iPhone app provides skin cancer risk assessment
Posted by admin in Medicine, Mobile technology on 18. Jul, 2011 | 0 Comments
MelApp is an image-based risk assessment mobile app that assists in the early detection of melanoma Despite years of health promotion campaigns advising us about the dangers of skin cancer, the incidence of the most dangerous type – melanoma – has been steadily rising since the 1970s with around 130,000 cases now diagnosed globally each [...]
I’m Watch Android-based smartwatch in development
Posted by admin in Wearable electronics on 12. Jul, 2011 | 0 Comments
I’m Watch is a smartphone-compatible wristwatch, designed to work with iOS- and Android-based cell phones First unveiled online a few months ago, I’m Watch is a smartphone-compatible wristwatch, designed to work with Android-based cell phones – although it’s reportedly also compatible with iOS devices. It is being developed by an Italian producer, and is [...]
‘Lovotics’ engineers attempt to give robots the ability to love
Posted by admin in Robots on 01. Jul, 2011 | 0 Comments
You can’t buy love, but can you engineer it? A project at the National University of Singapore with all kinds of somewhat unsettling implications is trying to create the means for human-robot love by giving robots all the emotional and biological tools that human have. That means artificial hormones–dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin, endorphin–that ebb and flow [...]
Designer creates sweating robotic armpit
Posted by admin in Robots on 30. Jun, 2011 | 0 Comments
A London designer has created a sweating robotic armpit, intended to make it easier for humans to relate to robots When we think of robots, we tend to think of clean, antiseptic automatons that don’t suffer from yucky things like halitosis, flatulence or body odor … unlike us humans. According to London designer Kevin Grennan, [...]
New alloy can convert heat directly into electricity
Posted by admin in Electronics, Science on 23. Jun, 2011 | 0 Comments
Multiferroic Material A new multiferroic material begins as a non-magnetic material then suddenly becomes strongly magnetic as the piece of copper below it is heated a small amount A new alloy with unique properties can convert heat directly into electricity, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota. The alloy, a multiferroic composite of nickel, [...]
