Engineering researchers at the University of Florida have developed a designer pill that can track whether patients are taking their medication on time and in a prescribed fashion. The pills which are affectionately coined “tattletale pills” consist of a standard white capsule that have been “coated with a label embossed with silvery lines.” The lines [...]

KATHMANDU: Patients in rural Nepal will soon be able to consult specialist doctors over the Internet as part of an innovative scheme to improve health care in remote areas of the Himalayan country. Over the next few weeks, the government will begin connecting 25 district hospitals, most of them located in the rugged and inaccessible Himalayas, to specialist [...]

MELBOURNE: Australia on Tuesday unveiled a prototype bionic eye designed to restore sight to those with failing vision which supporters hope could be the biggest breakthrough since the Braille alphabet. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, whose government committed 42 million dollars (almost 39 million US) to the project, said the device could be “one of the [...]

KIEL: A German adventurer is preparing to sail the world in what he says is the world’s largest solar-powered boat. The catamaran-style yacht sporting some 5,400 square feet (500 square meters) of solar panels was put into the water Wednesday in the northern German city of Kiel. Skipper Raphael Domjan praised the ”groundbreaking” step toward [...]

Hyundai’s newest luxury sedan, the Equus, was just revealed at the New York Auto Show with the announcement it’ll forgo the mostly ignored paper owner’s manual in favor of an iPad, allowing customers to make vehicle service appointments wirelessly. The Hyundai Equus slots above the Genesis sedan as the top-of-the-line offering of the brand with [...]

Time has a terrific profile of Steve Jobs and the iPad this week, in large part because they put it in the hands of ubercomedian/ubergeek Stephen Fry. It’s a portrait of a man whose life and work are intrinsically intertwined. The hardest-hitting question of Fry’s hour-long interview—”Will you perhaps leave Apple on this high, a fitting end to [...]

Mad Catz is going epic with their premium Cyborg line of peripherals. First that mouse, now, possibly, the most badass flight stick the world has seen (outside of an actual jet fighter’s cockpit). Cyborg F.L.Y. 9—$100 this spring—is designed exclusively for the Xbox 360 (though I’d bet it’ll work on a PC, too). Beyond its aggressive appearance, the [...]

What you are seeing here is the Sphelar solar cells. They are made by the Kyosemi Corporation, which debuted at the PV Expo 2010 in Tokyo. The purpose of the Sphelar solar cells is to improve on regular solar panels. You know how most solar cells are flat, and are at only one angle? That [...]

SpecOps Systems has a special aim in its corporate sphere – that is, to design rugged, wearable computer technology which is capable of offering enhanced situational awareness of the battle space for military soldiers while they are in the heat of the battlefield. The special WC2 computer system works pretty much like an extremely powerful [...]

This Inflatable Sleeping Coat is more versatile than the jacket that Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future II. This super-jacket, for lack of a better word, is designed by designer Lin Tsui-Wei, and it is a raincoat, sleeping coat, sleeping bag, and even a mattress all in one. Normally, this coat ends at below [...]