Perhaps you’ve had too much to drink, or maybe you’ve contracted malaria — it’s hard to tell, since the human body has no built in diagnosis system.
But that may change with a bit of help from digital tattoos. Everything from mobile phone calls to blood analysis could be displayed from just under your skin. Think of it as a "Check Engine" light for the human …
In the mega cities of the future, we won’t need rats anymore. No, they will be replaced with upgraded models: cyborg-rats [via IO9]
While we’re celebrating the Year of the Rat, we should also take time to celebrate all the groovy developments in robotic rats we’re likely to see this year:
A group …
Forget about harvesting embryos — a simple, new four step recipe turns adult skin cells into the super-do-anything-miracle stem cells.
By introducing four genes into cells derived from skin cells, called human fibroblasts, scientist in both the US and Japan have created cells that essentially share all the features of embryonic stem cells. [via Communist Robot]
The new method is expected to …
Cooking is so old fashioned. The family of the future relies on exothermic agents.
At least that’s what an environmental consulting firm and other developers in Japan have come up with to produce a non-perishable food pack that creates steaming hot rice with the simple addition of cold water.
By subjecting rice to 4,000 times normal atmospheric pressure, the developers were able to …
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