Reading is such a modern cultural invention that, so far, there is no specific area in the human brain dedicated to it. An international team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and the MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have found that learning to read as an adult reconfigures brain areas hitherto assigned to different skills. Most strikingly, evolutionarily ancient structures - located deep inside the brain - are more fundame...
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Snap Spectacles are stylish-looking sunglasses with a built-in camera. They offer an all-new way to capture Snaps
Spectacles are stylish-looking sunglasses with a built-in camera. They offer an all-new way to capture Snaps. Spectacles which can record 10 seconds of video and are operated by tapping a button.
The glasses consist of two separate houses within the sides of the frame for the battery and camera. The camera lens has a 115° field of view and records in a circular format that adapts to a smartphone's screen size and orientation.
The smartglasses record when the user presses a button on th...
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Lineable is a smart wristband to prevent children from going missing.
Lineable is a smart wristband to prevent children from going missing.
Are you seeking a simple and smart way to keep your children safe? Then look no further. Armed with beacon and pairing technology, Lineable aims to prevent the children from going missing. Lineable is made with silicone to prevent any harm to children and it also is 100% water resistant. The battery will last for a full year from the time of registration.
The Lineable Network is a network comprised of Lineable users for the ...
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RenovaCare, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on developing first-of-their-kind autologous (self-donated) stem cell therapies for the regeneration of human organs
RenovaCare, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on developing first-of-their-kind autologous (self-donated) stem cell therapies for the regeneration of human organs.
RenovaCare products are currently in development. They are not available for sale in the United States. There is no assurance that the company’s planned or filed submissions to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, if any, will be accepted or cleared by the FDA.
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3D bioprinting is the process of creating cell patterns in a confined space using 3D printing technologies
3D bioprinting is the process of creating cell patterns in a confined space using 3D printing technologies, where cell function and viability are preserved within the printed construct.
Current 3D printing technology has advanced quickly in recent years, enabling people to print 3D models of non-living objects. More recently, researchers in the biomedicine have also begun to use this technology to print human organs and tissues with devices called “3D Bioprinters.” Wake Forest Institute for R...
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‘TrulyNatural’ is the first embedded large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer system
TrulyNatural™ is the first embedded large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer system which can provide the same state-of-the-art performance as cloud based technologies, but on the device. Many applications don’t need, or don’t want to rely on, a cloud based connection to do high performance speech recognition. Connections can frequently fail or cause fatal delays, and recent concerns have been expressed about sending personal data to the clouds where it could be stolen or used for purposes ...
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Rush University medical Center research suggest, skin color is no shield against melanoma
Sidney Brown thought the mole on his nose was just an annoying pimple. He didn’t consider that it could be a cancerous tumor, because, Brown thought, “skin cancer is something white people get.”
The misconception that people with more pigment — called melanin — in their skin cells are protected from cancer-causing ultraviolet rays nearly cost Brown his life.
Non-whites have higher melanoma-related mortality rates
Brown’s mole turned out to be a melanoma, the least common form of skin cancer...
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Apple HomePod
Apple launched its new HomePod speaker at its annual Developers Conference.
The 7-inch-tall HomePod speaker is a direct competitor to Amazon's Echo smart speaker and the Google Home.
Apple's speaker has six microphones at the top, a 4-inch upward-facing woofer, and seven tweeters in its bottom.
It's powered by the Apple A8 processor, which provides echo cancellation and automatic EQ. It also helps detect the size and shape of the room it's in to adjust the audio and create a spatial sound.
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Juicero is the world’s first at-home, cold-press juicer
Juicero is the world's first at-home, cold-press juicer. Use our smart technology to start making your own fresh raw juice today.
Now, making juice IS easy. Introducing Juicero, the first at-home, cold-press juicing system. Leave chopping, cleaning, and other juicing hassles behind, and drink 100% fresh raw juice on demand.
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Juicero is a company that makes devices for fruit and vegetable juicing. The company's first product was the Juicero Press, a Wi-Fi conn...
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University of Tokyo have demonstrated that it is possible to exchange a quantum bit, the minimum unit of information used by quantum computers, between a superconducting quantum-bit circuit and a quantum in a magnet called a magnon.
Researchers in the University of Tokyo have demonstrated that it is possible to exchange a quantum bit, the minimum unit of information used by quantum computers, between a superconducting quantum-bit circuit and a quantum in a magnet called a magnon. This result is expected to contribute to the development of quantum interfaces and quantum repeaters.
Magnets, often used in our daily life, exert a magnetic force produced by a large number of microscopic magnets – the spins of individual elect...
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NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover approached the upper end of “Perseverance Valley”
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the main destination of its current two-year extended mission -- an ancient fluid-carved valley incised on the inner slope of a vast crater's rim.
As the rover approached the upper end of "Perseverance Valley" in early May, images from its cameras began showing parts of the area in greater resolution than what can be seen in images taken from orbit above Mars.
"The science team is really jazzed at starting to see this area up close and ...
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World’s largest telescope under construction in Chile that will produce images 15 times sharper than Hubble with a light-collecting area bigger than all existing optical research telescopes combined
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is an astronomical observatory and the world's largest optical/near-infrared extremely large telescope now under construction. Part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), it is located on top of Cerro Armazones in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The design comprises a reflecting telescope with a 39.3-metre-diameter (126 foot) segmented primary mirror and a 4.2-metre-diameter secondary mirror, and will be supported by adaptive optics, six laser guide...
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Microsemi AcuEdge™ Development Kit to build your own version of Amazon AVS creating a voice-activated system (Alexa voice service)
Microsemi AcuEdge™ Development Kit for Amazon AVS
The success of personal assistants that you interact with via the spoken word, such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Home, has made voice control a hot-ticket item in system design. Getting started in this technology, though, has required significant audio and signal processing expertise to address issues in background noise and the speaker’s location. A new development kit from Microsemi, in partnership with Amazon’s Alexa voice serv...
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Gastrojournal – Prebiotics reduce body fat in children who are overweight or obese by altering their gut microbiota, according to new research
Increasing globally, particularly in children, obesity is a serious public health issue and risk factor for overweight and metabolic disease in later life. Both in experimental animal and human studies, advances in gene sequencing technologies have yielded intriguing possibilities for the role of the gut microbiome in later development of overweight status. Before translating study findings into practice, we must first reconcile inconsistencies between animal experimentation, and human adult and...
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‘ FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg’ has invited open challenge to researchers to submit a walking-visualization-tool of gait sequences based on given inertial sensor-based gait recordings acquired using intelligent engineering technology
What is this challenge about?
IMAGINE - Innovative Medical Application on Gait Visualization using Intelligent Engineering
The challenge asks researchers to submit a walking-visualization-tool of gait sequences based on given inertial sensor-based gait recordings acquired using intelligent engineering technology, which was developed at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Seeing is believing: Doctors want to see how the patient was walking - even if they cannot see the patient. Your innovative visualiza...
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FDA approved ‘Kiva VCF’ Treatment System provides a new implant-based approach to vertebral augmentation in the treatment of painful VCFs
Compression fractures affect many individuals worldwide. An estimated 1.5 million vertebral compression fractures occur every year in the US. They are common in elderly populations, and 25% of postmenopausal women are affected by a compression fracture during their lifetime. Although these fractures rarely require hospital admission, they have the potential to cause significant disability and morbidity, often causing incapacitating back pain for many months. This review provides information on t...
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KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY researchers have developed fluorescent nanoparticles using molecular design of conjugated polymers
A strategy to produce highly fluorescent nanoparticles through careful molecular design of conjugated polymers has been developed by KAUST researchers. Such tiny polymer-based particles could offer alternatives to conventional organic dyes and inorganic semiconductor quantum dots as fluorescent tags for medical imaging.
Conjugated polymer-derived nanoparticles, called Pdots, are expected to transform several areas, including optoelectronics, bio-imaging, bio-sensing and nanomedicine, due to t...
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‘Miele’ dishwasher is wifi enabled, ‘spot clean’ and auto dry technology that makes dish washing easy
Miele dishwashers are recognized as worldwide leaders in dishwasher development. For over 106 years, Miele, the largest family-owned and operated appliance company in the world, has embraced its founders' belief that success is only achievable in the long term by being totally committed to the quality of its products.
Miele is a German company that was founded in 1899 by Carl Miele and Reinhard Zinkann. Miele aims to manufacture the highest-quality domestic appliances and commercial...
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Anova Precision Cooker leverages innovative “sous vide” cooking technique that utilizes precise temperature control to deliver consistent, restaurant-quality results
Once limited to the pros, sous vide (pronounced sue-veed) is a cooking technique that utilizes precise temperature control to deliver consistent, restaurant-quality results. High-end restaurants have been using sous vide cooking for years to cook food to the exact level of doneness desired, every time. The technique recently became popular for home cooks with the availability of affordable and easy-to-use sous vide precision cooking equipment like Anova.
Sous vide, which means “under vacu...
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Georgia State University have rewired the neural circuit of one species and given it the connections of another species to test a hypothesis about the evolution of neural circuits and behavior.
Scientists at Georgia State University have rewired the neural circuit of one species and given it the connections of another species to test a hypothesis about the evolution of neural circuits and behavior.
Neurons are connected to each other to form networks that underlie behaviors. Drs. Akira Sakurai and Paul Katz of Georgia State’s Neuroscience Institute study the brains of sea slugs, more specifically nudibranchs, which have large neurons that form simple circuits and produce simple beha...
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New antibiotic to help against bacterial resistance
Vancomycin is an antibiotic used to treat a number of bacterial infections. It is recommended intravenously as a first-line treatment for complicated skin infections, bloodstream infections, endocarditis, bone and joint infections, and meningitis caused by methicillin-resistant S. aureus. Blood levels may be measured to determine the correct dose. Vancomycin is also recommended by mouth as a treatment for severe Clostridium difficile colitis. When taken by mouth it is very poorly absorbed.
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“PerfectLum 3” medical display calibration software calibrates any computer display and projector to be a reliable medical grade display to assist in an accurate diagnosis
PerfectLum 3 medical display calibration software calibrates any computer display and projector to the international standard DICOM Part14 GSDF. PerfectLum 3 also adjusts the white level of the display, verifies calibration results and reports them in a history database.
In radiology departments, it is important that display systems are perfectly reliable, since image reproduction can play a key role in an accurate diagnosis and a treatment plan that works. We help medical imaging professionals...
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MEDEXPO TANZANIA 2017 – Aug 22-24, 2017
MEDEXPO TANZANIA 2017
The 20th MEDEXPO 2017 - International Trade Exhibition is the largest trade event held annually in Tanzania, concurrently held with East Africa Trade Exhibition (EAITE).The exhibition attracts exhibitors from more than 20 countries and visitors from all over East & Central Africa, thus giving exhibitors an excellent opportunity to explore several countries at one time. Over the past few years, Tanzania has emerged as a major regional trade centre.
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“Targeted drug delivery” growing trend for many chronic medical conditions.
Targeted drug delivery, sometimes called smart drug delivery, is a method of delivering medication to a patient in a manner that increases the concentration of the medication in some parts of the body relative to others.
Despite the progress in techniques for cancer prevention, detection, and treatment, as well as for increasing the public awareness in recent years, this disease is projected to become the leading cause of death worldwide. Advancements in omics, analytical procedures, and high t...
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MISSION ENDURACOOL MICROFIBER INSTANT COOLING TOWEL ON DEMAND COOLING
THE MISSION ENDURACOOL MICROFIBER INSTANT COOLING TOWEL ON DEMAND COOLING
The Mission EnduraCool Instant Cooling Towel is athlete engineered and made from proprietary performance fabric that instantly cools when soaked with water, wrung out and is snapped in the air to activate its cooling properties. The thermoregulating technology works by absorbing moisture and perspiration into the fabric where the unique radiator-like fiber construction circulates water molecules and regulates the rate o...
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Brookhaven National Laboratory Scientists Design Molecular System for Artificial Photosynthesis
Scientists Design Molecular System for Artificial Photosynthesis
System is designed to mimic key functions of the photosynthetic center in green plants to convert solar energy into chemical energy stored by hydrogen fuel
Etsuko Fujita and Gerald Manbeck of Brookhaven Lab's Chemistry Division carried out a series of experiments to understand why their molecular system with six light-absorbing centers (made of ruthenium metal ions bound to organic molecules) produced more hydrogen than the sys...
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Eco-labels and Green Stickers are labeling systems for food and consumer products. Ecolabels are voluntary, but green stickers are mandated by law.
Ecolabelling is a voluntary method of environmental performance certification and labelling that is practised around the world. An ecolabel identifies products or services proven environmentally preferable overall, within a specific product or service category.
Eco-labels and Green Stickers are labeling systems for food and consumer products. Ecolabels are voluntary, but green stickers are mandated by law; for example, in North America major appliances and automobiles use Energy Star. They ar...
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Hong Kong Polytechnic University research on shoe insole helps to improve the performance of plantar pressure reduction and perceived comfort.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University research on shoe insole helps to improve the performance of plantar pressure reduction and perceived comfort.
Orthotic insoles are commonly used in the treatment of the diabetic foot to prevent ulcerations. The insoles are normally custom-made to provide an optimum fit and reduce and/or redistribute pressure on different plantar regions. The multi-layered design of the insoles not only accommodates the foot shape and provides comfort, but also maximizes the fu...
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Eyemate – Measures Intraocular Pressure for glaucoma patient
Meaning of glaucoma eye disease
Glaucoma is a chronic eye disease and worldwide the leading cause for irreversible vision loss. Reduction and control of IOP demonstrated to be the only effective treatment to reduce the risk of disease progression. Globally close to 80 million patients are affected by the disease now; by 2040 then number is expected to increase because of the aging population and life-style to 112 million patients worldwide.
The Problem: Glaucoma
Glaucoma is a ...
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Benjamin Button clip-on new wearable action camera designed for kids and parents will use artificial intelligence to automatically pick out the best photos
Benjamin Button camera is a button-shaped and kid-tough wearable camera that clips onto to clothes with Artifical Intelligence to automatically take pictures of all great moments. It's like life-logging camera.
new wearable action camera designed for kids and parents will use artificial intelligence to automatically pick out the best photos
The Benjamin Button clip-on device aims to remain unobtrusive when snapping, utilising software that can detect sound and motion to automatically tak...
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