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(Video) Virtual Reality Technology in the Operating Room
[Tech]
2016/08/08 11:28
Mt. Sinai's new AR tech overlays 3D models into surgeon's eyepiece. The medical heads-up-display inserts images into the microscope. For the medical community, virtual and augmented reality offer the tantalizing opportunity to visualize hidden or blocked areas of the body. This year has seen some fascinating applications, from mapping a patient's brain mid-operation to livestreaming the actual...
Meatless Burger Uses Bloody Special Ingredient to Replicate The Real Thing
[Product]
2016/08/08 11:28
The Impossible Burger was recently added as a regular menu item at New York City eatery Momofuku Nishi. While food scientists have been in pursuit of the perfect lab-made hamburger, most of the results have been poor imitations or prohibitively expensive. Impossible Foods is the latest alternative food company attempting to tickle the tastebuds with its meatless Impossible Burger, which is clai...
Gecko Bionic Design Window Cleaner
[Design]
2016/08/08 11:28
Gecko Bionic Design Window Cleaner, just like its name suggests, this concept window cleaner was inspired by a Gecko’s ability to climb different surfaces easy. The key to the gecko’s sticking success is that tiny hair like structures called setae that can be found on the base of its toes. Those microscopic bristles have the ability to split into hundreds of nano-sized tips called septula, gi...
(PDF) Why Americans Are Wary of Using Technology to ‘Enhance’ Humans
[Consumer]
2016/08/07 11:10
Emerging technologies that draw from biomedical technology, nanotechnology, information technology and other fields are developing at a rapid pace and may lead to any number of ways people might be able to “upgrade” themselves. Such technologies, in the pipeline now to address medical and therapeutic needs, could produce new ways for humans to push the boundaries of their abilities, making th...
(Video) Ikea's "Let's Relax" Ad Imagines a 17th-Century Version of Instagramming Food
[Business]
2016/08/07 11:09
There wasn't an app for that.WHAT: A look at what FOMO might've looked like in the 18th century, when an aristocratic family decides to "share" the perfect dinner with their social network.WHO: Ikea, AcneWHY WE CARE: It's fun to see our modern habits in the context of another time, but here Ikea is using the past to shame our obsession with meal shots on Instagram and Facebook. Based on the bra...
(PDF) BCG - Leapfrogging : Value-Based Health Care Comes to Emerging Markets
[Business]
2016/08/07 11:08
In the global debate about value-based health care, the lion’s share of attention has focused on the developed world. It makes sense. The new emphasis on value is, in large part, a response to the failure of conventional cost-control initiatives to stop or slow the rapid growth in health care costs. And the vast majority of those costs—roughly three-quarters of global expenditures on health c...
Olympic Athletes Try Zapping Their Brains to Boost Performance - Halo Neuroscience
[Tech]
2016/08/07 11:07
A handful of athletes competing at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio next week will arrive having tried to boost their performance using an unconventional (and not-yet-banned) technology: brain stimulation.The technique, called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), involves channeling a tiny current through specific regions of the brain, making neurons in that area more likely to fire....
(Video) OmniVirt Brings 360-Degree Advertising to Big Publishers
[Business]
2016/08/07 11:06
OmniVirt is promising to help publishers and advertisers tap into the potential of virtual reality.It’s not the only startup working on VR/360-degree ads (other companies in the market include Immersv and VirtualSky), but co-founder and COO Michael Rucker said OmniVirt stands out by offering a 360-degree ad experience in the mobile browser — users don’t have to buy a fancy headset, or even d...
(Video) Second Skin Blocks Biological Agents, But Still Gives Soldiers Room to Breathe
[Tech]
2016/08/07 11:05
Scientists at LLNL have developed a material with carbon nanotube pores, which makes it breathable and comfortable for the wearer, while offering protection against biological and chemical threats.Breathable clothing is important for soldiers looking to avoid heat stress and exhaustion, but in some situations, added protection is needed against biological and chemical agents. Current protective...
