“I want more out of my body than ever before.”™
Health consciousness is on the rise, our population is aging, and our technology is rapidly improving. This is, perhaps, the perfect storm for technologies that enable us to monitor our biological functions in real time.
A hi-tech future with the most advanced technology is a vision that many scientists are set on achieving and they are making crazy breakthroughs everyday. If you have a moment check out IEEE Spectrum. It’s a pretty cool “shopping cart” concept that visualizes their own unique vision of a medically advanced future.
I look forward to a future where I can cure cancer with a patch and my two headed cat smokes Black Russians.
In our never ending pursuit for eternal youth, we can soon boast about our “molecular age” should we find that a more attractive number than our chronological one. There are many consumers constantly seeking ways to push our body beyond its limits and maximize performance. Energy drinks, bionic limbs, medicated contact lenses. No matter [...]
When it comes to personal health choices smoking has long been public enemy number one. however, obesity, the second leading cause of preventable death, is gaining an unwanted position in the crosshairs of public scrutiny.
Possibly the coolest BODY WARRANTY piece I’ve seen in a long time. It’s so inspiring to me not only because of it’s whimsical, fantasy element (I mean, who doesn’t love mermaids!!) but because it is fully functional as a prosthetic too!
I love the fact that it elevates something that’s usually viewed with pity (or worse) [...]
Testing services are popping up that claim to be able to determine what aspect of athletics your child is most likely to excel in by examining a gene known as ACTN3. Atlas Sports Genetics is one company that offers such a test, they have given the test the moniker “Atlas First”. GATACCA anyone?
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A very surprising scientific finding seems to indicate that sometimes cancer simply goes away on its own. The study was conducted in Norway and was published on Tuesday, November 25th , here are some key numbers from the study.
One group of 109,784 women was followed from 1992 to 1997. Mammography screening in Norway was initiated [...]
OK, here’s one that I totally need! My mother, TO THIS DAY, nags me about my posture. It used to really bug me. No matter what the social situation was, she would either lean in and hiss in my ear or bark at me like a drill sergeant. UGH! My skin is crawling just writing [...]
You may recognize the painting pictured to your left, it is the famous masterwork of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, “Girl with a Pearl Earring”. There are two thing s you probably don’t know about this image, In reality the image that you are looking at is only 200 microns wide (about the width of two [...]
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