Category: Technology & Devices
Wristband checks user’s identity through their own heartbeat
A Toronto-based company has invented a wristband that confirms user’s identity through their own heartbeat and then communicates the authentication to their devices such as iPads and cars. The wearer registers their identity by touching a sensor that has been […]
Scientists grow human brain tissue from stem cells
Scientists said Wednesday they had used stem cells to grow primitive human brain tissue for use in studying disorders and early development of this most complex of organs. They used the cells to grow what they dubbed “cerebral organoids” — […]
Researchers develop defibrillator that gets implanted under the skin
Dangerously abnormal heart rhythms can be detected by a new type of defibrillator implanted under the skin. It deliver shocks to restore a normal heartbeat without wires touching the heart. The research was led by the American Heart Association journal, […]
New laser machine promises painless removal of tattoos without any scar
PicoSure, the new laser machine designed to delete tattoos, promises to almost completely remove a tattoo without leaving any shading or scars. PicoSure, which initially went on sale in the United State, is being tested in the Centre for Laser […]
NEA eyes drones in dengue fight
SINGAPORE – Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones could be used by the National Environment Agency (NEA) as its latest weapon against the dengue scourge. NEA told My Paper that it is assessing various proposals it has received. The use […]
Now, surgery can permanently alter your eye color
Colored lenses are often used by people who are unhappy with their eye color, but a number of people can now undergo a surgery that is currently being conducted by just four doctors in the world, including an Indian doctor, […]
Needle-sized robot offers hope to brain hemorrhage sufferers
Scientists have developed a new robot which could help in surgery to relieve the damaging pressure caused by hemorrhaging in the brain. That is the basic premise of a new image-guided surgical system under development at Vanderbilt University. It employs […]
High-tech gadgets can be produced on the cheap thanks to common salt
Common salt could be the answer of producing low cost high-tech gadgets after researchers found that it can allow mass commercial production of silicon nanostructure, which has a large range of applications from electronics to biomedicine. By melting and absorbing […]
Japanese researchers develop highly efficient probe for DNA analysis
Researchers at RIKEN and Japanese firm K.K.DNAFORM have developed a highly efficient and reliable fluorescent probe, known as Eprobe, for PCR DNA amplification techniques and DNA analysis in hybridization experiments. This technology will enable the development of new, advanced assays […]
Nailing that elusive dengue vaccine
LYON – It has been a 20-year endeavour and the tests are still ongoing, but vaccine giant Sanofi Pasteur is so confident its dengue vaccine will work that it has already built a 300 million euro (S$504 million) plant to […]
