This week, a solution for jet lag, the Tesla for the rest of us gets closer, and an amazing prosthetic limb is unveiled.

How to deal with jet lag: Flashing lights?

New research out of Stanford suggests that a few flashing lights can help you deal with jet lag the next time you’re visiting another continent.

Turns out that by exposing people to a two-millisecond flash of light every 10 seconds in the early morning part of sleep right before a trip across time zones was able to mitigate their experience of jet lag.

Researchers suspect it works because the brain and body are fooled into thinking that it was actually in a different time zone to start. They are developing a sleep mask that could be operated through your mobile so we can all have the solution at our fingertips.

Tesla will start taking deposits for the Model 3

A couple of weeks ago, Elon Musk got everybody talking about Tesla again with a tweet that reservations for the Model 3 midsize vehicle will start next week, on March 31.

The deposit is only US$1,000, and in a reply to a reply, Musk confirmed that the final purchase price is expected to be about $35,000.

This will be the third Tesla in the fleet, including the Model S (released in 2012) and the Model X (which started shipping to customers last fall).

Last year, Tesla sold 25,202 Model S sedans. Compare that to some 9 million Toyotas that were sold, and you’ll understand why some investors and analysts are a bit worried about Tesla’s ability to keep up with demand.

The Model 3 will be as cheap as $25,000 in some places in the U.S. where government incentives for electric vehicles add up to about ten grand.

Can Tesla manufacture as many cars as there are going to be people wanting them? I guess we’ll see.

Video-game inspired prosthetic arm unveiled in Austin, Texas

Last weekend, at Body Hacking Con 2016 in Austin, Texas, an astounding prosthetic limb was revealed.

The prosthetic is for James Young, a British double amputee, who was selected to participate in the art-technology-robotics-design project being led by Sophie De Oliveira Barata, who designs and creates the most amazing artificial limbs for people through her Alternative Limb Project.

The things De Oliveira Barata and her collaborators have created are absolutely stunning and include a crystal leg for dancer and singer Viktoria Modesta, that was worn at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics in London, to legs equipped with speakers or lights, to an arm with a simulated snake coming out of it.

What De Oliveira Barata has created for Young is something equally stunning.

Young’s prosthetic arm looks like something from the future. It has a USB port that can charge a mobile phone and a small screen that displays notifications. The arm has a flashlight which can become a laser.

It’s all themed around the character of Snake and the video game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, in which he wakes from a coma to find that he’s equipped with a cybernetic arm.

The Phantom Limb Project documented the process, and includes information about all the different people involved in realizing Young’s bionic arm.