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Xing puts a Wii U at the heart of its costly karaoke machine

Posted by on April 25, 2013 No comments

DNP This is what near $ 16,000 Wii U looks like

Sure, we’ve seen game consoles modified for use beyond their original purpose, but this apparatus turns things up a notch. Pictured above is the Joysound Festa, a mobile entertainment system powered by the Wii U‘s hardware and software. Built by Japanese karaoke machine maker Xing, this beastly console mod is controlled from the system’s Gamepad and includes the gracelessly named Nintendo x Joysound Wii Karaoke U. Pre-loaded with 90,000 songs, this party starter also ships with a set of dance, exercise, yoga and brain training videos. Already reaching for your wallet? You should know that this unique setup is Japan-only, and headed to hotels and nursing homes at a hefty price of 1,580,000 yen (around $ 15,884). At that price, it may take around 25 years until we see one of these bad boys up for grabs on eBay.

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Does the heart have a sense of smell?

Posted by on April 9, 2013 No comments

Your nose may not be the only organ able to sense the enticing aromas of roasted coffee or freshly baked bread.
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What a heart rate monitor says about your relationship

Posted by on February 13, 2013 No comments

Researchers at UC Davis find that the heart rates of couples in romantic relationships actually sync up when they are close together — and that they don’t between two people who aren’t involved. [Read more]


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Withings new flagship Smart Body Analyzer scale now measures air quality, heart rate (update: hands-on video)

Posted by on January 7, 2013 No comments

Withings new flagship Smart Body Analyzer scale now measures air quality, heart rate

Now that Withings has added a “low-end” model to its connected-scale pantheon, it’s time for the flagship model to get a refresh. The company’s latest Smart Body Analyzer may look like its predecessor, but now comes with heart rate and air quality monitoring sensors to make sure you’re getting enough oxygen. As before, the data is then pumped over WiFi to Withings’ website and mobile app, which can be shared as far as your dignity allows. Priced at $ 150, it’ll be arriving at some point in Q1, at which point we can validate our paranoid fantasies about airflow.

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Germany plans to clone the perfect Christmas tree, break Charlie Brown’s heart

Posted by on December 23, 2012 No comments

Germany plans to clone the perfect Christmas tree, break Charlie Brown's heart

We’ve seen Christmas trees built out of spare car parts, discarded SCSI drives, OLED panels, and quadrocopter stacked boxes, but Germany? Their taking the old tannenbaum back to its roots — and tweaking its genetic code. With the aide of a government grant, scientists in Germany are trying to develop a method of tree cloning suited to Nordmann Fir. The native pine is popular for yuletide trimmings, but can be difficult to grow — as much as 40 percent of trees grown for the season wind up the wrong shade of green or have their growth stunted by frost. Plant biologists hope to have a healthy stock of cloned trees ready by 2016, assuming nothing goes terribly wrong. Perfectly cultivated clones or not, we still prefer ‘ol Chuck Brown’s charming twig.

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Healthy Genetic Variants Reveal a New Heart Drug Target

Posted by on December 11, 2012 No comments

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and high cholesterol is a major indicator of risk. Some lucky people are protected by a genetic aberration that naturally lowers their cholesterol levels. Now several companies are pursuing drugs that mimic this genetic quirk—hoping that it might help reduce the artery-clogging lipid. If successful, the new cholesterol therapy could be an example of the power of using human genetic discoveries in drug development.







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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm finally gets a release date

Posted by on November 13, 2012 No comments

StarCraft II players have been waiting a long time for Blizzard to announce a release date for the game’s first expansion, Heart of the Swarm, and it seems the big day has finally arrived. Earlier today, Battle.net was showing a release date of March 12, 2013 for Heart of the Swarm, a date that Blizzard

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DJ meets gym coach with app that keys songs to heart rate

Posted by on October 24, 2012 No comments

Prototype setup includes earbuds that measure both acceleration and heart beat to calculate how hard you’re working, and an app that grabs the best songs to keep you at your target heart rate. [Read more]


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Startup Targets Genes Tied to Heart Disease

Posted by on October 12, 2012 No comments

A company working on drugs for genetic heart disease is among several tying therapies to genes.

In September, a biotech company started up in San Francisco with a goal of using a novel genomics-based approach to developing drugs for cardiomyopathy, a life-threatening heart condition that affects 60 million people worldwide. The company, called MyoKardia, is going after people who have genetic mutations that cause some forms of the condition, planning to market its drugs alongside diagnostic tests that identify the patients most likely to respond. Boston-based venture capital firm Third Rock Ventures launched MyoKardia with a $ 38 million investment.







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FDA Approves a Long-Distance Jump-Starter for the Heart

Posted by on October 4, 2012 No comments

The FDA has approved a defibrillator that can be sewn just under the skin.

Heart patients in the U.S. are in for a treat. The FDA has approved a new kind of daily-wear defibrillator that can be sewn in just under the skin.







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Car Checks Your Heart Rate While You Drive

Posted by on October 4, 2012 No comments

Researchers think drivers could use their sensor-laden Mini Cooper as an aid to health.

Nigel knows where you’ve been and whether you opened the windows when you got there. He probably knows whether you visited a fast food restaurant and might recommend you go for a jog. Nigel, as it turns out, is your car.







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Twitter Hands Over Messages At Heart of Occupy Case

Posted by on September 14, 2012 No comments



another random user sends this excerpt from a BBC report:
“Legal pressure has forced Twitter to handed over messages sent by an Occupy Wall Street protester. Twitter spent months resisting the call to release the messages, saying to do so would undermine privacy laws. The Manhattan district attorney’s office wanted the tweets to help its case against protester Malcolm Harris. It believes the messages undermine Mr. Harris’ claim that New York police led protesters on to the Brooklyn Bridge to make it easier to arrest them. It claims the messages will show Mr. Harris was aware of police orders that he then disregarded.”

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Amazon has change of heart, will allow opt-out of Kindle Fire HD ads for $15

Posted by on September 9, 2012 No comments

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You’d be forgiven for wondering just what Amazon was up to with Special Offers ads on the Kindle Fire HD: we were given the hope that we could opt out from them, only to watch that dream dashed moments later. Amazon must have been listening to frustrations over the mixed messages, as it just let Engadget and others in the media know that yes, you’ll have the option to drop the ads after all. Pay $ 15 after picking up the new tablet and those lock screen promos will disappear forever. There’s no sign that there will be a Kindle Fire shipping with ads missing from the get-go, but you know what they say about gift horses. You can find Amazon’s full statement to us after the break.

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Sony Xperia Tablet S gets the full teardown, shows its NVIDIA heart (video)

Posted by on September 8, 2012 No comments

Sony Xperia Tablet S gets the full feat down,

So, you probably didn’t even get the cellophane off your Xperia Tablet S yet (for those in the UK at least), but Sony has already beaten the likes of iFixit to the strip-down post. It’s one of the firm’s own engineers, Takuya Inaba, who takes a knife to the minty-fresh tablet — revealing its NVIDIA innards for all to see. Of course, we could tell you all about how he opened up the tablet, removing 10 screws, and breaking the splash-proof internal seal, but we gather you’d probably rather see the deed for yourselves. Full gory video after the break, but just remember, don’t try this at home or you might as well tear up that warranty, too.

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Stanford researchers make heart implant powered by radio waves, put batteries out of a job

Posted by on September 3, 2012 No comments

Stanford researchers make heart implant powered by radio waves, put batteries out of a job

Batteries used to be the only way to power implantable gadgets, but additional surgeries are needed to replace the power packs once their juice runs out — a less-than-ideal solution for patients. Recent discoveries, however, have such medgadgets being powered by photons, hip hop and now high-frequency radio waves. Electrical engineers at Stanford built a cardiac device that uses a combination of inductive and radiative transmission of power, at about 1.7 billion cycles per second, to its coiled receiving antenna.

Previous prevailing opinion held that the high frequencies needed for wireless power delivery couldn’t penetrate the human body deep enough, and the lower frequencies that would do the trick require antennas too large to work as implants. That conundrum was solved by getting the high-frequency signals to penetrate deeper using alternating waves of electric and magnetic fields. That allowed a 10x increase in power delivery — up to 50 microwatts to a millimeter radius antenna coil — to an implant five centimeters below the skin. That antenna also was also designed to pull power regardless of its orientation, making it ideal for applications inside always-moving human bodies. Of course, the implant’s really just a proof-of-concept at this stage, but hopefully it won’t be long before battery powered implants go the way of the dodo TouchPad.

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Nexus Q repurposed to play Pong, games with your heart (video)

Posted by on July 13, 2012 No comments

Nexus Q repurposed to play Pong, games with your heart video

Google’s mysterious, if not ominous Nexus Q has already been hacked to launch apps of varied origins, but there’s one particular app that stands above all: Pong. Or, Brick Defender — you know, what’s a generic title amongst friends? BrickSimple managed to hack the Q for Pong playback, using the spinning top (read: volume wheel) to move the lower bar in the game. We’ll let you get right to the action; the video’s embedded after the break, and the code snippet necessary to duplicate it is there in the source below.

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This Extended Galaxy S III Ad Will Pull On Your Technological Heart Strings

Posted by on June 26, 2012 No comments

Screen shot 2012-06-26 at 4.25.26 PMThe Samsung Galaxy S III is the phone you’ve been waiting for (per our review), and you may be waiting a bit longer due to some slight shortages on GSIII supply, but luckily this extended version of the ad can coddle us through this very difficult period.

This is the most emotional portrayal of gadgetry I’ve ever seen out of Samsung. We’ve watched the Galaxy Note turn life into a party, and snickered at Apple fanbois. Most recently, we even saw Samsung go a little more bare bones, simply talking up features, kind-of-sort-of-maybe conjuring up images of Apple’s iPhone commercials? Maybe?
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New Windows Phone store lets you wear your ‘I heart WP’ on your sleeve

Posted by on June 10, 2012 No comments

New Windows Phone store lets you wear your 'I heart WP' on your sleeve

So you love Windows Phone, but how can you let the world know? Until now, you’d either have to wave your object of desire around, or keep showing colleagues those “Smoked by Windows Phone” YouTube videos. Now, you can simply wear your alliance across your chest, or favorite beverage, thanks to a new CafePress store. Revealed in a Windowsteamblog post, the shop will let you grab mugs, t-shirts, stickers, magnets and more emblazoned with “I Heart Windows Phone” in icons. Not only that, in case all those soccer moms didn’t know which side of the fence you stood, you can clear up the doubt by snagging a bodysuit for your youngest. Credit card at the ready? Jump on that source link for the goods.

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Smallest Artificial Heart Keeps Baby Alive

Posted by on May 24, 2012 No comments

Italian doctors implant tiny pump into a 16-month-old boy awaiting his new heart.

Here’s a new twist on an long-running story: an artificial heart kept a baby boy alive for 13 days while doctors waited for his new heart, reports Reuters. The bridge-to-transplant device was an infant version of the Jarvik 2000 and weighed only 11 grams (you can see the device in this slideshow). The titanium implant does not beat but instead uses a rotating motion to pump blood from the heart and through the body.







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Wireless charger could power tiny heart pump

Posted by on May 5, 2012 No comments

Students at Rice University devise a way to remove the wires currently needed to power ventricular assist devices in patients with weak hearts.
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How to Make a Broken Heart Mend Itself

Posted by on April 28, 2012 No comments

A few small molecules that control gene expression can repair the scar tissue in a mouse’s damaged heart. The technique could translate into human therapy for heart attack patients and others.







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First Bedside Genetic Test Could Prevent Heart Complications

Posted by on April 4, 2012 No comments

A genotyping test from a Canadian biotech company enables timely personalized drug treatment.

For some cardiac patients, recovery from a common heart procedure can be complicated by a single DNA base pair gene responsible for drug processing. The risk could be lowered with the first bedside genetic test of its kind. The test shows promise for quickly and easily identifying patients who need an alterative medication.







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How Virgin Atlantic’s birthday e-mail stabbed me in the heart

Posted by on February 20, 2012 No comments

Some companies are very fond of sending customers birthday e-mails. Virgin Atlantic, however, sent me one that called me a very sad name and questioned whether my parents had ever wanted me at all.
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PS Vita keeps mobile gaming, PS3 connectivity at heart of US push

Posted by on February 13, 2012 No comments

As the PlayStation Vita readies its big release here in the United States, we’ve got more than enough reason to want to pick one up and not stop playing for days on end. And as the advertising world begins to size up the situation, they’ve decided to target the gamers amongst use with a tendency [...]
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5 DIY Valentine’s Day gifts for the geek at heart

Posted by on February 10, 2012 No comments

While the rest of America is purchasing bouquets of roses and See’s candies, take a stab at these easy, 1-hour (or less) projects that any technology-loving guy or gal would appreciate.
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New Xbox update aims to put Microsoft at the heart of TV viewing

Posted by on December 5, 2011 No comments

The software giant overhauls the user interface for Xbox and adds a host of partners that bring scads of content–everything from video-on-demand to live TV–to console customers.
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Sphero goes up for pre-order, ready to roll its way into your heart

Posted by on November 2, 2011 No comments

Our favorite iOS / Android-controlled toy ball is coming soon to an annoyed cat near you. You can pre-order Sphero now for $ 130 through Amazon, and it’ll start shipping in December, just in time to remotely find its way into a stocking or two.

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Smart-Phone App Tracks Heart Rate

Posted by on October 14, 2011 No comments

Researchers show that a smart phone can measure some vital signs accurately and conveniently.

A new smart-phone app can take your pulse and measure your breathing simply by detecting subtle changes in skin color. All you need to do is hold an index finger over a smart phone’s video camera for a few minutes.







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Nanowires give you heart of gold, literally

Posted by on September 29, 2011 No comments

In the future, your heart could be repaired with gold nanowire cell patches.
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An App to Track Your Heart Pressure

Posted by on September 26, 2011 No comments

Data from an implanted device can be shared with the patient, doctors, and family.

A smart-phone app under development for heart-failure patients allows them to keep track of the pressure inside their heart as measured by an implanted sensor. That data could help patients adjust their medication to maintain a healthy pressure, much as diabetics do with insulin and blood sugar readings.







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eT-shirt from España looks after your heart, minds its bedside manners (video)

Posted by on September 25, 2011 No comments

Spain — the land of pasión, jamón ibérico and flamenco is throwing a stylish solución towards the medical community’s way. Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have created an intelligent eT-shirt (looks more like a tank top to us) for biomonitoring of hospital patients. The wearable, washable chaleco is embedded with electrodes that monitor its wearer’s vitals, and a removable thermometer and accelerometer for the collection of temperature and positioning data. A separate in-pocket GPS dongle is also used to locate individuals “within a two-meter margin of error,” but the team plans to incorporate this localizer directly into the shirt in future iterations. Tested at the Cardiology unit of Madrid’s Hospital Universitario La Paz, the collaborative LOBIN (Locating & Biomonitoring by means of Wireless Networks in Hospitals) project prototype could help reduce in-patient stays, delivering SMS alerts to off-site, connected medical staffs. No word on whether this’ll be offered in S, M, L or XL, but hey, at least that black is slimming. ¿Hablas español? Pues, skip past the break for a video tour of the form-fitting device.

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