A material inspired by plastic wrap could keep you cooler than anything you’ve ever worn before – perhaps even cool enough to help kill your dependence on air conditioning. Stanford University researcher Yi Cui, unveiled an innovative textile made of plastic that isn’t too far off from common plastic wrap. The main difference is they engineered theirs to be breathable, which means you can wear it without your body suffocating. And because it’s plastic, the material offers something clothing f...

A dream is successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occurs involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, as well as a subject of philosophical and religious interest, throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology. One aim of neuroscience is to map the brain loci of thoughts and mental experiences. ...

Jabra Sport Pulse Wireless, the most accurate wireless headset with a built-in heart rate monitor. A precision biometric in-ear heart rate monitor and advanced Jabra Sport Life application ensure you're always training in the correct zone. The Sport Life app provides personalized audio coaching every step of the way and lets you control your music and your training from a single source. Sport Pulse Wireless earbuds are built to provide high quality audio via Dolby enhanced sound and take a beati...

Blood irradiation therapy is a procedure in which the blood is exposed to low level red light (often laser light) for therapeutic reasons. Most research on blood irradiation therapy has been conducted in Germany, Russia and China, while smaller-scale research has been performed in other countries such as Britain. Blood irradiation therapy can be administered through a catheter in a vein, through the blood vessels inside the nose or applied externally through the skin. It is not related to the pr...

Medtronic received FDA approval for its Enlite sensor for use with the firm's iPro2 professional continuous glucose monitoring system. With Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM), you get a more complete picture of your glucose levels, which can lead to better treatment decisions and better glucose control. Without diabetes, your body tracks glucose levels all day and night to ensure the right amount of insulin is released at the right time. To successfully manage diabetes, a monitoring syste...

Three International Space Station crew members are scheduled to return to Earth on Tuesday, Sept. 6. NASA Television will provide coverage of their departure from the orbital outpost and return home, beginning at 9 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 6. Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams of NASA and Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin and Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos will undock their Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft from the space station at 5:51 p.m. and land in Kazakhst...

Leica Disto D810 Touch is the first laser distance meter with a touch screen for quick and intuitive operation. An integrated camera and advanced capabilities allows you to easily obtain measurements from pictures. Images can be downloaded to a computer through the USB interface. The high functionality is perfectly complemented by the smart free app Leica Disto sketch. Simply Touch it Large Touch Screen for Quick And Intuitive Operation^Measure With A Picture Width, Diameter of Round Item...

CycleAT - Bluetooth tire sensor for motorcycle (& bicycle), gives you REAL-TIME tire temp, pressure. The device is designed to help riders get a safer and more efficient ride every time. It comes with 2 sensors to let you know when you are riding with improper tire pressure. It notifies you through audio and visual cues if your bike deviates outside the range of safe values. The companion app lets you create a profile for your bike to suggest optimal tire pressure based on that informa...

Marya Lieberman of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame and Abigail Weaver, a postdoctoral associate in the University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, took up the challenge of how people in developing countries could detect low-quality antimalarial drugs without expensive equipment and without handling dangerous chemicals. The solution they developed involves using paper cards, embedded with reagents, that carry o...

Testing for health conditions usually involves needles, X-rays and other invasive or uncomfortable measures. To make diagnostics less burdensome for patients, scientists are developing alternatives, looking for disease markers in urine—and even spit. Now a study, appearing in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research, demonstrates for the first time that individuals may have saliva "fingerprints." The finding suggests that identifying changes in these baseline fingerprints could someday be a reliable wa...

lab-grown meat is made of cells harmlessly drawn from a cow and then cultured to grow and form muscle fibers. Scientists and businesses working full steam to produce lab-created meat claim it will be healthier than conventional meat. Cultured meat, also called synthetic meat, cell-cultured meat and in vitro meat, is meat grown in cell culture instead of inside animals. Cultured meat is produced using many of the same tissue engineering techniques traditionally used in regenerative medicine. ...

Two new smartwatch prototypes developed at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, can guess what their wearer is up to by tracking subtle signals in their skin and muscles. The technology could allow the owner to answer calls, track activities, and more – all without needing to be touched. The first, named EM-Sense, can figure out what object its owner is touching. By fitting the smartwatch with a radio receiver, EM-Sense can use its wearer like a living antenna, picking up o...

Elf Emmit is a subtle headband with an electromagnetic coil inside that’s worn around the back of the head, so it can send electromagnetic pulses right at your cerebellum. It doesn’t need batteries or recharging, it simply plugs into the headphone socket on your smartphone or tablet. Using an app, you can choose the signal frequency that’s best suited to what you want to achieve. There are five settings, all based on mood, and are designed to influence concentration, sleep, learning, medi...

Ecovacs robotics is changing the home robotics category by moving from floors to windows with WINBOT W830 - the window cleaning Robot. Thanks to its smart suction fan, W830 cleans more surfaces including vertical glass, framed or frameless glass, frosted, filmed or colored glass, horizontal surfaces and more.W830 is smart and simple to use with one touch operation and automatic "n" or "Z" cleaning paths. It also has sensors to stop WINBOT W830 from moving across window frames, intelligently iden...

You're likely under the impression that bringing dinosaurs back to life is a fiddly affair. You didn't get your GCSE in cloning using paleo-DNA from either bones or the guts of mosquitoes in amber and John Hammon never text you back. Please don't cry. It's easier than you think. All you need is a flame and this Hatching Dinosaur Candle. As the wax egg melts away it slowly reveals the world's favourite prehistoric carnivore - a darling baby velociraptor. Not your average porcelain orname...

Imagine getting inside the head of a working FDA inspector ... receiving the same training the inspector gets ... knowing which problems face the most scrutiny ... all before your next inspection. Here's how. Are you confident you'll sail through your next inspection? You can be when you have the same training the FDA gives its own inspectors. Know what to expect when the next inspector walks through your door -- from what the agency trains its investigators to look for ... to which pr...

European regulators have given Masimo CE mark approval for its RAS-45, a single-use acoustic respiration sensor intended for use with the company's rainbow Acoustic Monitoring of respiration rate. The adhesive sensor, which comes with an integrated acoustic transducer and is designed to be stuck on the neck, can be used for patients weighing over 22 pounds. Masimo is an American Irvine, California-based manufacturer of noninvasive patient monitoring technologies. The company is best known for...

Researchers have developed a chemical sensing material consisting of a group of carbon nanotubes individually wrapped with supramolecular polymers that can be used with a mobile phone to detect toxins. Chemical sensors offer opportunities for improving personal security, safety, and health. To enable broad adoption of chemical sensors requires performance and cost advantages that are best realized from innovations in the design of the sensing (transduction) materials. Ideal materials a...

Slime molds form when individual cells swarm together and self-assemble into a blob, essentially a giant single cell containing thousands of nuclei. These unusual cells, which have already been found on the International Space Station, respond to external forces and stimuli by moving and changing their shapes. NanoRacks-Slime Mold Organization (NanoRacks-Slime Mold) treats slime molds with a series of stimuli while in microgravity, monitoring their responses and comparing them to slime molds on ...

Now researchers in MIT’s Media Lab have found a way to bypass a major design step in 3-D printing, to quickly and efficiently model and print thousands of hair-like structures. Instead of using conventional computer-aided design (CAD) software to draw thousands of individual hairs on a computer — a step that would take hours to compute — the team built a new software platform, called “Cilllia,” that lets users define the angle, thickness, density, and height of thousands of hairs, in just a few ...

SONON is world's first wireless portable ultrasound equipment. It supports iOS and Android mobile phone or tablet. It seems like you can do anything with your smartphone these days. How about using it as a portable ultrasound scanner? South Korean start-up Healcerion wants to make that a reality with Sonon, a portable ultrasound system that runs on Android or iOS mobile devices. Currently targeted for ob/gyn applications, the Sonon linear probe wirelessly sends image data to an app running...

MUZO Cobblestone is a Wi-Fi Audio Receiver that makes your speakers wireless. Now you can control music play to your speakers without having to connect your audio cable to your speakers. Cobblestone is easy to set-up. Just connect your Cobblestone to your speaker, amplifier or receiver, and configure your Cobblestone to your home Wi-Fi network with our MUZO Player app and start streaming your favorite music. It’s as easy as that. AirPlay multi-room is supported for Cobblestones and not ye...

University of California, San Diego bioengineers have demonstrated in a study in pigs that a new injectable hydrogel can repair damage from heart attacks, help the heart grow new tissue and blood vessels, and get the heart moving closer to how a healthy heart should. The results of the study were published Feb. 20 in Science Translational Medicine and clear the way for clinical trials to begin this year in Europe. The gel is injected through a catheter without requiring surgery or general anesth...

A team of Harvard University researchers with expertise in 3D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot. This small, 3D-printed robot — nicknamed the octobot — could pave the way for a new generation of completely soft, autonomous machines. In this video, see the octobot in action. It is the first entirely soft, autonomous robot, made by a combination of embedded 3D printing, modeling, and soft lithography. Credit:...

At the University of California, Los Angeles clinical researchers have successfully used focused ultrasound to “jump-start” the brain of a man coming out of a coma. The 25-year-old patient was barely conscious once he woke up from the coma, but soon after the initiation of treatment his condition improved measurably. A 25-year-old man recovering from a coma has made remarkable progress following a treatment at UCLA to jump-start his brain using ultrasound. The technique uses sonic stimulation...

So far, Innovation Essence has featured 3d printed prosthetics, 3d printing pens, and 3d printers that print a house, and even food printing. However, another 3d printing product is also extremely innovative, as all of the former were limited in how much they could print by the amount of filament used. The SolarSinster prints glass, is entirely solarpowered, and runs off of natural resources. All it needs is the sun to be out and sand and it can function, making it ideal for a desert. Factories ...

Awamoko 3D Foam Pen, the latest from Shine, one of the most innovative toy-makers in Japan. With the Awamoko 3D Foam Pen, you get two plastic foam bases on which you can build your creations, as well as a spatula to help you shape the bubbles, several decoration items (eyes, ears, noses, and more), plus three different heads for the pen that will allow you to make different shapes like smiley faces or stars. With all these, the creative possibilities are endless! New 3D printing foam pen t...

WiTricity Corporation developed highly resonant wireless power transfer, and is the foundational technology for wireless electricity via magnetic resonance. As a licensing and technology transfer company, WiTricity Corporation works with OEMs to design and develop innovative products that incorporate WiTricity technology.  In addition, we have created a number of reference designs that provide a fast-path route to introducing new products and systems based on these designs. WiTricity conti...

'Try the World' is a bi-monthly food subscription box that sends you local and authentic gourmet foods that are chosen by celebrity chefs from different countries. Each month features a different country, except for their Special Edition Holiday Box (featured in this review), which features items from multiple countries. Each box includes 7-10 locally made/grown gourmet goodies as well as some cultural tidbits, such as music playlists and movie recommendations, all from the country being feat...

Stitch FixⓇ is the personal styling service tailored to your taste, budget and lifestyle that helps you look and feel your best every day. Clothing and accessories hand-selected by a personal stylist, delivered to your door. Customers of the four-year-old startup never have to step foot inside a store or spend time browsing for clothes on the internet. Instead, Stitch Fix stylists send them clothes and accessories each month according to their body types and style preferences. Customers...