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Back pain is very common, and usually improves within a few weeks or months, according to the NHS. Pain in the lower back is the most common type of back pain. It’s usually nothing to worry about, and will get better by itself over time. But, you can speed up your recovery by making some small lifestyle […]
Snap On Thursday, Snapchat’s parent company Snap Inc. introduced the second-generation version of its camera glasses, called Spectacles. I actually tried the first-generation Snapchat Spectacles in November 2016, and I have to say, as much as I loved the concept behind the camera glasses, I wasn’t impressed with the overall design or execution of this […]
EUTERS/Thomas Peter Beijing police began testing facial-recognition glasses last week. They appear to be similar to those first used by police in a Henan railway station last month. China is drastically increasing its facial recognition technology, and hopes to eventually be able to identify any citizen within three seconds. The highly-policed region of Xinjiang serves […]
Even though Intel unveiled its Vaunt smart glasses earlier this month, insurance provider VSP has actually been working on its own take on smart eyewear for well over a year now. It’s called Level, and while it won’t offer head’s up notifications like the Vaunt, it does feature activity tracking and calorie counting. Think of […]
AFP/Getty Images Railway police have begun using facial-recognition eyewear to catch criminals. In tests the glasses identified faces within 100 milliseconds. Seven people have been arrested for a range of previous crimes, and another 26 were banned from travel. China has been ramping up its use of facial-recognition technology as it moves toward a nationwide […]
A DAILY dose of your favourite tipple can help the brain to “clean” itself and even reduce the risk of dementia, research claims. Scientists in the US say a moderate amount of alcohol, equivalent to a large glass of wine, can help fight inflammation of the brain.
But it also can flush it of toxins, including those associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Study leader Dr Maiken Nedergaard said: “This study shows for the first time that low doses of alcohol are potentially beneficial to brain health, improving the brain’s ability to remove waste.” Research at the University of […]
GUEST: Despite the ambitious portrayals of the future in TV shows and movies predating it, few of the gadgets that imaginative writers dreamed of exist. However, some of the fantastical, and more pertinent, innovations from entertainment media do exist in some form or another. Inventions like autonomous vehicles, nanorobots with applications in medicine, and specifically, […]
Never mind festooning a self-driving car in lights and other devices to fend off motion sickness — you might just have to slip on some eyewear. University of Michigan researchers have patented a system that could use glasses or a headset to prevent a disconnect between your sense of motion and what you see. The […]
Never mind festooning a self-driving car in lights and other devices to fend off motion sickness — you might just have to slip on some eyewear. University of Michigan researchers have patented a system that could use glasses or a headset to prevent a disconnect between your sense of motion and what you see. The […]
