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Warning! Collision imminent! The brain's quick interceptions help you navigate the world

Researchers at The Neuro and the University of Maryland have figured out the mathematical calculations that specific neurons employ in order to inform us of our distance from an object and the 3-D velocities of moving objects ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

An optical illusion called 'reverse-phi motion' helps explain how we view moving objects

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flies like watching computer screens as much as the next animal. Set them on a trackball in front of a monitor, and they'll follow the action – if the images in front of them move in ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Flight-tests autonomous multi-target, multi-user tracking capability

The Naval Research Laboratory and the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) through the support of the Office of Naval Research (ONR), has shown an autonomous multi-sensor motion-tracking and interrogation system ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Parkinson's disease patients may benefit from virtual-reality-based therapies

In people with Parkinson's Disease (PD), the inability to make quick movements limits basic functioning in daily life. Movement can be improved by various cueing techniques, such as providing visual or auditory stimuli when ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Faster computer graphics

Photographs of moving objects are almost always a little blurry — or a lot blurry, if the objects are moving rapidly enough. To make their work look as much like conventional film as possible, game and ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Higher doses of radiation in fewer treatments proved safe, effective for low-risk prostate cancer

In a multicenter clinical trial, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that higher doses of stereotactic radiation therapy requiring fewer treatments are safe and effective for patients with low-to-intermediate-risk ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Algorithm for identifying object boundaries in digital images 50,000 times more efficient than predecessor

Determining the boundaries of objects is one of the central problems in computer vision. It's something humans do with ease: We glance out the window and immediately see cars as distinct from the sidewalk ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Some particles are able to flow up small waterfalls, physicists show

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published on arXiv, Cuban physicist Ernesto Althsuler and his team at the University of Havana, describe how they set out to reproduce a phenomenon they had observed while brewin ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

iRobot planning an Android-based robot

(PhysOrg.com) -- iRobot is working on robots that have the brains of an Android tablet. The goal is an Android-based tablet that is able to see the world around it, hear input from humans, respond and think ...

Electronics / Robotics

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Cyber security team creates winning network security product

A team from the Virginia Tech Information Technology Security Laboratory and Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering won third place in the 2011 National Security Innovation Competition sponsored by the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Psychologist studies ability to follow moving objects

For drivers on a busy highway or workers in an airport control tower, paying attention to a number of moving objects can be a matter of life or death, but researchers know that most people can keep track of ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Why older people are less astute drivers and how the answer could help us understand depression

When elderly drivers get behind the wheel, they often confront the harrowing reality that they cannot easily see other cars, pedestrians, or cyclists moving around them. This frightening effect of aging, it ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Go-anywhere tracking of first responders with WIISARD radio-frequency system

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, are hoping that a device the size of a business card will one day reduce the toll of human lives in disaster situations.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Sony's PlayStation Move can't quite challenge Wii

When Nintendo unveiled the Wii four years ago, few game industry pundits gave it much of a chance.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Two or three is all we see

The human brain can see only up to three moving objects at a given instant, new research has found.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast