Touché Innovative Technology PDF Print E-mail
Post by Jo   
Thursday, 12 July 2012 06:57

Disney Research has created Touché, a system that can turn almost any object or substance into a multi-touch, gesture-recognizing interface. What this means is that you could turn your phone or lights on by touching a body part, your desk could be "all touch sensitive" allowing you to manipulate objects on your screen, your sofa could turn on your TV the moment you sit down...the positive and not-so-positive applications are endless. Read more about the positive at {VentureBeat}.

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Grow Your Own Teeth - The Future of Dental Cloning PDF Print E-mail
Post by Jo C   
Monday, 18 June 2012 08:31


Most people have experienced or will experience the horror of losing a tooth or teeth due to injury or decay and the staggering cost of repair, if repair is indeed even possible. The future of dental cloning - growing teeth from stem cells - is on the horizon of becoming the "dentistry of the future". Success has already been achieved in animal studies. And...what is going to be the cost of this promising new technology??? We can only hope that affordability and availability will increase equally with the exciting developments in the field of stem cell research and organ cloning. Read more at {Ivanhoe}.
image via {gilygily} - Platinum, Diamonds & Human Teeth

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Venus Transit 2012 PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 04 June 2012 00:00

On June 5, 2012 we will witness a rare astronomical event when Venus crosses the Sun for the last time this century. Don't forget to protect your eyes! For the facts visit {Space}. For Mayan significance visit {Maya2012}, {13Moon}, Astrological {MountainAstrologer}. More videos after the jump.
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Consciousness, Free Will and Illusion PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, 03 June 2012 09:23

Is free will an illusion? Neurocientist Sam Harris thinks it is. In his new book Free Will, he states "We don't exist as immaterial conscious controllers, but are instead entirely physical beings whose decisions and behaviors are the fully caused products of the brain and body." Since the physiologist Benjamin Libet demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. This finding questions whether free will actually exists. The absence of free will would, well... wreak havoc on our religious and judicial systems since it forms the foundation of those institutions, as well as our public and personal relationships. For interesting conversation on this subject visit {SamHarris}. For counter discussion visit {Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?}, (TheBrowser}. Image - Matrix film

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Playing God PDF Print E-mail
Post by Jo   
Sunday, 19 February 2012 00:00

Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists, the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider’s web.

It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please. This technology is already being used to make bio-diesel to power cars. Other researchers are looking at how we might, one day, control human emotions by sending ‘biological machines’ into our brains.



 

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