medical
Design
Exos Braces Heal Your Bones, Look Cooler Than Casts
2:20AM Adam Frucci | Say goodbye to old-school casts for broken bones. Exos Medical’s braces, splints and casts are adjustable, breathable, lightweight, clean and waterproof. The only drawback is that you can’t have girls sign them. More »
Design
What Is This?
10:00PM Danny Allen | Hint: Once you know it’ll make sense, and no, it’s not a trippy visualisation for Burning Man. More »
Gadgets
New Hearing Aids Double As Headphones
8:00AM John Herrman | In their steady march toward decrepitude, tech-savvy boomers will confront some weighty questions: Will my pension be enough to live on? What’s up with rap music? Why can’t I connect my BlackBerry to my hearing aid? Well, good news! More »
Science
Wood Is The New Bone
10:53PM Mark Wilson | Don’t let the hippies hear that wood may make a better artificial bone than titanium. We’ll never live it down. More »
Science
Stem Cell Contact Lenses Cure Blindness in Less Than a Month
4:00AM Adam Frucci | Here’s something that people with poor or no vision will be excited about: three patients had their sight restored in less than a month by contact lenses cultured with stem cells. More »
Gadgets
Why Medical Checkpoints Will Never Save Us From Apocalypse
8:20AM Jesus Diaz | This—border entry and exit checkpoints with thermoscan controls—is how your airport will look in a few years. If you are lucky. Swine Flu or not, this is our future. Or maybe it’ll be even worse: More »
Science
New da Vinci Robot Displays Your Internal Organs in 3D HD!
8:20AM Mark Wilson | It’s the ultimate home theatre system that you’ll (hopefully) never be conscious to see. More »
Gadgets
Lifepack 15 Defibrillator: So Cool, You’ll Forget You’re Having a Heart Attack
4:20AM Sean Fallon | When all that bacon and candy finally catches up to you, you will definitely want your paramedic shocking you back to life with the Lifepack 15 defibrillator. I mean, just look at it. More »
Random Stuff
Horrifying Vintage Army Medical Photos Make Me Appreciate Modern Medicine Even More
8:40AM Matt Buchanan | The National Museum of Health and Medicine’s working to release thousands of military medical photos going back to the Civil War—and their first Flickr set feels like grisly snapshots stolen from David Lynch’s nightmares. More »
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