News tagged with visualization

Calculating what's in the universe from the biggest color 3-D map

Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky and produced the biggest color map of the universe in three dimensions ever. Now scientists ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 10 | 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

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

Mantis shrimp eye could improve high-definition DVDs, holographic technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- The eye of the peacock mantis shrimp has led an international team of researchers to develop a two-part waveplate that could improve CD, DVD, blu-ray and holographic technology, creating even ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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

Nvidia shows off Kal-El -- new quad-core processing chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia, well known for its graphics chips, has made a pretty big statement by releasing a video on Youtube showing the capabilities of its new quad-core processing chip for smartphones and ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Nanorods could greatly improve visual display of information (w/ Video)

Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have developed tiny, nanoscale-size rods of iron oxide particles in the lab that respond to an external magnetic field in a way that could dramatically improve ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Parts of brain can switch functions: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

How the brain's architecture makes our view of the world unique

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wellcome Trust scientists have shown for the first time that exactly how we see our environment depends on the size of the visual part of our brain.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 05, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

The living fossils of brain evolution

(Phys.org) -- In the course of its evolution, the architecture of the mouse brain may have barely changed. Similar to the tiny ancestors of modern mammals that lived about 80 million years ago, nerve cells ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists design indoor navigation system for blind

University of Nevada, Reno computer science engineering team Kostas Bekris and Eelke Folmer presented their indoor navigation system for people with visual impairments at two national conferences in the past ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Female cowbirds prefer less intense male courtship displays

In most species, females prefer the most intense courtship display males can muster, but a new study finds that female cowbirds actually prefer less intense displays. The full results are published May 2 in the open access ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Can a machine tell when you're lying? Research suggests the answer is 'yes'

Inspired by the work of psychologists who study the human face for clues that someone is telling a high-stakes lie, UB computer scientists are exploring whether machines can also read the visual cues that give away deceit.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

AMD balances Radeon deck of graphics cards

(PhysOrg.com) -- Semiconductor company AMD has taken its story of having developed next-generation GPU technology offering a "gorgeous, stunning, breathtaking visual experience" for more elite, serious gamers ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

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