| Starlite: Material That Could Change The World Posted: 20 May 2012 11:30 PM PDT 
Mail Online: Scientists still say they are desperate to learn the secret of ‘Starlite’ – and the inventor’s family may have it. The material was the invented by the eccentric English inventor and former hairdresser Maurice Ward who had no formal scientific training and claimed he put it together on his kitchen table with a food processor. It was unveiled to the world on the BBC TV show 'Tomorrow's World' in 1991 during which he held a Starlite-coated egg up to a blowtorch. Despite the extreme heat it was barely warm to the touch and was still runny inside. Experts immediately realised its possibilities for things like aeroplanes, fire doors, spacecraft and dozens more possibilities. Mr Ward, however, refused to play ball. Over the following few decades his paranoia, capriciousness and need for absolute secrecy ruined all attempts to get it onto the market.
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| Going Back In Time: Turning The Modern iPad Into An 80′s Toy Posted: 20 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT Mail Online: Now the Etch-a-Sketch, that beloved toy which started life in the 1960s and amused children for the next three decades, is coming back – thanks to the help of the iPad. Inventor Ari Krupnik has created an almost exact replica sleeve of the Etch-a-Sketch, including those two big twiddly buttons with which you can sketch on your designs on the grey screen. Plug an iPad into the belly and – hey, presto! – everyone’s favourite toy has come back to life. For the re-birth of Etch-a-Sketch, Ari worked on the software side, emulating all those beloved features to make this identical to the original – so shaking your iPad will clear your image just as before. Although there is a nod to modern times – you can share your pictures via Facebook or Flickr – or even send a timelapse video to YouTube.
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| Building A Better Defibrillator Implant Posted: 20 May 2012 10:30 PM PDT 
azdailysun.com: The defibrillator is still a work in progress, but Strauss recently filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to secure a patent for CardiaGard, a device that will monitor the heart to detect and treat coronary artery disease — a condition that affects more than 15 million Americans. The device is designed to be inserted into a subcutaneous layer over the heart. Electrodes attached to the wires can detect the slightest changes in the heart’s rhythms in the same way that an electrocardiogram does, he said. The implantable defibrillators currently on the market thread wires into the arteries to monitor and shock the heart. Those wires can cause irritation or result in infection after the surgery. “There is no risk of causing a patient to go into cardiac arrest when they are actually being operated on because we are not touching the heart,” he said.
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