A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate the first voiceless phone call.
With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerised voice.
Article Link: www.newscientist.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Archive for March, 2008
Voiceless Communication…
Wikis in Plain English…
Ok its time for another awesome video from the Common Craft Show. In this video Wikis are explained in how we use them, how they work and why they are useful in todays world, enjoy the video..
Article Link: www.commoncraft.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
The Carbon Atlas (Global Carbon Emissions)…
Scientists may still not have a handle on where all that carbon dioxide ends up in the atmosphere, but they and policy analysts do at least know which countries those emissions originate from..
Article Link: www.treehugger.com
PDF Link: www.kelsocartography.com
Is Time Travel Possible…
Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in string field theory, and a futurist. He is a popularizer of science, host of two radio programs, and a best-selling author. If anyone can predict time travel its this man..
Michio Kaku Info: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
ISS: Japan & Canada Additions…
The ISS (International Space Station) just became more international with the additions of the first part of the Japanese space laboratory named Kibō which means Hope, and Canada’s robotic arm system called Dextre, which will now perform a lot of the ISS’s general maintenance instead of having astronauts do it in space walks..
Kibō Info: www.wikipedia.org
Dextre Info: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Robots: BigDog…
The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth, BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight..
Official Website: www.bostondynamics.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
TED: My Stroke of Insight…
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding, she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another..
Website Link: www.ted.com
Video Link: www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
Blue Planet: Blue Whale…
This is part of the BBC series Blue Planet, described as the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world’s oceans, each of the eight 50-minute episodes examines a different aspect of marine life..
Article Link: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Installing a Wind Turbine…
Here is a nice video of the installation of a wind turbine, these things are much larger than you first expect, keep up the great work ecotricity..
Official Website: www.ecotricity.co.uk
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Free is the Future of Business…
Chris Anderson the editor in chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail has written a great article about his new favorite topic Free! Chris can definitely see where the future of tech is going, and how it is going to change how we live, and hopefully change society’s around the world for the better. This is a great and very interesting read, also there is a video of Chris explaining the theory of free. Im looking forward to his book on the topic in 2009..
Article Link: www.wired.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Brainiac: Slow Motion Karate Chop…
Brainiac is a British science show, it centralises along the three main cores of science for the British education including chemistry, physics and biology. With this experiment they have used a camera which can take 4000 images a second to show how the human hand reacts in a karate chop..
Article Info: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
UK Electric Car with Style…
In June 2007, The Lightning Car Company announced its intent to develop electric technology for a luxury British sports car – the Lightning GT. This car, to get where it needs to go, uses “electronically controlled traction control which negates wheel spin and unbalance in the power being applied.” Because there is no engine, the Lightning has a maintenance-free motor with just a few parts and together with the control electronics and special batteries, will not need anywhere near the servicing of other sports cars. The Lightning GT reportedly does 0-60 in four seconds and has 700+ rated bhp..
Article Link: www.ecogeek.org
Official Website: www.lightningcarcompany.com
Google Earth: Sky…
I love Google products, not just because they are free, but that they provide soooo much valuable information in a simple and easy way anyone can use. With an update they have made to Google Earth you can now explore space! They use images from NASA and Telescopes around the world to create a beautiful experience of flying through space..
Google Earth Download: www.google.com/earth
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Inspirational Quotes: Albert Einstein…
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
“Intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”..
Article Link: www.foundread.com
More Information: www.wikipedia.org
Last Lecture…
Randy Pausch delivered his Last Public Lecture, entitled ‘Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams’ at CMU on September 18, 2007.
This talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical final talk, i.e. what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?..
Official Full Speech: www.video.google.com
Article Link: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
GATR: Ground Antenna Transmit and Receive…
The GATR-Com is the brainchild of engineer Paul Gierow, who spent 20 years developing large deployable space antennas for NASA. It’s an ultralight, ultraportable antenna tucked inside an inflatable shell that can pull down a superfast broadband satellite connection at any location. The GATR-Com is designed for disaster-relief responders, far-flung video producers and front-line troops-anyone whose job (or life) depends on getting digital information-video, Internet, calls-in and out of remote places..
Article Link: www.popsci.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
TED: A voyage of DNA, Genes and the Sea…
Genomics pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered so far, in their quest to map the ocean’s hidden biodiversity. (Quite a task, when you consider that there are tens of millions of microbes in a single drop of sea water.) After touching on the potential of environmental genomics to monitor the safety of air, water and offshore drilling, Venter ends with his vision for engineered species that can replace the petrochemical industry by creating clean energy..
Official Website Link: www.ted.com
Video Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/6
The Biggest Sea Reptile on Record…
The 150 million-year-old specimen was found on Spitspergen, in the Arctic island chain of Svalbard, in 2006. The Jurassic-era leviathan is one of 40 sea reptiles from a fossil “treasure trove” uncovered on the island. Nicknamed “The Monster”, the immense creature would have measured 15m (50ft) from nose to tail..
Article Link: www.bbc.co.uk
Humanity’s Ancestral Migration…
Three major population genetics studies have provided the firmest evidence yet of humanity’s ancestral migration out of Africa. Their findings support the widely accepted hypothesis that humanity’s ancestors traveled from East Africa through Central Asia and then to the rest of the world. More importantly, they point the way towards fine-grained future studies of population variation, allowing people to pinpoint their own ancestral wanderings and scientists to focus on genomic regions that have experienced intensive historical pressure..
Article Link: www.wired.com
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