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1) Forget the Apple Watch. Forget the Pebble Time. What you really need is a wristband that gives you the power to control an army of scary-looking drones. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich put on a simple Curie-powered wristband with motion detection, which then let him commandeer four robot spiders.
http://www.popsci.com/intels-ceo-unleashes-gesture-controlled-spiderbots
2) This week, the terminally ill 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head transplant ever performed, saying he volunteers to have his head removed and installed on another person’s body.
Earlier this year, Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero outlined the transplant technique he intends to follow in the journal Surgical Neurology International, and said he planned to launch the project in June, where he will invite other researchers to join him in his head transplant dream what is predicted to be a 36-hour operation requiring the assistance of 150 doctors and nurses.
3) American scientists hope that ORBITING robot spiders could be used to piece together space-crafts under a new NASA-funded project. Researchers believe that the SpiderFab system could be used to build radio antennas, spacecraft booms and solar arrays within the next decade.
The futuristic new system – dubbed SpiderFab – is being developed by a company called Tethers Unlimited. The system uses arachnid-like droids to construct large objects in orbit around the Earth or further into the Solar System. Scientists see the robotic spiders helping humanity toward a long-term goal – sustaining mankind as it travels across the universe.
4) Something very cool was revealed at the 2015 Experimental Biology conference in Boston: the biomedical company Organovo showed off its technique for 3D printing human kidney tissue.
Kidney represents an ideal extension of capabilities to 3D bioprint organ tissues that can be tremendously useful in pharmaceutical research. Organovo prints organs in much the same way, putting cells in as “bio-ink” and then printing them in layers, initially held together by hydrogel until the cells grow together.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/3d-printed-kidney-tissue-is-here
TV Presenter: Olesya Yermakova
Editor: Alexander Sokolkov
Video: Igor Kryzhanovsky
Info sourses: www.express.co.uk, www.theverge.com, www.gizmag.com, www.ria.ru, www.dailymail.co.uk, www.popsci.com, www.motherboard.vice.com
Video footage: GizmodoBR, Tethers Unlimited, RT, Organovoinc, TomoWorld