Bayer is releasing a new consumer TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) system marketed using a familiar name, Aleve Direct Therapy. Designed specifically to help treat back pain, it sticks to the skin using double-sided gel pads and is operated via an accompanying wireless remote control.Once activated, the system begins delivering electric pulses to the back, going through a seri...

You interact with millions of lines of Google code every day. There’s a lot of code that springs into action every time you check your Gmail or plug in a search.Google is powered by billions of lines of code. But just how much code goes into Google’s internet services might surprise you.Google’s internet services run on 2 billion lines of code — 5000 as many lines as the original Space Shut...

Millennials’ passion for tourism is turning into a desire for extended stays, whether that means giving up city life for a small town existence or leaving their home country to live overseas. Their penchant for Living Experiments is affecting the products and services they choose. When buying, they sometimes look for items that are easily movable, rather than disposable: a mindset that is infl...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is testing drones that it says will help it manage its warehouse inventory more efficiently, and which it said yesterday could be rolled out in the next six to nine months across its distribution centers. When supply chain professionals discuss supply chain execution, their focus is typically put on transportation management systems and warehouse management systems, the ya...

Your next window may be made of see-through components that conduct electricity. This development comes thanks to a new technique that adds metal to glass to make it transparent.It seems that windows are turning into high-tech screens. Indeed, in the not too far off future, all of the windows in our homes could very well be see-through glass that doubles as smart home screens.This may sound lik...

As our population continues to get older, physiotherapists are going to be needed more than ever. It was with this in mind that Emma – or Expert Manipulative Massage Automation – was created. The one-armed robot is designed to help physiotherapists handle an increasing workload, by conducting massage therapy on their human patients.Emma is the product of Singaporean startup AiTreat, and was d...

Treo, Advanced Mobile Imaging. This mobile device can easily wrap around the injured extremity to get a quick three-dimensional scan or can be laid flat for a two-dimensional scan which can be uploaded to the app for a review. Each Treo includes a soft imaging detector pad.Having personally experienced an injury the past year, I can say that having to make a trip to get a scan in a huge machine...

All the biggest product brands in the world are owned by a handful of corporation. Food, cleaning products, banks, airlines, cars, media companies... everything is in the hands of these megacorporations. These graphics show how everything is connected.Consumer goodsIn the supermarket—as you can see in the graphic at the top—Mondelez, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Pepsico, P&G, Johnson&Jo...

Pokémon Go is an international phenomenon not just because it offers a nostalgia-fueled game anyone can access on a smartphone, but also because it gets people out into the real world interacting with one another and the cities around them. As I’m sitting here at my desk writing this story, I can tell you that a five-minute walk to the park and golf course across the street will yield me two...