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'Cyberplasm' Micro-Robot Takes Inspiration From Parasitic Fish Great Lakes Fishery Commission

'Cyberplasm' Micro-Robot Takes Inspiration From Parasitic Fish

This disease-hunting bot is based on the sea lamprey.

The Computer Monitor That Can Tell If You're Slouching Philips

The Computer Monitor That Can Tell If You're Slouching

A sensor embedded in Phillips' new monitor helps you keep track of your posture, which is only a little creepy.

Google's Self-Driving Car for Blind People Google

Google's Self-Driving Car for Blind People

Self-driving cars aren't fundamentally about helping the vision impaired, but they sure would be useful.

Healing Wounds With Osmotec, a Novel Anti-Microbial Dressing Medtric Biotech

Healing Wounds With Osmotec, a Novel Anti-Microbial Dressing

It's better than standard gauze and even more effective than more costly variants. It's Osmotec, an environmentally-friendly dressing option.

Jessica Lloyd-Jones's Beautiful Anatomical Neon-Gas Sculptures Medgadget

Jessica Lloyd-Jones's Beautiful Anatomical Neon-Gas Sculptures

Created at the Urban Glass art center in New York, Lloyd-Jones's human organs hold inert gases that are influenced by electrical current.

The Incredible Success of a Heart Monitor Made for the iPhone Shutterstock

The Incredible Success of a Heart Monitor Made for the iPhone

Since its debut last year, the iPhone ECG has proven its worth by diagnosing previously asymptomatic patients and college athletes.

Memories Are Shown to Reside in Just a Small Number of Brain Cells Nikon

Memories Are Shown to Reside in Just a Small Number of Brain Cells

The discovery from the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics could one day lead to treatments for post traumatic stress disorder.

How the NCIIA Encourages Young Inventors to Fix Health Problems NCIIA

How the NCIIA Encourages Young Inventors to Fix Health Problems

Phil Weilerstein's National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance was established in the '90s to support innovation among students.

Introducing Brilliance, a Cheap Phototherapy System for Infants Shutterstock

Introducing Brilliance, a Cheap Phototherapy System for Infants

Phototherapy, a remarkably effective way to solve infantile jaundice, can be improved with blue LEDs instead of fluorescent bulbs.

Building a Better Punch Biopsy Tool for Diagnosing Skin Cancer Medgadget

Building a Better Punch Biopsy Tool for Diagnosing Skin Cancer

A team of students at John Hopkins University have developed an integrated system that makes it cheaper and easier to take samples.

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