For japan with Love...

What has happened in Japan is overwhelming, painful and very scary. I just found out through Taylor about a great blogger initiative to support, help and raise awareness for Japan. 

Lydia from Ever-Ours and the team behind Utterly Engaged have organised a bloggers silent day and fund raiser, For Japan with Love. Please donate or participate tomorrow. I won't be posting tomorrow and hope many of you will be joining.More information can be found  in this post. 
TO DONATE PLEASE GO HERE

Technology: First Brain Tissue made by Japan from Stem Cells

The Japanese researchers have once again proved why they are the most intelligent and advanced researchers in the world by making Brain Tissue for the very first time from Stem Cells.

Michael J. Fox and other sufferers of degenerative neurological diseases have new hope. Japanese scientists at the government-backed research institute Riken have created the first functioning human brain tissues from stem cells, a step in curing everything from strokes to multiple sclerosis to paralysis. Even better, there may be a chance that these tissues could come from non-embryonic stem cells, which means its research could possibly be continued in the U.S. as well.

Creating actual tissue instead of just cells is an important step since tissue transplants have a better chance of stimulating greater functional recovery in patients. For the moment, Riken researchers are still getting most of their newly minted cerebral cortices from embryonic cells, a big moral and ethical moral battleground over here. But the researchers said that they had harvested some from “induced pluripotent stem cells,” artificially made cells from adult cell cultures – like skin. If so, hopefully one of the last hurdles to growing brains has fallen

Technology: Robot will be your Cleaner

Now you don't have to worry about all those boring laundry,sweep and clean up kitchen works at your home that you have been doing for years.

Because the robot(robo-maid) developed by Tokyo University's Information and Robot Technology (IRT) cleans almost all those boring cleaning stuffs that you don't wanna do everyday.

Sure, it looks like a helpful robot strapped to a mobile toilet, but this robo-maid developed by Tokyo University's Information and Robot Technology (IRT) center won't be helping with the after birth of your Turducken dinner. Assistant Robot is domestic enough to do the laundry, sweep, and clean up the kitchen... but there are limits what its 3D sensors will respond to. Its creators claim that it can recognize when there's more laundry to do and won't be harassed from doing its task by the roar of the crowd from the television. That gives men about 10 - 20 years to get their act together before this robot could conceivably go production.