Most of us still pull out a phone, unlock it and tap through an app to do things we do every day, like calling a ride to work or opening a meeting link. On November 5, 2026, a San Francisco hardware startup called Aina unveiled a different idea: an AI ring with a small screen that tries to guess what you need next and puts it at your fingertip before you ask.
Aina was founded in May 2025 by Apoorv Shankar, formerly VP of Hardware at Ultrahuman, and says it spent 15 months in stealth as a hu...
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Researchers creating rapid diagnostic test for blood infections.
BYU is leading a collaborative team that has just kicked off a massive multidisciplinary effort to combat a threat to global health, the rising prevalence of bacteria that can’t be treated by antibiotics. Four BYU professors from three colleges have joined forces on the multi-year, National Institutes of Health-sponsored effort to create a faster diagnostic test for drug-resistant blood infections. As it stands now, diagnostic tests for these types of infections can take up to three days to prod...
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Young scientist bags Google science prize for Ebola express detection kit.
Olivia Hallisey of Greenwich, won the top prize for her Ebola test kit in the fifth annual Google Science Fair, which honored nine students aged 13 to 18 from all over the world last week. The Connecticut-based sophomore from Greenwich High School invented the much needed "novel temperature-dependent, rapid, simple and inexpensive Ebola detection platform." It could soon be much easier to diagnose Ebola thanks to this student’s new invention.
Aid workers in Ebola-stricken regions could soon b...
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Smart Pills for collecting data inside the body
Imagine if a vitamin sized pill could collect medical data from your body. Companies such as SmartPill have come out with wireless devices contained in tiny capsules to collect information from inside the body.
The SmartPill capsule includes miniaturized sensors or cameras, a printed circuit board and tiny batteries that work to collect medical data as it makes its way through a person's gastrointestinal tract.
Once swallowed, the device collects the required information, stores the data a...
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