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Adding to the potential horror that could be the one-day widespread adoption of Google Glass,
A few sneaky researchers at the University of Michigan have come up with a new twist on a the vintage x-ray-specs peepshow-kink: Personal Predator-Vision…
-on a Contact Lens…
Awhile ago Stephen Power, like many unfortunate motorcyclists, got into a very serious wreck.
He didn’t die.
-But he Did break: both arms, both cheek bones, both eye-sockets, his upper jaw, his right leg so badly it needed a bone-graft, and for the hat-trick he also managed to crack his skull.
So OK, not good. But, before they decided to give 3D-reconstruction-wizard…
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The interesting intersection between the ‘Old’ and New sciences of Stem Cells and 3D-Printing is starting to provide some amazing developments in both Life-Extension and Replacement-Parts.
The well-known windpipe-replacement is also one of the bigger successes in that category as of late.
*However, to make these things Truly Useful, there are still quite a few obstacles to overcome.
-And now, Make that quite a few, -Minus One.
Jennifer Lawrence Lewis and her team have come up with quite an ingenious…
In a study led by Dr. Sylvane Desrivières at King’s College in London, her team has found one of the first genes positively linked to Intelligence. …Maybe some day you Will be able to “Fix Stupid”?
Now NPTN wasn’t responsible for a lot of total IQ variance. -But its impairment Was correlated with an odd thinnness in the left half of the brain’s frontal+temporal cortexes;
Why that matters: In general, a thicker outer layer of “Grey Matter” is…
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Even before Elizabeth Gould said, “PTUI!” to all the fixed-brain-cellers out there, I read an article on the subject ASAP tackles here that concluded the fast 3D FPS-style games with many crucial details required to complete a mission, raised activity in several brain regions, and ultimately, -intelligence.
Probably around the publish-date of this one by WSJ about the UMich Study.
–This was especially true for the type of player that got good at finding all the…
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Very similar to RadioLab’s story-most-likely-to-make-you-cry, “Finding Emilie”, Cambridge’s Dr. Srivas Chennu and his team from around the world have discovered something interesting about so-called ‘vegetative’ patients.
Some of them can hear, understand, and respond to: Exactly what you’re saying to them.
They are ‘locked-in’ but definitely still ‘there’.
Now, the EEG+fMRI results weren’t the same for the majority of the subjects tested, and not all of the 4 big-responders reacted the same way…
Ok Singularity-fans, when you look at the other trailers they have of the film, it appears a little less about technology than something like “Pirates of Silicon Valley”, and more of a thriller.
-But still interesting.
Here’s to hoping they include enough accurate material to make it more “Sneakers” or “War Games”, and less “Johnny Mnemonic” or “Swordfish”.
Just don’t tell Miguel Nicolelis…
-But for now, he’s taking a different approach than almost anyone.
His thus-far $400-Million-funded Allen Institute For Brain Science is going after the visual processing center, starting with mice.
The technique they’re starting with is called: High-Throughput Electrophysiology, and it’s targeted at observing all the electrical activity in the visual center of the mouse-brain; -as it’s happening live…
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