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Given the frenzy of interest following the announcement of the Apple Watch, you might think wearables will be the next really important shift in tech. Not so. Wearables will have their moment in the sun, but they’re simply a transition technology. Technology will move from existing outside our bodies to residing inside us. That’s the next big frontier.

Here are nine signs that implantable tech is here now, growing rapidly, and that it will be part of your life (and your body) in the near future.

1. Implantable smartphones

Sure, we’re virtual connected to our phones 24/7 now, but what if we were actually connected to our phones? That’s already starting to happen. Last year, for instance, artist Anthony Antonellis had an RFID chip embedded in his arm that could store and transfer art to his handheld smartphone. Researchers are experimenting with embedded sensors that turn human bone into living speakers. Other scientists are working on eye implants that let an image be captured with a blink and transmitted to any local storage (such as that arm-borne RFID chip).

But what takes the place of the screen if the phone is inside you? Techs at Autodesk are experimenting with a system that can display images through artificial skin. Or the images may appear in your eye implants.

2. Healing chips

Right now, patients are using cyber-implants that tie directly to smartphone apps to monitor and treat diseases. A new bionic pancreas being tested at Boston University, for instance, has a tiny sensor on an implantable needle that talks directly to a smartphone app to monitor blood-sugar levels for diabetics. Scientists in London are developing swallowable capsule-sized circuits that monitor fat levels in obese patients and generate genetic material that makes them feel “full.” It has potential as an alternative to current surgery or other invasive ways to handle gross obesity. Dozens of other medical issues from heart murmurs to anxiety have implant/phone initiatives under way.

3. Cyber pills that talk to your doctor

Implantables won’t just communicate with your phone; they’ll chat up your doctor, too. In a project named Proteus, after the eensy body-navigating vessel in the film Fantastic Voyage, a British research team is developing cyber-pills with microprocessors in them that can text doctors directly from inside your body. The pills can share (literally) inside info to help doctors know if you are taking your medication properly and if it is having the desired effect.

4. Bill Gates' implantable birth control

The Gates Foundation is supporting an MIT project to create an implantable female compu-contraceptive controlled by an external remote control. The tiny chip generates small amounts of contraceptive hormone from within the woman’s body for up to 16 years. Implantation is no more invasive than a tattoo. And, said Dr. Robert Farra of MIT, “The ability to turn the device on and off provides a certain convenience factor for those who are planning their family.” Gives losing the remote a whole new meaning.

5. Smart tattoos

Tattoos are hip and seemingly ubiquitous, so why not smart, digital tattoos that not only look cool, but can also perform useful tasks, like unlocking your car or entering smartphone codes with a finger-point? Researchers at the University of Illinois have crafted an implantable skin mesh of computer fibers thinner than a human hair that can monitor your body’s inner workings from the surface. A company called Dangerous Things has an NFC chip that can be embedded in a finger through a tattoo-like process, letting you unlock things or enter codes simply by pointing. A Texas research group has developed microparticles that can be injected just under the skin, like tattoo ink, and can track body processes. All of these are much wiser choices than the name of a soon-to-be-ex.

6. Brain-computer interface

Having the human brain linked directly to computers is the dream (or nightmare) of sci-fi. But now, a team at Brown University called BrainGate is at the forefront of the real-world movement to link human brains directly to computers for a host of uses. As the BrainGate website says, “Using a baby aspirin-sized array of electrodes implanted into the brain, early research from the BrainGate team has shown that the neural signals … can be ‘decoded' by a computer in real-time and used to operate external devices.” Chip maker Intel predicts practical computer-brain interfaces by 2020. Intel scientist Dean Pomerleau said in a recent article, “Eventually people may be willing to be more committed ... to brain implants. Imagine being able to surf the Web with the power of your thoughts.”

7. Meltable bio-batteries

One of the challenges for implantable tech has been how to get power to devices tethered inside or floating around in human bodies. You can’t plug them in. You can’t easily take them out to replace a battery. A team at Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is working on biodegradable batteries. They generate power inside the body, transfer it wirelessly where needed, and then simply melt away. Another project is looking at how to use the body’s own glucose to generate power for implantables. Think the potato battery of grammar school science, but smaller and much more advanced.

8. Smart dust

Perhaps the most startling of current implantable innovations is smart dust, arrays of full computers with antennas, each much smaller than a grain of sand, that can organize themselves inside the body into as-needed networks to power a whole range of complex internal processes. Imagine swarms of these nano-devices, called motes, attacking early cancer or bringing pain relief to a wound or even storing critical personal information in a manner that is deeply encrypted and hard to hack. With smart dust, doctors will be able to act inside your body without opening you up, and information could be stored inside you, deeply encrypted, until you unlocked it from your very personal nano network.

9. The verified self

Implantables hammer against social norms. They raise privacy issues and even point to a larger potential dystopia. This technology could be used to ID every single human being, for example. Already, the U.S. military has serious programs afoot to equip soldiers with implanted RFID chips, so keeping track of troops becomes automatic and worldwide. Many social critics believe the expansion of this kind of ID is inevitable. Some see it as a positive: improved crime fighting, universal secure elections, a positive revolution in medical information and response, and never a lost child again. Others see the perfect Orwellian society: a Big Brother who, knowing all and seeing all, can control all. And some see the first big, fatal step toward the Singularity, that moment when humanity turns its future over to software.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/9-signs-that-implantable-technology-c1412123685694/photo-9-the-verified-self-photo-1412123639964.html

Op,,, Abeg leave dem ladies alone, what's wrong with going for d best,, Hehehe. Abi na because u short?

Am tall, dark, athletic build, deep voiced, work with an oil firm and I love d attention ladies give me,,,, anywhere i turn na so so green light ,, whether this babes want make I get accident. ..hehe

EmoBoy:
My boss falls in the 2nd category. I hate people like that

i share ur pain,, mine is number 3

Employees will only put up with so much when faced with a bad boss. Eventually, they reach their breaking point and quit.

To combat this inevitable exodus, it's important for leaders to understand what makes their employees tick. "After all, if you don't know what you're doing that is making them run from you, you won't know what to avoid," writes Steven Tulman, VP of strategy and business development at ICM, in a recent LinkedIn post.

If you're doing one — or more — of these four things, your employees might be looking for a way out. Here are the habits you should drop now:

1. Lying.

No matter who you're talking to or what you're discussing, there's no excuse for dishonesty. "Good leaders do not hide behind lies or make excuses," Tulman says. "They have integrity and are able to communicate effectively with their staff." It's best to simply avoid lying altogether — once you're caught in a lie, no matter how trivial, you'll lose the respect of your employees for good.

2. Being a know-it-all.

If you've worked your way up to a management position, you probably have plenty of great ideas. However, don't forget that your employees are full of good ideas as well. "If you constantly insist that it is 'your way or the highway,' you are going to end up with a lot of your staff taking the next exit and choosing a different road to travel on,

Instead, let your employees voice their thoughts and opinions. "Giving employees a chance to be heard will show them that they are a part of the team," he suggests.

3. Not trusting anyone.

If you're constantly looking over employees' shoulders or questioning their decisions, they'll become frustrated with you, Tulman cautions. "You have to trust your staff," he says. "They know what is expected from them, and if you do not trust them to perform simple tasks or if you are over-suspicious of how they are spending their time, they will grow to resent you."

Leave your employees to their jobs and only step in when there's a real issue. In the long run, it will save both of you time and energy.

4. Failing to make tough decisions.

It's great to be friends with your employees, but it's important to remember that you're still their boss. Though it might be tough, good bosses know that sometimes they need to make unpopular decisions or deliver bad news to employees. "If you avoid these situations because you want your employees to like you, you are hurting the company and hurting your employees' chances of success,"


https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/4-things-bad-bosses-employees-202149097.html

I met a babe once and we exchanged numbers,, we talked on d phone and I told I wanted to date her, everytime we fix a date she would change plans or refuse to pick my call that day, I sent her a message on whatsapp but she wouldn't reply, invite to my house she wouldn't want to come,, so I ignored her totally

Women.. ... Can u believe that after a while she started calling and asking for a date, trust me we fix date, I de house tell am say I day the place de wait am, after 30 minutes( she was even late from d agreed time) she called and said she was there, but I told her I couldn't wait,, , hahahaha ( I de house de watch match) ,, she started to beg, babe don dress comot for house, d thing hook am, I told her we can only see if she comes to the house, three hours later I was squashing d Congo.. ..

Whatever it is u want from a lady don't ask for it, she will most likely say no, u have to be in control, take it,, ladies are really funny set of ppl

jpphilips: It does not work that way, there are questions you just don't have to ask largely because it is inconsequential to the outcome of whatever prospects your association wield.
Have you heard of corporate lies before? why will a sane man put himself in a vulnerable position?

I can put it to u that most of those silly questions come from ladies,, of what good will it do if I start asking those questions because me sef no good,, but ladies love to inquire, it is in this process a guy will now be like what about u and then she use u shine,,
As for me I don't care about ur past as long as it doesn't affect me.....

Women don't come clean,, no matter what she may have told u she still omitted somethings,,
I had a babe I liked when I was in skul, wanted to squash her but she kept putting me on a long thing reason being she had a bf,, I was in my room one day and I got a text from her telling me to come over,, on getting there d babe no allow me talk sef straight to quashing,,, it was later I found out she had a little misunderstanding with her guy over something very flimsy and she wanted to undo him........
My brother while u were away and didn't call she was thinking u were quashing another babe and so decided to enjoy hersef by letting another badt guy quash her and she was feeling guilty because maybe d guy did it better

jpphilips: You don't get it do you? life does not run on perceptions, perception is influenced by time and chance, perceptions need the reality to translate into a fact.
let me tell you the hard truth, you see most weddings in those big churches and registries, those guys are not even number 10 on the list, do you sincerely think that Annie has slept with only Tuface in her life time or prolly with three other guys? you must be kidding?

The reason is that our world have changed, it is no longer like the days of our parents, never mind which is better, but the best we can do is to adapt to what we have.
You can be a virgin hunter to marry one no doubt but if you sincerely probe the challenges of our time, you will agree completely that virgin hunting is a waste of man hours.

Another reason is that finding a committed man for women is a process, its not a touch and it goes thing, our society has men in a vast majority who have made sex a latent requirement before even thinking of a relationship and they can equally justify it, now where does it leave women?
An average girl who is unlucky in the process of looking for a committed man may likely sleep with a man at least in 6months or 1yr if she is so patient, that patience is a luxury they may not afford if age is no longer on their side,it is a gamble that nature has made them to accept.
Some are so tired that they have given up, some have taken solace in the company of their fellow women because of strings of disappointments, some have run to God to seek the counsel of the omnipotence to guarantee them that this shot will be the last. Some out of immaturity will accept relationships that will never count.

I can guess you are still very young so there are a lot of things that is not supposed to make sense to you now but with time, you will embrace and accept the reality and you will wish things were different.
I know deep inside you, something tells you that once you are through with school, you will run into big bucks hire a flat, buy a clean ride then get yourself a pretty lady right? News flash! some people are paying bribes to actually join the inept, underfunded, disorganized Nigerian army, rightly put, paying for their death, 5yrs ago, I am certain that none of those people will actually believe they will get to that point in life.

Liken the case of women with men, can a rich man recount how many disappointments, losses, deals he incurred before he made it? they have lost count because making money for men is a process, so a lot of sh!!t equally happen on the way, it is same for women too.
I am in no way trying to uphold the insatiable trade for sex inherent in our society today, where sex has become a means to an ignoble end,
I am of the opinion that even the best of girls will likely end up with a high mileage if she gets unlucky in her quest to getting a partner, that is the card reality has kept on an African woman's table

You must review that word "wh0re" because there are loads of unlucky girls out there who have never traded sex for a kobo yet, have a very high mileage, it is a reflection of the unpredictable nature of man.

Saying you cannot fall in love with a girl with high mileage is as s!!lly as saying you will never shake a man who uses his hands to wipe his arsse, conversely, insinuating that women with high mileage is a direct function of "wh0rring" is a proof that you haven't even started life.

May experience teach you better!!

Really nice observations but two wrongs they say can't make right,, just because one has become disappointed in relationships it doesn't mean u should now specialise in lying,,,, if a question u know the answer will hurt the person asking,, straight up don't answer,,

Ones a lady starts lying to her man her will know,, she loses a lot of respect,, and believe me ones a man does not respect u............... Well

drlawizle: D most sensible post on here...once you have developed a thick skin and she senses it...you become her hero....and she falls for you...am also in dat process....ladies aint worth a man's worry @ol....lol.

cheers

If she told u she only kissed a guy, she actually bleeped him,, believe that unless u tell me she's a virgin..


And don't tell me she swore cos that's their cover up this days

Guys,, we worry too much about the female folks,, this is why they continue to toy with us,,
A lady can choose to live her life the way she wants and as a wise guy u should know the rules,, as for me I have conditioned myself in a way that nothing gets to me and I don't believe anything a lady am squashing say, if u de lie that one concern u

Hmm, interesting but how can u use knife to rewind? When u can just use the video machine instead,, my thoughts

yuncka: Goodnews, there still hope for those wit bald hair.

lol,,, bros u get bad mouth o

The United Nations finally has some good news about the climate. Well, sort of.

According to a report released by U.N. scientists on Wednesday, the ozone layer, which has been thinning since the late 1970's, is showing signs of recovery.

Scientists say that the implementation of the U.N.'s 1987 Montreal Protocol has contributed to a statistically significant increase in the stratospheric ozone layer, the thin layer of gas that protects the earth from U.V. rays linked with skin cancer. Thanks to the reduction of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) found in refrigerants and aerosol cans the ozone is predicted to return to 1980 levels by mid-century.

This will prevent 2 million additional cases of skin cancer a year starting in 2030.

U.N. Under-Secretary-General Achim Steiner heralded the monumental success.

The Montreal Protocol - one of the world's most successful environmental treaties - has protected the stratospheric ozone layer and avoided enhanced UV radiation reaching the earth's surface."
Chemist Mario Molina, one of the co-authors of a 1974 study predicting ozone depletion, echoed this sentiment in an interview with the Associated Press.

It's a victory for diplomacy and for science and for the fact that we were able to work together."
Okay, so it looks like a strong scientific consensus coupled with worldwide action can have an important effect on reducing negative effects on the planet, right?

Ironically, it turns out that the substances being used to replace ozone-harming CFCs are contributing to global warming, MIT scientist Susan Solomon told the AP. Greenhouse gases are repairing the ozone layer while simultaneously serving as one of the major causes of global climate change.

Fixing global climate problems is a two steps forward, one step back affair.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/ozone-layer-growing-back-172216682.html

You may have seen headlines that Google is working on a quantum computer chip with researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara. But there are some questions you might have before we get into the specifics of the initiative. What is a quantum computer? What can it do? Further, what is Google planning to do with a quantum computer once it’s built one?

Let’s start at the beginning: what is a quantum computer? The University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing says that quantum computing is “essentially harnessing and exploiting the amazing laws of quantum mechanics to process information.” Quantum mechanics, in turn, encompasses the mechanics of the motion and interaction of subatomic particles.

A quantum computer is different from a traditional computer in the way that it processes information. A traditional computer uses strings of “bits,” which encode information in zeroes and ones. A quantum computer uses qubits, or quantum bits, units of a quantum system that encodes the zeroes and ones into two distinguishable quantum states. A qubit can represent a zero, a one, or both values simultaneously. But because qubits behave “quantumly,” it’s subject to quantum effects like superposition and entanglement.

Superposition is the ability of a quantum system to be in multiple states at the same time, so that it can be “here” and “there” or “up” and “down” simultaneously. Entanglement is a correlation between quantum particles so strong that it remains perfectly correlated even across great distances, and are said to “dance” in perfect unison even when placed at opposite ends of the universe. Thanks to these effects, a quantum computer can process a large number of calculations simultaneously, and at extremely high speeds.

“Think of it this way,” the University of Waterloo’s page explains. “Whereas a classical computer works with ones and zeros, a quantum computer will have the advantage of using ones, zeros, and ‘superpositions’ of ones and zeros. Certain difficult tasks that have long been thought impossible (or ‘intractable’) for classical computers will be achieved quickly and efficiently by a quantum computer.”



http://wallstcheatsheet.com/technology/what-is-a-quantum-computer-and-why-is-google-building-one.html/?ref=YF

A ww3 would lead to mutually-assured destruction," since (regardless of whoever starts it) the other side would respond with an all-out launch( talking about U.S.A and Russia ),which will lead to the total destruction of both countries (post-apocalyptic zombies not included). Even if everybody else in the world sits still and doesnt join in the launching frenzy, such a shoot-out will most likely be followed by a nuclear winter (which happens when all the particles released form clouds around the planet so very little sunlight penetrates) and everybody freezes to death.

Saying naija won't be affected is very naive

You think say them no know before them take the challenge?

Fear de catch me o,,,,

A WorldNetDaily writer can’t fathom why anyone would willingly dump ice water on themselves, so she did some digging and has now concluded that the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a satanic ritual.

“I began to think about the IBC,” Selena Owens explains in the piece. “Whose idea was this? Why would people so easily agree to being drenched in icy water? Who participated and who didn’t? Why do people feel obligated to take the challenge if offered to them? What’s the purpose of calling out three other people to take the challenge?”

She investigated, she says, and discovered the IBC is NOT “a lighthearted attempt to understand a debilitating disease.”

The most troubling evidence she has to support her theory that the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is actually a satanic ritual is the story of Corey Griffin’s death.

Griffin was the IBC co-founder. He died last month when he jumped off a building in Nantucket and drowned following a successful fundraiser where he had raised $100,000 for ALS research, Owens explains. He was pronounced dead at 3 a.m. “He floated to the surface, then he sank,” a report says. “He did not come up again.”

“It confounds me as to why Griffin would take such a risk with his life, especially in the dead of night?” she writes. “Very odd. Very bizarre. Very dark.”

She also points to a video, in which self-described evangelist Anita Fuentes explains a number of cryptic and cultic messages hidden in the IBC ritual, which is cleansing America in the name of Anti-Christ Lucifer Satan for some future thing.

The video’s depiction of Oprah Winfrey taking the challenge is particularly disturbing, Owens said. “Winfrey precedes her dousing with the words ‘In the name of ALS and the Ice Bucket Challenge’ … because Oprah mistakenly believes the One True God is jealous of her, and the well-known fact that she denounces Jesus as the only way to God and basically considers herself to be a god, I found this statement to be very cultic in nature.”

In conclusion: “The ALS IBC is ritualistic in nature. People are chosen to undergo a form of water baptism with cultic god Oprah leading the charge ‘in the name of ALS.’”

Watch the truly fascinating video and decide for yourself if Owens’ is right.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-bucket-challenge-satanic-ritual-explains-troubled-writer-183406572.html

For the first time, scientists have been able to send a simple mental message from one person to another without any contact between the two, thousands of miles apart in India and France.

Research led by experts at Harvard University shows technology can be used to transmit information from one person's brain to another's even, as in this case, if they are thousands of miles away.

"It is kind of technological realization of the dream of telepathy, but it is definitely not magical," Giulio Ruffini, a theoretical physicist and co-author of the research, told AFP by phone from Barcelona.

"We are using technology to interact electromagnetically with the brain."

For the experiment, one person wearing a wireless, Internet-linked electroencephalogram or EEG would think a simple greeting, like "hola," or "ciao."

A computer translated the words into digital binary code, presented by a series of 1s or 0s.

Then, this message was emailed from India to France, and delivered via robot to the receiver, who through non-invasive brain stimulation could see flashes of light in their peripheral vision.

The subjects receiving the message did not hear or see the words themselves, but were correctly able to report the flashes of light that corresponded to the message.

"We wanted to find out if one could communicate directly between two people by reading out the brain activity from one person and injecting brain activity into the second person, and do so across great physical distances by leveraging existing communication pathways," said co-author Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School.

"One such pathway is, of course, the Internet, so our question became, 'Could we develop an experiment that would bypass the talking or typing part of Internet and establish direct brain-to-brain communication between subjects located far away from each other in India and France?'"

Ruffini added that extra care was taken to make sure no sensory information got in the way that could have influenced the interpretation of the message.

Researchers have been attempting to send a message from person to person this way for about a decade, and the proof of principle that was reported in the journal PLOS ONE is still rudimentary, he told AFP.

"We hope that in the longer term this could radically change the way we communicate with each other," said Ruffini.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/telepathy-experiment-sends-1st-mental-message-222701481.html

GoodFaith: "I have this girl who always calls me "big car"-- Did u F her?
If u did
she likely mean u have a big D
If U have not F her
Next time she call u big car
Ask her if she want to ride in ur car

i must say am really disappointed if this is the case because I don't see why a lady would lay emphasis on that ,, The Lord will have mercy on her the next time I handle her,,


THREAD CLOSED

I would really love to know,,, she always says it with a smirk on her face

Hello nairalanders,,
I have this girl who always calls me "big car", I have tried on many occasions to find out what she means by that but to no avail,,
pls does anyone know what a lady means if she calls a guy a big car,,
Ladies in the house please help me out