Picture sufficiently related: bones.
I've broken my left (good) arm twice doing things (unspeakable ones!) I shouldn't have, and now I've got a plate and a bunch of screws and shit in there that set off the metal detector at the airport and get me pulled aside for a groping (which I don't mind). But now doctors are 3-D printing bone-healing "scaffolding" to help mend broken bones. But NOT hearts. God, go cry to your diary like a normal person.
"It can make bone scaffold using the material that you want very similar to human bone and it can fix the defect that the physician wants," Susmita Bose, a professor of mechanical and materials engineering at the university, explains in the video above.
In lab tests, after just a week in a medium with immature human bone cells, the scaffold supported a network of new bone cells.
Susmita and colleagues aim to insert these scaffolds into human bodies to repair broken bones. As the bone-like material dissolves, real bone tissue in the body will grow over it.
Awesome, but do you think we'll ever get to the point where we can print and replace ENTIRE BONES? And, if so, what about boners? "What about them?" How do they work? One minute you're soft, the next you're watching Jurassic Park and your pants are all tight -- it's weird!
3-D printers may soon fix broken bones [msnbc]
Thanks to todd the swallow, Luke and Amelia, who agree doctors should be printing their prescriptions instead of scribbling them. No shit they should -- one time the pharmacy gave me menopause hormones instead of antibiotics!
from Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome http://www.geekologie.com/2011/12/broken-no-more-3-d-printing-bone-repair.php

TED's free iPad app has offered up quality videos and audio of the conference's famous guest speakers for a while, but the company recently updated the app to be universal. Now even while out and about on your iPhone, you can access some of the knowledge and wisdom being shared within the TED app.
There's a new feature called TEDradio, too, which offers one-touch access to a continuous stream of TED talks. Just like the iPad version, you can either watch videos online or download them to watch offline (if, for example, you're headed for a long plane trip or something like that). There's even a feature called "Inspire Me" where you can set certain criteria for a talk (like the amount of time you've got or various subjects you want to hear about), then hit go to listen in.
TED makes a solid app, and having it available for free on both iPhone and iPad with this update is just icing on the cake.
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"An Ottawa physicist is using laser light to create truly random numbers much faster than other methods do, with obvious potential benefits to cryptography: 'Sussman's Ottawa lab uses a pulse of laser light that lasts a few trillionths of a second. His team shines it at a diamond. The light goes in and comes out again, but along the way, it changes. ... It is changed because it has interacted with quantum vacuum fluctuations, the microscopic flickering of the amount of energy in a point in space. ... What happens to the light is unknown — and unknowable. Sussman's lab can measure the pulses of laser light that emerge from this mysterious transformation, and the measurements are random in a way that nothing in our ordinary surroundings is. Those measurements are his random numbers.'"

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Next week we will be making a few updates to our Tweet and Follow Button widgets. The updates are primarily aesthetic, and we’ll be rolling them out on the morning of Tuesday, December 6. No changes to your code or button placement are required, and the update will be automatic.
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AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case announced on Thursday that he and two former AOL colleagues, Ted Leonsis and Donn Davis, have raised a $450 million venture capital fund that will focus on startups outside of Silicon Valley.
“While our visibility and reach is national, we will generally focus on investments in the Eastern United States,” they wrote in a blog post. “We believe there are great entrepreneurs building great companies all over the country, so we will focus our attention outside of Silicon Valley. ”
The Revolution Growth fund will operate under Case’s private holding company, Revolution, which is an investor in LivingSocial and Zipcar, among others. The fund will make just 10 or 12 investments over the next five years, and it expects each investment to be in the $25 million to $50 million range.
Case described what he looks for when making investments in an interview with Mashable last year:
“Our focus is, how do you build on what’s already out there on the Internet and not just focus on so-called ‘Internet businesses?’ [It's about] using the Internet as a way to have a broader impact on the things that affect people’s everyday life,” he said.
At that point, Revolution made investments mostly with Case’s money. Adding 24 institutional limited partners is a big change.
“We concluded earlier this year that we wanted to take the next step and really institutionalize the firm, and make it like a Kleiner Perkins,” Case told The New York Times. “We want to be a leading investment firm, on the East Coast.”
Photo courtesy of Revolution
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Twitter‘s long-awaited self-serve ad platform was quietly introduced in November with a “handful” of advertisers, according to the company.
The program, which Twitter announced in April 2010, is available to anyone with a credit card who wants to take advantage of Promoted Products. However, the option isn’t yet open to the public.
“This is an important step in continuing to grow Twitter’s business,” said Twitter rep Matt Graves via email. “Our Promoted Products can help small and medium-sized businesses build their audience on Twitter and better engage with the people they want to reach. As with all of our advertising efforts, we’re starting small, testing carefully and making improvements on as we learn what works. We will slowly roll this capability out to more advertisers in the coming weeks and months.”
Twitter has indeed been taking its time with the initiative. A year ago, the company rolled out a turn-key advertising solution that lets marketers express their interest in advertising. However, such potential advertisers were not able to actually buy ads until last month. The timing of the self-serve ad platform was not a surprise. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has stated that the company planned to introduce such a program before year’s end.
SEE ALSO: The History of Advertising on Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]
Twitter, a private company, doesn’t disclose details of its financial performance. However, eMarketer estimates that Twitter made $45 million from advertising in 2010 and will earn $139.5 million this year, a 210% jump.
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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has long been one of the strongest advocates for an Apple-branded television set, and with increasing claims of just such a product pointing to a launch as soon as the second half of next year, it seems that his persistent confidence in the idea may be panning out.

Keeping in mind that Munster does not have specific knowledge of Apple's ultimate plans for its television sets, he does have ideas about what he thinks Apple will do with the product. Business Insider reports that he shared some of those ideas at a conference this morning, going as far as to recommend that anyone thinking of buying a TV wait until Apple shows its hand. Among Munster's predictions:
- Full-fledged television set. Given that Apple seeks to streamline the user experience and its recognition that users don't really want yet another set-top box, Apple will almost certainly be going for an all-in-one solution. But given that Apple does not currently offer a full suite of television content offerings, most users will likely not be able to cut ties to their cable or satellite providers. Apple's TV will instead serve as an advanced interface that still draws upon the standard signal coming in from a cable box.
- Range of sizes and twice current pricing. Munster believes that Apple will introduce its television in a range of sizes, recognizing that customers have different needs. He also believes that Apple will price its television at approximately twice the prevailing market price of similarly-sized televisions. The price premium would cover the additional hardware and software necessary for integration with the Apple ecosystem while also preserving Apple's high profit margins in a competitive market.
- Simplicity and Apple's ecosystem. Aside from the rumored Siri voice-powered interface, Munster predicts that the Apple television will integrate with iOS devices and Apple's content ecosystem for video, games, and apps, serving as another hub for digital entertainment tied into Apple. The interface will likely include a traditional remote control, but also iPad and iPhone apps for controlling the set's features, as well as Siri voice control that seeks to remove much of the complexity of interacting with television sets. Users will simply be able to input or say "ESPN" to be taken to the sports channel rather than having to look up or remember the channel number.
In line with some of the other predictions and rumors, Munster sees the Apple television set making an introduction late next year, in time for the 2012 holiday shopping season. Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories
• Siri0us Voice Dictation Hack Removed From Cydia Over Licensing Issues
• iFixit Offers Transparent Replacement Glass Back for iPhone 4S
• RIM Branches Out with Enterprise Management Tools for iOS and Android Devices
• Glass Multitouch Keyboard and Mouse Seeking Kickstarter Investment
• Next Generation Apple TV Identified as Codename J33
from MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - Front Page http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/30/speculation-on-apples-television-set-rang...
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