Deep Brain Stimulation: The Pros and Cons What is Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)? Deep Brain Stimulation or DBS refers to a surgical procedure that implants an electronic stimulator deep into the brain in order to treat motor complications of levodopa therapy. These complications are called dyskinesia and involve painful, involuntary and spasmodic mo

Synthetic blood vessel breakthrough could transform children's heart surgery A breakthrough in the manufacture of synthetic blood vessels has raised hopes that children born with serious heart defects could be treated in a single operation instead of multiple rounds of open heart surgery. The landmark work comes from researchers in the US who made

Oppo, Vivo and Huawei capture almost half of Chinese smartphone market Mumbai: Despite global slowdown, China's highly competitive smartphone market grew a healthy 6% annually in 2016 against 2% in 2015 with Oppo, Vivo and Huawei capturing almost half of the market, a Counterpoint study said Friday. “The Chinese smartphone market saw a continuous

Remember the first phone you owned? The Nokia 3310 is back The new Nokia feature phone is all about the past. The iconic Nokia 3310 was a global hit when it launched in the pre-smartphone days of September 2000. And now the classic is back: HMD rolled out a suite of new Nokia phones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Sunday, including a relau

China announces space probe to the moon within a year China has announced that it will launch a space probe to the Moon and appears to have framed the mission and the nation’s future space program as a competition with the United States. The probe is set to launch within the year, according to state media. China has plans to place its Chang’e-5

Driving on Eggshells: Researchers Turn Food Waste into Tires Tomato peels, eggshells and other food that gets discarded could be turned into sustainable rubber for use in tires, according to a new study. Researchers found that the petroleum-based material used as filler for rubber tires could be made from food waste and other trash, offering a petr

It's Elon Musk's idea, but Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is trying to make this "pipe dream" a reality. Elon Musk's Hyperloop could head to Europe before California Take that Silicon Valley – Slovakia, a country at the heart of Europe, might become home to the first hi-tech Hyperloop train. Dirk Ahlborn, chief executive officer of Hyperlo

Mark Zuckerberg challenges Trump on immigration and 'extreme vetting' order Mark Zuckerberg criticized Donald Trump’s executive order to severely limit immigrants and refugees from certain Muslim-majority countries, becoming the most high-profile tech industry leader to speak out against the president since the election. “Like many of you, I’

The future of robotics: in a transhuman world, the disabled will be the ones without prosthetic limbs… Bertolt Meyer's amazing bionic hand controlled by an iPhone app is a glimpse of the advances being made in prosthetics. But in years to come, will everyone want one? Bertolt Meyer is used to being viewed as not fully human. Born with a stump whe

Uber suspends fleet of self-driving cars following Arizona crash Uber has suspended its fleet of self-driving cars while it investigates a crash in Arizona involving one of its vehicles. Photographs posted online show the car lying on its side next to another badly damaged vehicle. There were no serious injuries as a result of the incident. The Ube