Archive for January, 2008
Bionic bluetooth legs
Sunday, January 27th, 2008Interesting story here about the new bionic legs that an Iraq War veteran is learning to use. While mechanical prosthetic legs are nothing new, the key idea is that the leg developers are now using bluetooth wireless signals to allow the legs to talk to each other about what they’re doing. I can see where […]
medgadget
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Just added a new website to my “related sites” sidebar: medgadget. This is pretty interesting site that focuses (obviously) on various emerging medical technologies in the news. Definitely worth mining for some body hacks in the future. I’ll be adding articles from this site to my link blog going forward.
Cause of Aging: Inflammation?
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Just finished reading an excellent article here about a potential huge cause of aging: inflammation. From the article:
“Inflammatory factors predict virtually all bad outcomes in humans,” says Russell Tracy, a professor of pathology and biochemistry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, whose pioneering research helped demonstrate the role of inflammation in heart […]