometer, and tested his invention by setting up a fake meth lab in a mobile home and emitting drug fumes through the vents.
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