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Robot nurse to deliver medication

Robots have been used extensively in hospitals or any therapy centers to assist patients. In Japan, robot is now to replace human to work as a nurse to deliver medication to the patients. This could hint that eventually human will lose their job of working as a nurse. (In certain countries, nurse is a pretty high-paying job).

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NANO BREATH cell phone checks breath for diseases

Bad gases such as CO2, NOx and ammonia (NH3) will come out of your mouth, if you’re one who carries some diseases. If you’re a health-conscious geek, you may like the idea of having a cellphone to check your breath for diseases as well as checking others’ breath before the diseases transmitted to you.

Applied Nanodetectors Ltd. (AND) is currently working on a prototype of a cell phone that can detect bad gases and from that on it can tell whether you’re a carrier of any diseases.

This cell phone simply checks the breath of the users to detect those gases. The phone has a chip that is integrated with various sensors that are sensitive enough to detect bad gases in the bad breath. It just takes minutes for the cell phone to trace the mentioned gases.

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Nokia unveils Nokia N86 8-megapixel flagship phone at MWC 09

Nokia wasn’t deemed aggressive enough at the MWC 2009, but at least they’ve unveiled their upcoming flagship phone for the N-series – the Nokia N86. The Nokia N86 is a slider phone that comes equipped with an 8-megapixel camera.

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Robot-assisted Therapy helps long-term stroke sufferers regain mobility

Here comes the good news for long-term stroke sufferers who have lost their mobility and stayed in a bed/wheelchair for several years. University of California at Irvine has carried a study of using robot-assisted therapy to help stroke victims to regain their mobility.

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Screw-in Motion-sensing light bulb adapter

A motion-sensing light bulb is handy, which turns on itself when motion is detected. While you’re stepping into a room with your hands full of gadgets, you’ll have no extra hand to reach the light switch. So, it’s great that this light bulb senses your presence and turns itself on.

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Rinspeed shape-shifting car, iChange, controllable by iPhone

Rinspeed is planning to roll out a shape-shifting car, called iChange, which claims to be able to change its shape. The car’s body is able to adapt to the number of passengers on board, some more the iChange is controllable by an iPhone, which sounds really amazing

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Jeep beamline – super powerful X-ray is 10 billion times brighter than the sun

A super powerful new X-ray, Jeep beamline, is being constructed at Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire and is claimed to be 10 billion times brighter than the sun. This super bright X-ray is to be launched in Autumn, which the main purpose is to help researchers uncover secrets lying in ancient cultural artifacts.

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Green Man USB figure stores your data and kills boredom

The little Green Man is cute, its little head has a 2GB storage capacity to keep your data – the head is a USB flash drive. Once the head is taken off the body and plugged into your computer’s USB port, you’ll then be left with a green bendy, which is up to you to twist its arms, legs and the backbone.

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Rusted steampunk USB flash drive

A USB flash drive that is specially designed for the Steampunk fans. But this little USB flash drive was made rusted in order to emphasize its old Steampunk look.

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Flex insulin pump – better diabetes management solution

It’s another solution for active diabetes sufferers to overcome diabetes. The Flex Insulin Pump was designed by Ellaluna Taylor, which acts as a “unique prosthetic skin” that is supposed to be worn under clothing.

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