Internet Searching Increases Brain Activity - Aren’t You Overjoyed

May 24th, 2006 Honda scientists have created Brain Machine Interface that translate thoughts into electrical signals which can be used to control machinery. It doesn't require the user to undergo surgery or even extensive training - a major advance over past thought-controlled technologies.

June 28th, 2006 Cell phone emissions excite the part of the brain cortex nearest to the phone according to a study published in the Annals of Neurology. Dr. Paolo Rossini of Fatebenefratelli hospital in Milan and colleagues used Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation or TMS to check brain function while people used these phones.

May 3rd, 2007 No seriously, a significant portion of my brain is in Google databases, accessible to everyone around the world. I only keep the index.

April 1st, 2005 A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind. Matthew Nagle, 25, was left paralysed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair after a knife attack in 2001.

July 29th, 2006 She awakes early on the morning of April 10, 2030, in the capable hands of her suburban Chicago apartment. All night, microscopic sensors in her bedside tables have monitored her breathing, heart rate, and brain activity.

August 2nd, 2006 Google Analytics increased the number of default profiles from 5 to 10. This increases the number of websites you can track.

August 13th, 2005 Pig brain cells could be implanted into human brains in USA by the beginning of next year if trials of a pioneering treatment for Huntington's disease are approved by FDA. Similar tests on primates have proved "astonishingly successful" in treating the degenerative brain disease, according to researchers who carried out the work at Living Cell Technologies (LCT) in Auckland, New Zealand.

April 27th, 2008 "Are you doing SEO for lonely middle age men looking for their next young bride?" "Because brain eating zombies and hotties were not enough, you can now, apparently buy and sell me on facebook...?"

April 27th, 2005 Stanford scientists (Yuichi Hori1, Xueying Gu, Xiaodong Xie, Seung K. Kim) were able to transform "brain-derived human neural progenitor cells" (read stem cells from brain) to glucose responsive insulin producing cells after subjecting them to signals that regulate islet development.

October 7th, 2005 I have moved the coverage of all Health related news to a separate blog - Consanesco. Here is the summary of important news from this week: Cervical Cancer Preventable with Vaccination Repeat Angioplasty Increases Heart Attack Risk NSAID Lowers Oral Cancer Risk in Smokers; Increases Heart Disease Risk Why Babies of Diabetic Women with are 2-5 Times more Likely to Develop Birth Defects And How to Prevent it

June 8th, 2007 Imagine the best way to give dictation (without spelling mistakes) or to program without typing and that pesky carpal tunnel syndrome - by pure mind control alone. Scientists at Brown University and Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems (and others) have made this possible; as published last week in Nature.

September 18th, 2005 Wp-Cache2 is a WordPress Plugin to cache WordPress generated pages. However it doesn't work with in-built gzip compression.

August 2nd, 2005 US. Scientists at Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research have created zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. Actually the dogs are normal after re-animation.

September 20th, 2008 In India I can get 1Mbps from Tata Indicom / VSNL for Rs. 2500 (~ 55.55$ / month with 45Rs-1$ conversion rate) + Tax which brings it to Rs 2800 per month.

July 14th, 2006 Free Java EE 5 Tutorial and a nice introduction to Java EE (Enterprise Edition) 5 from Sun (what more to say?). Free Java EE 5 Tutorial - Online & Download Your First Cup: An Introduction to the Java EE Platform - Online & Download Thanks Pelegri.