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The Human Brain Project Will Make You Obsolete

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Mind/Brain

The Human Brain Project Will Make You Obsolete
human brain project computer operator


Not that it hasn’t been tried before, including spectacular girlfriend, Maria, in Fritz’ Lang’s “Metropolis”, but this time it’s for serious.

Our old lovable-scamp pal, Dr. Henry Markram is up to his old familiar hijinks; this time with something even more ambitious.

Not only has he figured out how brain-cells make connections,

Now he wants to do a hyper-accurate scan of an Actual Brain, with all 100 Billion of those neurons in it. -And the 150 Trillion Synapses that connect them, too.

Dr. Henry has some asplainin’ to do in the Vid after the Jump…

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MIT Develops Railgun For Innoculations. –Your Next Round Of Halo Will Be Fought Against Polio

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Disease, Gadgets, Noise, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

MIT Develops Railgun For Innoculations. –Your Next Round Of Halo Will Be Fought Against Polio
military vaccination air gun

It may help you get over your persistent fear of needles, or your lack of a trained phlebotomist/sniper’s pinpoint accuracy.

-But watch out, at this little bastard’s peak velocity of 340 meters per second, you just might blow your arm off if you screw up the settings and put it on, “Rhino at 100 Yards”…

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Scientists Can Now Tell Exactly What You’ve Eaten. -And Not Just Asparagus

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Gadgets, Nutrition, Other

Scientists Can Now Tell Exactly What You’ve Eaten. -And Not Just Asparagus
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Doctors in Wales & England have set out in the great tradition of Victorian Categorizing Explorers who sought to Find, Classify and Catalog every single last species of life in the known world;

just like the big man himself, Charles Darwin.

-Except this time, with Pee!

So the idea is 2-Fold:

1) Identify what patients have eaten in the past few days,..

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Pixel Optics emPower Electronic Eyeglasses FTW-TF!!?!!

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Gadgets, Noise

Pixel Optics emPower Electronic Eyeglasses FTW-TF!!?!!
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Really neat application of LCD technology here.

emPower glasses have both manual and automatic activation of the close-focus zone in their embedded LCDs via an accelerometer and can hold enough charge for about 2 days.

They also do their job with considerably-less distortion than other glasses.

If only the costs would come down from $1,200.00, this type of tech could go much more mainstream & make vision-correction a little bit less unpleasant for glasses-wearers…

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Microneedle Drug-Delivery Patches May Replace Syringes One Day

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Disease, News

Microneedle Drug-Delivery Patches May Replace Syringes One Day
Zosano Pharma sheet of microneedle drug delivery device


Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, UC Santa Barbara and Zosano Pharma are hard at work,

Drying the tears of little children, de-freaking the phobics and the Adrian Monks of the world.

In the works, is a small, sometimes gel-dissolvable patch bristling with teeny-tiny needles.

The purpose: get drugs into the body that would ordinarily be administered by means originally designed as much for physical pain and psychological torture as they were for chemical-delivery…

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Two Inhalation-Based Nanoparticle Deaths In China

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, News, Signal

Two Inhalation-Based Nanoparticle Deaths In China
red silica spheres


Two women are dead in China as a result of nanoparticle inhalation exposure of almost a year.

Without increased precautions, these are probably the first of many confirmed cases in the future of death due to nanoparticle exposure.

It’s a terrible thing to have been right about, but here’s the original article where we called exactly this type of health risk…

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Hey, Let’s All Play Along! -It’s Cellphone Football!!!

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Disease, Gadgets, Mind/Brain, News, Noise

Hey, Let’s All Play Along! -It’s Cellphone Football!!!
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Hey look Junior, it’s the ocean! -Go Swim!

Insomnia! Confusion? Headaches! -Oh My!

2008-India To Join CP Study Mosh Pit; -you know, ’cause all the cool kids are doing it, Mom!

2008-STUK,Finland: May Alter Proteins in Skin

2007-Cleveland: Damaged Sperm

2007-MTHR,UK: Could Be As Dangerous As Cigarettes…

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