Tag: TONGUE

We love reading and reporting about the latest technology unleashed on the world. Our favorite is the kind that truly changes the lives of people. But in a world that barely has the attention span to read a 140-character tweet, a lot of noble technology gets overlooked. That's why we want everybody to pause and recognize the importance of a recent medical breakthrough. According to Technology ...

Remember when your parents would say, "You aren't leaving this table until you clean that plate?" Of course, you do. It's why you, along with millions of other Americans, turned into such a glutton. So, if you need to work out some deep gastrointestinal and parental issues, well, there's an app for that (maybe). According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), iLickit is the first iPhone ...

It turns out that the tongue isn't tied to the spinal cord (had we paid better attention in Bio101, we'd have known that), which goes a long way towards keeping it unimpared in the event of spinal cord injury. A team at Georgia Tech is developing a tongue-based apparatus for disabled people that, which not as elegantly packaged as the GRAViTONUS device we've seen earlier, fashions a pointing ...