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Pentagon report investigated lasers that put voices in your head
A recently unclassified report from the Pentagon from 1998 has revealed an investigation into using laser beams for a few intriguing potential methods of non-lethal torture. Some of the applications the report ...
Feb 18, 2008 |
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Professor Finally Publishes Controversial Brain Theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the late '90s, Asim Roy, a professor of information systems at Arizona State University, began to write a paper on a new brain theory. Now, 10 years later and after several rejections and ...
Nov 19, 2008 |
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New kind of cement absorbs pollution
An Italian company has begun marketing a cement that is capable of absorbing pollution from vehicles.
May 16, 2006 |
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'Mind Gaming' Could Enter Market This Year
In an adapted version of the Harry Potter video game, players lift boulders and throw lightning bolts using only their minds. Just as physical movement changed the interface of gaming with Nintendo's Wii, ...
Mar 14, 2008 |
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Focus images instantly with Adobe’s computational photography
Adobe has recently unveiled some novel photo editing abilities with a new technology known as computational photography. With a combination of a special lens and computer software, the technique can divide ...
Oct 09, 2007 |
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IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Our Lives Over the Next Five Years
Unveiled today, the second annual "IBM Next Five in Five" is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years.
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Brain on chip: Nerve tissue interfaced with a computer chip
Before informational input perceived by the mammalian brain is stored in the long-term memory, it is temporarily memorised in the hippocampus. Understanding the function of the hippocampus as an important player ...
Jun 02, 2006 |
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The Last Supper Will Travel The Internet At 16 Billion Pixels
HAL 9000 will send The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci soaring through the Internet on October 27, 2007 with a high density view of 16 billion pixels. The time given for the launch is 9:30 A.M. Central European ...
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Scientist Claims Most Accurate Speed Detector
A scientist has won a court battle over a speeding ticket using a speed detector he invented, which may soon be available on a commercial basis.
Oct 13, 2007 |
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Eco-architecture could produce 'grow your own' homes
A bus stop that grows its own foliage as shade? A children's playground, made entirely from trees? A shelter made from living tree roots that could provide natural protection against earthquakes in California?
Aug 21, 2008 |
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Toshiba Introduces New 10 Year--Quick Charge Industrial Battery
Toshiba will begin selling the SCiB quick charge-10 year battery in March, 2008. This industrial battery increases safety, versatility in power source and qualifies as environmentally sensitive.
Dec 11, 2007 |
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To prevent accidents, car must know its driver
Over the past several years, scientists working in the area of intelligent vehicles have developed predictive braking systems to help prevent rear-end collisions. When your car gets dangerously close to the ...
May 30, 2007 |
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'Digital piracy' may benefit companies
Unauthorised copying of software, music or films, so-called digital piracy, may have benefits for the affected companies, an Oxford researcher has claimed.
Mar 17, 2008 |
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Ion-Mask Technology Could Make Waterproof Gadgets Widespread
Using technology developed by the British Defense Department to repel chemicals from soldiers' uniforms, a spin-off company called P2i is fabricating waterproof cell phones and other gadgets. Because the so-called ...
Jan 02, 2008 |
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The future cometh: Science, technology and humanity at Singularity Summit 2011 (Part I)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, ...
Dec 01, 2011 |
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