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Smart Hand Project

Robotic Hand That Senses Touch (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 10 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Italy, the Smart Hand project has given patient, Robin af Ekenstam (see video) the sense of touch in ...


Phantom limbs

Phantom limbs learn impossible tricks

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has shown that body images can be formed independently of external sensory inputs, and that the phantom limbs of amputees can be trained to carry out tasks that would be impossible ...


Electromagnetic Phantom Exorcises Specters of Metal Detector Tests

Electromagnetic Phantom Exorcises Specters of Metal Detector Tests

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 23, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

In the comics, the Phantom is a masked crimefighter who protected the innocent from pirates, hijackers and other evildoers. While not as dashing or exciting as its costumed namesake, this electromagnetic phantom ...


Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare

Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1972, Apollo astronauts narrowly escaped a potential catastrophe. On August 2nd of that year, a large and angry sunspot appeared and began to erupt, over and over again for more than a ...


Study shows brain activity associated with phantom limbs

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Geneva, Switzerland - March 25, 2009 - Phantom limbs, often described after amputation, are also experienced as an extra limb in patients who are paralyzed on one side following a stroke. Referred to as supernumerary phantom ...