New device Shuts off your car if you are late with payment. See video

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Now all we need is “Frankenstein” to do a reality T.V. show or maybe the clone can be like Truman and we can watch him all day. Is that crazy? The scenarios are limitless on things that can go wrong and the ethical questions are many…..

 In a breakthrough certain to provoke an ethical furore, [...]

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There is a company which manufactures cutting-edge bionic hands in Scotland. The hand works by responding to electrical signals from the muscles on the arm where it is placed. See more Sky
The modular construction of the i-LIMB Hand means that each individually powered finger can be quickly removed by simply removing one screw. This means [...]

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Next2Friends allows people to add a profile into a phone and then be notified about people of similar interests.
The free phone software already has 12,500 registered users signed up and is being given a beta launch.
It can scan up to nine mobiles at any moment and uses bluetooth to exchange profiles with other Next2Friends users who match the required settings.
Next2Friends’ founders say it will [...]

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For someone who had no face we could say Isabelle must consider the transplant a success 
ATLANTA  —  Two years after French doctors stunned the world with the first partial face transplant, other doctors remain cautious about pursuing the surgery.
The French patient, Isabelle Dinoire, has a new face that resembles and moves like the one she [...]

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A new piece of technology may help women who suffer pain during excercise
Help for women who exercise.

 
 
 
Around 80% of women are believed to be wearing the wrong bra, even if they have been measured, d bra straps are thought to cause pain and nerve damage.
But an ‘intelligent fabric’ with sensors has been developed [...]

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One goal in physics today is to unify the strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravitational forces into one unified force, or what physicists call the “Grand Unified Theory”. Sir Isaac Newton was the first theoretical physicist, although in his own [...]

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This has major implications for citizen journalism
Copyrighted work like a news article or a picture can hop between Web sites as easily as a cut-and-paste command. But more than ever, as that material finds new audiences, the original sources might not get the direct financial benefit — in fact, they might have little idea [...]

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British marine biologists have found what may be the oldest living animal — that is, until they killed it.
The team from Bangor University in Wales was dredging the waters north of Iceland as part of routine research when the unfortunate specimen, belonging to the clam species Arctica islandica, commonly known as the ocean quahog, [...]

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