Monday, December 12, 2011

Scientist Creates Cheap, Effective Medical Tools From Old Toys (Video) : TreeHugger

Scientist Creates Cheap, Effective Medical Tools From Old Toys (Video) : TreeHugger: "Old toys rarely get a second chance for a new life. Most of them head to landfill without a second glance. But Jose Gomez-Marquez of MIT has come up with a way to hack old toys into medical devices for dealing with everything from diabetes to dengue fever, providing cheap solutions for developing nations all while reusing existing products."

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50 things killed by technology - Telegraph

50 things killed by technology - Telegraph: "Ringing the cinema to check film times, owning an encyclopaedia and dialling 1471 are among 50 things killed off by modern technology, according to a new poll."

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Tinyest fuel cell generates power from bacteria | KurzweilAI

Tinyest fuel cell generates power from bacteria | KurzweilAI: "A tiny biological fuel cell, the smallest of its kind (0.3 microliters), has been built by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), powered by bacteria."

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