Working from home has many of us wondering how we can make this new experience more comfortable and accommodating. lately we’ve seen brands like established & sons collaborate with french designers erwan and ronan bouroullec to create flexible pieces of furniture that really work for these changing times. but this new chair got us both excited and confused as we can’t decide if it’s genius or just borderline crazy. developed by cluvens, the cluvens IW-SK zero-gravity esports gaming chair boast a scorpion shape that cocoons you — if that’s what you like.

University of Stavanger operates a micro gas plant in south-west Norway. The gas turbine produces both heat and electricity. It also supplies hot water for heating the laboratory buildings in the immediate area. In addition, surplus energy is supplied to power provider Lyse’s district heating and electricity grids. All energy is used efficiently.

The researchers have been working on developing a method for using pure hydrogen as fuel in the gas turbine. The goal is to produce electricity with zero CO₂ emissions. In mid-May 2022, an important milestone was reached. They started running the turbine on 100 percent hydrogen.

Researchers at the University of Stavanger (UiS) have managed to run a gas turbine on 100 percent hydrogen.

From burgers to sausages and steak tips to chicken nuggets, there’s no shortage of plant-based “meat” products on grocery store shelves and in restaurants these days. Companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have done an impressive job diversifying their offerings, with almost any processed meat you can think of now on their lists (even beef jerky and popcorn chicken). But a key cut of meat is still missing from these big names’ menus: a good old-fashioned filet, just like the cows make ‘em.

I served the steak with quinoa and sauteed veggies, and after a few bites, I couldn’t deny it was both tasty and had a pleasant texture. Did it taste or feel like a real steak? Not really. The real meat it most reminded me of was rib meat, the kind that easily pulls off the bone when the ribs have been slow-cooked; soft and tender, but not dried out. The plant-based steak had a distinctly fatty-like mouthfeel without the excessive oiliness you sometimes get from animal fat.

Marbling Mystery

Achieving this texture, and a realistic “marbling” effect, has been one of the biggest challenges for plant-based meat companies. How do you replicate—with plants—animal tissue that has thin ribbons of fat running through it?

Patients with a large cerebral infarction have better functional recovery when they receive endovascular therapy early on in addition to usual medical management, a new study shows.

The trial was stopped early because a planned interim analysis showed efficacy of endovascular therapy in this patient population. #Stroke

A new study provides evidence for better functional recovery after endovascular therapy from a population of large-infarction strokes that could contribute to changing clinical practice.

Bruce Willis has FTD. I always wondered if gene therapy could help. Apparently so did Passage Bio, and they are doing clinical trials.

FTD is a disorder that affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, areas that control personality, executive function, and language. FTD is a form of early onset dementia and currently has no approved disease-modifying therapies. In approximately 5–10% of individuals with FTD, the disease occurs because of mutations in the GRN gene. These mutations cause a deficiency of progranulin that helps regulate cellular processes.

Recently, Passage Bio announced that the first patient has been dosed in the global phase 1/2 upliFT-D clinical trial evaluating PBFT02. As Dr. Forman explains, PBFT02 is an AAV delivery gene therapy for the treatment of patients with FTD with GRN mutations. The upliFT-D trial is a dose-escalation study in which two doses will be sequentially evaluated in two cohorts, with a possible third cohort. Inclusion criteria for the trial include that patients:

Dr. Mark Forman, Chief Medical Officer at Passage Bio, discusses the phase 1/2 upliFT-D clinical trial evaluating PBFT02, an AAV delivery gene therapy for patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with granulin (GRN) mutations.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is an all-sky survey mission that will discover thousands of exoplanets around nearby bright stars. TESS launched April 18, 2018 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

- and Yes TESS found a second exoplanet like Earth over 60 million light years away. A link about it is in this one.

During almost two-years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the growth of telemedicine and new ways of reaching people has changed and developed. In October 2021, NASA flight surgeon Dr. Josef Schmid, industry partner AEXA Aerospace CEO Fernando De La Pena Llaca, and their teams were the first humans “holoported” from Earth into space.

Using the Microsoft Hololens Kinect camera and a personal computer with custom software from Aexa, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet had a two-way conversation with live images of Schmid and De La Pena placed in the middle of the International Space Station. This was the first holoportation handshake from Earth in space.

Holoportation is a type of capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted live anywhere in real time.

Pierce, an artist whose work critically engages with weaponized emerging technologies, recently unveiled their latest ingenious project—an everyday hoodie retrofitted to include an array of infrared (IR) LEDs that, when activated, blinds any nearby night vision security cameras. Using mostly off-the-shelf components like LumiLED lights, an Adafruit microcontroller, and silicone wire, as well as we software Pierce that made open-source for interested DIYers, the privacy-boosting “Camera Shy Hoodie” is designed to enable citizens to safely engage in civic protests and demonstrations. Or, wearers can just simply opt-out of being tracked by unknown third-parties while walking down the street.

A DIY hack for hoodies emits infrared LEDs to obscure wearers’ faces from invasive surveillance camera tracking.

Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a miniature and flexible soft robotic arm which could be used to 3D print biomaterial directly onto organs inside a person’s body.

3D bioprinting is a process whereby biomedical parts are fabricated from so-called bioink to construct natural tissue-like structures.

Bioprinting is predominantly used for research purposes such as tissue engineering and in the development of new drugs — and normally requires the use of large 3D printing machines to produce cellular structures outside the living body.

Paper Advanced Sciences:

Advanced soft robotic system for in situ 3D bioprinting and endoscopic surgery.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.

UNSW researchers unveil prototype device that can directly 3D print living cells onto internal organs and potentially be used as an all-in-one endoscopic surgical tool.

The BMW Group on Monday launched a pilot fleet of hydrogen vehicles, with the German automotive giant’s CEO referring to hydrogen as “the missing piece in the jigsaw when it comes to emission-free mobility.”

The BMW iX5 Hydrogen, which uses fuel cells sourced from Toyota and has a top speed of more than 112 miles per hour, is being put together at a facility in Munich.

Described by the International Energy Agency as a “versatile energy carrier,” hydrogen has a variety of applications and can be deployed in sectors such as industry and transport.

BMW is one of several automotive firms continuing to look into the potential of hydrogen. Others include Toyota and Hyundai, while smaller businesses such as Riversimple are also working on hydrogen-powered cars.

Hydrogen may have its backers, but some high-profile figures from the automotive industry are not so sure.