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This Swallowing Detector, also known as Automated Ingestion Detection (AID), helps you keep track of all of the disgusting crap you shove down your throat hole on a daily basis, with the hopes that you'll shove less disgusting crap down it if you can actually monitor what you're doing to yourself.

When it comes to technological advances, medical advances are by far our favorite breaking news headlines. Today we're taking a look at color changing ink technology that marks syringes as being used to prevent re-use.

If you have ever worked in an emergency room then this article won't surprise you in the least. Sure, it's a little much for 9am, but why not start the day feeling lucky that this isn't you. Take a look at some of the objects that have been recovered in emergency rooms around the world.

Dutch researchers have published results of a five year study, confirming a medical test that could determine a baby's gender as early as five weeks.

Ever feel uncomfortable going to the doctor for regular breast cancer exams? Well, Japan's Nihon University could have a solution.

At McGill University Health Centre, prostate surgery was quickly becoming just a tad too routine. So they decided to mix it up a bit. Paging, Dr. DaVinci and Dr. McSleepy! DaVinci, a widely used surgery bot which allows doctors to operate from a remote location, and McSleepy, the anesthesiologist bot, joined forces to perform the world’s first fully robotic surgery. ...

An unnamed teenage boy sat in his hospital bed, awaiting death as his muscles slowly degenerated into oblivion. He was perhaps days away from death when doctors decided on a radical procedure. The 15-year-old in question suffered from Duchenne syndrome, a disease which causes rapid muscle degeneration but does not provide eligibility for a heart transplant. That’s just the way ...

Short-sightedness is on the rise across the developed world. With a generation of kids spending their days indoors and a constant stream of urbanization, our eyes are becoming more and more susceptible to short-sightedness because of the lack of glances into the distance. Science might have an answer which can soon solve some viewing woes for good. Scientists have linked ...

Don’t you hate it when your doctor is one of those guys that just feels the need to be in every picture? I’ll hand it to him, he has a pretty impressive skull, but I refuse to condone such behavior, and it’s not just because I’m extremely jealous of this man’s normal-shaped head. Link

The Robotic Wheelchair designed by Saitama University�s Human-Robot Interaction Center is programmed to automatically follow a human companion, using a built-in sensor and camera system which automatically detects the companions shoulders. The Wheelchair is also capable of avoiding obstacles, such as other oncoming humans. Until the day it is legal to harvest humans for personal slavery, this Robotic Wheelchair will ...