Salad Mixers Used as Blood Centrifuges

Two undergraduate students from the Rice University have recently created an innovative medical device, which they say could help save some lives starting this summer. The students explain that they basically derived a fully-fledged centrifuge for blood separation using nothing more than a sa... [ read more >> ]

This salad mixer, modified to act like a centrifuge, costs $30 in parts

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This salad mixer, modified to act like a centrifuge, costs $30 in parts