Technology

How Intrusive Are Face Recognition Technologies?

A telecommunications law academic in Australia has recommended for laws to be enacted criminalising the application of face recognition technology to visual images online that enable the identity of a person or people to be ascertained without their conse ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2015 - 10:30am

3-D Printing Is Not Just Hype

A company in the Netherlands is building a bridge across a canal in Amsterdam using 3D-printing robots. It seems that such attention-grabbing headlines appear regularly to declare how 3D-printing is destined to revolutionize manufacturing of all kinds. If ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 22 2015 - 8:01am

Fitbit Handcuff: The Dark Side Of Wearable Fitness Trackers

You no longer have to look to science fiction to find the cyborg. We are all cyborgs now. Mobile phones, activity trackers, pacemakers, breast implants and even aspirins all act as biological, cognitive or social extensions and enhancements of our bodies ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 22 2015 - 10:00am

Markdown, Mobile-Friendly Web Sites, and eBooks

I write drafts on paper. It would be nice if the electronic versions of  documents looked similar to the drafts. It would be even better is the same  paper-like form could be used for a web site with all its menus and an eBook with all the chapters. In th ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Dec 8 2015 - 10:39pm

Rapid Ebola Diagnostic Test Could Be Game Changer

A new test can accurately predict within minutes if an individual has Ebola  and is the first to show that a point-of-care EVD test is faster than and as sensitive as a conventional laboratory-based molecular method used for clinical testing during the re ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2015 - 7:44am

How To Make A Prosthetic Eye

A  small, highly skilled team at Moorfields Eye Hospital transform the lives of people who have lost their eyes to accidents and disease. Each year, they work with their clients to create around 1,400 customized, detailed prosthetics, many of which replace ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Jun 26 2015 - 10:00am

Artificial Blood For Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes have been called the deadliest animal on the planet due to the diseases they spread. Why feed them? By using science, giving them an artificial buffet may lead to fewer of them, says Stephen Dobson, a University of Kentucky professor of medical ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2015 - 7:00am

Flying Feminism: Drones Drop Abortion Pills On Catholic Poland

A Dutch feminist pro-choice activist organization, Women on Waves, has been using a drone to drop abortion pills across the Polish-German border. The aim of the flight has been to highlight Poland’s restrictive abortion laws – a consistent topic of debate ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 1 2015 - 11:37am

Protein-Based Elastic Gel Heals Wounds

A team of bioengineers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), led by Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, and Nasim Annabi, PhD, of the Biomedical Engineering Division, has developed a new protein-based gel that, when exposed to light, mimics many of the propert ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2015 - 9:54am

New GHOST Technology Leaps Out Of The Screen

Nothing will make you feel like Tony Stark more than being able to change the shape of displays with your hands, pulling objects and data out of the screen and playing with them in mid-air. Right now, that's just in an Avengers movie. Instead, we live ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2015 - 10:30am