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August 13, 2014 Leave a comment

Additive manufacturing, otherwise known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, is driving major innovations in many areas, such as engineering, manufacturing, art, education and medicine.

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Athos raises $12.2M for health sensing clothing

August 12, 2014 Leave a comment

Redwood, California-based wearable technology maker Athos raised $12.

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A selfie for your health: award-winning app Eyenaemia spots anemia

August 12, 2014 Leave a comment

Normally diagnosed during a doctor’s visit, the condition can be spotted by looking at the hue of blood-rich areas such as the skin beneath the fingernails or the inner eyelid.

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The Squink—a personal electronics factory?

August 11, 2014 Leave a comment

The gap between idea and prototype, prototype and product, is shrinking.

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The Bio3D Life-Printer: One Step Closer to Affordably Bioprinting Complete Organs?

August 8, 2014 Leave a comment

Bio3D Technologies is a new start-up from Singapore that announced they are releasing their country’s first 3D bioprinter, called the Bio3D Life-Printer. It may be capable of 3D printing living human tissue and cells for drug testing and experimentation, without putting living patients at risk.

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IBM launches functioning brain-inspired chip

August 8, 2014 Leave a comment

IBM announced today, August 7, the first computer chip to achieve one million programmable “neurons,” 256 million programmable “synapses,” and 46 billion “synaptic operations” per second per watt — simulating the function of neurons and synapses in the brain.* Neurosynaptic. At 5.

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Artificial retina: Physicists develop an interface to the optical nerve

August 7, 2014 Leave a comment

Physicists at Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM) are using the special properties of graphene to produce key elements of an artificial retina. With their research program the researchers were admitted to the heavily funded ‘Graphene’ Flagship Program of the European Union.

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Will Artificial Intelligence Serve Us or Replace Us?

August 6, 2014 Leave a comment

In his new book, The Artificial Intelligence Revolution, Louis A. Del Monte presents a warning regarding the threat new artificial intelligence (AI) technology poses to the survival of humankind.

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Stressing Out About Staying Calm

August 6, 2014 Leave a comment

When I was in college, I participated in as many research studies as I could. It was easy money, so I gladly sat at computers and answered survey questions and allowed research assistants to cover my head in a net of EEG sensors and goop that glommed on to my hair. Sometimes I would fall asleep.

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Apple adds spirometry data tracking to Health app

August 6, 2014 Leave a comment

In the latest update to the iOS 8 beta, Apple added a number of health-related features, according to various reports. Most notably, the company added a data tracking capability for spirometry, which is data about how obstructed the lungs are collected by people with conditions like asthma or COPD.

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