Supermarket checkout scanner uses object recognition instead of barcodes
Posted by admin in Future, Hi-tech on 12. Mar, 2012 | 0 Comments
This Toshiba scanner, just demonstrated in Japan, knows what vegetables look like — just hold up your daikon or mizuna to the camera at the cash register, and it tots up the item. No need for stickers on your food, no need to consult a human, no need to even know what kind of onions [...]
Scientists use stem cells to generate human eggs in the lab
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 28. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
The conventional line of thinking says that women can produce only a finite number of egg cells over their lifetimes. Some researchers dispute this, but a new study suggests that it might not matter. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital claim they have isolated stem cells from human ovaries and used them to generate egg cells [...]
The world through Google’s smartglasses
Posted by admin in Hi-tech, Mobile technology on 23. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
Google announced that before the end of 2012, you will be able to buy augmented-reality smart eyeglasses from the search giant. The Android-powered glasses will have an onboard camera that monitors in real time what you see as you walk (or, heavens preserve us, drive) down the street. The lenses will then overlay information about [...]
Faster-than-light neutrinos weren’t, and it was the cable guy’s fault
Posted by admin in Science on 23. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
Apparently neutrinos are not moving faster than light after all — some of the brightest minds in modern physics were bamboozled by a loose wire. If you care about physics, Einstein or controversies, you’ll recall the excitement last fall about neutrinos that were supposedly moving faster than light. The ghostly particles, which can move through [...]
Found the oldest animal ever on planet earth
Posted by admin in Science on 13. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
Our earliest evolutionary ancestor may have been found in the form of microscopic sponge-like organisms recently discovered inside extremely ancient African rocks. If that turns out to be so, it would displace animal life’s previous earliest known ancestor (unremarkably, another sponge-like “metazoan”) by predating it by perhaps 100 million years. Otavia antiqua could be the [...]
