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Micro Machines and Opto-Electronics on a Contact Lense | h+ MagazinePrototype contact lenses powered by radio waves can be used for heads up displays (HUDs) Mathematician and SF writer Vernor Vinge has a thing for contact lenses. Wearing the special contact lenses he describes in his fiction –- coupled with computers in clothing and locational sensors ...
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YouTube - AtGoogleTalks's ChannelRay Kurzweil visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "The Web Within Us: When Minds and Machines Become One." This event took place on July 1, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. At the onset of the 21st century, it will be an era in which the very nature of ...
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Mind Controlled Bionic LimbsBionic Research Background For decades, scientists have been interested in developing a technique for interpreting brain activity to motor output — in other words, decipher the brain's electric patterns and convert them into coherent thought. The first attempts at a brain-computer interface ...
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Running with the Dopes: Cheating to be a Better Human | h+ MagazineModern humans are put in many moral conundrums, but the most pernicious may be the conflict between performance and ethics. In the modern world we are expected to be productive for at least eight hours a day, and that means being awake, functional, in a good mood, and ready to perform without ...
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The Atlantic Online | July/August 2009 | Get Smarter | Jamais CascioPandemics. Global warming. Food shortages. No more fossil fuels. What are humans to do? The same thing the species has done before: evolve to meet the challenge. But this time we don’t have to rely on natural evolution to make us smart enough to survive. We can do it ourselves, right now, by ...
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Newswise Social and Behavioral Sciences News | Of Body and Mind, and Deep MeditationChinese researchers have unlocked the mechanism of an emerging mind-body technique that produces measurable changes in attention and stress reduction in just five days of practice.
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Erythropoietin boosts brainpowerHealthy young mice treated with erythropoietin show lasting improved performance in learning and other higher brain functions. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology tested the cognitive effects of the growth factor, finding that it improved the sequential learning and memory ...
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Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation | Robotic Lower Limb ExoskeletonsResearch A pneumatically powered knee-ankle-foot orthosis (KAFO) with myoelectric activation and inhibition Gregory S Sawicki, Daniel P Ferris Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2009, 6:23 (23 June 2009) [Abstract] [Provisional PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles] Research Develo...
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Running with the Dopes: Cheating to be a Better Human | h+ MagazineModern humans are put in many moral conundrums, but the most pernicious may be the conflict between performance and ethics. In the modern world we are expected to be productive for at least eight hours a day, and that means being awake, functional, in a good mood, and ready to perform without ...
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The AI Report - Forbes.comArtificial Intelligence The AI Report The past, present and future of artificial intelligence. Can machines think? In 1950, Alan Turing, considered by some to be the father of modern computing, published a paper in which ...
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