http://www.meritummedia.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 19 May 2009 06:54:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many of the inventors of the technologies we now find indispensable admit they were inspired by first seeing the futuristic gadgets in the hands of Captain Kirk and pointy eared Mr. Spock on Star Trek. Forty years ago the first episode of the television space fantasy was broadcast to millions of ... http://www.meritummedia.com/featured/star-trek-tech-2 Who wouldn’t want to be Iron Man? The Hollywood blockbuster film starring Robert Downey Jr. tapped into something deep within us that longs to be invincible. Imagine being able to walk through fires, shrug off any blow and simply ignore bullets. Troy Hurtubise, a Canadian inventor, doesn’t have to imagine – ... http://www.meritummedia.com/slideshow/real-life-iron-man Over 2,500 people worldwide have had a microchip implanted under their skin that promises to do for humans what bar codes readers have done for packages. The sick will be spared dangerous hospital mix-ups by having their entire medical history ready at the click of a scanner, policemen and soldiers wounded ... http://www.meritummedia.com/health/verichip-to-implant-alzheimers-patients Rats with brain implants that turn them into remote controlled drones could soon be unleashed on the countryside of Colombia as a secret weapon to combat deadly landmines planted by rebels and drug lords. The ‘robo-rats’ were created by top American brain scientist doctor John Chapin shortly after 9/11 when it ... http://www.meritummedia.com/world/robo-rats-hunt-landmines Losing weight may have just become as easy as taking vitamins. A new category of drugs, originally designed to fight cancer, have the unexpected benefit of safely melting away fat without diet or exercise - as much as 2.5 kilos a day. The discovery was made by Dr. Maria Rupnick, a ... http://www.meritummedia.com/health/war-on-fat-won Only by living as one of Saddam’s sons can you truly understand the full evil of the Hussein regime. So says the former body double of Uday Hussein, Saddam’s eldest son and heir. Saddam Hussein was hanged in 2006 but shocking details of the former Iraqi dictator’s reign of terror ... http://www.meritummedia.com/world/how-bad-was-saddams-son Russian scientists have joined forces with a Manhattan psychiatrist to unlock the hidden, healing melodies of the human brain. Now, in a complete reversal of Cold War Era paranoia, thousands of Americans and Europeans are eager for these Soviet trained doctors to record what is going on inside their heads. It is ... http://www.meritummedia.com/health/brain-music-therapy “When I told my mother I was going to row across the Atlantic Ocean she started to cry,” says Andreu Mateu. She screamed, “You are going to die!” Despite his mother's concern, the 44 year-old business man from Barcelona, Spain will take a small boat and start rowing from the ... http://www.meritummedia.com/articles/ocean-rowing It was one of the worst days in my life. I turned on my computer and nothing happened. After the initial panic I calmed down and assured myself that it was some minor problem, easily fixed by one of the local computer repair centers. I brought my computer in and an ... http://www.meritummedia.com/technology/data-heroes London – Crouched on the floor to avoid the thick black smoke filling her train, Lisa Levine held her head in her hands, still shaking from the explosion. All around her stunned passengers asked what could have happened? But it was no mystery to the American nurse who lost a ... http://www.meritummedia.com/people/inside-the-london-tube-attack