Christopher Ghigliotty: New Technology Means Smashed Phone Screens Could Soon Self-Repair

If you've ever dropped your phone and watched the screen completely shatter, you'll understand why we're pretty excited about the latest update in phone technology.

Duncan Wass, a professor at the University of Bristol, is largely responsible for the carbon based "healing agent" that will allow our phones to "self-heal"...BEST. NEWS. EVER.

The "self-repairing" agent contains millions of tiny spheres that crack and releases a liquid solution.

When released, the solution hardens instantly and invisibly, allowing for a perfect recovery.

Initially the product was developed for repairing the cracks of aeroplane wings but it's now believed that it could have multiple uses.

Car windshields, wind turbines and bike frames are just some of the things that could benefit from this new technology.

Speaking to The Independent, Duncan said: "We took inspiration from the human body.

"We’ve not evolved to withstand any damage – if we were like that we’d have a skin as thick as a rhinoceros – but if we do get damaged, we bleed, and it scabs and heals.

"We just put that same sort of function into a synthetic material: let’s have something that can heal itself".

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Myo Armband Makes Hands-Free Motion Control Real

Gesture-controlled computing is well on its way to transitioning from fantasy to reality.

It's most often accomplished via vision sensors that watch you or your hands and track your movement (think Microsoft Kinect for Xbox). Myo, however, is a gesture controlled armband that reads forearm muscle movement to interpret a wide range of intentions.

With its matte-black rubber covering, zigzag bands and block-like contact and sensor modules, Myo, which was designed by Thalmic labs, looks less like an interface-control device than one of Batman’s nifty “toys.” (You can get it in white, too, but why would you?)

With it wrapped firmly around your forearm, you can use it to control a presentation, play music in iTunes, control Netflix and even steer a Bluetooth-based toy. At least that's the promise. In practice, Myo fulfills the first task with ease, but — not always through fault of its own — proved more challenging on others.

Read more http://mashable.com/2015/05/24/myo-review/