implants
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Solar Power Eye Implant Restores Sight
Electronic implants that restore sight to the blind aren’t anything new, but one of their major stumbling blocks has been the need for an external power source. Now, that’s about to change, because a team of researchers has built a digital implant out of infrared-slurping photovoltaic pixels — so it can power itself.
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Model Tries To Smuggle Cocaine Inside Fake Breasts And Butt Implants
Rome’s airport police have caught a busty model trying to smuggle 2.5 kilograms of cocaine inside her fake breast and buttocks’ implants.
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Glucose-Measuring Implant Glows When Sugar Levels Increase
Instead of putting up with a mild pin-prick whenever your blood sugar levels need testing, Japanese scientists have invented a little implant that glows when the levels change. No pain, and a free glowstick for raves — high five, science!
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Implant Jamming Shield Will Keep Body Hackers From Giving You A Heart Attack
Wirelessly connected medical implants are convenient, smart, and save a lot of lives. But the prospect of murdering someone by remotely screwing their, say, pacemaker, isn’t that remote. And researchers at MIT are working to protect you from implant assassins.