Brain surgery through the cheek

Five years ago, a team of Vanderbilt engineers wondered: Is it possible to address epileptic seizures in a less invasive way? They decided it would be possible. Because the area of the brain involved is the hippocampus, which is located at the bottom of the brain, they could develop a robotic device that pokes through the cheek and enters the brain from underneath which avoids having to drill through the skull and is much closer to the target area.

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Blood-cleansing “Artificial Spleen” Technology Could Increase Survival Odds for Future Sepsis Patients

DARPA’s Dialysis-Like Therapeutics (DLT) program is looking  to develop integrated, portable and solid technology that would enable widespread deployment of dialysis treatment to fight sepsis.
     While this is primary research for military casualties it also has  civilian  uses. The DTL program has successfully demonstrated one of the first technologies for pathogen removal via blood filtration via an artificial spleen.

Source   DARPA

Future Armored Ground Vehicles

The US agency Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA) has request company's to come up with a fast agile armored vehicle that can dodge missiles and tank shells. The vehicle should require minimal training of the operator, a basic solider should be able to operate it.

   Full autonomous vehicles are not required  for the project, also required is some type of reactive armour.

More at   DARPA   SKY News

US Navy Test Robotic Boats

The US Navy is testing  a way of swarming enemy ships with robotic boats. Test have be conducted that allow a ship to be screened by software controlled ships, The boats then swam the oppositions ship when  a threat is detected.
     The boats are controlled by the US Navy's Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing (CARACaS) that can convert standard small boats into drones.

More at  CNN  
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New underground Trains

A new Tube design has been unveiled by TfL (Transport for London)this is part of a £16Bn investment in the system. The plan is to build 250 trains and distribute them to four lines, the new trains will increase capacity on these lines.

More at    The BBC     londonist.com

Feeling in prosthetic arms

 

Image from the BBC

It is now possible to get you feeling from your prosthetic limb. This is done by feeding the output from sensors in the prosthetic to the remaining nerves in  your arm or leg.  Meanwhile in Sweden  scientists have had success  in attaching prosthetic limbs to the remaining bone to add more control.

More on this at the BBC Health

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One card all banks the plastic card

One piece of plastic instead  of all those others in your wallet YES or NO the time is coming to decide.
  Two new cards that combine all your cards are in the pre-order  stage at a cost of course for full details see  Gizmag