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St. Jude Medical’s Invisible Trial System Uses iPads to Control Pain Relieving Neurostimulator
[Tech]
2015/07/19 11:04
St. Jude Medical landed FDA approval to introduce its Invisible Trial System, a tool for evaluating the benefits that a spinal cord stimulator can provide before actually implanting one. Typically, similar systems came with ugly and difficult to use controllers, ruining the experience for many potential users of the technology. The Invisible Trial System instead uses an Apple iPod touch and an...
The World's Lightest, Most Compact E-Bike
[Design]
2015/07/19 11:03
For freedom and fun on your daily urban journeys, the A-Bike Electric was designed to fold to a super-compact form for easy toting everywhere. Electric power assistance keeps you going further, faster! Its range is up to 15 miles with quick-charging 24V battery small enough that you can charge it on top of your desk with room to spare. It’s not only light, it’s the lightest! Using aircraft gr...
(PDF) Mobile Addicts Multiply Across the Globe
[Consumer]
2015/07/16 12:00
The report showed that the US population is perpetually plugged-in with 71% of those surveyed disclosing they actually sleep with their smartphones. This prompted us to revisit the study we conducted in Q2 of 2014 in which we first uncovered the rise of a new breed of mobile users: the Mobile Addicts.Worldwide Mobile Addicts Grew 59% in the Last YearThe chart below shows the results of the new...
(Patent) Google Wants to Make Your Cell Phone’s Screen Disappear
[Tech]
2015/07/16 12:00
In a patent awarded to the company July 14, Google outlined a new process for creating smartphone displays that match the color of the phone itself. Every cellphone on the market today has a screen that looks black when the display is off, but Google’s new idea could match the display color to the body of the phone using an electronically-controlled “color changing layer” that sits between t...
Mercedes to Pack Greater Semi-Autonomy Into Upcoming E-Class
[Tech]
2015/07/16 12:00
The new Mercedes E-Class will be fitted with a massive range of semi-autonomous features to make the driver's life easier and safer.In the push to lower the road toll and make life easier for drivers, auto manufacturers are packing more and more semi-autonomous features into their cars. When it comes time to launch the new E-Class, Mercedes is hoping to be ahead of the curve by offering up a ra...
Amazon - From Source to Mighty Flow
[Investing]
2015/07/16 12:00
IN THE summer of 1994 Jeff Bezos quit his job on Wall Street, and made for Seattle. With his wife at the wheel of their hired car, he sketched out a plan to set up an online catalogue retailing business.About a year later, the first book was sold by Amazon, a name Mr Bezos chose to reflect the giant scale of his ambitions for the company. The world saw a website selling books and assumed that t...
This Biotech Discovery Means You'll Never Need a Painful Flu Shot Again
[Tech]
2015/07/16 11:59
The worst part about getting vaccinated is the shot. I don’t care how much of a badass you are, it’s still painful and annoying. But now a group of researchers in Japan have tested a new “dissolving needle” that is basically a painless patch that you stick to your arm. And it works.Below, you can see the dissolving needle technology, called MicroHyala, before and after delivering its vaccin...
Planet-Friendly Banana Packaging is Visually A-Peel-Ing
[Design]
2015/07/16 11:59
The Shiawase Banana's seamless label is but one example of its eco-conscious upbringing.Would you feel happier knowing that your bananas are grown and sold with the green movement in mind? To that end, Nendo developed the Shiawase Banana for Unifrutti Japan. But mind you, these bananas aren’t just made for its delicious taste, Nendo made sure that every step—from growing it to selling it in m...
Now Printing: Micro-Livers
[Tech]
2015/07/16 11:59
A La Jolla biotech boosts drug testing with human organs made on demand.Once novel, 3-D printing is making a big splash, producing everything from chess pieces to prosthetic limbs. But those applications merely scratch the surface. San Diego biotech Organovo is perfecting another application: printing tiny livers, kidneys, and other tissues.These livers won’t be used for transplants but may pe...
