BiotechMashup

(Cornell University) Consider this T-shirt: It can monitor your heart rate and breathing, analyze your sweat and even cool you off on a hot summer's day. Or a solar-powered dress that can charge your ipod or MP4 player? This is not science fiction -- this is cotton in 2010.

Researchers have developed a program that helps people monitor their normal day-to-day physical activity using an everyday device like a cell phone or MP3 player.

Cotton reinforced with boron carbide is tough and hard but nonetheless elastic. These properties indicate future promise, but this material is not yet bulletproof.

First came cell phones so you could speak to your friends and family no matter where you were. Then came the MP3 player so you could listen to your favorite tunes no matter where you were without having to carry around a bulky CD player.Now we have the flip down TV – the brand new device that could allow you to watch TV even when you are in the bath! The flip down TV is literally what its name implies – a TV that literally flips down.

Could powering an iPod or cell phone become as easy as plugging it into your tee shirt or jeans, and then recharging the clothing overnight? Scientists in California are reporting an advance in that direction with an easier way of changing ordinary cotton and polyester into "conductive energy textiles" -- e-Textiles that double as a rechargeable battery.

Imagine jeans, sweats or socks that clean and deodorize themselves when hung on a clothesline in the sun or draped on a balcony railing. Scientists are reporting development of a new cotton fabric that does clean itself of stains and bacteria when exposed to ordinary sunlight.

You may want to install Flash Player on your Android phone. This application is required to run a clip on website that emmbed a video that using a Flash Player script. Here I show you a brief guide step to step on installing Flash Player for Android. This tool has been tested and confirmed in models: Google Nexus One, Droid Eris and HTC EVO 4G in stock Android 2.1 Eclair.

(American Chemical Society) Imagine jeans, sweats or socks that clean and deodorize themselves when hung on a clothesline in the sun or draped on a balcony railing. Scientists are reporting development of a new cotton fabric that does clean itself of stains and bacteria when exposed to ordinary sunlight. Their report appears in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

(Tampere University of Technology) Researchers from Tampere University of Technology and the University of Helsinki have created a service that enables at-home screening of sleep disorders. Compared to the existing methods the new method is both affordable and easy to use. The service was recently released on the Internet.