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Monday, March 22, 2010

3D printer uses bio-ink to create the first 'printed' human veins


It sounds like science fiction, but researchers from the University of Missouri have a 3D printer that could one day recreate human organs by using a cocktail made from human cells. If your liver was failing, for instance, cells from your liver could be used to print a healthy one, or cells from your heart could be used to create a new heart, and so on.

Right now, all of that is still a long way off. What has been done, however, is recreate a human vein using "bio-ink," or the liquid sludge that's produced using human cells and printed onto "bio-paper." This paper slowly dissolves as the layers of ink bind and start to take on the shape us humans would recognize.

Gabor Forgacs, the man who created the Organovo NovoGen prototype printer, told NPR that the blueprints for the organs, or "schemes" as he calls them, can be created using x-ray technology and the like, giving researchers an outline and floor plan to each organ. It's not as simple as it sounds, though, and you probably won't hear about printed organs replacing a failing liver. Human testing could begin within five years, according to Forgacs, whose team is currently perfecting the process to print out a human vein.

Each vein starts as a series of circles and then, like layering flattened donuts one on top of the other, the entire stack creates a cylinder — a vein.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Power wrist band to charge your Devices




You can never really go without juice for your various gadgets, as anyone who's ever been stuck out with a dead cellphone can attest. There's nothing quite like it to make you feel cut off from the world and maybe a bit panicky. Which is why this Universal Gadget Wrist Charger is pretty great.

Sure, it's not the coolest-looking thing in the world, but hey, it's useful. It's a little battery that lets you charge up anything that juices up via mini USB, such as cellphones, MP3 players or portable gaming systems. For $35, you get the wristband as well as a slew of adapters for common devices. Now you just need to figure out what to wear with it.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

What would people really do in a RBGE?

Today people wouldn't know what to do in a Resource Based Economy, because today people don't know what they really want. IF people had more opportunities to express them selves in a clean, healthful, and abundant environment, the possibilities for growth would be unimaginable.

We continue to see things today in our current Monetary system, so many of us can't even comprehend or understand the major implications this all has on so many of us.


We are always trapped by Fears and insecurities, because we have too much stress on our minds, too much frustration and too much DEBT we have to continue to deal with on a daily basis.


Once people begin to see the advantages and the amazing benefits this system really has, there would be no question to jump on this and make it happen.


For all the foods to be made, you ever think about Replicators? Of course not, because today we think it's impossible. How about Travel? What if you can travel around the globe in 30 minutes using teleportation. Don't you think that would have huge implications on more things to do?

"What was impossible yesterday is possible today"


Maybe people would want to learn more about who they really are, since so many of us assume we are just this mind and body, and i'm sure people would want to do alot of Soul Searching in this type of Environment, and i'm not talking about Religion. It has alot to do with Spirituality and learning your true essence.


Imagine the major growth in this kind of Environment, without money holding any of us back the amount of Growth would be astonishing in our civilization, in all areas.


We were never born to make a paycheck each week we were born to be Explorers and Creators, to make this world like a paradise, but we just tied in to our own Selfesh needs and desires instead of thinking about the Caring copacity of the planet and other people's Needs.