Biohacking

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Tikkun Olam Make-a-thon Helps Those In Need

Tikkun Olam Make-a-thon Helps Those In Need

โ€œTikkun Olamโ€ is a Hebrew phrase that literally means โ€œMaking the world betterโ€. TOM, which stands for โ€œTikkun Olam Make-a-thonโ€ is a marathon of Making and Hacking dedicated to just that. For 3 days this summer, Makers of all kinds will be gathered in an amazing industrial space in Nazareth, Israel, to develop, design and […]

A Hospital Mini Maker Faire

A Hospital Mini Maker Faire

  Let’s Make Health! That’s was the banner under which we all flew Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 at the Maimonides Medical Center Mini Maker Faire in Brooklyn. Fifty years ago, in that same hospital, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz used modified electronic metronomes bought in Canal street to prototype the first implantable pacemakers. They hacked AM transistor […]