Category: Technology & Devices
Shake Your Cellphone to Charge It
You can now charge your cellphone by just shaking it, so you may no longer need to worry about your cellphone battery getting down. An Indian origin scientist and his colleagues at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg are designing a new […]
Mobile Phones May Provide Feasible Method To Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis
According to a research, mobile phone monitoring in people with rheumatoid arthritis increases the likelihood that people with the disease will follow treatment. The research was presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. […]
S’pore chip diagnoses TB in just 3 hours
SINGAPORE – The time taken to accurately diagnose tuberculosis (TB) looks set to be cut from up to eight weeks down to less than three hours. This is all thanks to a semiconductor chip smaller than a $1 coin, invented […]
Yahoo Japan to Begin Selling a Genetic Test Kit
Yahoo Japan will be marketing a genetic testing kit to its users, thus giving a real taste to users of what preventive medicine is all about. Priced at about 30,000 yen ($370), those who choose to buy it will need […]
Coke’s “Work It Out” Calculator Helps Consumers To Burn Calories
Coca-Cola has developed a new calculator to help consumers to find how long it takes to burn off various Coca-Cola drinks through different sports and chores like housework. The Work It Out Calculator has been launched by the Coca-Cola company […]
3D Tool to Track Malformations in Unborn Heart Created
A 3D map to pinpoint malformations in an unborn heart has been developed by scientists. Circulating blood cells drag on the endothelial cells (a layer of cells that lines the inside of certain cavities such as the growing heart) in […]
National Heart Centre develops world’s first human heart cell model of ARVC
SINGAPORE – Researchers at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) have successfully created a human heart cell model of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), an inherited heart muscle disorder which puts one at high risk of developing life-threatening arrhythmias and […]
New Exercise Music App That Plays Songs According to Your Heart Rate During Exercise
Searching for a song from phone playlists during exercise to get your heart pumping in rhythm will soon be a thing of the past with a new system that taps into the music-exercise combo. A team of researchers has come […]
Medicated Chewing Gum Helps Prevent Motion Sickness
New chewing gum formulation aims to prevent motion sickness. This research is being presented at the 2012 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition in Chicago, Ill., Oct. 14 – 18, an international event anticipating more than […]
Use Paper To Develop Actual Diagnostic Tests
The work by a University of Washington bioengineer produced a chemical trick to make paper-based diagnostics using plain paper, the kind found at office supply stores around the world. “We wanted to go for the simplest, cheapest starting material, and […]
