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18-Year-Old Mexican Student Designs Bra That Can Detect Breast Cancer (independent.co.uk)
An 18-year-old student from Mexico has won the top prize at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) for his invention of a bra that can help in the early detection of breast cancer. "The bra, otherwise known as EVA, was developed with three friends through his company Higia Technologies, and was created primarily for women with genetic predisposition to cancer," reports The Independent. From the report: Equipped with around 200 biosensors, the bra maps the surface of the breast and is able to monitor changes in temperature, shape and weight. "Why a bra? Because it allows us to have the breasts in the same position and it doesn't have to be worn more than one hour a week," he said in an interview with El Universal. Rios Cantu says that the biosensors are able to determine thermal conductivity by specific zones. In some instances, heat can indicate more blood flow, which therefore indicates that those blood vessels are "feeding" on something -- typically some type of cancer. After beating 13 other student entrepreneurs from around the globe, Rios Cantu took home an impressive $20,000.
$20K, boobs, 18-years-old. some guys have all the luck
IoB (internet of boobs) device can tweet status - specifically, hardness of nipples. Hopefully, women will change the default admin password or we'll all get DDOS'd by unsecured titties.
I'll start work on it tonight
BUILD THE WALL!
My hands can detect breast cancer, but only with women between the ages of 19 and 30.
Because this gift came to me without cost, I refuse to accept money for breast examinations. Depending upon circumstances (and photographs), I will even make house calls from time to time.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Why "Mexican Student"? As a SJW I find that offensive.
Look at the guys. Its clear they all just want your jobs and to introduce mass bombers in those bras of them.
Check them out:
http://higia.tech/
NO SIG
I mean, you can charge a TON more for gloves that detect breast cancer.
Don't believe anything I say. I crash test crack pipes for a living.
Only time will tell...
A new and expensive device that turns getting dressed every morning into a referendum on whether or not you have a potentially fatal medical condition.
it could be argued, that wearing bras itself is the cause for breast cancer
anecdotally speaking, ... the prevalence of breast cancer seems to occur where women support their mammaries.
The idea has been already commercialized for some time.
Company is name Braster and already got several awards.
The difference is that They made a cup you pit you breast in instead of brakuje.
Contradiction - bras and breast cancer have stronger connections than most other factors -- So it is funny that something that increases cancer risk also increases detection...
Sound funny? look around on stats on breast cancer before westernization; then learn a little about the lymphatic system and how poorly it works when pressed all day and sometimes at night. That would increase odds. No, I'm not an expert but somebody with a little knowledge and the internet... So, yes go look for yourself and don't believe me.
won the top prize at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA)"
Good for him!
... this was ... what IS all of this crap you're doing? Science? You're simulating a game over and over changing the inputs literally at random to see what happens. Wha...what are you even trying to prove, that the game can be won? That random inputs can eventually win a game? Or what -- just watching the pretty lights blink? A few others were doing barely science anything. "Maybe we are just being too hard on them" we though; we had only been out of college a few years and maybe 7 since high school. They're really not that good at all, but they're not THAT ... bad. Mostly. Sorta. Yeah.
A few scant decades ago (around 1985), I was invited along with a friend to judge our local high school science fair. We had 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. There were 3 of us judges, one was already a friend of mine. Both of us were science nerds back in high school and jumped on the chance to judge. We didn't know the third guy but he wasn't much different.
Ours wasn't quite the GSEA, this was
And then: OMG. We hit a junior high student. He had a working thesis. He had example equipment set up, actual observations and computed results, not all of which quite matched up. Seems like he was trying to study the different heating characteristics of light against paint, but it wasn't just white cool / colors warm / black hot. I forget exactly what it was (what'dya expect from 30 years ago?) but he was the only one around trying to do science, the rest were just farting around.
In the end, i guess we were EVIL. First place didn't even get awarded -- the slot went empty, we didn't feel any student had done enough. We gave 2nd place to the 11th grader with a lament we could not give him first place (rules: only seniors could get first place), and suggested different things to consider. Third place went to a kid who was just flailing about but at least attempting to go in the right direction.
Maybe we were just being much too hard a**holes. I don't think so and hope not, and I'm sure some of the kids didn't like our final results. But none of them were even up to growing potatoes batteries either.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
Ladies will thank him.
I wonder if this can scale up in quantities that are not so expensive, can data be sufficiently organized to allow early warnings and no false positives? As Jason Levine points out in previous comment wearing this bra once a week to warn early on of possible cancer (earlier detection, better treatment options), his wife would be overjoyed. As compared to once a year or so of enduring being squashed between two plates.
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