Needles

	Invisibility is now one step closer
...The engineers at Purdue University have followed mathematical guidelines that were devised last year by the UK physicists to create a theoretical design, which in its turn uses an array of very small needles. The latter radiate from a central spoke outwards. The theoretical design looks like a round hairbrush. It would bend around any object that is "cloaked". Those objects that are situated in the background will be ...
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	Woman lives with needles inside her body
...Chinese woman came to a hospital suffering from blood in her urine, when doctors found her body pierced inside with 26 needles. Luo Cuifen, a 29-year-old woman, is believed to have needles inserted in her body soon after birth by her grandparents, who were disappointed she was not a boy. After she arrived at hospital, X-ray showed numerous sewing needles all over her body, some very close to vital organs: lungs, bladd...
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