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El Camino Hospital

The new El Camino Hospital in Silicon Valley is the most technologically advanced in the world. The $470-million facility features robots that carry supplies and give surgeons tools, remote robotic surgery capabilities, palm-scanners for patient registration, and infection-resistant bedside computers. Patients’ exam results, location and vital signs are transmitted to nurses, doctors and a central server over secure Wi-Fi. Medical providers wear voice-activated communication devices—a “Where’s Doctor Robert?” query provides a direct connection, eliminating noisy hospital-wide pages.

This Week in the Future, October 26-30, 2009

What a week. A robot pathologist finds a victorious Japanese solar race cars in a cadaver. Cancer-immune mole rats smoke with impunity, while genetically engineered flowers scrub the air of pollutants. Sign me up for this future. Some of our favorite stories this week:

• A Japanese team wins the annual Global Green Challenge, crossing Australia in their solar car over four days
11.7.2009 at 08:11pm - Comment by firetext

I would kill for one of those tshirts! I swear I'd ride a new x10 Rocket in one of those Mars Torture Chambers, carrying the new Taser Grenade Launchers. Then I'd shock the Naked Rats so they no longer destroy the Stealth Wind Turbines. Oh yah I'd take out the Wii Baby and Me too, cuz that's more then creepy.

• Science

  A Real Cloaking Device

  By Catherine Schwanke Posted on 1.26.2009 32 Comments

  It's like something out of a science fiction novel or a Harry Potter book. Engineers from Duke University have constructed a device that can "cloak" items placed on a mirror surface.

  First designed in 2006, the new version of the device is a more sophisticated and complicated design that can cloak a wider variety of waves.
  2.11.2009 at 11:24pm - Comment by firetext

  Apple, please release a iPhone CLEAR!! :P You're talking on the phone but it doesn't look like you're holding anything. It'll make people look more schizophrenic when talking into dead air then bluetooth headset. Raoul

• Entertainment & Gaming

  Txting n End 2 Unrly Fns

  By Brett Zarda Posted on 4.2.2009 1 Comments

  We’ve all been that guy, or sat next to that guy at the game. Maybe he really does think the ref is on his knees, but more likely he’s stumbled well over the line. But hey, you took out a second mortgage on your foreclosed house for these tickets, so you’re not about to cause a scene that’ll get you tossed or walk down 94 stairs in search of a security officer who will tell you to wait till third down is over. Thankfully, those at the Super Bowl this year can merely text for help.

  1.31.2009 at 01:53am - Comment by firetext

  Visit http://www.firetext.tv for more information on Text Message Safety and Entertainment Products.

• Science

  The First Few Minutes After Death

  By Sam Barrett Posted on 10.31.2008 23 Comments

  After countless accounts of near-death experiences, dating as far back as ancient Greece, science is now taking serious steps forward to explore the nature of the phenomenon. A new project aims to determine whether the experience is a physiological event or evidence that the human consciousness is far more complicated than we ever believed.

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  10.31.2008 at 01:14pm - Comment by firetext

  This is a very neat topic and I think something that everyone questions. I will definitely be following up to see if they made any discoveries. Raoul @ FireText http://www.firetext.tv