SOUNDS GOOD TO US Application of ultrasound has been shown to speed broken bone regeneration by one third, and even restore memory to mice with Alzheimer’s. Now researchers have found that ultrasound can accelerate healing time of skin wounds too. The elderly and those with diabetes can often develop chronic healing defects such as skin ulcers and bedsores. Chronic wounds like foot ulcers lead to major limb amputation if
YOU DON’T NEED A ROCKET TO LEAVE EARTH. THERE’S A SLOWER, GENTLER TRIP IN THE WORKS—AND IT COMES WITH A COCKTAIL. When Alan Eustace lifted off into space from the New Mexico desert this past October, it was with a quiet whoosh, and a slight jostle of his harness. The 57-year-old computer scientist from Google—outfitted in a 260-pound pressurized space suit—dangled solo from a polyethylene balloon as thin as a
SOON EVERYTHING WILL HAVE INTERNET! Garbage Wi-Fi Photo credits: Bigbelly These smart trash cans are solar powered, can detect how full and smelly they are, and will soon offer Wi-Fi. Garbage cans are the latest previously un-smart objects to become Wi-Fi-enabled. Waste management company Bigbelly equipped two of its smart bins with wireless internet in downtown Manhattan last winter, providing 50 to 75 megabits per second. That’s fast enough
Imagine never again having that frantic feeling that your smartphone battery is about to die. Amazingly, charging your phone may soon be a thing of the past: Technology companies are developing a way for your gadgets to power up while they’re sitting in your pocket. By converting radio waves into battery-replenishing power, smartphones equipped with special receivers can literally pull energy right out of the air. It’s not far-off in
(NaturalNews) Research presented at SLEEP 2010, the 24th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, has revealed that children who use technology late at night are more prone to develop cognitive problems than children who have regular sleeping patterns that do not involve staying up late on their computers and cell phones. “Any factor that deteriorates the quality or quantity of sleep will lead to difficulty with school performance
We tend to teach children skills we deem basic and necessary from a young age — reading, writing, and arithmetic are quickly covered within a child’s first few years of education. But now, with the growing emphasis on STEM, programming languages may soon be just as important as spoken language. Enter Vortex, the robotic toy for kids, that teaches them how to program and how to build their very own
Microsoft maintains big ambitions for Office, Bing, Skype and its other apps, but it’s minimizing a once heady quest to get vast numbers of people to use the software on Windows smartphones. The Redmond, Wash., technology giant announced Wednesday that it would fire up to 7,800 people in the coming months. The bulk of the cuts will come from offices in Finland and Brazil, but include at least 129 people
Google has announced a tool for Gmail users to retrieve potentially embarrassing emails up to 30 seconds after they’ve been sent. The “Undo Send” tool will apply to all Gmail web accounts and the Inbox by Gmail app. To activate the “Undo” facility, Gmail users need to click onto Settings, then under the General tab tick the “Enable Undo Send” function. Users can choose to have a five, 10, 20 or 30 seconds
Advertisers are increasingly using technology that targets users across multiple devices, and it’s working. Imagine you slack off at work and read up online about the latest Gibson 1959 Les Paul electric guitar replica. On the way home, you see an ad for the same model on your phone, reminding you this is “the most desirable Les Paul ever.” Then before bed on your tablet, you see another ad with
Imagine a world where we don’t have to plug anything in. Your phone, laptop, tablet and headphones are constantly being topped-up whenever they’re placed on an inductive surface, so that when you take them out with you into the wider world, your devices are always brimming with battery. Step-by-step, it’s what we might be moving toward, if the industry lobbying group The Wireless Power Consortium gets its way. The group’s
