The procedure, which was performed by Boxer Wachler, is a new technique known as corneal cross-linking.
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The new technique may serve as a wake-up call for mobile carriers, which have long been in denial about the vulnerabilities of GSM security, says Bruce Schneier, encryption guru and chief technology officer of BT Counterpane.
But if subsequent work confirms his finding, what started as an unfortunate piece of serendipity may lead to a valuable new technique for repairing injured brains.
As the team reports in a forthcoming issue of Langmuir, a journal devoted to the study of colloids, the new technique allows them to build composite materials with custom-designed features as tiny as the diameter of a human hair.
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But one team from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a new technique that uses bodily movement, such as footfalls, to generate static electricity that can then be harnessed in quantities that could viably charge larger devices.
The artist studied art at the University of Florida, where he developed the three-dimensional technique that helped establish him as a street artist in New York.
But as an author who occasionally sells books, I was most struck by a new technique that Amazon is using to get people to buy.
The new technique could assist with automated translation, as well as unpicking a language's evolutionary progress.
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The technique could be used to prevent fraud as well as provide a new meaning to the term 'paper trail'.
At Kiton, fabrics are created with new wefts through the most refined tailor methods, such as needle punching, a special embroidery technique that combines lace with cashmere, transforming it into a single yarn.
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The mill was built around an iron frame in a technique adapted in the rebuilding of Chicago in the late 19th Century and for skyscrapers such as New York's Empire State Building.
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