Friday, October 29, 2010 - 2:28am
This may look like one of Japan's super odd vending machines, but in fact it's just the newest innovation in growing produce without sunlight.
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Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 2:13pm
We've had body fat scanning technology for a long time. It's called a mirror. If you want to get fancy, though, then you get this body volume index machine, a new 3D scanner that not only analyzes your amount of body fat, but where it is. Where it is could make all the difference.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 11:57am
It's fitting that the news comes during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month — welcome, too — as a professor at the University of Manchester in the U.K. has developed a breast cancer scanner the size of a lunchbox.
Monday, October 4, 2010 - 4:24pm
Scratching your glasses usually means you've just ruined them, but an Israeli researcher has figured out a way to etch a lens so that it acts as a bifocal — letting the wearer see things both near and far — but without the hassle.
Monday, October 4, 2010 - 12:26pm
MIT grad student Ming-Zher Poh has managed to give the humble webcam a beefy functionality upgrade without too much extra work. In fact, your webcam could tell how healthy your heart is just by looking at you.
Monday, August 30, 2010 - 6:46am
Aging isn't pretty. As we get older we gain weight, our skin gets less taut and we generally just get less attractive. It's a sad downhill slide! But really, trying to stop it with these ridiculous anti-aging glasses is probably just going to make things worse.
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 10:19am
Lots of gadgets promise to help you get fit, but here's one that'll tell you if those gadgets are actually working. Over the course of the day, the KiFit armband counts the calories you burn and measures your sleep patterns — essentially telling you how healthy you're living.
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 3:03am
Meet Kord Campbell, a man The New York Times says is so inundated with "two computer screens alive with e-mail, instant messages, online chats, a Web browser and the computer code he was writing" that he missed an email where someone offered to buy his Internet startup for a cool $1.3 million. And that's not all.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 6:08am
Thanks to work being done by a pair of researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee, something as simple as a webcam could be diagnosing your eyes as well as a trained ophthalmologist. Before we...
Friday, March 19, 2010 - 9:42am
"Masked in Flight" is a project by Iceland's Sruli Recht that studies what kind of masks air travelers might wear — travelers that wanted to look like serial killers and creepy stormtroopers, that is. Would you feel comfortable on a...
