Future medical technology

	Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery
...ry Dr. Nishide mainly mentioned small memory cards with integrated circuit. He said that within the next three years such cards would benefit from using this invention. Dr. Nishide added that in the future the battery could be also used in devices, requiring a higher power capability more than high-energy density, such as batteries in different electronic devices and/or in electric vehicles with motor drive assistance....
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	Software Programmers Cannot Reach Supercomputers
...Although programmers mentioned that in the near future computers will have an unimagined power, they still wonder if today the developers of hardware have gone as far as the developers of software. The senior research scientist for Information Technology at Purdue, Faisal Saied mentioned that parallel computing has been an obscure skill, which is limited to those that work in the field of high-performance supercomputing....
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	There Are Successful Bloggers in Africa Too
... after he had seen the internet for the first time. William Kamkwamba got an opportunity to surf the net when he attended a TEDGlobal conference in Arusha, Tanzania, aimed to promote new ideas in the technology, design and entertainment fields. The 19-year-old high-school student was invited to the conference to share his personal experience of designing and building a windmill completely on his own. Kamkwamba left sc...
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	Doctors Prescribe Antidepressants for Babies
...of antidepressant prescriptions funded by the state has almost doubled to reach over a million a year. Antidepressant cost the Government about $30 million. Figures provided by Pharmac to the United Future Party suggest that 4728 antidepressant prescriptions were given for children under 10 in the period of 2004-05, having declined to 2425 in the last June year. However, the most alarming are the figures for babies, e...
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	Animal Crew Returns from Space
...ere injured before they were placed into biopack. The goal of that study was to reveal how body metabolism was affected by gravity. Some of the researchers were developed by students from Voronej Medical University, Russia. For example, they elaborated an experiment were cockroaches were tested on their endurance and how their muscle tissue would be affected by gravity. One of the interesting conceptions developed ...
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	The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think
...and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, were awarded for finding the key to how sheets become wrinkled. Chemistry Japanese scientist Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan managed to extract a vanilla fragrance and flavor from cow dung. Nutrition Brian Wansink of Cornell University, once questioned the limits of human appetite and studied the topic by feeding people ...
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	New Tool to Link Web 2.0 and Search
...g the content in the software's search interface. The new tool also has social bookmarking capabilities. These allow users to save their search results in virtual folders. This is done whether for future reference or for sharing. The analyst at Gilbane Group Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., Lynda Moulton, stated that the new tool represents "the next logical step forward for enterprise search as it makes the inevitable shi...
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	4D Ultrasounds Challenge Abortion Laws
... imagery giving a video-quality view of the foetus in real time. With this scientific improvement, one can see the small features like eyes and lips that can be distinguished for a person without any medical education. The 4D imagery augment the opinion when the foetus is considered to be conscious around 18 weeks. Dr. Savell says that new scans can become a powerful tool to take part in the debates referring to the li...
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	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
... in the Swedish capital. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five nominations: Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Peace and Economics (the latter only since 1969). This year's first Nobel Prize was awarded for medical achievements to three scientists, who have dedicated their researches to genetics. Their researches have brought them to breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and ways of recombining the DNA code in mam...
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	Glowing Pig Gives Birth to Glowing Piglets
...ein the pigs that took part in the experiment were able to glow green under ultraviolet light, the experts reported. Robin Lovell-Badge, specialist in genetics at Britain's National Institute for Medical Research said that this technology is potentially valuable for solving the problem of human transplant organs. The glowing piglets' birth showed that genetic modification was successful, however further trials are nec...
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	Scientists Find a Way to Make People Live for Hundreds of Years
...125 years with just a few people managing to live that long. Robin Holliday, a British gerontologist said that the claim that the possibility of humans to live up to 1,000 years may come from the future technology, where vulnerable parts of the body would be replaced and this would make a person live even longer. Longo said that his scientific experiment proved that aging is genetically programmed and human lifespa...
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	The Amount of Digital Information Reached 281 Exabytes (281 Billion Gigabytes)
...e amount of information about us generated automatically each day outruns the overall amount of digital information that we actively produce about ourselves. This statement refers to the fact that in future the IT sector will be highly responsible for keeping the information about users private. "We discovered that only about half of your digital footprint is related to your individual actions - taking pictures, sendin...
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	sbie Ends with Extraordinary Success and Nets Multimillion Riyal Deals for Exhibitors
...st is still not complete. The participants confessed that by taking part in this exhibition they got a chance to converse with local visitors so they could take into consideration their wishes in the future developments of the companies. Visitors had a chance to see two of Germany's major companies in the industry. One of the companies was the Boecker Group, which in fact consists of several other companies, as for examp...
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	Pioneer Presents Its 400GB Optical Disc
...the disk can store information on a 400GB space. The capacity of Pioneer's disk is twice the capacity of a 200GB disk that TDK has been developing for a couple of years, claiming that it would be the future of Blu-ray. However, the Pioneer's disk is currently read-only, which means that is will be used for pre-recorded content. The company's representatives stated that Pioneer managed to deal with the issue regarding t...
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	Japanese to Create New Generation Wearable Gadgets
...ling eyeballs features sensors and chips within headphones that perceive the electrical current which is generated by the movements of the user's eyeballs. "We are working on a cell phone of the future," outlined Mr. Fukumoto at a suburban Tokyo research center. The company hopes that the wearable control technology is going to be applied in mobile gadgets that download music, play video games and allow users to do s...
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