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Steve Jobs, Head of Apple Products, In Mosiac Art??
2008-03-29 04:34:00 'A Smart Marketing Strategy'We?ve seen some awesome photo mosaics, some even functioning as more than art and delivering social commentary.While this image of Steve Jobs doesn?t hold any moving messages about society, it could serve a function. The entire image is made of up Apple products, so the finished portrait could function as one big Apple ad campaign.It features everything from computers to the iPhone. To spare you some squinting, yes, it does also include the MacBook Air. It also has other new gadgets like the iPod nano pink.?Credit must go to Deanna Lowe @ Fortune magazine and the photographer of the original photo in which this mosaic is based,? it says below the Flickr image which also says the image was ?Made with Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro with custom developed scripts and techniques.?The Opinions are quite divided while some readers are actually repulsed by the portrait, claiming this could have easily be done through specialize... More About: Products , Steve Jobs
Nature Crisis Update: Nigeria's forests to disappear by 2020
2008-03-28 09:11:00 Nigeria will lose all of its remaining forests in the next 12 years if the rate of deforestation remains unchecked, an environmental expert warned Thursday."Considering the rate at which trees are chopped down without any regeneration efforts all of Nigeria's forests will disappear by 2020," Kabiru Yammama said.A still from the Documentary: Trees Of PlentyYammama, who heads up the National Forest Conservation Council (NFCCN), a body that acts as a consultant to the Nigerian government, said all forests in northern Nigeria have been depleted and deforestation is moving southwards."The north has lost virtually all its forests. Our 1999 survey showed that the rate of deforestation in northern Nigeria alone stood at 400,000 hectares per annum," he said.Nigeria uses 40.5 million tonnes of firewood every year, he said, adding: "Imagine the depredation wrought on the vegetation in the last decade."According to the most recent NFCCN report, released in 2007, 35 percent of arable land in 11... More About: Nature , Update , Crisis , Disappear , Forests
Nature Crisis Update: Nigeria's forests to disappear by 2020
2008-03-28 09:11:00 Nigeria will lose all of its remaining forests in the next 12 years if the rate of deforestation remains unchecked, an environmental expert warned Thursday."Considering the rate at which trees are chopped down without any regeneration efforts all of Nigeria's forests will disappear by 2020," Kabiru Yammama said.A still from the Documentary: Trees Of PlentyYammama, who heads up the National Forest Conservation Council (NFCCN), a body that acts as a consultant to the Nigerian government, said all forests in northern Nigeria have been depleted and deforestation is moving southwards."The north has lost virtually all its forests. Our 1999 survey showed that the rate of deforestation in northern Nigeria alone stood at 400,000 hectares per annum," he said.Nigeria uses 40.5 million tonnes of firewood every year, he said, adding: "Imagine the depredation wrought on the vegetation in the last decade."According to the most recent NFCCN report, released in 2007, 35 percent of arable land in 11... More About: Nature , Update , Crisis , Disappear , Forests
Nature Crisis Update: Nigeria's forests to disappear by 2020
2008-03-28 09:11:00 Nigeria will lose all of its remaining forests in the next 12 years if the rate of deforestation remains unchecked, an environmental expert warned Thursday."Considering the rate at which trees are chopped down without any regeneration efforts all of Nigeria's forests will disappear by 2020," Kabiru Yammama said.A still from the Documentary: Trees Of PlentyYammama, who heads up the National Forest Conservation Council (NFCCN), a body that acts as a consultant to the Nigerian government, said all forests in northern Nigeria have been depleted and deforestation is moving southwards."The north has lost virtually all its forests. Our 1999 survey showed that the rate of deforestation in northern Nigeria alone stood at 400,000 hectares per annum," he said.Nigeria uses 40.5 million tonnes of firewood every year, he said, adding: "Imagine the depredation wrought on the vegetation in the last decade."According to the most recent NFCCN report, released in 2007, 35 percent of arable land in 11... More About: Nature , Update , Crisis , Disappear , Forests
Intelligent Brake Lights Could Save Your Life
2008-03-28 09:03:00 'Smart lights provide more information to drivers'The messages sent by brake lights to the driver behind bear a small resemblance to the binary code used by computers. But as we all know, the binary code is hardly the perfect communication language. For example, when you press the brake pedal, the break lights signal to the cars behind your intention to stop, except that no additional information is given, such as whether the car is slowing down or you are executing an emergency brake.John Hennage, of Virginia Tech College and Engineering, believes that the solution would be the implementation of an intelligent braking system which could make a clear difference between two extremely different situations. "A driver could be tapping his foot in time to music and the brake lights would blink. Or, a driver can rest her foot on the pedal and the lights would glow. It's not enough information for the following driver."The intelligent brake lights were developed by businessman Meade Gwi... More About: Life , Intelligent , Lights , Save
Intelligent Brake Lights Could Save Your Life
2008-03-28 09:03:00 'Smart lights provide more information to drivers'The messages sent by brake lights to the driver behind bear a small resemblance to the binary code used by computers. But as we all know, the binary code is hardly the perfect communication language. For example, when you press the brake pedal, the break lights signal to the cars behind your intention to stop, except that no additional information is given, such as whether the car is slowing down or you are executing an emergency brake.John Hennage, of Virginia Tech College and Engineering, believes that the solution would be the implementation of an intelligent braking system which could make a clear difference between two extremely different situations. "A driver could be tapping his foot in time to music and the brake lights would blink. Or, a driver can rest her foot on the pedal and the lights would glow. It's not enough information for the following driver."The intelligent brake lights were developed by businessman Meade Gwi... More About: Life , Intelligent , Lights , Save
Intelligent Brake Lights Could Save Your Life
2008-03-28 09:03:00 'Smart lights provide more information to drivers'The messages sent by brake lights to the driver behind bear a small resemblance to the binary code used by computers. But as we all know, the binary code is hardly the perfect communication language. For example, when you press the brake pedal, the break lights signal to the cars behind your intention to stop, except that no additional information is given, such as whether the car is slowing down or you are executing an emergency brake.John Hennage, of Virginia Tech College and Engineering, believes that the solution would be the implementation of an intelligent braking system which could make a clear difference between two extremely different situations. "A driver could be tapping his foot in time to music and the brake lights would blink. Or, a driver can rest her foot on the pedal and the lights would glow. It's not enough information for the following driver."The intelligent brake lights were developed by businessman Meade Gwi... More About: Life , Intelligent , Lights , Save
The Shroud of Turin: Hoax Against Reality
2008-03-24 15:37:00 'The 1988 analysis could be re-made.'For over 7 centuries, the tightly woven linen strip, displaying the vague image of a bearded man, has been worshiped as the burial shroud of Jesus. Texts signal the existence of the shroud since the first century. Two decades ago, radiocarbon dating showed that the Shroud of Turin had been just a medieval hoax. It is a morbid interest mixing science and religion. And the religious part does not want to give up. Now, the Oxford team that made the analysis wants to update the results based on subsequent technical advances. Those opposing the hoax variant can't wait."Now that we’re 20 years later, the technology certainly has improved," Barrie Schwortz, the photographer involved in the '80s Shroud of Turin Project and making part of the contester camp, told TODAY’s Matt Lauer.In 1978, scientists were allowed to take a look at the fabric kept at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. Researchers took a small piece that was sub... More About: Reality , Hoax
The Shroud of Turin: Hoax Against Reality
2008-03-24 15:37:00 'The 1988 analysis could be re-made.'For over 7 centuries, the tightly woven linen strip, displaying the vague image of a bearded man, has been worshiped as the burial shroud of Jesus. Texts signal the existence of the shroud since the first century. Two decades ago, radiocarbon dating showed that the Shroud of Turin had been just a medieval hoax. It is a morbid interest mixing science and religion. And the religious part does not want to give up. Now, the Oxford team that made the analysis wants to update the results based on subsequent technical advances. Those opposing the hoax variant can't wait."Now that we’re 20 years later, the technology certainly has improved," Barrie Schwortz, the photographer involved in the '80s Shroud of Turin Project and making part of the contester camp, told TODAY’s Matt Lauer.In 1978, scientists were allowed to take a look at the fabric kept at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. Researchers took a small piece that was sub... More About: Reality , Hoax
The Shroud of Turin: Hoax Against Reality
2008-03-24 15:37:00 'The 1988 analysis could be re-made.'For over 7 centuries, the tightly woven linen strip, displaying the vague image of a bearded man, has been worshiped as the burial shroud of Jesus. Texts signal the existence of the shroud since the first century. Two decades ago, radiocarbon dating showed that the Shroud of Turin had been just a medieval hoax. It is a morbid interest mixing science and religion. And the religious part does not want to give up. Now, the Oxford team that made the analysis wants to update the results based on subsequent technical advances. Those opposing the hoax variant can't wait."Now that we?re 20 years later, the technology certainly has improved," Barrie Schwortz, the photographer involved in the '80s Shroud of Turin Project and making part of the contester camp, told TODAY?s Matt Lauer.In 1978, scientists were allowed to take a look at the fabric kept at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. Researchers took a small piece that was subsequ... More About: Reality , Hoax
New Rubber-like Material Can Heal Itself
2008-03-22 16:48:00 'It sounds likes something from a sci-fi movie: a rubber-like material that can fuse itself back together after being snapped in two.'As anyone who's shot a rubber band across a room knows, standard rubbers are very flexible — they can stretch by several hundred percent.But if you've pulled just a little too hard on that rubber band, you also know it can suddenly (and painfully) snap in two.Ludwik Leibler of the Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Education Institution in Paris and his colleagues have solved the broken rubber band problem by creating a material that stretches like rubber, snaps like rubber, but then will mend itself if its two broken ends are brought back together.The new stuf, made from fatty acids and urea, is translucent and can have a yellowish tint, Leibler says.The bonds between the molecules in the material, called hydrogen bonds , are what give the new rubber its self-healing ability. They form linear links, called chains, between some molecules, a... More About: Material , Rubber , Heal
New Rubber-like Material Can Heal Itself
2008-03-22 16:48:00 'It sounds likes something from a sci-fi movie: a rubber-like material that can fuse itself back together after being snapped in two.'As anyone who's shot a rubber band across a room knows, standard rubbers are very flexible — they can stretch by several hundred percent.But if you've pulled just a little too hard on that rubber band, you also know it can suddenly (and painfully) snap in two.Ludwik Leibler of the Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Education Institution in Paris and his colleagues have solved the broken rubber band problem by creating a material that stretches like rubber, snaps like rubber, but then will mend itself if its two broken ends are brought back together.The new stuf, made from fatty acids and urea, is translucent and can have a yellowish tint, Leibler says.The bonds between the molecules in the material, called hydrogen bonds , are what give the new rubber its self-healing ability. They form linear links, called chains, between some molecules, a... More About: Material , Rubber , Heal
New Rubber-like Material Can Heal Itself
2008-03-22 16:48:00 'It sounds likes something from a sci-fi movie: a rubber-like material that can fuse itself back together after being snapped in two.'As anyone who's shot a rubber band across a room knows, standard rubbers are very flexible ? they can stretch by several hundred percent.But if you've pulled just a little too hard on that rubber band, you also know it can suddenly (and painfully) snap in two.Ludwik Leibler of the Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Education Institution in Paris and his colleagues have solved the broken rubber band problem by creating a material that stretches like rubber, snaps like rubber, but then will mend itself if its two broken ends are brought back together.The new stuf, made from fatty acids and urea, is translucent and can have a yellowish tint, Leibler says.The bonds between the molecules in the material, called hydrogen bonds , are what give the new rubber its self-healing ability. They form linear links, called chains, between some molecules, as ... More About: Material , Rubber , Heal
SmartWater = A Hard Time For Criminals
2008-03-20 17:13:00 For those who are unaware with one of the coolest invention of humanity, let me introduce you to Smart Water . It's is a vapor distilled municipal water that is a 100 % effective to spank the bu**s even of the smartest criminals. SmartWater is already a well-known deterrent in the criminal fraternity. Next time when a criminal tries to steal some valuable that has been covered with SmartWater, he 'll be nowhere far from being locked behing the bars.Smart Water has been invented by Glacéau, a line of products sold by the beverage based industry Energy Brands, Inc.Now, most of you are thinking that how the hell hoes it work?It goes like - When an offender comes into contact with SmartWater, it leaves a uniquely identifiable code on skin, clothes and anything which it contacts. To detect, only a tiny speck is needed to fluoresce brightly under UV light; SmartWater is not visible to the naked eye. Around 95% of police forces deploy SmartWater in a variety of forms and their custody sui... More About: Time , Hard , Label
SmartWater = A Hard Time For Criminals
2008-03-20 17:13:00 For those who are unaware with one of the coolest invention of humanity, let me introduce you to SmartWater. It's is a vapor distilled municipal water that is a 100 % effective to spank the bu**s even of the smartest criminals. SmartWater is already a well-known deterrent in the criminal fraternity. Next time when a criminal tries to steal some valuable that has been covered with SmartWater, he 'll be nowhere far from being locked behing the bars.Smart Water has been invented by Glacéau, a line of products sold by the beverage based industry Energy Brands, Inc.Now, most of you are thinking that how the hell hoes it work?It goes like - When an offender comes into contact with SmartWater, it leaves a uniquely identifiable code on skin, clothes and anything which it contacts. To detect, only a tiny speck is needed to fluoresce brightly under UV light; SmartWater is not visible to the naked eye. Around 95% of police forces deploy SmartWater in a variety of forms and their custody su... More About: Time , Hard , Criminals
Prize-Winning Seismologist Embraces Earth's Little Faults
2008-03-20 15:24:00 'Seismologists say their science can be easily divided into two eras: before and after Hiroo Kanamori.'Dr. Hiroo Kanamori discusses his innovations in earthquake measurements and early-warning systems at his Kyoto Prize presentation at the University of California at San Diego this week. A California Institute of Technology professor emeritus and newly christened Kyoto Prize honoree, Kanamori led the earthquake research that resulted in the moment-magnitude scale, a better way to measure quakes than the Richter scale it replaced in the 1970s. The moment-magnitude scale is not a pure instrument measurement. It accounts for the area of land that ruptures in a quake and how far it moves.Today Kanamori is interested in a different kind of moment: the first moments of an earthquake, when long-period waves can give warning of the intensity and damage to come. Kanamori sees an opportunity to use those few seconds of lead time to protect lives and property from catastrophe. He now commits... More About: Winning , Seismology
Prize-Winning Seismologist Embraces Earth's Little Faults
2008-03-20 15:24:00 'Seismologists say their science can be easily divided into two eras: before and after Hiroo Kanamori.'Dr. Hiroo Kanamori discusses his innovations in earthquake measurements and early-warning systems at his Kyoto Prize presentation at the University of California at San Diego this week. A California Institute of Technology professor emeritus and newly christened Kyoto Prize honoree, Kanamori led the earthquake research that resulted in the moment-magnitude scale, a better way to measure quakes than the Richter scale it replaced in the 1970s. The moment-magnitude scale is not a pure instrument measurement. It accounts for the area of land that ruptures in a quake and how far it moves.Today Kanamori is interested in a different kind of moment: the first moments of an earthquake, when long-period waves can give warning of the intensity and damage to come. Kanamori sees an opportunity to use those few seconds of lead time to protect lives and property from catastrophe. He now commits... More About: Winning
P4P Is The Smarter Version Of P2P
2008-03-18 08:32:00 'Make way for the new Optimized P2P Network'The P4P working group demo’d higher P2P download speeds with 1/6th the inter-metro hops that soak up expensive, long-distance network bandwidth. P4P is designed to enable better ISP and P2P coexistence with a win/win solution: better performance for users and less network overhead for the ISP.P4P speeds up P2P downloads by localizing network traffic. Standard P2P traffic gets spread all over the globe, so a single packet may go through a half-dozen costly high-end routers and thousands of miles of scarce ocean-floor fiber on its way to your PC. Metro-area routing is both cheaper for ISPs and faster for the users.Traditional P2PToday’s P2P is network oblivious: peers are selected without regard to network topology. One stream may be coming from Flagstaff while the next is coming from Cape Town.pTracker and iTrackerP4P is an open standard for delivering network awareness to P2P networks. One way it can work - and there is more than one... More About: Version
P4P Is The Smarter Version Of P2P
2008-03-18 08:32:00 'Make way for the new Optimized P2P Network'The P4P working group demo?d higher P2P download speeds with 1/6th the inter-metro hops that soak up expensive, long-distance network bandwidth. P4P is designed to enable better ISP and P2P coexistence with a win/win solution: better performance for users and less network overhead for the ISP.P4P speeds up P2P downloads by localizing network traffic. Standard P2P traffic gets spread all over the globe, so a single packet may go through a half-dozen costly high-end routers and thousands of miles of scarce ocean-floor fiber on its way to your PC. Metro-area routing is both cheaper for ISPs and faster for the users.Traditional P2PToday?s P2P is network oblivious: peers are selected without regard to network topology. One stream may be coming from Flagstaff while the next is coming from Cape Town.pTracker and iTrackerP4P is an open standard for delivering network awareness to P2P networks. One way it can work - and there is more than one, bu... More About: Version
Blow Things Up Eco-Friendly Style
2008-03-17 20:57:00 'Nitrogen-rich substances, the next generation of explosives'Blowing stuff up is probably one of the most entertaining activities known to us. We just can't help it, it's in our human nature. Every year, millions of tons of fireworks and other pyrotechnic substances are being detonated for various purposes, and most of the remnant materials and byproducts of the reaction are either released into Earth's atmosphere or scattered on the soil. That wouldn't be such a big deal, however all the different chemicals associated with pyrotechnic substances are generally pollutants."No other application in the field of chemistry has such a positive association for the general population as fireworks," says Thomas Klapötke from the University of Munich. On the other hand, pyrotechnical applications are significant polluters of the environment. Classical pyrotechnic compounds are well known as pollutants, that's why Klapötke along with Georg Steinhauser from the University of Technology... More About: Style , Things , Friendly
Blow Things Up Eco-Friendly Style
2008-03-17 20:57:00 'Nitrogen-rich substances, the next generation of explosives'Blowing stuff up is probably one of the most entertaining activities known to us. We just can't help it, it's in our human nature. Every year, millions of tons of fireworks and other pyrotechnic substances are being detonated for various purposes, and most of the remnant materials and byproducts of the reaction are either released into Earth's atmosphere or scattered on the soil. That wouldn't be such a big deal, however all the different chemicals associated with pyrotechnic substances are generally pollutants."No other application in the field of chemistry has such a positive association for the general population as fireworks," says Thomas Klapötke from the University of Munich. On the other hand, pyrotechnical applications are significant polluters of the environment. Classical pyrotechnic compounds are well known as pollutants, that's why Klapötke along with Georg Steinhauser from the University of Technology... More About: Style , Things , Friendly
Truly Wire-Free Earbuds, Glove-Friendly GPS Handheld, Tough-as-Nails Videoc
2008-03-17 07:36:00 'Wire s?! We Don't Need No Stinking Wires!'All hail the Sennheiser MX W1, the world's first truly wireless earbuds. There's no tether to your MP3 player, nothing connecting the buds to one another, and they play nice with any device sporting a standard 3.5-mm jack. Plug the matchbook-sized transmitter into, say, your iPod's headphone port, use the integrated elastic strap to fasten it to the player, and stow the bundle up to 30 feet away. The phones use a new wireless protocol called Kleer, which transmits uncompressed tunage at up to 2.37 Mbytes per second, more than enough for CD-quality audio. And don't worry about running out of juice. The earbuds' battery life is five hours, and their holster (pictured) doubles as the charger. Power up the case at home, and it will hold enough zap to treat the buds to three 15-minute quick charges.MX W1: $600, sennheiser.comTrail HandYou are on the precipice of backwoods Babylon: powder untouched since the Cretaceous, the perfect run you... More About: Free , Handheld , Nails , Friendly
Truly Wire-Free Earbuds, Glove-Friendly GPS Handheld, Tough-as-Nails Videoc
2008-03-17 07:36:00 'Wire s?! We Don't Need No Stinking Wires!'All hail the Sennheiser MX W1, the world's first truly wireless earbuds. There's no tether to your MP3 player, nothing connecting the buds to one another, and they play nice with any device sporting a standard 3.5-mm jack. Plug the matchbook-sized transmitter into, say, your iPod's headphone port, use the integrated elastic strap to fasten it to the player, and stow the bundle up to 30 feet away. The phones use a new wireless protocol called Kleer, which transmits uncompressed tunage at up to 2.37 Mbytes per second, more than enough for CD-quality audio. And don't worry about running out of juice. The earbuds' battery life is five hours, and their holster (pictured) doubles as the charger. Power up the case at home, and it will hold enough zap to treat the buds to three 15-minute quick charges.MX W1: $600, sennheiser.comTrail HandYou are on the precipice of backwoods Babylon: powder untouched since the Cretaceous, the perfect run you... More About: Free , Handheld , Nails , Friendly
Smart Goggles Find Your Lost Things
2008-03-15 06:16:00 'You'll never have to remember anything again!'If you have problems remembering where you lost your 45 million dollar laptop, you should probably consider buying a pair of these weird-looking glasses. The Smart Goggles have the ability to remember where you last saw a particular lost item. This way, you can behave like a borg, have the memory of a borg and look like one as well! The device has a camera attached to the glasses, a small computer and an LCD display which can also identify unknown plants and faces. One problem though, if you have really bad problems with your memory, try not to lose them, the chance is you will never find them again!Inventor of the device, professor Kuniyoshi of University of Tokyo,says he believes that with the help of the Smart Goggles people will have the capability of surpassing severe memory problems, usually associated with old age and diseases such as dementia.The camera is fitted on the right lens of the glasses – as seen in the picture –... More About: Lost , Find , Things
Smart Goggles Find Your Lost Things
2008-03-15 06:16:00 'You'll never have to remember anything again!'If you have problems remembering where you lost your 45 million dollar laptop, you should probably consider buying a pair of these weird-looking glasses. The Smart Goggles have the ability to remember where you last saw a particular lost item. This way, you can behave like a borg, have the memory of a borg and look like one as well! The device has a camera attached to the glasses, a small computer and an LCD display which can also identify unknown plants and faces. One problem though, if you have really bad problems with your memory, try not to lose them, the chance is you will never find them again!Inventor of the device, professor Kuniyoshi of University of Tokyo,says he believes that with the help of the Smart Goggles people will have the capability of surpassing severe memory problems, usually associated with old age and diseases such as dementia.The camera is fitted on the right lens of the glasses – as seen in the picture –... More About: Lost , Find , Things
Humans Will Make Contact with Aliens within Two Decades
2008-03-13 18:30:00 'Mankind will make contact with intelligent alien life within two decades, leading astronomers claim.'The recent discovery of Earth-like planets outside our solar system and the launch of a major Nasa mission in 2009 has brought extra-terrestrial contact a dramatic step closer.In a BBC two Horizon documentary broadcast, the American astrophysicist Dr Frank Drake said: "Everything has caused us to become more optimistic."The 76-year-old - who founded the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project (SETI) in 1961 - added: "We really believe that in the next 20 years or so, we are going to learn a great deal more about life beyond Earth and very likely we will have detected that life and perhaps even intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy."Nearly half a century ago, Dr Drake devised an equation to estimate the number of alien civilisations in the galaxy.It takes into account seven factors including the rate at which stars are born in the Milky Way, roughly how many have planet... More About: Aliens , Contact , Make , Humans
Humans Will Make Contact with Aliens within Two Decades
2008-03-13 18:30:00 'Mankind will make contact with intelligent alien life within two decades, leading astronomers claim.'The recent discovery of Earth-like planets outside our solar system and the launch of a major Nasa mission in 2009 has brought extra-terrestrial contact a dramatic step closer.In a BBC two Horizon documentary broadcast, the American astrophysicist Dr Frank Drake said: "Everything has caused us to become more optimistic."The 76-year-old - who founded the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project (SETI) in 1961 - added: "We really believe that in the next 20 years or so, we are going to learn a great deal more about life beyond Earth and very likely we will have detected that life and perhaps even intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy."Nearly half a century ago, Dr Drake devised an equation to estimate the number of alien civilisations in the galaxy.It takes into account seven factors including the rate at which stars are born in the Milky Way, roughly how many have planet... More About: Aliens , Contact , Make , Humans
This Technology May Reveal Mind's Secrets
2008-03-13 14:54:00 'Over the last 10 years, our knowledge in this area has jumped from the Wright brothers to the Concord," observed David Lewis, cofounder of the Mind Lab in London. "Ten years ago, the equipment we used to measure brain activity had to be pushed around on a trolley. Now it can fit in a handbag.'Through a study using brain scanning technology called "functional magnetic resonance imaging," which records mental activity, neuroscientists at the University of California at Berkeley have gained greater insight into how the human brain "sees" objects.The researchers used fMRI modeling of how subjects responded to various images as the basis for predicting their responses to new images, according to an article published in the peer review publication Nature.Two people were shown 1,750 different pictures as they were monitored by fMRI. The team then used the subjects' earlier brain responses to predict what their responses would be to 120 as yet unseen images. The modeling was accurate 72... More About: Technology , Secrets
Vitamin D 'cuts risk of diabetes'
2008-03-13 06:59:00 'Giving young children vitamin D supplements may reduce their risk of developing type 1 diabetes later in life, research suggests.'Exposure to sunlight allows the body tomanufacture vitamin DChildren who took supplements were around 30% less likely to develop the condition than those who did not.Type 1 diabetes results from the immune system destruction of pancreatic cells which produce the hormone insulin.The study, by St Mary's Hospital for Women and Children, Manchester, appears in Archives of Disease in Childhood.Type 1 diabetes is most common among people of European descent, with around two million Europeans and North Americans affected.It is becoming increasingly common, and it is estimated that the number of new cases will rise by 40% between 2000 and 2010.The Manchester team pooled data from five studies examining the effect of vitamin D supplementation.Not only did the use of supplements appear to reduce the risk, the effect was dose dependent - the higher and more regu... More About: Diabetes , Risk , Vitamin , Vitamin D , Cuts
SanDisk Intros the Latest iPod Nano Competitor
More articles from this author:2008-03-12 16:21:00 SanDisk yesterday introduced a new MP3 player it intends as competition to the iPod nano -- the new Sansa Fuze MP3 player. It's coming in April in 2, 4 and 8GB capacities for $79.99, $99.99 and $129.99 respectively.The flash-based Sansa Fuze features a 1.9-inch color screen, and has the ability to play MP3, WMA, secure WMA, WAV, Audible and Overdrive files. It can also play MPEG-4 video and display JPEG videos (it doesn't work with protected files from the iTunes Store, however).The device also features a built-in FM radio tuner and a slot for microSD cards, so you can add additional content on the fly. It has a voice recorder, as well. SanDisk will offer the 4GB Sansa Fuze in colors including pink, red, blue, black and silver (the 8GB comes in silver only; the 2GB comes in black only). The device incorporates an internal rechargeable battery that plays audio for up to 24 hours and plays video for up to 5 hours between charges.The Sansa Fuze includes Windows software, and also sup... More About: Ipod , Ipod nano , Nano , Sandisk 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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