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Meet ANDI: How This Breathing, Walking, and Sweating Robot Can Help Human Health

Tech / 3 min. read

Someone better call actor Andrew McCarthy. Science hasn’t gone so far as to literally bring a mannequin to life like it did in the 1987 film Mannequin, but some visitors to Arizona State University’s Tempe Campus might be fooled. Housed at ASU is ANDI: the world’s first indoor-outdoor breathing, walking, and sweating manikin. Manikins, similar-looking to […]

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The Company Helping Wheelchair Users Incorporate Personality Into Their Chairs

Tech / 2 min. read

Meet the Irish sisters who are turning wheelchairs into fashion statements. Izzy Wheels, founded by Ailbhe and Izzy Keane, has collaborated with over a hundred famous designers to create award-winning wheel covers that allow wheelchair users to express their personalities through disability fashion. “Izzy Wheels empower wheelchair users to make a statement about themselves, it

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Delta to Unveil Foldable Seat Design That Allows Flyers to Stay in Their Wheelchairs

Tech / 2 min. read

Traveling can be a pain for everyone, but flyers who use wheelchairs face another level of obstacles, from a lack of bathroom accessibility, to potential injuries incurred while boarding the plane, to the possibility of damaging expensive — and essential — equipment. That last point is a particular problem: According to the latest data from

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These Hydropanels Use the Sun to Make Clean Drinking Water

Tech / 3 min. read

The sun does so much for us. It radiates light and warmth that make it possible for life to exist: Solar energy gives plants the chance to grow and thrive, and UVB rays provide us with vitamin D to help boost our moods and our immune systems. Now, an engineering company is using the power

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New Soft Robotic Skull Implant Could Be Minimally Invasive Way to Treat Epilepsy, Other Neurological Conditions

Tech / 3 min. read

Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have developed a flexible, flowerlike device that can be inserted through a tiny hole in the skull and attached to the brain to help treat conditions like epilepsy. The project was initiated after a neurosurgeon approached Stephanie Lacour, director of the EPFL Center for Neuroprosthetics,

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Engineers Design Water Filtration Method That Permanently Removes Toxic “Forever Chemicals”

Tech / 3 min. read

A team of engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new method that can permanently remove toxic “forever chemicals” from drinking water — technology that its lead developer compared to a Brita filter, “but a thousand times better.” So why do we need it? While no one wants to gulp down a serving

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A Stomach Full: How This Tiny Ingestible Sensor Could Help Doctors Identify GI Issues

Health, Tech / 3 min. read

What if you could swallow a pill-sized device that could diagnose whether you have a peptic ulcer or a bile obstruction? Engineers at MIT and Caltech have created just that: an ingestible sensor that could help physicians more easily identify and diagnose gastrointestinal motility disorders. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and

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Be My Eyes: Popular App Tests “Life-Altering” AI Tool to Help Visually Impaired People

Health, Tech / 2 min. read

The World Health Organization estimates that 2.2 billion people around the globe are visually impaired. Since 2015, the popular Be My Eyes app has been working to help that population — and it’s now getting a major AI boost. Be My Eyes was founded by Danish furniture craftsman Hans Jørgen Wiberg, who is visually impaired

See How This Company Is Recycling Used Chopsticks Into Gorgeous New Home Goods

Culture, Tech / 3 min. read

Many people have a stack of one-use chopsticks piling up in their cutlery drawer from takeout orders of yore, but what if that stack could be transformed into something not only new, but also beautiful? Felix Böck, CEO and founder of ChopValue, says his desire to find a solution to the staggering problem of urban

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New “Bionic Nose” Could Help People Recover Loss of Smell, According to Researchers

Health, Tech / 3 min. read

Smell is one of the most powerful, and complicated, of the five senses. Olfaction has been linked to memory, cognition, and mood, and may even influence our other senses as well. So losing the capability, a condition known as anosmia, is not only frustrating and inconvenient, but can also be extremely emotionally taxing. That’s why two

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