VeinViewer helps IV needles hit the vein the first time
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This is a super cool piece of technology. The instrument uses a near-infrared light that penetrates just below the skin and reflects off blood vessels. VeinViewer senses hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying component in blood, which an onboard computer uses to distinguish veins from arteries. It then projects an image of veins on the skin surface in [...]
Printing Muscle
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In a small clean room tucked into the back of San Diego–based startup Organovo, Chirag Khatiwala is building a thin layer of human skeletal muscle. He inserts a cartridge of specially prepared muscle cells into a 3-D printer, which then deposits them in uniform, closely spaced lines in a petri dish. This arrangement allows the [...]
Jeff Bezos Is Indulging His 11-Year-Old Self And We Love It
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If you had asked an 11-year-old Jeff Bezos to let his imagination run wild and think of the stuff that he would most dream to have as an adult, he might have said:The world’s biggest bookstore! Maybe even a bookstore that can beam any book directly to your hand in an instant (and movies and [...]
Khan Academy ponders what it can teach the higher education establishment
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An interesting look at how the Khan Academy is trying to use their platform to predict how well someone actually knows a concept, instead of just knowing how well that person did on one test or drill.
In Defense Of Kitchen Gadgets (2)
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Glenn Reynolds links to Megan McArdle’s defense of kitchen gadgets and posts reader email praising a rotating pizza oven.
In Defense of Kitchen Gadgets
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If you really think that laborious food prep is that elevating, you should go back to the methods of your grandmother. Buy whole nuts and crack them by hand, picking out the meats and hoping you don’t accidentally get a bit of shell. Throw out the powdered gelatin and use calf’s foot jelly. Make your own confectioner’s sugar with a food grinder or a rolling pin. Pluck your own chickens. Render your own lard.
Who wants to live forever?
Do you want to live for a long time, in decent health? If the rate of innovation in medical science doesn’t slow down, you just may be able to.
If Aubrey de Grey’s predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first …
Once a Global Also-Ran, Hyundai Zooms Forward
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Maybe I should get a Hyundai for my next car.
Engineers from General Motors Co. took apart Hyundai Motor Co.’s Elantra sedan in 2009, studying the engine and trying to predict what the Korean auto maker might do next. When the latest Elantra launched this year, GM engineers were surprised: The compact sedan beat …
A Release Valve for Cyclists’ Unrelenting Pressure
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Should you get a new bike seat, for the good of your sexual health? As the Blogfather would say, why take chances?
John Tierney, reports.
“I’ve spent much of my journalistic career debunking health scares, but the bike-saddle menace struck me as a no-brainer when I first heard about it. Why, if you had an …
A Cure for Aids?
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Brown was living in Berlin, Germany back in 2007, dealing with HIV and leukemia, when scientists there gave him a bone marrow stem cell transplant that had astounding results.