What is science?

Science is the concerted human effort to understand, or to understand better, the history of the natural world and how the natural world works, with observable physical evidence as the basis of that understanding1. It is done through observation of natural phenomena, and/or through experimentation that tries to simulate natural processes under controlled conditions.

What is technology?

1. The human process of applying resources to satisfy our wants and needs to extend our capabilities.


2. The totality of the means employed to provide objects necessary for human sustenance and comfort.

COOL GADGETS

Blackberry 8800

Menu-> Cell Phones

The newest addition to the world of BlackBerry, Cingular brings us the BlackBerry 8800. You will have a phone, a palm, and virtually a whole computer at your fingertips with the new BlackBerry 8800. Like many BlackBerry phones before it, this cell phone will help you stay organized and informed but will also give you some new incredible features that make it one of the most advanced phones on the market. The BlackBerry 8800 is ultra thin and stylish with a full QWERTY keyboard. New to the BlackBerry is a built-in Global Positioning System with BlackBerry Maps so you will never get lost when you're on the go for business or meeting friends at a new restaurant. Another awesome new feature that makes the BlackBerry 8800 a must have is the easy-to-use trackball navigation for finding all the information you need in a smooth, quick fashion. You'll also be able to navigate through your organizer, web browser, email, and instant messaging quickly and easily. What else makes the BlackBerry 8800 a must have? Of course it has all of the features you need in a phone including speakerphone and text messaging but you will also get Bluetooth capability, voice activated dialing and one button Push to Talk. And you'll never miss anything when you're away because all your work and personal email can be pushed directly to your BlackBerry. For some extra added bonuses your BlackBerry 8800 supports expandable MicroSD memory, allows you to get some incredible ring tones, and you can enjoy music, video, and photos on its multi-media player. So if you're on the go and need information at your fingertips, you won't want to be without the amazing new BlackBerry 8800. Basketball PC Menu-> Computers Okay sports fans you are not going to miss these basketball PC’s. These are computers shaped and styled to look like basketballs. Judging from the pictures they look very realistic. If basketball is not your sport they come in a Soccer ball style and Football style as well. The computing power on these is not all that impressive. But that should not come as any big surprise considering these are more about looks than performance. They are available with an Intel Pentium M processor ranging from 1.3GHz to 1.7GHz. They support high speed DDR memory and come with a built in CD-Rom drive. One of these would look very cool in your bedroom or living room. Hook one up to an LCD screen in your bar and play all your favorite old school games. You can find the basketball PC. here... www.gadgetfind.com/menu-cellphones.html

ROBOTS IN THE FUTURE MEDICINE

THE REAL FUTURE OF MEDICINE

Taken together, the marriage of biology and silicon and the shift from species-based to individualized therapy will change the face of medicine forever. Traditional human efforts to treat disease are being empowered with digital tools that annotate life with silicon technology. The enormous material effort to find symptoms is being replaced by a combined genetic and artificial intelligence that knows where to look and how to find problems before we do. In the new medical paradigm, disease will be diagnosed before it is made fully manifest. Highly targeted drugs will be used to intervene before organs are ravaged or tissue is destroyed.
This new ability to diagnose and treat certain diseases early, from infectious agents like hepatitis C to degenerative ailments such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, may obviate the need for the types of tissue, organ, or stem cell therapies that often attract the most public attention. Moving from wet lab to computer, from random to rational drug design, from species biology to the individual unique DNA profile, companies adopting the in silico paradigm are unlocking the long-hyped promise of genomic medicine, making targeted drugs and diagnosis a reality and drug development faster, cheaper, and better.
In the future, a supercomputer sitting in an air-conditioned room will work day and night, crunching billions of bits of information to design new drugs. Multiplying at the speed of Moore’s Law, which predicts that computer processing power doubles every three years, this drug discovery machine will never need to rest or ask for higher pension payments. It will shape how we use the abundance of genomic information that we are uncovering and will be the deciding factor for the success of medicine in an age of digitally driven research.
Of course, there are reasons to question whether this new medical revolution will come to pass, and there are many things that could go wrong: Regulatory procedures need to keep pace with technological change and government agencies need to create frameworks for evaluating drugs that look and behave differently than previous medicines. The industry needs to maintain its financial footing to fund the new research. And, of course, many parts of this new technology still need to be validated in the clinical setting. Scientists still need to prove that their cool new tools can also make important new medicines.
But if one had to guess where the future of medicine really lies, it is in DNA chips, supercomputers, and new drugs, not embryo research, tissue transplants, or stem cells. It is time for our public debate to pay more attention to this fact, since a medical and technological revolution of this significance is sure to have lasting political, economic, and social consequences.