Drug-dispensing contact lenses

This caught my eye, simply because it's one heck of a novel way to deliver your meds. That said, I'm still wearing spectacles only because I've never been able to keep my eyes open long enough to put them in. The last attempt resulted in a lot of tearing, some of it tears of frustration. But back to this rather nifty delivery method. Like the cancer-monitoring implant, this "designer" contact lens is designed to innocuously release crucial antibiotics gradually over a long time frame, about a month, all in an easy, painless manner.
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Artificial human brain within the next 10 years

Understanding why we, as humans, do the things we do is one of the pieces of the puzzle of our existence. Too bad we may have to wait another 10 years for some definitive answers.

This week at the TED Global conference, Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, revealed that he and his team in Switzerland are aiming to build a functioning, artificial human brain within the next 10 years.
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A robo-Einstein self-taught to smile, frown, and grimace

Albert Einstein has come back to life in the form of a robot with a bushy mustache and a highly expressive face. Especially noteworthy is that rather than requiring manual programming, robo-Einstein has taught itself to smile, frown, and grimace.

Researchers from the University of California at San Diego relied on developmental psychology and feedback from real-time facial expression recognition to teach the bot to form a series of complex expressions. In an era when robot faces are becoming increasingly realistic (and sometimes downright eerie), the scientists believe their work (PDF) could help circumvent the costly need for human recalibration of robots. It could also offer insight into how infants learn to make facial expressions.
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Touchscreens to track 10 fingers soon

Touchscreens that track two fingers will soon seem basic. At least if you compare them with the multitouch-sensor ClearPad 3000 Series, recently announced by Santa Clara, Calif.-based Synaptics.

The transparent sensor tracks up to 10 simultaneous finger touches--we assume that should cover most uses--making possible complex multifinger gestures such as closing an application by "crumpling" it with several fingers, or playing polyphonic sounds on a virtual piano keyboard.
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Cancer-monitoring implant soon

The idea of cancer always knocks me out cold with its accompanying consequence of physical and emotional trauma. But hopefully, that sense of haplessness may be diminished somewhat by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Dr Michael Cima's invention of a tumor-monitoring implant.

Barely 0.2 inches (5mm) long, this cylinder comes with a porous membrane. When stuffed with cancer-detecting nanoparticles, it can essentially keep continuous tabs on the tumor's status, showing up on an MRI scan with real-time updates on whether the tumor is shrinking, growing or responding to treatment. This will at least allow doctors to respond accordingly, without relying on guesswork based on the patient's symptoms.
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