(NECN/CNN: Jeanne Moos, New York) – It’s hard to be separated from the one you love. But a new invention could make it possible for you to hear your mate’s heartbeat while you sleep. Jeanne Moos has more. You’re all by your lonesome, and your significant …
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Obama said when he signed the law that “this much-needed reform will speed up the patent process so that innovators and entrepreneurs can turn a new invention into a business as quickly as possible.” The measure, which passed with bipartisan …
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(Michigan Chronicle (MI) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) A new “subconscious mode” for smartphones and other WiFi-enabled mobile devices could extend battery life by as much as 54 percent for users on the busiest networks. University of Michigan …
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If only we could think up ways to make use of all our sewage and everything else we throw away.
If we’re ever to build a society of autonomous, fully-functional robots that don’t need us humans to supervise and control their every move, we’re going to have to teach them to fuel themselves. The Ecobot III brings us a step closer to living in a world of self-feeding robots that will (probably) eventually overthrow the reigning humans and take over Earth. It’s a small robot developed at the Bristol Robotics Lab in the UK that takes meals and sips of water, extracts energy from the food, and expels waste through an artificial digestive system.
Not so much an invention but a product with possibility of real benefits to healing. Imagine if we had skin banks like we do blood banks, you could donate skin grafts and in the event of injury you had a ready supply of your own skin to help in recovery.
Products by two Hampton Roads organizations are on the cutting edge of wound care.
The nonprofit LifeNet Health in Virginia Beach offers TheraSkin, a graft made of real skin that stimulates your body to heal itself. Soluble Systems of Newport News sells TheraGauze, a covering that regulates the moisture within a wound.
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Here’s a big way to traverse the sky!
More than 70 years after the Hindenburg disaster ended the golden airship era, giant blimps will take to the skies again with the launch of the world’s largest inflatable craft.
The pioneering Bullet 580 is a 235ftlong and 65ft in diameter ship that can lift payloads of 2,000lbs up to 20,000ft in the air.
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