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Model Tries To Smuggle Cocaine Inside Fake Breasts And Butt Implants

1:59AM December 23, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Rome’s airport police have caught a busty model trying to smuggle 2.5 kilograms of cocaine inside her fake breast and buttocks’ implants. More »

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Microchip Implant Brings A Lost Kitten Home After 5 Years

3:00AM September 16, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Five years ago, a cat named Willow went missing in Boulder, Colorado. She turned up this week nearly 3000km away in New York City. How did her owners track her down? A tiny microchip, and huge heaping helpings of luck. More »

Science

RFID Implants Won’t Work If You’ve Been Kidnapped In Mexico

5:20AM August 23, 2011 | Kwame Opam

Kidnappings in Mexico have worsened in the last five years, sky-rocketing by 371 per cent. So too have the demand for those RFID implants that were said to allow authorities find the victims. Except for one thing: they don’t work. More »

Science

Glucose-Measuring Implant Glows When Sugar Levels Increase

3:00AM August 20, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Instead of putting up with a mild pin-prick whenever your blood sugar levels need testing, Japanese scientists have invented a little implant that glows when the levels change. No pain, and a free glowstick for raves — high five, science! More »

Science

Life Without A Pulse Is Possible

1:00PM June 15, 2011 | Davey Alba

At the Texas Heart Institute, doctors have developed an artificial heart replacement that produces no discernible pulse or audible heartbeat. More »

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Ortho-Tag Uses RFID To Identify Your Implants

12:51PM June 14, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

When you have a prosthetic device implanted in your body, how do you retrieve information about it? You can’t look at the bottom for a model number and you don’t want to go under the knife to find the manufacturer. More »

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Implant Jamming Shield Will Keep Body Hackers From Giving You A Heart Attack

12:40AM June 14, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Wirelessly connected medical implants are convenient, smart, and save a lot of lives. But the prospect of murdering someone by remotely screwing their, say, pacemaker, isn’t that remote. And researchers at MIT are working to protect you from implant assassins. More »

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Telescopic Eye Implants Magnify Life, Help People See Again

8:20AM July 9, 2010 | Casey Chan

Telescopic eye implants have just been approved by the FDA and they’re just as crazy as they sound. It’s literally like attaching a miniature telescope to an eye, magnifying what a person can see by 2.2-2.7 times. More »

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The Human Scientist Infected With A Computer Virus

4:20AM May 27, 2010 | Brian Barrett

This is Dr Mark Gasson. He’s a human being who’s managed to contract a nasty computer virus. Don’t feel too bad for him, though: he did it to himself. More »

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Pentagon Looking To Repair Damaged Brains With Implants

12:49AM May 8, 2010 | Adam Frucci

Pentagon research arm DARPA has handed out about $US15 million to various institutions to research new implants that would replace damaged parts of the brain, allowing people to return to normal. More »