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There are many ways to detect stress in an individual. You can use self-reporting checklists, you could try and measure various vital signs like respiratory rate and pulse and infer …read more Continue reading Hackaday Europe 2026: Playstation 4 to Psychometer
There are all kinds of expensive beauty treatments on the market — various creams, zappy lasers, and fine mists of heavily-refined chemicals. For [Ruth Amos], a $78,000 LED bed had …read more Continue reading DIY Your Own Red Light Therapy Gear
A new review has highlighted how skin tone can affect the safety and effectiveness of some medications and why the current way we run clinical drug trials needs to change to include more historically underrepresented populations.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Your skin tone impacts how well your medications work
Surgical stitches are good for helping wounds heal, but they can pop open with too much movement. Scientists in China have now turned that weakness into a strength, developing stitches that generate an electric charge when stretched and heal wounds fas… Continue reading Smart stitches generate electricity on movement for faster healing
While topically-applied medications do help alleviate various skin conditions, they would be even more effective if they could better penetrate the skin’s surface. Newly developed nanoceramic “stars” may one day help, by poking tiny holes in the skin.C… Continue reading Tiny skin-stabbing stars designed to get meds through the epidermis
There are a number of ways to give a robotic actuator a sense of touch, but the AnySkin project aims to make it an overall more reliable and practical process. …read more Continue reading Robotic Touch Using a DIY Squishy Magnetic Pad
Sensors such as electrocardiogram (EEG) electrodes can help save a person’s life, but the adhesive patches used to attach them may also harm that person’s skin. An experimental new medical patch addresses that issue by utilizing octopus-inspired sucker… Continue reading Octopus-inspired patches provide irritation-free adhesion to skin
A unique material inspired by a pigment in the skin of octopus, squid and cuttlefish has been harnessed to boost the skin-protecting active ingredients in sunscreen, as well as providing a shield against skin damage. And while it comes with all the ben… Continue reading The world’s first octopus-inspired superior sunscreen is on its way
In a breakthrough that isn’t at all creepy, scientists have devised a method of anchoring living human skin to robots’ faces. The technology could actually have some valuable applications, beyond making Westworld-like scenarios a reality.Continue Readi… Continue reading New technique gives robotic faces living human skin
Scientists have discovered the oldest known skin fossils, dating back long before the dinosaurs. The samples, found in a cave in Oklahoma, USA, show that reptile scales haven’t changed much in the last 286 million years.
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