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"In the Fablab Low Cost Prosthesis programme we develop the technology to produce a 'lower knee' prosthesis in line with the open innovation principles, so that end users, designers, researchers and manufacturers can arrive at product innovations by joint effort. The Fablab prosthesis programme has emerged as possible business case for the HONFablab in Jogyakarta, Indonesia. Fablab Yogyakarta could provide prostheses for two people per day. By doing so, it would empower the locals by creating new jobs and spread the orthopaedic knowledge."

"Toujours plus vite, toujours moins cher. L'entreprise américaine Illumina a franchi deux seuils très symboliques pour la génomique en dévoilant mi-janvier son nouvel appareil, HiSeq X Ten. Ce supercalculateur est capable de séquencer un génome humain en vingt-quatre heures pour seulement 1.000 dollars. En 2007, l'opération qui avait mis à nu le matériel moléculaire de James Watson, codécouvreur de la structure en double hélice de l'adn , avait coûté 1 million de dollars. Avant cela, il avait fallu treize ans et 2,7 milliards de dollars à un consortium réunissant les seize plus grands instituts de biotechnologie de la planète pour déchiffrer les 3,4 milliards de paires de nucléotides contenant les informations nécessaires au fonctionnement de notre organisme. Dans les minutes qui ont suivi la présentation de cette machine de la taille d'un gros photocopieur, la valorisation boursière d'Illumina a gagné 7 milliards de dollars. L'entreprise, créée en 1998 à San Diego ­(Californie), vaut aujourd'hui 22 milliards sur le Nasdaq et sa cote ne fait qu'augmenter depuis que le Massachusetts Institute of Technology l'a classée cette année en tête de son palmarès annuel des 50 sociétés les plus intelligentes du monde, devant Tesla, Google et Samsung..."

"It's a temporary dental filling. It costs less than $5 but it can literally save you hundreds. A tiny tub is good for five applications (that's a dollar a use). I cracked a tooth off a couple of months ago. The tooth that was left was sharp and it was lacerating my tongue. Luckily, I had a tub of this dental putty. I put in a temp filling in about 10 minutes and it was as if nothing had happened. In fact, it worked so well, it lasted the week it took for me to get to the dentist. Talking with my dentist about it, I found out that this material is similar to what they use with temporary crowns. BTW: if you can't afford a full crown, you might want to consider a temporary crown. Those are much less expensive and they can last for a long, long time. Here's how to use it: rinse your mouth with warm water (don't dry the area). It sets faster with moisture. scoop out a small bit of putty, roll it into a ball, and insert it into the area. bite down to press it into place. Chew a bit with your teeth to rub off any raised areas. Add more putty if you need to and wipe off any excess residue on other teeth with a moist cotton swab. That's it."

"OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with a computer access to their brainwaves. Our vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams, OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. "

A bionic man, which has artificial organs, synthetic blood and robotic limbs, goes on display at the Science Museum in London on Tuesday. The human-like machine has cost more than £500,000 to make, but scientists who built him believe it could provide a range of benefits, such as replicating parts of the human body using the same technology