Limbless man swims between US and Russian Isles
August 20th, 2012 - 7:43 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Bering Strait, Aug 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A limbless man has challenged many when he swam from America to Asia within less than two hours.
Quadruple Amputte Philippe Croizon is the alleged ... Read more...
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Permanent dental implants for toothless available (Lead)
July 24th, 2012 - 12:44 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) Patients suffering from edentulism (missing all teeth in the jaw), on rise in India due to lack of hygiene and tobacco use, can now look forward ... Read more...
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Permanent dental implants for edentulism patients
July 23rd, 2012 - 6:52 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) Patients suffering from edentulism (missing all tooth in the jaw) can now look forward to permanent dental implants which they do not have to rinse or ... Read more...
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Brain-controlled prosthetic arm developed
April 3rd, 2011 - 2:25 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 03 (ANI): Two Ryerson University undergraduate biomedical engineering students have developed prosthetic arm that is controlled by brain signals.The Artificial Muscle-Operated (AMO) Arm not only enables amputees more range of ... Read more...
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Model to show how toe strength determines body balance while leaning
March 11th, 2011 - 1:40 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 11 (ANI): A new model developed by researchers at the Ohio State University will be able to tell us how toe strength can determine how far people can lean while ... Read more...
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David Williams to play alien in ‘Doctor Who’
February 20th, 2011 - 5:07 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 20 (ANI): David Williams, known for wearing over-the-top make-up and outfits in 'Little Britain' and 'Come Fly With Me', has reportedly landed the role of an alien in 'Doctor Who'.Walliams, ... Read more...
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Egyptians used world’s earliest prosthetics
February 14th, 2011 - 12:28 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 14 (IANS) Two artificial big toes, one found attached to the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy, may have been the world's earliest prosthetic body parts, says the scientist who ... Read more...
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Helena Bonham Carter collects false teeth
December 24th, 2010 - 5:46 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Dec 24 (ANI): Helena Bonham Carter has confessed that she and her partner Tim Burton collect false teeth.The eccentric actress admitted that she is fascinated by the prosthetics she dons for ... Read more...
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Triple amputee completes 3,530-mile run across US
November 13th, 2010 - 1:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 13 (ANI): Triple amputee Mark Ormrod says he has 'achieved the impossible' - by completing a 3,530-mile run across the US.Mark, 27, led six other former Royal and US Marines ... Read more...
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Computational model of swimming fish could inspire medical prosthetics
October 19th, 2010 - 5:34 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 19 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Maryland and Tulane University have developed a computational model of a swimming fish that will help design medical prosthetics for humans, which work ... Read more...
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Feature: Season Of Small Films Kicks Off With Peepli Live
August 12th, 2010 - 2:33 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
August 12, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): It is this time of the year when big films shy away from making a public show and smaller films in a heap are seeing the ... Read more...
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Amputee cat gets prosthetic legs
June 27th, 2010 - 7:54 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 27 (IANS) In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a cat that had its hind feet severed by a harvester has been given two prosthetic limbs by a British vet.
The new custom-made implants, ... Read more...
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Naomi got emotional after watching her unborn baby on screen
April 29th, 2010 - 3:22 am ICT by IANS
London, April 29 (IANS) To cut the costs, actress Naomi Watts who plays a mum-to-be in the film "Mother and Child" agreed to show off her real pregnant belly and now is ... Read more...
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Now, broken knees can be mended by growing cartilage from stem cells
October 22nd, 2009 - 12:52 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): People who have damaged their knee joints can get them repaired with new cartilage grown from stem cells in a laboratory, according to a study at the UC ... Read more...
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Artificial skin can’t dodge the human touch
October 9th, 2009 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 9 (ANI): Artificial skin covering prosthetics and humanoid robots might resemble real skin to the 'T', but when touched the difference is apparent.John-John Cabibihan at the National University of Singapore ... Read more...
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Life is just perfect for Ashton Kutcher
August 23rd, 2009 - 3:41 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 23 (IANS) Ashton Kutcher, who is married to actress Demi Moore, says his life is so perfect at the moment that he would have to clone himself if he had ... Read more...
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Little Kiran plays Little Amitabh
August 8th, 2009 - 2:55 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
Kiran Shah, a 53 year old actor of Indian origin who has acted in several Hollywood films since the 1970s, has been chosen to play the five-year old Amitabh Bachchan in ... Read more...
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Josh Brolin says ’sex with Megan Fox’ was uncomfortable
July 29th, 2009 - 1:19 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 29 (ANI): Actor Josh Brolin found shooting a love scene with Megan Fox in new film 'Jonah Hex' "uncomfortable"."To be honest, it was uncomfortable; those scenes are uncomfortable," the Sun ... Read more...
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2 Characters 2 Time Zones For Akshay, Saif
June 10th, 2009 - 11:03 am ICT by Sampurn Wire
By Subhash K JhaBesides sharing screen space with Kareena Kapoor in one of the biggest fiascos of their careers Tashan Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan now have something else in ... Read more...
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Veejay Ranvijay Plays Vipul Shah
June 6th, 2009 - 10:56 am ICT by Sampurn Wire
by Subhash K JhaRanvijay Singh who's a popular veejay on MTV has bagged a role in Action Replay that was originally played by director Vipul Shah in the stage version of ... Read more...
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Now, artificial muscles to retain lost facial features in paralytic patients
February 17th, 2009 - 12:42 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 17 (ANI): Paralytic patients often end up losing control of many facial features, including the movement of eyelids, but now scientists have found the solution to this problem artificial ... Read more...
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Blanchett says Pitts ”annoyingly” in love with Jolie
January 17th, 2009 - 1:57 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 17 (ANI): Cate Blanchett has said that she wont be working with Brad Pitt, her co-star in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, again because he is ''annoyingly'' in ... Read more...
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Heather Mills false promises to disabled Russian woman
May 13th, 2008 - 4:09 pm ICT by admin
Washington, May 13 (ANI): Heather Mills has been accused of breaking a promise to provide new artificial legs for a disabled Russian woman.The former wife of Sir Paul McCartney first met ... Read more...
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Robot sets record for longest walk
April 13th, 2008 - 12:30 pm ICT by admin
Washington, April 13 (IANS) A robot has set an unofficial world record by walking non-stop a little over nine kilometres, until it stopped and fell because of a suspected battery run down. ... Read more...
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Computer vision may still not be as good as humans
January 25th, 2008 - 3:22 pm ICT by admin
Washington, January 25 (ANI): Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have warned against welcoming recent suggestions that computers are making progress in learning how to see like humanssomething really important ... Read more...
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Indian-origin researcher developing portable electricity, life-like prosthetics
November 17th, 2007 - 2:51 pm ICT by admin
Washington, November 17 (ANI): An Indian-origin researcher at the University of Houston is leading a study aimed at recreating and enhancing the technology that that makes a cell phone vibrate and provides ... Read more...
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It takes four hours to make Paris look like a ‘trampy vamp’!
November 14th, 2007 - 8:30 am ICT by admin
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Nicole Kidman piling weight for new role
November 14th, 2007 - 2:36 am ICT by admin
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