IFL Science- Real-time, three-dimensional images from inside veins and arteries should soon be available to surgeons conducting heart surgery thanks to a camera 1.5mm across but with the capacity to produce 60 frames a second with a view of the inside of a vessel in multiple directions.
It's not quite Fantastic Voyage, where a miniaturized submarine a micrometer across travels through the blood system to break up a clot, but Professor F. Levent Degertekin has put a 20MHz ultrasonic transducer on a chip small enough to fit on the end of a wire that can follow the bends of the body to get from a limb to the heart.
Feeding knowledge directly into your brain, just like in sci-fi classic The Matrix, could soon take as much effort as falling asleep, scientists believe.
Give me full knowledge of the IMDB database. Never again will I be wrong in the "who was that actor in that movie" debate!
I'll wait for the download one. Better have some memories erased. My brain is full, I need more space in it.
Heavy and toxic metals are leaking from your e-cigarettes into the atmosphere without you even knowing. Read on to know more.
X-ray inspection systems for use in the electronics industry have become an important and growing part of the production process.