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Cue Health Tracker: Visualizing Your Health
Gaming Rooms Don’t Get Any Cooler Than This
HP’s Next Laptop Could Run Android, Leak Suggests
3D Printed Human Kidney Replacement Created by Connecticut Students
Skylock Protects Your Bike, Shares Its Location on Your Smartphone

Cue Health Tracker: Visualizing Your Health

Posted: 16 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Health buffs can now obsess over gadgets too, as a new, creative device with their needs in mind hits the market.

It might be not as good as having a doctor accompanying you 24/7, Cue is pretty close to that. We’re talking of a gadget that analyzes samples from your body and recommends specific actions intended to improve the user’s health. Cue will be capable of measuring testosterone, crafting fertility indexes, detect inflammation, and vitamin D. But that’s just the beggining, as more versions with different functions might come out in the future, too.

You can learn more about Cue on the video below these lines.

Source: Technabob

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Gaming Rooms Don’t Get Any Cooler Than This

Posted: 16 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Our purpose as human beings is to reproduce and deliver healthy offspring into the world, doing our best to ensure they’ll survive after us. But it’s sometimes about making life fun, like I’m pretty sure this gaming room is for the kids we see playing in one of the pictures.

So someone – a dad, mom or some sort of combination between the two, put in all the effort to create the best retro gaming room possible. Sega, Nintendo, Game Boy, Dreamcast. All the consoles, all the remotes, and from the looks of it, every possible game as well.

And it’s tidy! And Neat! And clean! I’m not sure if I had this kind of collection preserved for the memories of my childhood that I would allow my children, who’ll obviously be a walking disaster when it comes to keeping things in order, get anywhere near such a haven.

But whoever built this has well trained pups under his wing, so he/she has no problem putting their kids in such an incredible gaming shrine. There’s no Noble prize for coolness, but if there was one, this person should get it.

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HP’s Next Laptop Could Run Android, Leak Suggests

Posted: 16 May 2014 05:00 AM PDT

According to a leaked video, the next laptop from electronics maker HP could run the Android operating system.

"Down with PC, mobile is all that matters" is probably a familiar cry that you've likely heard bellowed with zeal on the Internet dozens of times. It's true that the PC market is shrinking like a puddle in Summer as millions of us flock to smartphones and tablets as a cheaper and more portable alternative than PCs. Even laptops are suffering as despite being propped up by the very lucrative PC gaming market (which actually rakes in more cash than that of the console gaming industry), plenty are turning to pricey Apple MacBooks and iMacs for work and investing in dirt cheap netbooks (smaller screens, no optical disc drive etc.) for anything else. In fact, our newfound enthusiasm for other operating systems suggests that we particularly like Android (it has 60% of the mobile market alone) so it makes good sense then that HP's next laptop will reportedly feature the OS in some capacity.

The rumour comes from Notebook Italia who posted a video of the HP Android laptop in action, but interestingly enough, despite being posted on multiple websites, the video no longer works suggesting that it has been taken down. It's unlikely that the video would be taken down if there was little truth behind it (if it was an entirely made up rumour, HP probably wouldn't find the need to get Notebook Italia to take it down) so even more credence is lent to this speculation. Plausibility aside, the video did show a HP Slatebook 14 with a 1080p "Full HD" screen and it's being reported that the laptop was also being controlled by a quad-core NVIDIA processor, which is fairly sturdy stuff for a light OS like Android and anyone looking for heavy use or serious gaming likely wouldn't purchase a laptop like this anyway so it's perhaps suitable for the target market.

Furthermore the video (when it was available) also showed Android 'soft keys' at the bottom of the screen, which are found on Android only. If this seems slightly odd, then the keyboard on the screen will be joined by a keyboard below the screen where you'd traditionally find it, meaning that laptop purists and Android enthusiasts alike will both be catered to. Other than that, there's little else to go on and HP doesn't appear to be making any statements about the leak/rumour but we'll keep you posted once we know more.

Source: ArsTechnicha

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3D Printed Human Kidney Replacement Created by Connecticut Students

Posted: 15 May 2014 01:45 PM PDT

A team of students from the University of Connecticut collaborated with 3D printing company ACT Group to create a viable artificial human kidney.

Considering the great number of people from all over the world, and not just the US, in need for a kidney replacement, what Connecticut students Derek Chhiv, Meaghan Sullivan, Danny Ung, Benjamin Coscia, Guleid Awale, and Ali Rogers have done could represent the beginning of a new era in medicine. The six students were distributed in two teams under the supervision of Anson Ma, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Luckily enough, each of the two teams had a different approach to the problem, and since differences are a sure way to progress, this means that better final results could be obtained by summing the advantages of each one of them.

Ma stated about this experiment that “The objective of the design project is to get these students to combine the latest technology and their chemical engineering knowledge, learned over their four years at UConn, to solve a technical problem where we can make a difference.”

As Guleid Awale pointed out, “While the other team utilized techniques such as electrodialysis and forward osmosis in their prototype, our group opted for mainly hollow fiber membrane technology commonly found in traditional hemodialysis treatments.”

Benjamin Coscia explained that “Because 3D printing resolutions are not currently low enough to print a structure which will actually filter blood, the file is of only the shell of the kidney. Hollow fiber membranes will be installed on the inside to do the filtration function. The kidney will then be sealed together using the threads and sealing o-rings. A fluid called dialysate will be circulated on the outside of the membranes, inside of the shell, to remove waste material from the blood and keep useful material from leaving the blood. A waste stream maintains the person’s ability to urinate. The outside of the shell can be used as a substrate for growth of biological material for ease of integration into the body.”

At 12 cm in length and 6 cm in diameter, the 3D printed human kidney replacement that these students created is as big as the one of an adult.

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Skylock Protects Your Bike, Shares Its Location on Your Smartphone

Posted: 15 May 2014 01:10 PM PDT

Skylock Solar-Powered Cloud-Based Bike Lock

Making sure that your bike is well protected with a lock is one thing, but having the ability to check its location at any time on your mobile device is infinitely better.

Skylock was designed as a solar powered bike lock that connects to your smartphone and the cloud. The connection is required not only for sharing the location of the bike, but also for locking or unlocking this gadget. Shaped like an U-lock that cyclists are ever so familiar with, Skylock has a lean learning curve, most of its functions being quite intuitive.

The added safety measures make Skylock ideal for anyone who owns a bike and rides it frequently. The lack of a key means that there’s one thing less for you to lose or misplace. On top of that, picking the Skylock is impossible, and supposing that someone is evil enough to use brute force in order to release your bike (both from the post and from your ownership), the built-in accelerometers will trigger an alarm on your smartphone.

So how does this work? Skylock can be unlocked using the smartphone or by entering a code on its capacitative screen.

Next, Skylock can tell if you’ve had an accident, and if you don’t confirm on your smartphone that you’re OK, it will alert local authorities. Connecting the bike to a Wi-Fi network enables you to control Skylock from a distance, so if your friends need your bike, you can easily unlock it for them.

Gerardo Barroeta, Skylock’s CTO, reassured people that powering this gadget is nothing they need to worry about: “I’ve devoted about 10 years of my career to developing low-power systems. We had to make this from scratch and really engineer it to have basically no friction. One full hour of sunlight puts enough juice to run the device for a week.”

Skylock is currently available for pre-order as part of a self-hosted crowdfunding campaign. It can be yours for $159, which is quite steep for a bike lock, but given the features, I’d say that the price is justified. After all, you don’t get to see everyday a bike lock that connects to the cloud via Wi-Fi, shares your location on mobile devices and alerts emergency services in case of unfortunate events.

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