Month: September 2022

A TOKYO SYMPHONY from a scale model of Tokyo, and brilliant lighting effects, allowing users to creat a visual symphony in colors and lights embedded in the image of the city. Original. http://lnkd.in/r2jYkg View in LinkedIn

A LONDON-TOKYO RAILWAY using the great Siberian railway has got to join every Bucket List as a dream journey. Conceive by Russian and Japanese delegates, plans are being drawn up. Save me a seat. http://lnkd.in/Rn2st6 View in LinkedIn

ROBOTIC SAND is MIT's latest mind-blowing creation. Battery-operated tiny robotic cubes can re-create a 3D shape by swarming on it and memorizing the shape. Beyond imaginative, these guys get the Out-of-the-Box-Thinking award of the year. http://lnkd.in/QXZf_j View in LinkedIn

PLANT STEM CELLS permit regeneration of entire plants frozen in glaciers for 500 years. This rather surprising finding both of pluripotent plant cells and of their capacity for living is challenging to some dogmas about freezing living cells. Cryopreservation generally uses a slow controlled cooling process to avoid ice crystal damage and osmotic damage. Cryoprotectants are a type of anti-freeze and do occur in plant and animal species exploiting cold environments, and are critical for survival. This finding is testimony to their remarkable and prolonged efficacy. http://lnkd.in/7TFV58 View in LinkedIn

WiSee TECHNOLOGY is being developed to read human gestures as commands for routine domestic events, such as turning some device on or off. Perhaps I am a Luddite, but this does not pass the Sniff Test for household use, since I have not ever felt a great unmet need to replace the On-Off button. Did I miss something? Dazzled by technology? I may be more sympathetic if there are other situational applications that are more difficult to perform than turning on the TV. http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2013/06/07/hands-down-and-hands-up-this-is-the-coolest-technology-of-the-week/ View in LinkedIn

INFOTRONS AND GENERATIVITY? This thoughtful essay asks us to rethink how the bottom of the pyramid in our little blue planet can be helped by connectivity and creativity. http://lnkd.in/5d-Xf9 View in LinkedIn

VISION RECOVERY via a chip implanted under the skull which delivers images from a tiny camera mounted on glasses to the brain. http://lnkd.in/BBiB6t View in LinkedIn

GSK's record-breaking 3.0 Bn USD fine for concealing adverse cardiac data on the diabetes drug Avandia, and FDA's complicity in hiding the data is reviewed in this compelling article. Sadly, this remarkable fiasco has done little to preserve the reputation of the drug maker nor the FDA. And that the subject is being re-opened appears to be yet another bad judgement call. Ouch. http://lnkd.in/UQ5zpx View in LinkedIn

THE AVANDIA story continued. http://lnkd.in/6vaty3 View in LinkedIn

HEALTHCARE TRENDS: right on the money. Except for massive changes as a result of regenerative medicine (growing artificial organs and body parts in test tubes), and except for a revision of pricing of very effective biological drugs, this prediction of the future of medicine hits the spot. I would lastly add that DNA vaccines against a host of diseases will emerge as an important trend. A good read, and makes me think we will look back at our current age of medicine as a barbaric and careless wasteland. Room for great optimism. http://lnkd.in/6Wbh6P View in LinkedIn