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Screens
Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into A Display
1:40PM Rosa Golijan | There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there’s the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It’s a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer. More »
Gadgets
A Gadget To Tell You Your Skin Ain’t Great
5:00AM Adam Frucci | Bandai’s Skin Expert is a device that you hold up to your face and it tells you how healthy your skin is. Finally, a gadget to make me feel bad about my appearance automatically! Thanks Japan! [Hobby Blog via Engadget]
Gadgets
Step Into My Crimson Glow, And You Will Be Young Again
2:40AM John Herrman | A hapless human basks in the glow of the ReGen HUMAN INCINERATOR 3000 skin treatment system, which is said to “rejuvenate” skin using high-intensity blue and red LED lights. More at [io9] More »
Random Stuff
Pore-Tightening Mask Allows Couples to Fight Crime Together
11:27AM Gizmodo US Edition | These Japanese masks don’t only tighten and make your pores microscopic, they also turn it into a très romantic activity with your partner. Creepily reminscent of Jason in Friday the 13th, they provide ample anonymity for psychotic, law-breaking fun as well. Instead of running around with a chainsaw though, robbing a bank might just be more useful because financial bankruptcy is just no fun. Only problem with these masks is you don’t really know what to tell the cops about the person behind the pink mask, holding up the bank teller in San Francisco, do you? [TOKYO MANGO] More »
Science
LEDs May Really Be The Wondergadget: Now They Can Banish Wrinkles
12:45AM Kit Eaton | Great Scott! It looks like the ubiquitous LED may be becoming even more of a wondergadget, since a group of German researchers are saying light from LEDs may actually be able to smooth away skin wrinkles. Their study, due for publication soon, showed that exposure to high-intensity light from LEDs daily for several weeks resulted in “rejuvenated skin,” and “reduced wrinkle levels.” More »
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Nanoantenna Skin is Like a Solar Panel, But 90% Efficient
4:40AM Mark Wilson | Solar panels are great, don’t get me wrong, and the technology still has plenty of room to improve. But today, they still only capture about 20% of the energy coming from light…and there’s a young, promising challenger on the horizon. The technology is called a nanoantenna skin. It can suck 92% of the energy from infrared light (in theoretical simulations, about 80% in early lab testing). And because it doesn’t simply collect energy from the visible light spectrum, it even can harness the Earth’s solar energy it stores during the day and radiates at night. More »
Gadgets
Laser Tattoo Body-Modding, This Time it’s Not Painful: Fingernails
10:10PM Kit Eaton | The skin-ablation laser tattoo we showed you recently was creepy mainly because burning your naked skin is going to hurt, but this new laser body-mod tackles a safer target, fingernails. The portraits of famous bods you can see in the image are laser-etched into black nail polish (I know, it looks like they’re made of seared, blackened nail, but they’re not), and member lamedust over at Instructables has got a pretty comprehensive guide. So if you’re crazy, you too can etch pics onto the end of your digits. The video makes for interesting watching. More »
Gadgets
Guy Uses Laser-Etch Machine to Tattoo Himself (Verdict: Flaming Nutcase)
9:50PM Gizmodo US Edition | See that robot there? It’s burned by a laser-etch machine. On genyoowine human skin. Ohoho yes: that sent an icky feeling up your spine didn’t it? If it didn’t, then it should have. Try looking through the gallery, and then watch the video of a skin-etch in action, and that should do the trick… More »
Science
Spray on Skin Gun Shoots Stem Cells To Heal Your Open Wounds
9:20AM Sean Fallon | Because of its use of stem cells, a skin regenerating gun would certainly cause a stir among conservative types–but if you were caught out on a battlefield with a gaping wound, you would be begging for technology like this. That is why the Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine invested US$250 million in a project focused on therapies like the famous “Pixie Dust” that can help heal soldiers on the front lines in Iraq. As for the the “skin gun,” it could spray skin-healing stem cells over a wound–helping it heal in a matter of hours. More »
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