Gaurav Gupta, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (left) with patient Chris Cahill who received a 3-D printed skull. After two months in a coma, Chris Cahill woke up confused about where he was and what had happened to him. Cahill was found unconscious from unknown trauma resulting in severe injuries to his frontal lobe, with brain swelling so dramatic it was life-threatening. Physicians performed emergent surgery to relieve the brain swelling with the intent of replacing the skull after the swelling subsided. However, the patient’s own skull was infected and as a result was unusable. At that point, the doctors decided the best solution to replace the missing skull bone was to use 3-D printing to create a custom cranial skull implant.
Read Article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170720131923.htm Read about the potential for blockchain technology to greatly improve governmental computer security9/29/2017
Blockchain technology promises to create an immutable set of transactions that cannot be forged or duplicated. As a result, any information technology transaction using blockchain gains the added benefit of effective cybersecurity. As federal managers begin connecting the dots between blockchain-ready technologies, and planning for integrations with existing platforms, there will be many technical, internal and citizen-facing hurdles to overcome.
Read Article: https://www.fedscoop.com/forging-technology-path-unlock-blockchains-value-government/ 3-D scanning using a dip scanner: The object is dipped in a bath of water (left) by a robot arm. The quality of the reconstruction improves as the number of dipping orientations is increased (from left to right). Credit: ACM 'Using a robotic arm to immerse an object on an axis at various angles, and measuring the volume displacement of each dip, we combine each sequence and create a volumetric shape representation of an object,' says an expert.
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https://www.facebook.com/oliver.briscoe2 https://twitter.com/oliver_briscoe https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverbriscoe/ Blogs: https://OliverBriscoeOracle.tumblr.com http://OliverBriscoeOracle.wordpress.com http://OliverBriscoeOracle.weebly.com Sites: http://Oliver-Briscoe.com http://oliverbriscoe.com http://AboutOliverBriscoe.com http://OliverBriscoeInfo.com Although the term “quantum computer” might suggest a miniature, sleek device, the latest incarnations are a far cry from anything available in the Apple Store. In a laboratory just 60 kilometers north of New York City, scientists are running a fledgling quantum computer through its paces — and the whole package looks like something that might be found in a dark corner of a basement. The cooling system that envelops the computer is about the size and shape of a household water heater.
Beneath that clunky exterior sits the heart of the computer, the quantum processor, a tiny, precisely engineered chip about a centimeter on each side. Chilled to temperatures just above absolute zero, the computer — made by IBM and housed at the company’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. — comprises 16 quantum bits, or qubits, enough for only simple calculations. If this computer can be scaled up, though, it could transcend current limits of computation. Computers based on the physics of the supersmall can solve puzzles no other computer can — at least in theory — because quantum entities behave unlike anything in a larger realm. Read Article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-computers-are-about-get-real Possibly the strongest hybrid silk fibers yet have been created by scientists using all renewable resources. Combining spider silk proteins with nanocellulose from wood, the process offers a low-cost and scalable way to make bioactive materials for a wide range of medical uses.
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Created by a pioneering research team at CMU’s School of Computer Science, the project’s goal is to build life-changing prosthetics for people in need — and to do it more cheaply than would have been possible before. Recently, the team used its considerable expertise to create a prosthesis allowing a would-be cello player with only one arm to play his instrument of choice. Thanks to the tool they built, the Pittsburgh-based budding musician was able to play at his grade school recital. Read Article: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/carnegie-mellon-3d-printed-prosthetics/#ixzz4gwcUDuZg Social Media:
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