Tag: blood
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Google X Pill To Spot Cancer With Nanotech
If cancer was a person, we’d be first in line to kick them right in the crotch. Thankfully though, massive tech companies are stepping in to potentially reduce the death toll from this nasty affliction, companies like Google, and their mad science department known as Google X. Google X are known for sending balloons filled…
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Google announces glucose monitoring smart contact lenses
Straight out of your science fiction franchise of choice, the latest in a line of very up-close and personal Google devices has been announced – a contact lens that monitors blood sugar (glucose) levels on a one reading per second basis. The device sandwiches a small microcircuit between the two halves of a ‘biocompatible’ contact…
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Facebook Encourages Social Users to Share Organ Donor Details
Facebook is encouraging organ donors to share info with the social site in a new “Health & Wellbeing” feature on Timeline.
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REEL TO REAL ► Matrix Style Human Batteries – Study into “Blood Energy” Begins on Snails!
The Gadget Helpline‘s REEL TO REAL is a regular feature to the blog, aimed at tech and film fanatics, which will reveal how the sci-fi and futuristic gadgets we see on screen in movies and television are making their way into real-life. Take a seat, grab your popcorn and enjoy the show! There’s some truly…
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Former Facebook Moderator Dishes Dirt on Social Content Policies
A former Facebook moderator has given a “unique” insight into the social network’s policy when it comes to obscene, offensive or graphic content and the unnamed employee’s rant is quite an eye-opener.. Claiming that the staff involved in Facebook’s content filtering is made up from third-party firm workers in developing countries and that these mods…
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Update: PETA vs Super Mario – Animal protesters tell Nintendo fans to ‘Relax!’ over obscene game rip-off
Here’s an update on that PETA vs Super Mario story we covered earlier this week which had gamers in uproar! Following the NYC launch of Super Mario 3D Land for Nintendo 3DS the animal protection group made a graphic website game based on the Nintendo classic in which a skinned tanuki chased a faux-Mario (in blood-soaked Tanooki…
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Super Mario 3D Land launches in NYC – And PETA slams plumber for wearing tanooki fur!
Super Mario 3D Land has finally arrived for Nintendo 3DS and lucky folk in NYC were the first to get to grips with the new adventures of Japan’s most famous Italian (by-way-of-Brooklyn) plumber and also play in a real-life Mushroom Kingdom right in the heart of city! Over this past weekend, Nintendo’s 26 year…
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Halloween costume created by Apple iPad 2 – Gory guy gets gutted by gadget!
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Before you call 999, let us tell you that this tech fan hasn’t really been gored through to his core – it’s simply an ingenious use of two Apple iPad 2 tablets and the onboard Facetime feature cleverly put together a really awesome Halloween costume! The creepy costume includes the two Apple slabs strapped to…
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Lollipop Chainsaw’s zombie-chopping cheerleader appears in new trailer!
A fortnight ago, I (excitedly) covered the zombie-slaying, pom-pom pumping action to come in new game Lollipop Chainsaw, a Japanese developed title which had just gotten a publisher for western markets in the form of entertainment studio Warner Bros. Since that time, it seems they’ve been prepping a promo clip which has just been released…
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E3 2011: Gears of War 3 Red Limited Edition Xbox 360 & gameplay demo
Gears of War 3 is coming! And if you have a taste for war and gore this limited edition Xbox 360 console making an impact on the crowds at the E3 conference in Los Angeles might just be the perfect companion piece to the anticipated sequel! To be released on September 20th, the title from…
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E3 2011: Gears of War 3 Red Limited Edition Xbox 360 & gameplay demo
Gears of War 3 is coming! And if you have a taste for war and gore this limited edition Xbox 360 console making an impact on the crowds at the E3 conference in Los Angeles might just be the perfect companion piece to the anticipated sequel! To be released on September 20th, the title from…