Japanese Scientists Build Breakthrough Brain-Machine Interface

October 17th, 2008 First study of its own kind done by the UCLA scientists reveals that Internet searching triggers some factors that increases the brain functioning of the middle- aged and older adults. This breakthrough issue will be soon published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

June 23rd, 2006 It has been estimated (Kurzweil) that our brains can calculate at 10 petaflops per second, based on the number of neurons and the average number of connections per neuron. Riken has developed a supercomputer that it says achieves maximum theoretical performance of 1 petaflops (1,000 teraflops).

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.

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.

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.

January 26th, 2004 A machine that generates music, creates better toothbrush and patentable inventions! I heard about it first from Weiqi Gao's Weblog - Weiqi Gao.com Read about it here. The idea is not new, introduce randomness in the system for better learning.

August 11th, 2005 A voice synthesiser powered by thought alone could one day enable severely disabled patients to converse more instinctively. At least, so thinks Philip Kennedy of Georgia, US, who is developing a brain-activated speech system with backing from the US government's National Institute of Health.

August 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A breakthrough by engineers at Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), may lead to more accurate global weather forecasts and a better understanding of climate change. The breakthrough is the development of a high performance electronic device, known as a dual polarized Frequency Selective Surface filter, that is to be used in future European Space Agency (ESA) missions.

September 26th, 2009 LONDON - A team of scientists has designed a system that can fire barrages of entangled photons with machine-gun regularity, and can power quantum computers in the future. Existing methods of producing entangled photons tend to spew out photons more or less randomly, according to Terry Rudolph at Imperial College London.

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.

June 18th, 2006 Cure for diabetes could be around the corner after US scientists found cells from the spleen can transform into insulin-producing cells. US researchers were able to halt, and even reverse, the disease in mice.

September 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new software, designed by optical scientists, is likely to revolutionise photography by teaching the camera new tricks. Its performance will then be no longer limited by the software pre-installed by the manufacturer.

January 5th, 2007 The first batch of computers built for the One Laptop Per Child project could reach users by July this year. However test XO machines are expected to reach children in February before the formal launch.

August 19th, 2005 Japanese Overclocker Set Super PI World Record with Prescott 2M at 7.1GHz

August 2nd, 2005 Neuralyzers, a fictional device to wipe memories or re-program them, became popular with Men in Black movie series. Scientists report that beta-blockers (like Atenolol), a popular blood pressure reducing drug, can be effectively used to wipe out bad memories, in other words neuralyzers for common man.