Kinectacles: Specs to Help the Visually Challenged
The third edition of Microsoft’s annual Garage Science Fair saw more than 60 innovations by techies from the IT giant’s India Development Center (MSIDC) including a new pair of spectacles ca...
Toxicity in Real Time Via Dip Chip
Synthetic chemicals and poisons that contaminate water or food supplies and generate bodily reactions from minor illness to painful death can now be rapidly detected.
Yosi Shacham-Diaman...
Thought-Guided Robot Arm Helps Paralysed Woman Drink Coffee
A paralyzed woman has been helped by scientists to lift a drink to her lips with a thought-controlled robotic arm.
On April 12 last year, 58-year-old Cathy Hutchinson made history by usi...
Rapid Detection of Mutated Strains Via Virus 'Barcodes'
A bank of molecular signatures that will help identify the severity of virus infection from characteristic changes seen in cells is being built by Dr Julian Hiscox and Dr John Barr of the Un...
Ultra-Accurate and Ultra-Compact Makeover for Laser Scalpels
Most operations end up removing some healthy tissue along with the bad regardless of whether surgeons slice with a traditional scalpel or cut away with a surgical laser.
This means that ...