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Food dye used in snack chips can make skin temporarily transparent

WTF?! Food dye can be found in a wide range of products on grocery stores' shelves, but scientists have recently put it to a novel use: making a mouse's skin temporarily transparent. Once the technique is refined to work on the thicker human epidermis, there are all sorts of applications where it can be used, from tattoo removal to early detection of skin cancer.

Full story By Skye Jacobs, September 6, 2024, 7:38 AM

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Science Electronics

Scientists have figured out how to put biological skin on a robot's smiling face

It won't fool anyone into thinking the robot is a human, though

By Skye Jacobs, June 27, 2024, 6:59 AM 8 comments

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PUBG will soon offer Joker and Harley Quinn Suicide Squad skins

I hear in France they call it Battle Royale, Puddin'.

By Cal Jeffrey, November 7, 2018, 7:37 AM

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Players use demo phones to get Samsung 'exclusive' Galaxy skin in Fortnite

Samsung: 'Wait! No fair guys!'

By Cal Jeffrey, August 28, 2018, 12:42 PM

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Science Electronics

Stretchable artificial skin gives robots a human-like sense of touch

Another step closer to Westworld?

By Rob Thubron, October 19, 2017, 9:42 AM

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The Joy of 'Smite' with Bob Ross

Oh look. That tree is crooked. We'll just send him to Washington

By Cal Jeffrey, May 6, 2017, 11:30 AM

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Electronics Mobile

New electronic tattoos turn skin features into smartphone controls

Skin: the smartphone controller of the future

By Rob Thubron, March 20, 2017, 11:15 AM