The question of where water stops and where air begins is a very old, and difficult-to-answer one. Experts have been trying to do so for years, and now it would appear that they finally have an answer. The layer separating the two is as thin as the distance between two atoms in a hydrogen molecules. At the topmost la... |
13 June 2011
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Famed Sci-Fi author Arthur C. Clarke once said that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," but it seems that a cult from Brazil might be taking this a tad too seriously, and adding a bit of religious fervor in the mix.So, as The Guardian informs us, quoting a Brazilian news outlet, it... |
18 November 2010
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It has almost become the norm in science-fiction movies that touchscreen interfaces are the way of the future. All cosmic ships and exoplanetary bases have them, and many people believe that they will dominate the world of tomorrow. But experts at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft seem to think different. They... |
5 March 2010
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One of the most active areas in medical research at this point is the development of brain computer interfaces (BCI) that would allow patients to control a cursor on a computer screen, or an automated wheelchair with a robotic arm. Sensors hooked directly on the cortex pick up neural signals, which are then picked up... |
16 February 2010
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In an achievement that is bound to raise the bar for other researchers in the field as well, experts at the Boston University have recently developed the first completely wireless brain-computer interface. The system is groundbreaking, as it works by converting brain waves in FM waves, which are then decoded to produ... |
10 December 2009
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Experts at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Florida, announce that electrode implants have been used for the first time to hack into a person's brain, and reveal what they are thinking about. The team says that its test subjects, all of which had electrodes inside their brains, were able to type up a virt... |
7 December 2009
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For the past two decades, people using computers have been blessed and cursed to use mice and keyboards in order to input information into their machines. Over the years, these two components evolved to fulfill more and more complex tasks, but, for various types of applications, they simply no longer cut it. Drawing,... |
18 November 2009
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Scientists have been trying for a long time to get away from the limitations that average keyboards and mouse devices impose on computer users, and have thus created wireless gesture controllers and touch-screens for that. But now, experts at Microsoft, the University of Washington in Seattle (UWS), and the Universit... |
28 October 2009
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According to researchers at the Brown University, the new BrainGate system has entered its second large clinical test trial, which will further elaborate the positive results the system has obtained thus far. The BG system is made up of a small microchip, which is implanted in the brains of patients suffering from di... |
10 June 2009
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Although the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface is currently the most popular connectivity option in most desktop and portable computing systems, but, nevertheless, it does have its shortcomings, the most important such issue being related to the the distance limitation of the USB cables. And in order to solve this... |
18 October 2007
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