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10/22/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Hospital employs “big brother” technology in the name of efficiency; patients find lack of human interaction unsettling

It looks like a hospital in the U.K. is taking a page out of “Big Brother’s” book. The Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire is the first hospital to issue all staff and patients with electronic “wristbands” which are used to keep track of their movements. For a National Health Service (NHS) trial, over 4,000 infrared sensors were […]

08/22/2018 / By Edsel Cook

This new cloaking material renders objects — and people — practically invisible

What do you think of a thin sheet that can trap almost all of the infrared light that hits it? Well, how about draping the sheet on things that need to be hidden from the heat-hunting electronic eyes of aerial drones? Wisconsin-based researchers reported creating a new material that can turn objects and people invisible […]

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