news.bbc.co.uk - 10/12/2009
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'Spider pill' Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Scientists in Italy think they may have come up with a new way to scan for cancer of the stomach or colon. The 'spider pill', which is fitted with a camera, is swallowed by the patient and ...
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'Spider pill' bowel scanner will be ready within a year
Engadget —
... Endoscopy, or the examination of a person's bowels via a tube-mounted camera, is not exactly the most pleasant medical procedure one could undergo. In 2004, we noted the early stages of a project to alleviate the (literal) pain of the procedure with a spider pill, ...
Breakfast briefing: Microsoft's biggest ever Patch Tuesday addresses 34 software vulnerabilities
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... • I missed this one over the weekend, but here's one that is both incredible and gruesome at the same time. Italian scientists have developed an alternative to the endoscope that's intended to make the process less invasive: a tiny robot "spider pill" that is swallowed and is able to scan the colon for signs of cancer. Makes me think of all those old wives' tales about spiders hatching inside people after a trip to the tropics. Ewww. ...
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Airport stops scans on children
news.bbc.co.uk 10/19/2009 — Security staff at Manchester Airport have been banned from using new "see-through" security scanners on passengers aged under 18. The full-body scans, unveiled earlier this month in Terminal 2, are aimed at revealing hidden weapons or explosives, but ...
Spin Spider-Man’s Disembodied Head For Fun
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Now that you have decapitated everyone’s favorite Spider-Man , go ahead and cram some LEDs into his eyes and spin his skull for hours on end. Hey, Spider-Man had a dangerous lifestyle—it was only a matter of time before some kid chopped ...
Ericsson’s Spider PC Concept with a laser projected keyboard
newlaunches.com 10/30/2009 — Ericsson has made it all so simple to own a PC and not have a bloody table required to house it. The portable computer, called Spider PC, is still a concept. It uses a pico-projected screen and a laser projected keyboard. Some interesting features ...
Google hopes to ride a social-networking Wave —
SFGate: Technology 10/12/2009
Google Inc. famously flubbed its early social-networking efforts, allowing upstarts like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to dominate the platforms that are redefining the way consumers use the Web. But the Mountain View search giant has been diligently ...
Mystery Facebook outage affected about 150K users —
CNET News.com 10/12/2009
A downed Facebook database left a small but vocal percentage of its userbase without access to the social network for as long as ten days. It's coming back over the course of the next day, the company says, but some recent updates may be lost.
Twitter, Facebook keep soaring as Myspace slumps —
SFGate: Technology 10/13/2009
While Myspace Inc.'s business took a huge slide in the U.S. over the past year, use of rival Twitter Inc.'s social network simply exploded as visits to the site in September increased by 1,170% compared to year-earlier figures, according a report ...
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