Tagged: technology

Ultrasound surgery – healing without cuts

Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths.

Advanced humanoid ‘Atlas’ Robot is unveiled

Boston Dynamics developed the robot for DARPA. It will compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in December 2013. Advancing the technology to assist humans in disaster response is the goal.

Where do deleted files go?

So-called deleted files are really not deleted. The pointer to the file’s blocks on the hard drive is added to the free-space list in the file directory, and this space, ”may”, eventually, be re-used for new files. Note the “eventually” part: forensic tools can easily recover deleted files with little or no damage. And you thought they were really gone. Nope.

Ship made without nails is mighty

Can a ship built without blueprints, power tools—or even nails—survive the sea? Four years in the making, this 150-foot ship, called a “dhow,” can withstand powerful monsoon winds, and it’s ready for action.