Technology

Hikikomori is a Japanese word that can be translated into Spanish as "seclusion", and those who suffer from it live like modern hermits who do not leave their room, always glued to a screen, be it the computer, the game console ...

The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) of the United States has approved a new 'smartphone' that will allow users to perform ultrasound without leaving home. It is called MobiUS and will allow the fetus to be seen through the mobile screen, as well as to measure it.

A space base with solar panels, hydroelectric powered toy cars, dollhouses with wind turbines and receivers to collect rainwater are some of the "green" toys that have become fashionable in Germany and the US.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK) in Berlin (Germany) has created an industrial robot of human-like proportions with a fingertip sensitivity that allows it to even hold an egg without breaking it.

Until now it was believed that the human exodus occurred about 60,000 years ago through the Nile Valley or the Middle East. However, a new international study published in Science suggests that humans could have come to Arabia directly from Africa around 125,000 years ago.

The pharmaceutical company NuPathe, from the United States, has announced the launch of a new patch to treat headaches and migraines. The patch, called the Zelrix Patch, is placed on the arm and has a system that gently shocks patients into small doses of the drug Sumatriptan.

An ultra-slim television that offers three-dimensional images, a mobile phone with a 12-megapixel camera and the latest tablet are some of the winning teams at the 6th Edition of the Digital01 Awards, chosen by a jury of journalists specializing in technology.

Google Goggles, the augmented reality application for Android and iPhone mobile phones that allows information on texts, monuments and works of art to be obtained from an image captured with the smartphone camera, has just launched a new version.