Doctors are looking up patients’ records on Google Glass while 3D-printed limbs and robotic snake are controlled by apps.

Forget pounds and ounces! These smart scales instantly tell you how many CALORIES are on your plate

The Situ scales can measure the nutrients in mealsTwo inventors from London created the scales, which show the nutritional content of food on an iPad as well as tracking the calorific content of people’s meals.

Google healthcare? Boston hospital is first to use Glass technology to treat patients despite privacy concerns

Dr Steven Horng, at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, poses for a portrait wearing Google Glass by the QR code that he and other doctors will use to read patient recordsMedics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre are using the controversial eyewear to keep their hands free, which they see as the ‘holy grail’ of hospital technology.

How tech is revolutionising the prosthetics industry: 3D-printed limbs and hands controlled by apps becoming mainstream

A high-tech centre in Scotland is giving specialist prosthetic treatment to military amputees. The app-controlled Touch Bionics hand is picturedThe state-of-the-art centres in Glasgow and Edinburgh are using 3D technology and gait software to give specialist treatment to military amputees and veterans.

Would you let this terrifying ‘robotic snake’ slide down your THROAT to perform surgery inside your body?

A robotic snake developed by American company Medtronics will soon be used for some surgical proceduresCarnegie Mellon University and Medrobotics have made a surgical robot snake that could be used for heart, neck and throat operations.

It’s official: The maps that reveal iPhone owners live in affluent areas, while Android is for those in poor parts of town

Created by analysing tweets, the maps reveal where phone owners tweet from. They show that in New York, affluent iOS owners (shown in red) are in Manhattan, while the suburbs are dominated by lower cost Android handsets (green).These new maps reveal that in the world’s biggest cities, those in affluent areas are far more likely to own Apple’s iPhone, while those in lower income areas almost always own an Android handset.

Genetically engineered trees designed to SELF-DESTRUCT could provide cheaper paper and fuel

Genetically modified trees programmed to self-destruct could give us easier access to biofuels and paperResearchers have found a way to make trees self-destruct under mild conditions. This will make plant life easier to break down into paper and biofuel.

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