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Repair cavities early on without drilling

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You’re going to want to know about this advance in technology: painless cavity repair. Yup, no drills. DMG America, a dental restorative products company is behind this new technology called Icon that can repair early dental cavities before they become much worse.

The picture shows the applicator that is able to slide in between teeth to apply a resin that that fills in the gaps, the cavity, which is then quickly hardened using a blue light. Icon could potenitally start showing up in dentist offices within a year.

There are some quick animated movies demonstrating how it works at Icon’s website, appropriately named drilling-no-thanks.com.

CES 2010: TabSafe Monitors & Dispenses Medications, and is Web-Connected

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tabsafeTabSafe is a new ‘medication assurance device’ made by its namesake company, TabSafe. In everyday terms, it’s a consumer gadget that helps people monitor multiple medications, monitor vital signs and inform caregivers if pills have not been taken or needs refills.

The TabSafe hooks up to the Internet to keep it and the patient’s doctors up to date.

Get Your Booze in Pill Form

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Looking for an easier way to get your booze in? How about in pill form?

Russian professor Evgeny Moskalev of Saint Petersburg Technological University has developed a technique that turns alcohol into powder which can then be packed into pills.

In case you’re wondering, this technique can be used on any type of alcohol.

via Discovery.com

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