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Month: May 2016
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From Chapter 4 of Super You: Meet Diane, a QC Bot. It (she?) can carry supplies from point-to point around the hospital. It also comes with a large screen and an onboard camera, enabling it to serve as a self-serve station for patients—people can check in for their appointment and follow the QC Bot right to more »
A group of physicists recently built the smallest engine ever created from just a single atom, reports the blog Singularity Hub. Like any other engine it converts heat energy into movement — but it does so on a smaller scale than ever seen before. The atom is trapped in a cone more »
This Alphabet (formerly Google) designed contact lens prototype looks like any other contact lens on the market, except tiny antennae run rings around the outside of the lens. They are connected to a tiny sensor that can measure glucose levels found in the wearer’s tears once every second. That information can then be more »
From Chapter 4 of the book Super You – p.131 In the 1980s, physician inventor Rich Wampler visited Egypt and witnessed local workers using a hand-turned Archimedes screw to pump water up a river bank for irrigation. He realized that if a screw could move water against gravity, perhaps it could move blood against pressure.