Saver Emergency Breath System is a personal life saving device that allows you to breathe clean air in the event of a fire.

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The Saver Emergency Breath System is a personal life saving device that allows you to breathe clean air in the event of a fire. Saver helps prevent smoke inhalation which is the leading cause of fire fatalities. Saver filters chemical substances and removes carbon monoxide and toxic gases giving you up to 5 minutes of breathable air—Enough to get you and your family safely out of the house during a fire. https://youtu.be/XAaZjtjcHZA Triple Filter Technology Saver is designed with a tripl...
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Internet connection that’s 1,000 times faster, delivering 1 terabit per second.

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Scientists in Germany have achieved internet speeds averaging a sustained 1 terabit per second (1 Tbps) on an optical fibre network. At that speed, you're getting a data transmission rate that's a whopping 1,000 times faster than services like Google Fibre, which delivers 1 gigabit per second (1 Gbps). While Google Fibre's 1 Gbps itself might be considered sufficiently drool-worthy for those of us constrained to the even slower speeds of ADSL and cable, it can't hope to compete to the almo...
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Northwestern Medicine Scientists Have Found That RNA Test Helps Identify Bacterial Infections in Infants

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Northwestern Medicine scientists, working with the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), recently assessed whether an RNA biosignature of the body’s response to infection could distinguish if infants 60 days or younger with fever were experiencing a serious bacterial infection. The results, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, show how RNA biosignatures may be an alternative – and more accurate – method to identify infants with bacterial infectio...
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Motion-directed robots on a micro scale. – Microswimmers capped with carbon on one side can be propelled and steered by light

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Phototactic behaviour directs some bacteria towards light and others into darkness: This enables them to utilize solar energy as efficiently as possible for their metabolism, or, otherwise, protects them from excessive light intensity. A team of researchers headed by Clemens Bechinger from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of Stuttgart, as well as colleagues from the University of Düsseldorf have now found a surprisingly simple way to direct synthetic microswimm...
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University of Virginia, has earned First Place in NASA’s 2015-2016 University Aeronautics Design Challenge for their concept of an electric-powered, commuter-sized airplane.

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A team of 13 students from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, has earned First Place in NASA’s 2015-2016 University Aeronautics Design Challenge for their concept of an electric-powered, commuter-sized airplane featuring “green aviation” technologies. Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, the engineering design contest specifically asked students to incorporate distributed electric propulsion, or DEP, in their concept for an airplane that could enter se...
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Innovative Micro-Turbine – Utilizing the power of flowing water, Blue Freedom produces portable energy to charge all your electric devices.

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1.6 billion people worldwide have no access to electricity. Blue Freedom - the smallest and lightest hydropower plant in the world - enables people without access to a power grid the freedom to produce energy themselves. Complete with ultramarine rotor blades, the microturbine can be used by anyone with access to flowing water to produce and store electrical energy in an eco-friendly way that preserves biodiversity. Blue Freedom is world's smallest hydropower plant. It can be used by anyone wit...
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ParkHere, a spin-off of the Technical University of Munich has developed the first self-powered parking sensor that provides real-time data about available parking spaces

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30 percent of traffic in cities is caused by drivers searching for a parking space. Anyone who has circled city blocks trying to find a spot can attest to how frustrating this process can be, one that not only wastes a driver's time, but also pollutes the environment unnecessarily. ParkHere, a spin-off of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), aims to make this search easier and more efficient. It has developed the first self-powered parking sensor that provides real-time data about availa...
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Draper to Create Breakthrough “Oral Modeling” Device with Colgate-Palmolive

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Developing oral care products to prevent and treat oral diseases requires model systems to test the potential therapies before applying them to humans. However, the ability of current models to accurately reflect human oral physiology or predict the effects of therapies on the human disease state is limited, and can be a rate limiting stage of the development process. Colgate-Palmolive is working with Draper to create an advanced gum tissue model that improves the predictive power of the testing...
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Amazon’s Echo Dot

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Amazon's Echo Dot is a 360 degree speaker that uses far-field voice recognition powered by the Amazon Alexa voice service/assistant. Design wise it looks like a hockey puck with two buttons on top and a rotating volume ring. If you've ever seen or own the original Echo, then it's basically the first inch and a half taken off the top of the Pringle can-like Bluetooth speaker. Echo Dot has everything the Echo has including long range, far-field voice capabilities, a microphone off button, an...
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GE Healthcare has received FDA clearance for its revolutionary MAGiC (MAGnetic resonance image Compilation) multi-contrast MRI

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GE Healthcare’s MAGiC, which stands for magnetic resonance image compilation, has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA. Providing the industry’s first multi-contrast MR technique, the system provides clinicians with more data than conventional scanning in a much shorter period of time. Users can manipulate MR images retrospectively, and that can lead to substantial time-savings, a reduction in rescans, and an increase in cost savings. MAGiC (Magnetic Resonance Image Compilation) is the indu...
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The MolecuLight Imaging Device can instantly visualize potentially harmful bacteria at the point of care

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MolecuLight i:X uses the principle of fluorescence to capture and document either still images or videos of wounds as well as their surrounding areas where potentially harmful bacteria may be present, without the need of contrast agents. MolecuLight’s first product, the i:X, is a handheld fluorescence imaging device that allows clinicians to quickly, safely, and easily visualize and precisely target bacterial presence and distribution in and around wounds, in real-time at the point-of-care. T...
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Augmedix uses Google Glass to help doctors take notes as they examine patients

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San Francisco-based digital health startup Augmedix is now trying to establish a mass market for Google Glass in the healthcare industry. Augmedix, which adapted Google Glass to help doctors take notes as they examine patients, is earning revenues from hundreds of physicians who subscribe to the company’s service, CEO Ian Shakil says. Augmedix, founded in 2012 by Shakil, now counts users in almost all U.S. states. Every day, the company says, about 5,000 patients see a doctor who wears a G...
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Berkeley Lab and Cornell researchers have found a way to Couple Magnetic and Electric Materials for producing new ways to ultra low-power microprocessors, storage devices and next-generation electronics.

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Scientists have successfully paired ferroelectric and ferrimagnetic materials so that their alignment can be controlled with a small electric field at near room temperatures, an achievement that could open doors to ultra low-power microprocessors, storage devices and next-generation electronics. The work, co-led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Cornell University, is described in a study to be published Sept. 22 in the j...
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Purdue University Research mid-infrared photothermal microscope, an innovation that could bring insights into drug delivery and cancer treatment.

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Chemical contrast has long been sought for label-free visualization of biomolecules and materials in complex living systems. Although infrared spectroscopic imaging has come a long way in this direction, it is thus far only applicable to dried tissues because of the strong infrared absorption by water. It also suffers from low spatial resolution due to long wavelengths and lacks optical sectioning capabilities. We overcome these limitations through sensing vibrational absorption–induced photothe...
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Max Planck Institute and the University of Stuttgart have found a way of generating acoustic hologram . Sound can now be structured in three dimensions.

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Sound can now be structured in three dimensions. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of Stuttgart have found a way of generating acoustic holograms, which could improve ultrasound diagnostics and material testing. The holograms can also be used to move and manipulate particles. Shaped with ultrasound: Max Planck researchers from Stuttgart transmit ultrasonic waves through a bath of water © Kai Melde / MPI for Intelligent Systems Pee...
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3-D printable ink produces synthetic bone implant with properties that induce bone regeneration

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Northwestern University research team has developed a 3-D printable ink that produces a synthetic bone implant that rapidly induces bone regeneration and growth. This hyperelastic “bone” material, the shape of which can be easily customized, one day could be especially useful for the treatment of bone defects in children. Bone implantation surgery is never an easy process, but it is particularly painful and complicated for children. With both adults and children, often times bone is harvested...
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NASA Aims to Sequence DNA in Space

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NASA is conducting a lot of research in space, but interestingly enough, now they’re focusing on sequencing an integral biological molecule: DNA. Ever since the first strands of DNA were sequenced in the 1970s, researchers understood the profound significance of analyzing genetics for a wide range of medical and biological research. DNA sequencing at large can be used to identify forms of life, study organism evolution and relation, pinpoint genetic diseases in individuals and assist in crim...
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Lucy: The Smart Mirror that Redirects Sunlight Into Your Home

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Lucy is the first device of its kind: It can illuminate your home with real sunlight, by finding and redirecting natural light for you. Most individuals spend over 90% of their lives inside, with limited exposure to natural light. Winters can lead to seasonal depression, and at large, last a long time, preventing us from receiving the Vitamin D and serotonin boosts associated with natural light. Further still, from an aesthetic standpoint, interior designers suggest decorating tricks to br...
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The Purple Pillow: Innovating the way we rest

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Traditional pillows, no matter the type, can cause problems for users. They are lumpy, flat, hot, and most importantly, lack proper neck support. The Purple Pillow aims to change that. Pillows currently used can be saggy and weak, have a harsh angle, and other issues. Interestingly enough, there are a lot of aspects that one must take into consideration in designing a pillow. Shoulders need strain relief while the neck needs gentle, yet firm support. Breathability is also an important fac...
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Water Vapor Plumes May be Present on Europa

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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Europa’s ocean might be able to harbor life in the solar system, and the plumes, should they exist, could provide scientists a way to understand and sample Europa’s subsurface. The plumes themselves are estimated to rise about 125 miles (200 kilometers) before, presumably, raining material back down onto Europa's surface. Europa’s ocea...
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Germany’s Max Planck Institute have identified mechanism in brain that allows it to decide when we’re unsure how to respond, how does our brain decide

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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and the University, have identified neural mechanisms that help us understand whether a difficult and complex social situation is emotionally positive or negative. “When someone offends you while smiling, should your brain interpret it as a smile or an offense? The mechanism we found includes two areas in the brain that act almost as ‘remote controls’ that together determine what value to attribute to a s...
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New study from Duke University suggest oxytocin enhances spirituality

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Oxytocin has been dubbed the “love hormone” for its role promoting social bonding, altruism and more. Oxytocin occurs naturally in the body. Produced by the hypothalamus, it acts as a hormone and as a neurotransmitter, affecting many regions of the brain. It is stimulated during sex, childbirth, and breastfeeding. Recent research has highlighted oxytocin’s role in promoting empathy, trust, social bonding, and altruism. In a new study from Duke University, men reported a greater sense of...
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‘Quell’ – drug free wearable technology for widespread relief from chronic pain.

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One in three Americans suffers from chronic pain. 1 Chronic pain is defined as pain lasting more than three months, and it can interfere with your daily activities, impact your mood, and prevent you from sleeping soundly. Quell can provide widespread relief from chronic pain, and may be right for you. Living with chronic pain can be devastating. Even getting out of bed in the morning can be difficult. Pain affects all aspects of your life – your ability to work, to be in relationships with ot...
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Coudersport Ice Mine (PA) – Mysterious Ice Cave That Produces Ice Only During Summer

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Sweden Valley Ice Mine, one of the unexplained mysteries of nature, is located about four miles east of Coudersport, the county seat of Potter County, Pa. A similar phenomenon is situated on Dingman Run, about three miles west of Coudersport. These are natural ice-manufacturing plants, running under full head during the warm season of the year, but shutting down entirely during the cold months of winter, when there is plenty of ice and snow to be had elsewhere and when it would seem to be the mo...
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China’s world’s largest radio telescope LIVE

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Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Heavenly Eye" or "The Eye of Heaven"), is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression (大窝凼洼地), a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou Province, southwest China. It consists of a fixed 500 m (1,600 ft) dish constructed in a natural depression in the landscape. It is the world's largest filled aperture (single dish) radio telescope, and the second largest radio telescope (after the Russian RATAN-600, which has a sparsely filled aperture). Chinese scientists are ...
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‘Iqbuds’ wireless Intelligent earbuds that let you hear what you want to hear

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Welcome to the future of hearing with next-generation, intelligent earbuds by Nuheara. Totally wireless & let's you hear what you want. They are wireless earbuds that connect to your smartphone and play music or take calls, but they do a lot more than that. Its co-founders came from Sensear, an Australian company that builds industrial hearing protection that happens to have sophisticated noise suppression, speech enhancement and bluetooth communications. Sensear, a company that de...
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Plumen 003 light bulb makes people “look more beautiful”

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Plumen 003 light bulb acts as two lights in one – a warm, accent light around the sides and a clean spot light on the surface below. This dual functionality makes it perfect for any situation where you’re both relaxing and focused on a task, but especially for use above the dining table, as you can see both your food and your guests, with the optimum strength and temperature of light for each. The new energy efficient LED light bulb has a central gold element which illuminates people’s faces ...
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Livi’s adaptable pill-delivery system that is Internet-enabled and can provide remote oversight and comprehensive medication-adherence reports

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Porticos engineers combined technical expertise with practical specifications to develop Livi™, the advanced precision medication-dispensing device.  It delivers prescription-specific dosages of multiple  medications for advanced patient home care. Direct-loading by a retail pharmacy will ensure precise, controlled medication dispensing for up to three months. Livi™ dispenses medicines as scheduled. Internet-enabled remote oversight and comprehensive medication-adherence reports improve coord...
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Theia Pro: a smart HD camera for your glasses that lets you capture the action without having to pull your phone out of your pocket.

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Theia Pro: a camera for your glasses that lets you capture HD video and stream it without having to take your phone out of your pocket. It comes with a built-in flashlight and WiFi remote control (range of 10 meters). You can expand its memory by up to 32 GB. Theia Pro lets you record 1080p and 720p @ 30fps. It has an ergonomic design and can be installed easily. Theia PRO is a beautifully crafted DIY cross-over of an ultra-portable full HD recording device with your wearable g...
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MIT researchers have created a way to recognize basic emotions with signals transmitted from the wireless router.

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Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have found a way to detect human emotions purely through radio signals. Using a device called the EQ-Radio, which emits and captures reflected radio frequency (RF) waves, the researchers bounced waves off subjects to measure their breathing patterns and heart rates. As Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers Mingmin Zhao, Fadel Adib and Dina Katabi describe in their paper, "Emotio...
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