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'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech
Feb 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Natural wood, with its unique grain patterns, is what gives traditional acoustic instruments warm and distinctive sounds, while the power of modern electronic processing provides an unlimited ...
MIT's Huggable Robot Teddy Enhances Human Relationships
Dec 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's probably the most sophisticated teddy bear ever designed, but that doesn't stop MIT's companion robot called "the Huggable" from being pretty adorable, as well. The Huggable is the latest ...
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Research Shows Multimedia Can Help Report Complex News
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Assistant Professor Ron Yaros paid his dues as a journalist - working in the midwest from Michigan to Wisconsin and Missouri. He covered science, technology and health. But he wanted more. "I realized that there might be ...
International game laboratory created
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 10, 2006 |
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Researchers from the United States and Singapore are combing efforts to develop world-class digital game technology.
Pulsing light silences overactive neurons
Mar 27, 2007 |
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Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the prospect of controlling the haywire neuron activity that occurs in diseases such ...
AIDA Robot Aims To Change The Way We Interact With Our Car (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project ...
Kaspersky Lab Discovers First iPod-Specific Virus
Apr 06, 2007 |
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Russian computer security company Kaspersky Lab announced on Thursday that it had discovered the first virus designed specifically to infect iPods.
Meet Nexi, MIT Media Lab's latest robot and Internet star
Apr 10, 2008 |
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A new experimental robot from the MIT Media Lab can slant its eyebrows in anger, or raise them in surprise, and show a wide assortment of facial expressions to communicate with people in human-centric terms. Called Nexi, ...
Strange travels: Unusual journey of transport phenomena in fractured materials
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 17, 2008 |
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Transport phenomena in highly heterogeneous media can be dramatically different from those in homogeneous media and therefore are of great fundamental and practical interest. Anomalous transport occurs in semiconductor physics, ...
Japan astronaut to try flying carpet in space lab: official
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 05, 2009 |
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A Japanese astronaut going to space this month will try to fly on a carpet, use eyedrops in zero gravity and meet a series of other off-beat challenges, a space agency official said Thursday.
Stroke patients soon may have fun, high-tech tool: Virtual program may aid in therapy
Nov 10, 2008 |
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The University of Central Florida will immerse stroke survivors in a virtual world full of flying insects to help expand their range of movement.
Students Develop 'Mind-Control' Interface to Play Video Games Without a Controller
Aug 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Drexel University students have taken game controller innovation beyond motion control with a “hands-off” approach and developed an interface that allows players to execute actions using only ...
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