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Contact Lenses That Change Focus and Zoom When You Blink
Though its only a prototype, a new soft contact lens from researchers at the University of California San Diego may allow the wearer to use the electrical field found in the tissues around the eye to control features like zooming in simply by blinking. It's not exactly x-ray vision, but pretty amazing nonetheless.
Pampers Finally Invents Smart Diapers To Track Baby's Pee
Teaming up with health software platform Verily, Pampers is finally launching the product that countless parents have dreamed about - smart diapers. The diapers detects whether a diaper is wet from pee, as well as how wet it is. It also records how long a baby has been sleeping for. Now all we need is a diaper that can change itself.
A Cure For Baldness (As Long As You're Rich)
Every potential cure for baldness has had at least one fatal flaw. Hair regrowth medications don't typically regrow much hair. Transplants look unnatural and hair cloning has never been viable. Now researchers believe the secret may lie in using stem cells to create a "hair farm" where new hair could be regrown with stronger hair follicles and then reinserted into the scalp. It's a promising, expensive, and might actually work.
