3D-printed implants, anyone? (Image: Osiris Biomed)
Print my surgery
Nurse! Print me a femur, stat! Start-up Osiris Biomed 3D wants to print implants on demand during reconstructive surgery, based on live scans of a patient’s body. The idea is to be able to fast-track people in urgent need of surgery. The firm won a pitch competition earlier this month at the New York 3D Printing Conference and Expo.
“The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks”
Internet inanity began 10 years ago last week, when YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the site’s first video – a 19-second clip of his visit to the zoo
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Google on the phone
Google has fingers in many pies: search, robots, self-driving cars and now, phone calls. Its new mobile network, Project Fi, launched last week. The service automatically chooses the strongest connection available – whether that’s WiFi or a cell network – and routes all calls, texts and data through it. Anyone can sign up online, but for now the service only works with Google’s Nexus 6 phone.
