Print my surgery
Nurse! Print me a femur, stat! Start-up Osiris Biomed 3D wants to print implants on demand during reconstructive surgery, based on live scans of a patient鈥檚 body. The idea is to be able to fast-track people in urgent need of surgery. The firm won a pitch competition earlier this month at the New York 3D Printing Conference and Expo.
鈥淭he cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks鈥�
Internet inanity began 10 years ago last week, when YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the site鈥檚 first video 鈥� a 19-second clip of his visit to the zoo
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Google on the phone
Google has fingers in many pies: search, robots, self-driving cars and now, phone calls. Its new mobile network, Project Fi, launched last week. The service automatically chooses the strongest connection available 鈥� whether that鈥檚 WiFi or a cell network 鈥� and routes all calls, texts and data through it. Anyone can sign up online, but for now the service only works with Google鈥檚 Nexus 6 phone.
