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This HIV Test Fits on a USB Drive By Nathaniel Scharping | November 10, 2016 3:28 pm A new HIV test is as simple as plugging a USB drive into a computer. Scientists from London’s Imperial College and a private genomics analysis company created a device that uses pH to test for the HIV-1 virus and communicates the results to a USB stick. The test requires only a drop of blood and the researchers say that it is simple and cost-effective to manufacture, offering a low-cost option for the millions of HIV-positive individuals who must monitor the effectiveness of their treatment regimes. Test On A Stick The test uses a sensor to measure changes in acidity levels and a chip to communicate that information to the USB. When the sensor heats up blood containing the HIV virus hydrogen ions are produced, altering the acidity of the sample in a specific way. The sensor measures this change and passes it along. The whole process takes less than half an hour, and yiel...

Article 1 :  Affordable VR Will Take Immersive Therapy Mainstream By  Alyssa Danigelis A stroke patient stretches out a weak arm and grabs a hovering spaceship. A chronic pain sufferer uses her head to bat balls at cartoon bears. A veteran relives his battlefield experiences in a safe environment to help deal with post-traumatic stress disorder. Therapeutic approaches that immerse patients in virtual environments abound. Until recently, though, the treatments were mostly limited to severe cases in clinical settings because the commercial hardware was expensive. High-end virtual reality setups require not just the headset, which can run several hundreds of dollars, but motion-tracking sensors as well as a dedicated game console or a fast-processing PC with a heavy-duty graphics card. The costs can start adding up into the thousands of dollars. But thanks to a recent proliferation of VR hardware, including headsets that incorporate a user's smartphone, prices ar...

Article 1: New technology could turn your skin into a touch screen. By Luca Santarelli,  The Conversation Technology can be awkward. Our pockets are weighed down with ever-larger smartphones that are a pain to pull out when we’re in a rush. And attempts to make our devices more easily accessible with smart watches have so far  fallen flat . But what if a part of your body could become your computer, with a screen on your arm and maybe even a direct link to your brain? Artificial electronic skin (e-skin) could one day make this a possibility. Researchers are developing flexible, bendable and even stretchable electronic circuits that can be applied directly to the skin. As well as turning your skin into a touchscreen, this could also help replace feeling if you’ve suffered burns or problems with your nervous system. The simplest version of this technology is essentially an electronic tattoo. In 2004,  researchers in the US and Japan  unveiled a pre...

Google Glass Can Now Teach You Morse Code in Four Hours By Brandon Bailey Have you ever wanted to learn how to use Morse Code? Well, now you can thanks to a modified Google Glass headset.  Designed back in 1836, Morse Code played a vital role in early electronic communication, aviation and warfare. Today however, it has been replaced with bits and bytes to send messages over long distances, but it is still used among amateur radio operators or people with motion disabilities. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have reportedly built a system that can teach people Morse code while they are focusing on something else entirely. This can be achieved by a set of modified Google Glass, which has a built-in speaker and bone-conduction transducer that simulates the experience of being tapped on the side of the head. The teaching process included participants playing games, while the speaker in the device named a letter and then heard the Morse code signal for...

Aticle 1 :     New Record! Robot Solves Rubik's Cube in Less Than a Second By Kacey Deamer  Solving a Rubik's Cube is an impressive feat by itself, but now, a robot can do it in record time, cracking the 3D puzzle about 10 times faster than the human who holds the world record. In just over half of a second (0.637 seconds), the Sub1 Reloaded robot made each side of the  Rubik's Cube  show a single color. This breaks the previous record of 0.887 seconds achieved by an earlier version of the same machine using a different processor. German technology company Infineon staged the record attempt at the Electronica trade fair in Munich this week, as a way to highlight its  self-driving-car technology . The company provided one of the Sub1 Reloaded robot's microchips. "It takes tremendous computing power to solve such a highly complex puzzle with a machine," Infineon said in a statement . "In the case of 'Sub1 Reloaded,' the power for moto...