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Apr 8, 2017
A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, habitats, health, wearables
What if doctors could monitor patients at home with the same degree of accuracy they’d get during a stay at the hospital? Bioelectronics innovator Todd Coleman shares his quest to develop wearable, flexible electronic health monitoring patches that promise to revolutionize healthcare and make medicine less invasive.
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Apr 8, 2017
Disney seeks patent for a ‘humanoid robot’ that can play a character
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: robotics/AI
Could costumed robots one day roam the streets of Walt Disney World?
A new patent application from Disney (DIS) suggests it’s something the company has considered.
The document says Disney is developing robots, including “humanoid robots,” that have been “adapted for soft contact and/or interaction with a human.”
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Apr 8, 2017
California is getting so much power from solar that wholesale electricity prices are turning negative
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: solar power, sustainability
The spikes also have a big effect on wholesale energy prices, which dipped to zero or even to negative territory this spring during certain hours in California, the EIA said.
The extraordinary success of solar power in some pockets of the world that combine sunshine with high investment in the technology mean that governments and energy companies are having radically to rethink the way they manage—and charge for—electricity.
California is one such a place.
Apr 8, 2017
Scientists Have Pinpointed the Annoying Genetic Mutation That Turns Us Into Night Owls
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: genetics
Carriers of the mutation are essentially playing catch-up for their entire lives.
Any night owls reading this will be familiar with the struggle of constantly trying to fit into a morning person’s world. And now researchers say they’ve finally identified the genetic typo that causes this social jetlag.
A new study has revealed that many people who stay up late and struggle to wake up in the morning aren’t lazy, their internal clock is simply genetically programmed to run between 2 and 2.5 hours slower than the rest of the population, thanks to a mutation in a body clock gene called CRY1.
Apr 8, 2017
Upgrading humans into GODS will be the next ‘billion dollar industry’
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
The next billion dollar industry will not be a service or product – it will be upgrading humans, an expert has revealed.
It has been suggested that humans will have access to technology that will allow them to ‘upgrade themselves into gods’.
Bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari has also warned that because not everyone will be able to experience the upgrade, due to costs, there will be a divide that could spark ‘old racist ideologies’ — but this time, differences will be ‘engineered and manufactured’.
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Apr 8, 2017
27 — Libertarianism & Transhumanism (with Zoltan Istvan and Tempest McGee)
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, transhumanism
Podcast on transhumanism and libertarianism with Cuddle Pile (their show is also on iTunes, Stitcher, GooglePlay, etc). It’s a fun interview.
Cuddle Pile 27 Libertarianism & Transhumanism (with Zoltan Istvan and Tempest McGee)
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Apr 8, 2017
Scientists Have Created an Artificial Organ That Can Pump Out Cancer-Fighting T-Cells
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: biotech/medical
Scientists have developed an artificial thymus, an organ crucial to the human immune system, that could produce special cancer-fighting T-cells in the body on demand.
T-cells are white blood cells that naturally combat disease as part of our immune system, but these artificially engineered versions would be targeted at specific forms of cancer, potentially giving our natural defences a boost in attacking the disease.
In the human body, the thymus sits in front of the heart and uses blood stem cells to make T-cells, which then go onto fight infection in the body. But as people get older or become sick, the thymus becomes less efficient.
