iPet Companion: tele-play with their pets
Posted by admin in Computers, Electronics, Robots on 10. Oct, 2011 | 0 Comments
If you own a dog or a cat and are having a hard day at work, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to take a break and play with them? Well, if you’ve got the money, now you can do it – via the internet. A consumer version of a system already in use [...]
Supercomputer reads the news to successfully forecast world events
Posted by admin in Computers on 14. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
Graph of media sentiment towards Egypt january 1979 – March 2011 Nipping at the heels of yesterday’s story about the software that automatically writes news articles comes another technological innovation changing the shape of journalism: software that reads news articles. Kalev Leetaru of the University of Illinois determined that using the Nautilus SGI supercomputer to [...]
IBM experimental chips emulate the human brain
Posted by admin in Computers, Hi-tech on 19. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
In April, the University of Southern California made the headlines when it announced that researchers there had created a functioning synthetic synapse circuit using carbon nanotubes. Well, today IBM unveiled a new class of experimental computer chips that are designed to emulate the human brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. According to the company, [...]
Japanese supercomputer unseats chinese supercomputer, is now the world’s fastest
Posted by admin in Computers, Hi-tech on 21. Jun, 2011 | 0 Comments
A Japanese supercomputer is now the world’s fastest, unseating the previous record-holder by nearly a factor of four. The K Computer, based at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, can perform 8 petaflops — that’s 8 quadrillion calculations per second. The next-best computer is China’s Tianhe-1A , which set a record [...]
Music with the Mind: The Brain-Computer-Music-Interface
Posted by admin in Computers, Science on 29. Apr, 2011 | 0 Comments
The BCMI lets you create music using nothing more than eye movement and brainwaves Imagine a Wii that lets you play a musical instrument with your brain without touching strings or a keyboard. That’s exactly what this "proof of concept" brain-computer-music-interface (BCMI) is designed to do – it uses brain waves and eye movement to [...]
