Less Poking Around?

Google Seeks Patent on Needle-Free Blood Drawing Tech!

Google has filed for a patent on needle-free blood-drawing technology, described in a USPTO application published last week.

Application 20150342509 suggests four potential implementations of the technology, including its use in a device that has an evacuated negative-pressure barrel with a membrane sealing an aperture at the far end containing an accelerator barrel.

Upon activating a trigger, pressurized gas would shoot a microparticle within the accelerator barrel to subsonic speeds. The microparticle would consist of nano-sized gold particles bound with a biodegradable matrix consisting of polylactic-co-glycolic acid. That microparticle would pierce the membrane and a user's skin, drawing a drop of blood, which would be sucked up by the negative-pressure barrel.

The apparatus could be incorporated in a handheld or wearable device.

"Serving the diabetic community would be advantageous, both for Google, due to the size of the market, and for patients, for its ease of use," said Shane Walker, a medical technology analyst at IHS.

By Richard Adhikari

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Toy company Hacked!

Information on more than 200,000 children has been Hacked and stolen!

VTech is the hacked maker of electronic toys and apps that leaked the data of 4.8 million customers, including hundreds of thousands of children, exposed gigabytes worth of pictures and chat histories on the same compromised servers. According to an article published on Motherboard, the website that first broke news of the breach, over 200,000 children's pictures and information has been stolen.

The Motherboard news site said a hacker who asked to remain anonymous was able to download almost 200 gigabytes worth of photos of both parents and children who had registered with the toy site. The hacker also obtained logs of chats conducted between parents and their kids and in some cases recordings of conversations. VTech encouraged parents to take the headshots and use them with apps that allow them to interact with children. The hacker, who said he didn't intend to publish or sell the data, provided Motherboard with 3,832 image files and at least one audio recording for verification purposes.

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Arstechnica

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