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Device detects sugar in food — sweet!

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 3:24am

Scientists have produced a clever little device: a small handheld sensor that indicates what type of sweetener is in either a food or drink. The researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign believe this is yet another step towards...

Indian artificial heart design uses cockroach heart technology

Michael Trei

Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 8:29am

Who would have thought that cockroaches have something to offer modern science? Well, it turns out that while human hearts have four chambers, a cockroach heart uses 13, leaving plenty of redundancy. When a chamber fails in a human heart,...

Gel-based fingertips could give prosthetic hands a sense of touch

Kevin Hall

Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 4:30am

Researchers at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles have found that adding gelled fingertips to a prosthetic hand can enable the wearer to instinctively react to the weight and fragility of an object he is touching —...

USB flowers are a breath of any kind of air you want

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 4:21am

Remember that six-PCs-in-one-sweet-glowing-box setup we showed you? Well, designer Fredrik Perman isn't all about raw processing power. He also has a softer, sweeter-smelling side: flower-shaped USB fragrance oil warmers. The units are designed to burn all kinds of fragrant...

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