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Doctors Save Girl’s Hand By Grafting It To Her Leg For 3 Months

In July, nine-year-old Ming Li lost her hand in a tractor accident. Her arm was too damaged to reattach it, so they grafted it to her leg instead. Three months later, her hand’s back on her arm and regaining function. I’m having trouble finding much in the way of detail on the story, which admittedly…

Health Kyle VanHemert Nov 17

Body Organs Can Send Status Updates To Your Cellphone

Currently, if a cardiac patient’s heart rate gets too high the implanted defibrillator in their chest gives them a friendly remedial shock to avoid a heart attack. But that could soon change—by giving hearts their very own IP addresses. Dutch research organisation IMEC, based in Eindhoven, this week demonstrated a new type of wireless body…

Health Duncan Graham-Rowe - New Scientist Oct 10

No Digital Camera Will Ever Top These

These stunning macro shots of eyes by Suren Manvelyan show detail that I didn’t even know existed. We’ve got some pretty complex machinery onboard, don’t we? [Photography Served via Boing Boing]

Tech News Adam Frucci Aug 6

Raisin Health Monitor Sends Heart Rate Details To Your iPhone

What looks like a bulky female hygiene product is actually a health monitor that hooks up to an iPhone via Bluetooth, sending bodily information such as heart rates to the compatible app. It’s not on sale yet, with Proteus’ Raisin sensor only just being passed through the FDA, but it’s another step for the iPhone…

Health Kat Hannaford Apr 21

Password Tattoos To Keep Pacemakers Safer From Hackers

Some pacemakers are accessible wirelessly for reprogramming, but the trouble is that this easy access could be abused maliciously. Sure, passwords would keep the devices safer from such intrusions, but the patient could forget or lose those. Solution? Password tattoos. By tattooing passwords onto patients with ink that can only be seen under a UV…

Health Rosa Golijan Apr 16

South Korean Scientists Transmit Broadband Signals Through Human Arm

Human skin is apparently a very energy-efficient conduit for transmitting data. A recent experiment achieved a rate of 10Mbps, which may put my Internet connection to shame. The experiment used small, flexible electrodes and took place at Korea University. The finding may lead to a new generation of medical devices that can monitor blood sugar…

Health Kyle VanHemert Mar 15

You Can Soon Track Your Heart Rate With Your iPhone

The iPhone heart rate monitor prototype by Corventis will of course be useful by people who actually need to keep track of their heart health, but it could actually be used as a unique physical input device for apps. Fast Company says that the heart app can shoot your heart rate over social networks, meaning…

Health Jason Chen Oct 9

OSIM uSpace Full Body Massage Chair Balances Your Body, Bank Account

At $6,000, this OSIM uSpace full body massage chair better do what it says in addition to just looking all sci-fi and space Pac-Manish. According to the manufacturer, the chair fixes you using mood lighting, massage, and music. They say the uSpace has three different modes: “revitalize”, “relax” or “balance” you. They explain that using…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz Sep 5

Laser Tattoo Body-Modding, This Time it’s Not Painful: Fingernails

The skin-ablation laser tattoo we showed you recently was creepy mainly because burning your naked skin is going to hurt, but this new laser body-mod tackles a safer target, fingernails. The portraits of famous bods you can see in the image are laser-etched into black nail polish (I know, it looks like they’re made of…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 15

Guy Uses Laser-Etch Machine to Tattoo Himself (Verdict: Flaming Nutcase)

See that robot there? It’s burned by a laser-etch machine. On genyoowine human skin. Ohoho yes: that sent an icky feeling up your spine didn’t it? If it didn’t, then it should have. Try looking through the gallery, and then watch the video of a skin-etch in action, and that should do the trick… https://gizmodo.com/macbook-air-can-be-laser-etched-with-monkeys-359683…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 2

Bionic Body Shop is Much Less Girly Than Current Body Shop

IEEE, the industry trade mag for gigantic nerds, has this cool Flash demo of what a bionic body shop of the future would look like. Just pick out the parts of your body you’d want to enhance-hand, leg, heart, eyeball, ear, brain, peepee, foot or bladder-and it’ll show you how much the add-on will cost.…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 3

Wii Fit Review By a Formerly Fit Geek

I used to be very proud of my legs. I have slight knees and ankles. But the muscles around the bones were very strong. And in my early 20s, as a full-time martial artist, I could kick very hard. My nose bled like a faucet, but I will say I could hold my own good…

Reviews Brian Lam May 19

Nintendo Wii Fit Here

Nintendo rang the doorbell at 8:30AM to give me some training in Wii Fit. They calibrated the board to my body by taking my age and measuring my weight. I did some basic yoga stretches, and found them surprisingly hard. My BMI is 25.99, which makes me overweight. My body age, which is much like…

Health Brian Lam May 8

Terminator, The Queen Borg In The Shell Chronicles

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles starts its two-night premiere next Sunday, and you may have seen some of the new posters promoting the show, including with one with a topless (and bottomless) Summer Glau hanging from cables with all of her, uh… cybernetics exposed. But it turns out the old android babe with wires dangling…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 7

How to Turn Your Body Into a Hairless Wonderland With Gadgets: Part 2

In our first hairless wonderland feature, we took a look at how you could rid your entire body of hair using three simple gadgets. The Mangroomer, the Flowbee and the Philips Bodygroom allow you to make sure your back, head and crotchular regions are free of any unslightly plumage. But what about the most important…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 24

Buggy Rollin’: Brain Damage on the Go!

Back at Carnegie Mellon University, where I completed my undergrad in drinking, they used to have something like this in which you stuffed a small woman—or man—into a little buggy and rolled them down a hill. I don’t think I watched a single match, but I think if they dressed people up like a Mighty…

Gadgets Johnb Mar 14

Doctors Save Girl’s Hand By Grafting It To Her Leg For 3 Months

Body Organs Can Send Status Updates To Your Cellphone

No Digital Camera Will Ever Top These

Raisin Health Monitor Sends Heart Rate Details To Your iPhone

Password Tattoos To Keep Pacemakers Safer From Hackers

South Korean Scientists Transmit Broadband Signals Through Human Arm

You Can Soon Track Your Heart Rate With Your iPhone

OSIM uSpace Full Body Massage Chair Balances Your Body, Bank Account

Laser Tattoo Body-Modding, This Time it’s Not Painful: Fingernails

Guy Uses Laser-Etch Machine to Tattoo Himself (Verdict: Flaming Nutcase)

Bionic Body Shop is Much Less Girly Than Current Body Shop

Wii Fit Review By a Formerly Fit Geek

Nintendo Wii Fit Here

Terminator, The Queen Borg In The Shell Chronicles

How to Turn Your Body Into a Hairless Wonderland With Gadgets: Part 2

Buggy Rollin’: Brain Damage on the Go!

Tubi Manages to Turn People Against Recommendations With Bad AI Branding

Gizmodo’s Favorite Photos From NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission

Lucasfilm Keeps Telling Authors Not to Bring Back Mara Jade

As Mass Drownings Add Up, Emperor Penguins Officially Join the Endangered List

OpenAI: Hey, We Also Have a New Tool That Is So Scarily Powerful We Can’t Release It

Razer’s Wireless Gaming Earbuds Are Back With Upgraded ANC

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