Fat that makes you Thin

Researchers have discovered that "brown" fat helps to keep you thin, by turning the energy obtained from food into heat and burning up calories without physical exertion. 50g of brown fat burns 500 calories per day.

The more brown fat a person has, the thinner they are. Unfortunately, brown fat seems to dwindle with age, making us prone to gaining weight the older we get.

Experiments are being done in which white fat is extracted via liposuction, converted to brown fat by being treated with BMP-7 and then reimplanted into the original donor.

Other methods of increasing brown fat involve turning on the command gene that switches cells into brown fat as they develop.

One Size Fits All Battery from AA-D

The AtoD rechargeable battery is an innovative battery that solves a problem is a very simple way. With this battery, you only need one size, and it will fit in most gadgets that require batteries of any size from AA to D.
How does it accomplish this feat? Simple: It’s made from memory form, so it squishes to the required size.

Software Increases Security For Computer Screens

A Baltimore company, Oculis, has developed a program that tracks an authorized reader's eyes to show only them the correct text. Anyone else looking at the screen will see only scrambled letters.
Chameleon is a combination of gaze-tracking software and camera equipment that, apparently, takes just 15 seconds to learn a subject’s screen-viewing patterns. After that, only the sweet spot on which your eyes are resting will be legible. Everyone else will see dummy text that constantly and randomly changes.

Drug rescues memory lost to Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named for German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906.

Just like the rest of our bodies, our brains change as we age. Most of us notice some slowed thinking and occasional problems remembering certain things. However, serious memory loss, confusion and other major changes in the way our minds work are not a normal part of aging. They may be a sign that brain cells are failing and this is called Alzheimer's Disease.
UC Irvine scientists have discovered a drug that offers hope that a new treatment may be on the horizon for people in the early stages of Alzheimer's. The drug, called PMX205, prevented inflamed immune cells from gathering in brain regions with Alzheimer's lesions. Cell inflammation in these areas accelerates neuron damage, exacerbating the disease.
Scientists gave treated mice learning and memory tests and then examined their brains for evidence of the disease. Alzheimer's mice that were not given the drug performed significantly worse on the test than normal mice. But - in all but one case - the treated Alzheimer's mice performed almost as well as the normal mice. Those with the rescued cognitive ability had more than 50 percent fewer Alzheimer's lesions and inflammatory immune cells than the untreated diseased mice.

Drugs That Block Blood Vessel Growth May Help Obesity

Zafgen, a biopharmaceutical startup based in Cambridge, MA, is attacking obesity the way that cancer researchers have been attacking tumors for decades: using drugs that interfere with its blood supply.
The fat cells that make up adipose tissue can't grow without blood vessels to nourish them. Zafgen, a startup based in Cambridge, MA, is developing obesity drugs that starve fat tissue by blocking blood-vessel proliferation. These drugs, which were originally designed to halt tumor growth, cause dramatic weight loss in obese mice.

Solar-Powered Jaguar

The “Jaguar Mark XXI” was designed by designer Christopher Pollard usesolar panels to generate power. When parked, the black solar panels activate. These panels are photovoltaic, lift from the car automatically, and face and followthe sun.
The “living” panels signify “the synergy between the car’s energy replenishing function and the natural science from which it takes its inspiration.” The photovoltaic panels use solar power to power the car.

Sending Smells Over the Net

The i-Aroma is loaded with 6 base oils and attached to a PC via USB cable. The user connects the PC to the Internet and special courses designed by astrologist Ryuji Kagami or aroma therapist Kaoru Sasak will determine what scents are mixed by the device and released into the air. A remote control on the i-Aroma can be used to dispense stored, favorite smells when not connected to a PC.