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, Hi-tech on 09. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
The world’s first commercial effort at a patient-ready brain computer interface is on display over at CeBIT 2010, but don’t go throwing out your keyboard and mouse just yet. Intended for patients suffering from locked-in syndrome and other communication-impairing conditions, the Intendix from Guger Technologies allows users to input text using only their brains.
Intendix works [...]
Posted by admin in Computers, Medicine on 09. 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 [...]
Posted by admin in Science on 07. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
One of the interesting side effects of last year’s stimulus bill was $400 million in funding for ARPA-E, the civilian, energy-focused cousin of DARPA. And in this week’s first ever ARPA-E conference, MIT chemist Dan Nocera showed how well he put that stimulus money to use by highlighting his new photosynthetic process. Using a [...]
Posted by admin in Computers, Design on 05. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
Ok well maybe it isn’t quite music, but it certainly sounds interesting. Created by Yoshi Akai, the Wireless Catcher is a sort of analog synthesizer that detects nearby WiFi signals and outputs a sound that varies according to the strength and direction of that signal. It’s almost reminiscent of a theremin in how it created [...]
Posted by admin in Computers, Design on 05. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
The future of touchscreen interfaces is: you? A project between a Carnegie Mellon researcher and a couple of creative thinkers over at Microsoft Research have created Skinput, a Bluetooth-enabled device that allows you to use your own skin as a peripheral input device for devices like cell phones, MP3 players or gaming consoles.
The device works [...]
