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Off the shelf, on the skin: Stick-on electronic patches for health monitoring (w/ video)

Thin, soft stick-on patches that stretch and move with the skin incorporate commercial, off-the-shelf chip-based electronics for sophisticated wireless health monitoring. The new device was developed ... read more

Scientists Develop a Way to Keep Your Pacemaker From Getting Hacked

The team will present their experiments with defibrillators [pdf], with off-the-shelf radio transmitters playing the role of the shield, at the SIGCOMM conference in Toronto. How the Heck: Many medica... read more

Assembly and operation of the autopatcher for automated intracellular neural recording in vivo

Figure 1: The autopatcher—a robot for automated whole-cell patch clamp recordings in vivo ... The entire autopatching process is shown in Supplementary Video 1. The experimenter can then follow the in... read more

Reunion on Ice: Performers reassemble to remember the old Ice House

The old Ice House bar and music venue officially bit the dust 10 years ago this month, when the historic structure on Water Street was torn down. But even though a decade has passed, people still reme... read more

Stick-on patch collects, analyzes and wirelessly transmits a variety of health metrics

The electronic skin offers several improvements over existing trackers, including greater flexibility, smaller size, and the ability to stick the self-adhesive patch—which is ... including continuous ... read more

What's the Future of the American Dream?

We're asking our guests and our viewers what is their vision for the future of the American Dream — and how we can achieve those visions. View a sample below and then tell us your vision for the futur... read more

Gonski, plutocracy and public policy

If you want to see the real insight of the Gonski report, go beyond the oh-so-careful language designed not to offend "stakeholders", and the non-committal responses of politicians. Look at the data c... read more

Buzz Aldrin Speaks Out: Forget the Moon, Let's Head to Mars

As the second man to ever walk on the moon (he stepped out of the lunar module about 15 minutes after Neil Armstrong), Buzz Aldrin knows a little something about space exploration, about bold ambition... read more

InPlay from Briefing.com

9:17 am Navient acquires Duncan Solutions, a transportation revenue management company serving municipalities and toll authorities w/ approx ... investments in the EagleDream Health platform. "Fiscal ... read more

Making More Stuff

With time running out, he pushes off for his final run. He does it, piloting the Velox3 to a speed of 83.1 miles an hour, a new world record! Of course if you want speed, who needs a bike? Try a '72 B... read more