The emotionally impaired might get a bit excited by this incredible development in diagnostic equipment. Sunglasses, called O2Amp, which are designed to pick up subtle biological clues about a patient’s current feelings, are being trialed by doctors at two hospitals in the assistance of medical assessment. The glasses work by detecting, and amplifying into colour, […]
I am not a gearhead or whatever clever title equates to people who like cars, I am, however, incredibly fascinated with the way things work. I build my own computers, I am obsessed with Legos, and I am very decent at home renovations. Strangely I still stick my head under the hood when something goes […]
While surfing Reddit I found this image that depicts 100 of the best DOS games of the 90s and it makes me want acquire many of them to relive the nostalgia of my early PC gaming days. Here is the poster, but you will have to click on it to see the full res version. […]
Warning: Do not watch this at work, and while there is nothing inappropriate with the video, some scenes could attract unwanted attention if someone sees you watching this. “Webcam” is based on actual events and was shot entirely on a computer’s webcam. The filmmakers hope that it will make people think more about the technology […]
We’ve done a great job of producing batteries in ever decreasing sizes, but one limitation is that they still remain fixed shapes: largely cylinders with the occasional disc or rectangular block. That in turn places restrictions on the design of battery-powered devices. Now a new technique could mean flat or even curved batteries that fit […]
This weekend, France will close Minitel, a service that has allowed people to access information on computers at home since long before the World Wide Web. The service was the most successful example of videotex, which uses dial-up modems to send information to and from a monitor or television screen. Minitel was launched in 1982 […]
From the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory at The University of Tokyo: In this research we develop a janken (rock-paper-scissors) robot with 100% winning rate as one example of human-machine cooperation systems. Human being plays one of rock, paper and scissors at the timing of one, two, three. According to the timing, the robot hand plays one […]
An international team of researchers have managed to achieve data transmission speeds of 2.5 terabits per second by “twisting” light waves. They believe the same technique could also be used for more traditional wireless transmission. The technique involves controlling the movement of light waves in two different ways: the spin angular momentum (which is already […]