Dr James Dunbar checks a patient’s heart with the revolutionary vest.
Scientists have developed a new cardiac vest that can diagnose heart attacks as soon as they happen has been developed by scientists, a feat they say could lead to new ways of treating heart patients.
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Power Felt
A Wake Forest University’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials team has created a new thermoelectric fabric they call Power Felt. It’s constructed of “tiny carbon nanotubes locked up in flexible plastic fibers,” though the final product looks and feels like fabric, and creates and electrical charge from changes in temperature–like, say, touching it with your hot finger, or sitting on it with your hot butt (hot in this case referring to temperature and thus wholly inoffensive science).
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The rise in the use of smartphones and social media by consumers fueled the increase in identity fraud.
In 2011, nearly 12 million Americans were victims of identity theft, an increase of 13 percent over 2010, according to a report released on Wednesday by the research firm Javelin Strategy & Research.
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Google’s new Android-powered glasses
Futuristic Google spectacles that will stream your smartphone from your pocket directly to your eyes will go on sale by year’s end, according to reports from the New York Times.
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Obayashi Corp. is building the Tokyo Sky Tree and plans to build a space elevator by 2050.
Space elevators are one of the promising technologies of the future. Now a Japanese construction firm that specializes in the very tall could make them a reality. By 2050, so still pretty far on that horizon, but it’s a start.
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An adult Chikilidae, a new species of legless amphibian known as a caecilian, with eggs and hatchlings.
Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India – unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake.
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The Research Department at Japan’s Ministry of Defense has developed the world’s first spherical flying machine.
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Braille Touch
Braille Touch, a new app that enables people to type messages on an Android or iOS touch screen without having to look down. The app is designed for people who are visually impaired, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t use it too.
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If you eat what you like, you decrease cravings.
Researchers have found that a low-calorie meal plan that includes dessert with breakfast may help dieters lose weight.
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Only half of all people who own Internet-capable TVs have actually connected them to the internet.
The big buzz for the last couple of years has been 3D TV’s. It seems lately though it’s all about the Internet connection. Major TV-makers such as LG, Panasonic, Samsung and others are offering television sets with Wi-Fi and apps to access video services like Netflix, music sites like Pandora and social networks like Twitter.
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While it seems like just about everyone has a smartphone now, a closer look by Nielsen finds that 66 percent of those in the 24- to 34-year-old age group have smartphones , representing “the greatest proportion of smartphone ownership” of any age group.
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The Orbit
New technology can make life’s most tedious tasks more interesting. Take laundry, for example. The Orbit is a waterless washing machine, which levitates your clothes and scrub them clean with dry ice in a matter of minutes.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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