Google launches a new service the "Google map of your mind"! Find out what you are really thinking, zoom in on areas of interest, let your friends know where they stand in your mind! Only on Google, coming soon (beta).
The skull is well known for being a barrier almost impenetrable for ultrasound, it is only possible to use US imaging for certain areas accessible through foramen magnum (the big hole at the bottom) or more recently also through the thin bone at the sides.
I wonder how they manage to get it in and focus it.
Sounds very exciting though, I'll be glad to see it put to some sensible use. Focused neurostimulation to treat tremor associated with Parkinson's could be one (done by implanting electrodes today). Or treatment od epilepsy could be also one application.
Computer generated proofs really do seem like a real time saver. Provided that they work. Now, if we could only prove that... Let me think, how about building this atomic superpowered robotic monster to prove that computer generated proofs work?
Or perhaps we could use those computers to prove it themselves!
Sure this could be useful, I can see some great uses for disabled people (e.g. it could make using certain devices easier for people who lost their finger(s)).
"The whole thing is about trying to make it more natural and using the right way to control something at the right time."
I think this paragraph sums it up nicely. I always fear these smart phones (PDAs, gadgets or even PCs), because once they start guessing what you want them to do it's fine 95% of the time when they get it right. But those 5% can become a real nightmare (if they take away some low level control from you).
Could be also a bit hard to use for old people with hand tremor (or Parkinson's disease). But I guess you can filter this low amnplitude tremor out (wasn't there an article about a smooth mouse on/. recently?).
So I say yes, but please give me a full backup option to control my/insert a favorite gadget here/.
Not sure 30 grand would be enough for a robotic child. Some kind of a robotic dog might be a good start. Thinking something in the line of Bender's robopuppy.
Commencing two hour yapping session.
It's been a long time since my biology classes, but I can't think of any reaction to foreign body inside a cell (at least not in the usual way). A cell hasn't got an immune system of it's own. Of course it has systems capable of expelling foreign/toxic chemicals out of the cell (exocytosis, pinocytosis), but it is altogether different from say your body's reaction to a foreign body. So these microcrystals will probably in some way interfere with the inner working of the cell (it trying to expell it) but they do not neccessarily need to interfere with the actual working of the nucleus.
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Google launches a new service the "Google map of your mind"! Find out what you are really thinking, zoom in on areas of interest, let your friends know where they stand in your mind! Only on Google, coming soon (beta).
The skull is well known for being a barrier almost impenetrable for ultrasound, it is only possible to use US imaging for certain areas accessible through foramen magnum (the big hole at the bottom) or more recently also through the thin bone at the sides.
I wonder how they manage to get it in and focus it.
Sounds very exciting though, I'll be glad to see it put to some sensible use. Focused neurostimulation to treat tremor associated with Parkinson's could be one (done by implanting electrodes today). Or treatment od epilepsy could be also one application.
Computer generated proofs really do seem like a real time saver. Provided that they work. Now, if we could only prove that... Let me think, how about building this atomic superpowered robotic monster to prove that computer generated proofs work? Or perhaps we could use those computers to prove it themselves!
Sure this could be useful, I can see some great uses for disabled people (e.g. it could make using certain devices easier for people who lost their finger(s)).
/. recently?).
/insert a favorite gadget here/.
"The whole thing is about trying to make it more natural and using the right way to control something at the right time."
I think this paragraph sums it up nicely. I always fear these smart phones (PDAs, gadgets or even PCs), because once they start guessing what you want them to do it's fine 95% of the time when they get it right. But those 5% can become a real nightmare (if they take away some low level control from you).
Could be also a bit hard to use for old people with hand tremor (or Parkinson's disease). But I guess you can filter this low amnplitude tremor out (wasn't there an article about a smooth mouse on
So I say yes, but please give me a full backup option to control my
Not sure 30 grand would be enough for a robotic child. Some kind of a robotic dog might be a good start. Thinking something in the line of Bender's robopuppy. Commencing two hour yapping session.
It's been a long time since my biology classes, but I can't think of any reaction to foreign body inside a cell (at least not in the usual way). A cell hasn't got an immune system of it's own. Of course it has systems capable of expelling foreign/toxic chemicals out of the cell (exocytosis, pinocytosis), but it is altogether different from say your body's reaction to a foreign body. So these microcrystals will probably in some way interfere with the inner working of the cell (it trying to expell it) but they do not neccessarily need to interfere with the actual working of the nucleus.