News tagged with visual computer

Packing the ions: Discovery boosts supercapacitor energy storage

Flat is in the eye of the beholder. When you're talking about nanomaterials, however, that eye is pretty much useless unless it's looking through an electron microscope or at a computer visualization. Yet ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Fish vision discovery makes waves in natural selection

Emory University researchers have identified the first fish known to have switched from ultraviolet vision to violet vision, or the ability to see blue light. The discovery is also the first example of an ...

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Brain powered robot

(PhysOrg.com) -- A squat, circular robot scurries along the floor of a laboratory, moving left, then right, then left again, before coming to a stop. A Northeastern University student researcher commands the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Better learning through handwriting

Associate professor Anne Mangen at the University of Stavanger's Reading Centre asks if something is lost in switching from book to computer screen, and from pen to keyboard.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Georgia Tech develops braille-like texting app (w/ video)

Imagine if smartphone and tablet users could text a note under the table during a meeting without anyone being the wiser. Mobile gadget users might also be enabled to text while walking, watching TV or socializing ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

All for one and one for all: Cutting-edge computer modeling reveals neurons coordinating their messaging

There is strength in numbers if you want to get your voice heard. But how to do you get your say if you are in the minority? That's a dilemma faced not only by the citizens of a democracy but also by some ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Human eye inspires advance in computer vision (w/Video)

Inspired by the behavior of the human eye, Boston College computer scientists have developed a technique that lets computers see objects as fleeting as a butterfly or tropical fish with nearly double the accuracy and 10 times ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Video simulations of real earthquakes made available to worldwide network

A Princeton University-led research team has developed the capability to produce realistic movies of earthquakes based on complex computer simulations that can be made available worldwide within hours of a ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor to power Audi's next-gen infotainment and digital instrument clusters

NVIDIA announced that Audi AG has selected the NVIDIA Tegra 3 mobile processor to power in-vehicle infotainment systems -- as well as new digital instrument clusters that replace traditional dashboard gauges ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Kinecthesia: Students hack Kinect to help visually impaired (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite amazing advances in computers and cameras, people with serious visual impairments are often aided with the most basic technology imaginable: a cane.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Harvard group takes complexity out of video face replacement (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- From Facebook to YouTube to on the fly film projects, the presentation of content that entertains or instructs or both draws on visual tools, ranging from simple to complex. Novice as well ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Researcher discovers brain cells have 'memory'

As we look at the world around us, images flicker into our brains like so many disparate pixels on a computer screen that change every time our eyes move, which is several times a second. Yet we don't perceive ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Growing brain is particularly flexible

Science has long puzzled over why a baby's brain is particularly flexible and why it easily changes. Is it because babies have to learn a lot? A group of researchers from the Bernstein Network Computational ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Truthy.indiana.edu to search, identify smear tactics, Twitter-bombs through election runup

Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading Indiana University information and computer scientists today unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu, a sophisticated ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Game utilizes human intuition to help computers solve complex problems

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1