Health & Bio Tech

More Paówer to your posture!

Are you satisfied with your posture? Nearly everybody at one time or another wonders if they’re slouching too much: whether it is bad for their back, or even how it makes them appear to other people. We Pyramidionites are no different, so when we discovered HighTechXL start-up Paó Wearables is developing a posture awareness device…

Rebuilding ourselves

As a kid I remember the TV show ‘The six million dollar man’. Bionic legs let him run at 60 mph, a bionic arm gave him superhuman strength and a bionic eye gave him telescopic and infrared vision. But Steve Austin didn’t choose to have these cybernetic replacements installed. He was injured in a crash…

Can we reprogram ourselves?

In the future, will we be able to create smart viruses that only target cancer cells or fix genetic defects in our DNA? Professor Jan Madsen from TU Denmark believes we can. At the ESI Symposium this year, Jan talked about the characteristics of systems and how they can be applied to that ultimate system,…