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Valencell, best known around these parts for making optical heart rate sensors for fitness tech, has turned up to CES with something new. The company is showing off a new fingertip monitor that, it says, will offer “cuffless” blood pressure monitoring. Rather than inflating a sleeve around the top of your arm, you’ll be able to monitor your blood pressure with a fingertip clip. That’s currently commonly used to measure your heart rate both at home, and in medical settings. The as-yet unnamed device is pending FDA…

A long-fingered lemur has been caught on camera picking its nose—and eating the slimy goods. The culprit was Kali, an aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) at the Duke Lemur Center who now has the dubious honor of being the first of her species ever observed nose-picking, researchers say. What makes this all the more impressive is that aye-ayes do it with their bizarrely long middle fingers; when fully inserted in her nose, Kali’s reached all the way into her throat. “I was really impressed,” says Anne-Claire Fabre, an…

I was skeptical when I first heard about Amagami Ham Ham. It’s a cute robot that nibbles your finger, which is supposed to be a relaxing, almost nurturing action to reduce stress, heal, and comfort you. Surely, this simply couldn’t be accurate. However, Amagami Ham Ham comes from the brains behind the amazing Qoobo tailed cushion, which made a lonely 2021 lockdown a whole lot more bearable for me. So, despite this skepticism, I wondered if a robot biting my finger really could help with relaxation. After a long…

It's a classic nightmare. You think you're having a cheeky, sneaky pick-and-flick (or lick, although you probably shouldn't), only to find you've been caught on hidden camera, knuckle-deep up your own nostril.In this case, though, the nose-picker is an aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), a primate so adept at discretion that this is the first time we've seen it digging for nasal nuggets and feasting on the fruits of its labor.Moreover, it uses its preternaturally long middle finger for the task – reaching, scientists…

The legal battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is currently in the appeals process. In the meantime, both stars have been moving on with their lives, which includes selling homes they once owned. Heard recently sold a house in Southern California, but the Pirates of the Caribbean actor has now made history in Australia by selling his mansion, the site of one of the more high-profile incidents in the timeline of the tumultuous relationship between Depp and Heard, for the highest price ever in Queensland.The 10…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will soon begin crunching several large databases to see whether there are scientists who failed to disclose ties to foreign institutions in their grant applications. It is arguably the boldest of several steps federal research agencies are taking to comply with a new law that aims to boost U.S. technological innovation–and prevent China and other foreign governments from pilfering federally funded research. The CHIPS and Science Act,…

iPhone screenshots let you draw perfect shapes on them with your finger. Check out this awesome hidden trick. With every iOS update, Apple keeps adding a bunch if nifty features that make life easy For example, the cut-copy-paste feature on image subjects elevates the experience to a different level. Live Text is another cool trick to simply scan the world and copy the text! However, did you know that Apple has been hiding a very cool trick in the screenshots…

Image via Marvel Studios And we’re back with another daily Marvel news roundup. Ahead of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law dropping its fifth episode on Disney Plus tomorrow, the arch-villain of the latest Marvel Studios series is going full method on social media and on the streets of New York. Meanwhile, the king of the MCU’s Phase Four has made it clear that he knows how much you love him. Elsewhere, fans are wishing upon a star man made out of stars… Benedict Wong says being the hero of Phase Four is “such a vibe”…

Diamond Head-- the million-dollar Gold Coast mansion in Australia that had Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt among its celebrity occupants, has been put up on the market for sale. The house, owned by Mick Doohan-- Australian former Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champion, was also the location of a major fight between Johnny and his ex-wife Amber Heard. Johnny had severed the tip of his finger at this house. Also Read| Johnny Depp laughs as he says he ‘misses’ the tip of his fingerJohnny Depp and Amber Heard, who tied the…

By The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) August 7, 2022The pain was able to be fixed by a quick 30 minute-operation.The cause of more than 40 years of unexplained pain was revealed to be a rare under-fingernail tumor.In a case report being presented at Euroanaesthesia, the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) in Milan, Italy, doctors from France and Armenia describe a 58-year-old woman who experienced severe, unexplained finger pain for more than…