Clothing With A Brain: 'Smart Fabrics' That Monitor Health

"ScienceDaily (Dec. 10, 2008) — Researchers in United States and China are reporting progress toward a simple, low-cost method to make "smart fabrics," electronic textiles capable of detecting diseases, monitoring heart rates, and other vital signs. A report on these...

German students assist Jal Sansthan workers with hi-tech equipment in Mussoorie

The German technology will be used in uttraklhand to detect the leakage in the drinking water pipeline.   " MUSOORIE, 13 Nov: Rene Rother and Marcel Gossman from University of Applied Sciences, Dresden,...

Canadian held in Sri Lanka: Terrorist Ties?

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA Canadian man is being held in Sri Lanka after police were wondering what he was doing with Heat Seeking Technology, fearing this and other electronics would be headed...

TSA's Millimeter scanners see through clothes, installed at 10 airports

"Leave it to the TSA to come up with new ways to check out what you're packing. In this case, those body-scanning machines we've known about for some time are being installed in 10 airports. They are already being...

WTF, BT? British ISP Spies on its Customers

"BT has admitted that it secretly used customer data to test Phorm's advertising targeting technology last summer, and that it covered it up when customers and The Register raised questions over the suspicious...

Young Slovenian synthetic biologists devise a mutation-independent defense ag...

" HIV-1 virus is one of the most difficult targets for therapy because it hijacks the cells of our immune system and particularly because the virus mutates rapidly, making it drug resistant. Up to 20% of...

Viking treasure hoard uncovered

"The most important Viking treasure find in Britain for 150 years has been unearthed by a father and son while metal detecting in Yorkshire. David and Andrew Whelan uncovered the hoard, which dates back to the...

Viking treasure hoard uncovered

"The most important Viking treasure find in Britain for 150 years has been unearthed by a father and son while metal detecting in Yorkshire. David and Andrew Whelan uncovered the hoard, which dates back to the...

Hostile Intent Technology

The Department of Homeland Security is developing new biophysical sensors and detectors designed to detect "hostile intent" on the part of people crossing borders."The novel program, named “Hostile Intent,” is geared towards detecting and gauging physiological and...

$100,000 Worth of Terrornoia: Airport X-rays for People

"Sure, it only takes a minute..." "Oh, if they can catch a bad guy with it then I guess it's OK..."No. It is not OK. It is invasive, pointless, and yet another milestone in  terrornoia and bureaucrat-controlled security, where an airport is willing to even consider...

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