Finding yourself a new portable battery charger? why don’t you take a look at this iPower S from Momax. This travel-friendly battery charger is equipped with two USB 5V output ports, a micro-USB charging port and a high-capacity 6000mAh battery. The iPower S retails for $59.99 in black and white color options. [Product Page]
AeroCool has once again expanded its line of gaming PC cases by announcing the GT-S. Coming in Black Edition and White Edition color options, this full-tower PC case supports for FLEX ATX, Micro ATX, Mini ATX, ATX, SSI CEB, SSI EEB (EATX) and XL-ATX motherboards, and features a top-placed I/O panel with 2x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0 and 2x audio ports, a fan controller on top, five 5.25-inch external drive bays, seven 3.5-/2.5-inch internal drive bays, ten expansion slots and has 3 fans (1x 200mm LED fan – front, 200mm LED fan – top, 140mm LED fan – rear). Pricing info is still unknown at the moment. [Product Page]
When all the hardware is strung thogether and all of the code has been written you have a robot on hand. The question is how do you want to interact with them once they are built? One team of researchers is trying to figure out that question right now.
The EPI Mini weighs 2 ounces and relies on a user's fingertip to take EKG readings.
(Credit: EPI Mobile Health Solutions)
Every year, more than 700,000 Americans have a heart attack, and more than 600,000 die from heart disease — that’s one in every four deaths in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A small crop of mobile electrocardiogram (ECG or more commonly EKG) devices is springing up to meet the needs of those who suffer from heart disease and want to more easily monitor their heart health. The latest, EPI Mobile Health Solutions’ “EPI Mini” out of Singapore, has just received FDA clearance in the U.S. after being on the market in parts of Asia for a few years.
An EKG is a test that can measure how fast one’s heart is beating, whether it’s steady or irregular, and how strong the electrical signals are as they pass through each part of the heart. Traditionally, the tests are performed by doctors in hospitals or clinics using gel and 12 leads, and have the downside of not being able to measure someone’s heart activity while in various environments doing various activities.
The EPI Mini aims to help “… [Read more]
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We’ve all seen “Snakes on a Plane.” OK, I haven’t and don’t plan to. But anyway, picture this: snake robots in a nuclear plant. Can you hear that Hollywood option in the pipe?
Yessir, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University are convinced that sending snake-like robots slithering through nuclear power plants is a good idea. They’ve even tested the concept at a plant in Austria and it may help inspectors.
With a video camera and an LED light on its head, the reptilian machine was able to wriggle into pipes, valves, and vessels, relaying footage that can be used to check for hazardous wear and damage in pipes that are contaminated and hard to access.
While the multi-joined, modular snake-bot corkscrewed through the pipes, the footage it sent back was automatically corrected so that it was always aligned with gravity.
The farthest the robot went into a pipe was 60 feet. Check out the test in the video below taken at Austri… [Read more]
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Just when you got used to the idea of rolling robotic Roombas roaming your home on the range comes an even more unlikely vacuum: the Mocoro Microfiber Mop Ball Vacuum Cleaner from Japan’s CCP.
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They like you! They really like you! And now you can tout that fact to the world with a physical “Like” counter that displays your Facebook Likes as they tally up.
The Fliike by design studio Smiirl, a French startup that’s fond of double-vowel combinations, connects to your Facebook page over Wi-Fi and transmits your Likes in real time via a mechanical flip-board-type setup.
The Fliike measures 16.5 inches wide by 4.72 inches tall and can be placed on a counter or hung on a wall. A limited number of the devices are now available for preorder at $390 (wait, $390?) and will ship in November.
Smiirl is promoting the product as a business marketing tool along the lines of the “People love us on Yelp” sticker, but there’s really no reason (except humility) you can’t stick one on your desk too, as an experiment in infecting co-workers, family, and friends with … [Read more]
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Will the next iPhone let us take super slow-mo video?
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Odds are strong that Apple will debut an iPhone 5S in September or October, making this peak season for both rumors and educated guesses about the future device. This one, from 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman, seems to fall squarely into the latter category and substantiates earlier speculation that an improved camera is in the works.
Gurman was tipped by a developer to some hidden references inside of the latest iOS 7 betas that indicate Apple is designing a new iPhone camera mode called “Mogul,” which would allow for the capture of video at a superfast and precise rate — 120 frames per second — although the resolution of such a recording is still unknown.
This would let users make slow-motion films, a capability already present in competitor phones like the Samsung Galaxy S4 and some sports cameras on the market. Let’s face it, … [Read more]
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Doctor Who fans are looking forward to Mark Gatiss’ An Adventure in Time and Space as part of the 50th anniversary of the classic science fiction show. For this anniversary they are not just recreating popular scenes. They have actually rebuilt the First Doctor’s TARDIS console room.
All I can say is Holy Timelord! It looks amazing. Who doesn’t love a bunch of dials and levers on a central console?
This TARDIS set was put on display at Comic Con Paris. I can’t even imagine how good this thing looks in person. The only thing missing in that image is the Doctor himself.
[via @classicdw via The Mary Sue]
Bladder cancer kills more than 15,000 Americans each year, and is expected to cause about 73,000 new cancer cases in 2013.
Researchers report they have developed a “scent device” called the Odoreader that they hope may prove to be a reliable way to sniff out cancer in patients’ urine before it becomes a serious problem.
The Odoreader device correctly predicted 100 percent of bladder cancer cases from urine samples tested, researchers reported.
(Credit: University of Liverpool)
More than 500,000 bladder cancer survivors live in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society. Nine out of 10 of those affected are 55 years of age or older.
“It is a disease that, if caught early, can be treated effectively, but unfortunately we do not have any early screening methods other than diagnosis through urine tests at the stage when it starts to become a problem,” study researcher Dr. Chris Probert, a professor at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Translational Medicine in the U.K., said in a news release.
Most cases of bladder cancer begin in cells that line the inside of the bladder, the … [Read more]
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