Posted by admin in Computers, Science on 06. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Your cellphone does not in itself cause cancer. But in the daily sea of radiation we all travel, there may be subtler dangers at work, and science is only just beginning to understand how they can come to affect people like Per Segerbäck so intensely
Per Segerbäck’s Nearly Electricity-Free Home The photographer shot on film, using [...]
Have Japanese researchers discovered how to analyze a baby’s cry?
New parents discover quite quickly how loudly their newborn can scream when they’re not happy. But working out the cause of the problem is unfortunately pretty much a guessing game. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a device that could tell you exactly what was [...]
Anesthetists cannot take their responsibilities lightly. Too little anesthetic and a patient may feel the whole procedure, too much and a patient might shuffle off this mortal coil. Researchers in the Canary Islands have taken the guesswork out of this thorny dilemma and developed a computer-controlled system that measures a patient’s hypnotic state and [...]
Computer simulations of the lab work, clockwise from top left: Gluons and quarks; gold ions about to collide; just after the collision; the resulting perfect liquid. Credit: RHIC
WASHINGTON – By smashing gold particles together at super-fast speeds, physicists have basically melted protons, creating a kind of “quark soup” of matter that is about 250,000 times [...]
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Prosthetics for Your Brain
Replacing a part of your brain isn’t as simple as replacing a limb, but in the future it could be. Theodore Berger, a professor at the University of Southern California, created a computer chip that could take the place of the hippocampus, a part of the brain which controls short-term [...]
Posted by admin in Computers on 12. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
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PQ Labs showed off its G3 touchscreen technology at this year’s CeBIT by installing it into a coffee table called the iTable. Sensors around the edge of the display can register up to 32 touch points and determine the different shapes created by placing fingers, hands or a multitude of other objects [...]
Posted by admin in Concept, Science on 12. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
Sarly Adre Bin Sarkum’s Water-Scraper Sarly Adre Bin Sarkum, via eVolo
For the last five years, eVolo Magazine has hosted a futuristic skyscraper design competition. Usually, the entrants imagine giant buildings taller than anything under construction today. However, the most impressive entry in this year’s competition goes the opposite route, by dropping the building straight [...]
Posted by admin in Concept on 12. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
Leave it to Japanese designers to turn technology into something both stylish and functional — and then keep it all to themselves. The SolarFold and SolarFan portable solar chargers unfold into surface-area-utilizing solar collectors when needed, supplying enough power to make a three-minute iPhone call after just ten minutes in the sun.
Even better, [...]
Posted by admin in Computers, Medicine on 12. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
Military Amputees Brian Frasure, a clinical prosthetist and world-class athlete, speaks to the audience on the last day of the Military Amputees Advances Skills Training workshop at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Artificial limbs have advanced quite a bit since the days of the pirate peg leg, but not nearly enough for DARPA. The Pentagon agency [...]
