medical
-
These Bizarre Glasses Promise To Cure Your Motion Sickness, But At What Cost?
The engineers at Citroën have apparently thrown almost 100 years of French design refinement out the window with a new product you don’t drive, but that will improve your motoring experience. The carmaker’s new Seetroën glasses won’t win you any style points, but Citroën claims the glasses will eliminate any motion sickness you’re feeling after…
-
Rolling This Wheelchair’s Wheels Backwards Somehow Propels It Forward
When the RoChair first appeared back in 2011, the wheelchair used an unorthodox centre-mounted drive lever, operated with a rowing motion, to propel it forwards. Four years later the RoChair has been completely redesigned to look more traditional, until you see someone operating it.
-
Help Build A New Database Of Science Fiction Works That Deal With Medical Themes
A lot of science fiction incorporates medicine — be it realistic, fantastic, futuristically life-enhancing or horrific. A new project at Scotland’s University of Glasgow, dubbed “Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities”, aims to study creative visions of medical care, and one crowdsourced aspect of it needs your help.
-
MIT Wants You To Swallow This Origami Robot Pill To Retrieve Other Crap You’ve Swallowed
According to MIT, Americans swallow over 3500 button-sized batteries every year. Say what? But instead of educating the public about not swallowing random crap, researchers at the school want people to swallow a new folding origami robot they have developed that’s designed to retrieve foreign objects, among other tasks.