Finally an alternative for the crutch! The freedom leg (crummy name) offloads your weight onto its’ structure allowing you to walk vaguely like a normal human whilst not having to kill off the use of an arm.
The Audeo captures electronic signals between the brain and vocal cords and synthesizes clear, spoken words
This has obvious implications for people who can’t speak, but also military, civil and commercial applications: be able to converse over long distances silently without using your mouth.
It still has teething problems, such as it takes a few days to learn to use and it’s about 5 times slower than normal speech, but still…
via Invention Awards: A Real-Life Babel Fish For the Speaking Impaired | Popular Science.
They’ve managed to grow full penises and implant them in rabbits. The peni were fully functional and the implanted rabbits seemed to be more horny than non-implanted rabbits, presumably because they needed to check their new equipment worked.
They’re expecting to be able to use this technique for human useage.
Engineered Rabbit Penises Raise Human Hopes | Wired Science | Wired.com.
Some background on the cost/value of gold and fiat currencies.
In a world with multiple fiat moneys, the zero value of money equilibrium lurks for each of the fiat currencies, including gold. Admittedly, as regards gold, so far so good. Gold has positive value. It has had positive value for nigh-on 6000 years. That must make it the longest-lasting bubble in human history.
http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2009/11/gold-a-six-thousand-year-old-bubble/