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10:30AM Elly Hart | Here’s another reason to consider Sony the next time you’re in the market for a gadget: They’re looking after the “forgotten generation” — teenage and young adult cancer patients in the 15-30 age group who often fall into a gap in the health system. More »
Sony Reminds Everyone About The “Forgotten Generation”
10:30AM Elly Hart | Here’s another reason to consider Sony the next time you’re in the market for a gadget: They’re looking after the “forgotten generation” — teenage and young adult cancer patients in the 15-30 age group who often fall into a gap in the health system. More » 
Science
Man Designs And Builds Machine To Fight His Own Cancer
12:40PM Rosa Golijan | For the last 16 minutes and 27 seconds I’ve been watching this video in absolute awe. It’s the story of John Kanzius who designed, built and tested a machine (on himself), all in hopes of curing his leukaemia. More »
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Electroscalpel Hunts Down Cancer In Real Time
1:20AM Matt Buchanan | When surgeons dig around inside of you trying to cut out a tumour, they’re actually going off of pre-op info to find the tumour. An electroscalpel, combined with a mass spectrometer, will let them map cancerous cells in real time. More »
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New Breathalyser Detects Lung Cancer
3:00AM Adam Frucci | Breathalysers have been around for years, letting cops determine just how drunk you were when you ploughed into their parked car. But now, a new breathalyser has been developed that can detect lung cancer. More »
Random Stuff
Cancer Meds Wiped Off Man’s Fingerprints
9:20AM Adam Frucci | A 62-year-old tourist was trying to enter the United States when he was stopped at customs to have his fingerprints scanned. This was a problem for both him and the customs agents, for he had no fingerprints. More »
Gadgets
3-in-1 Cigarette Lighter, Air Purifier and Perfume Sprayer
12:20PM Andi Wang | Marketed as a “healthy smoking machine,” this 3-in-1 gadget lights up your cigarettes then automatically “purifies” all the nasty smoke around you, all the while spraying the air with your favourite perfume. More »
Gadgets
Blackened-Lungs Cigarette Lighter Really Rubs Your Face in It
4:40AM Adam Frucci | Cigarette smokers understand the damage they’re doing to their bodies. That’s why “shocking” anti-smoking ads like these blackened lungs won’t do anything to stop them. More »
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Get Your Cancer Zapped by a Gigantic, Proton-Spewing Cyclotron
10:00AM Adam Frucci | If bigger equals better, than Varian Medical System’s Cyclotron, designed to administer proton therapy, is the best damned cancer-killing machine ever built. The device is a 250 mega-electron volt proton accelerator, and it’s so large that it requires its own building. It’s designed to very precisely target tumors for radiation therapy, as protons have a “much shorter and predictable range of energy delivery than photons.” I’m not sure I fully understand it, but it sure does look impressive, doesn’t it? [Varian via Medgadget] More »
Business
Seeing Viral Spread of Target Stores Across U.S. Somehow Not as Terrifying as Wal-Mart
3:00AM Jack Loftus | Seeing Wal-Mart spread across the U.S. in that video last month reminded me of a virus consuming mankind, but this Target one? Not so much. It’s not a perfect store, but it’s certainly no Wal-Mart. More »
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