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ICYMI: Eye surgery, bot style
try{document.getElementById("aol-cms-player-2").style.display="none";}catch(e){}try{document.getElementById("aol-cms-player-1").style.display="none";}catch(e){}Today on In Case You Missed It: The Axsis microsurgery robot is designed to work remotely so that doctors can more minutely control the removal of cataracts. The machine can't cut too deeply into the cornea since it's designed to avoid that most common of human pitfalls. Meanwhile, the big news in the Ukraine is that nuclear accident site Chernobyl just got a massive building to block radiation placed over its exploded reactor, funded by more than 40 countries to the tune of $1.5 Billion. The hijinks of crazyRussianHacker are here and Google's time-lapse photos of Earth; here. As always, please share any interesting tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.
I salvaged my shattered iPhone with a 'Band-Aid' screen cover
After a BBQ last Sunday (there may have been alcohol), I dropped my phone. Multiple times. And I wasn't lucky. Although my iPhone 6 Plus has suffered tiny hairline cracks in two of the corners, this time the drops were critical hits resulting in a spiderweb of substantial cracks, the majority of them around the bottom right corner -- you know, where your thumb always is. Typing on it meant risking a tiny shard or two cutting into my thumb, and even when I avoided that, those cracks still irritated my fingertips. Touch functions were also impaired. Google Maps was not cooperating. While the brunt of the damage was in the lower corner, the drop had also crippled my front-facing camera. Perhaps the camera leaves the screen structurally weaker there, or was this the universe's way of saying I'd taken one too many self-portraits?
ICYMI: Scrubbable smartphone, bioreactive bandage and more
#fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-628914{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-628914, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-628914{width:570px;display:block;}try{document.getElementById("fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-628914").style.display="none";}catch(e){}Today on In Case You Missed It: Scientists created a bandage that react to the presence of infection with a green glow. Yet another flying drone camera is up on Kickstarter, but this one keeps its rotors under wraps for safety. And Japanese phone maker Kyocera just upped its cool cred with a smartphone that can be soaped up and rinsed without harming the phone.
Antenna-aid bandages your iPhone 4 reception issue, hopes for role in next Eminem video
Oh, Steve -- you should've known better. You show up and remove a laptop from a manila envelope, and Earth's most creative go and create a case fashioned out of one. You go and suggest that Eminem could "come out with a band-aid that goes over the corner" of your controversial iPhone 4, and well... this happens. You could wait for a free case, or you could buy six of these Antenna-aids for five bucks. The choice is obvious.
