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US Army Invests in 'Thought Helmet' Technology for Voiceless Communication

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (62) | comments 12

In the future, soldiers may be communicating silently with sophisticated "thought helmets." The devices would harness a person´s brain waves and transmit them as radio waves, where they would be translated ...





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Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair

Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(AP) -- Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command.


Astronauts take mission's 3rd and final spacewalk (AP)

Astronauts take mission's 3rd and final spacewalk

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Two spacewalking astronauts took on cable and antenna work at the international space station Saturday in their final trek outside, but encountered last-minute difficulty with a connector and had ...


The brain-machine interface (right) equipped with headgear to measure electrical current and blood flow in the brain

New robot 'steered by human thought': Honda

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Japan's Honda said Tuesday it had developed a robot steered by human thought, thanks to a helmet-like device that measures a person's brain activity and sends signals to the machine.


Local area drivers drag race down pit lane at a motor speeedway in Fort Worth

Drag racing goes green as US electric cars shine

Technology / Energy

created Sep 06, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Far from the fury of traditional race-tracks, spectators got a glimpse of the future as they watched electric cars rev up, and silently bomb off around the Mason-Dixon Dragway.


North Carolina football players testing pill that can give body temperature readings

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At first, it was hard for University of North Carolina football player Kendric Burney to swallow. They handed him a pill containing a battery, thermometer and radio transmitter and told him it would lodge in his intestine, ...


The Thought Is What Counts

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Holiday gift givers who expect to be appreciated for choosing the most expensive gifts are likely to be disappointed when their presents are unwrapped. Cost has little impact on how much we value the gifts we receive, according ...


Future tech on show at 36th SIGGRAPH

Technology / Hi Tech

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- If you pull on my ear, will I follow you anywhere? Yes, say researchers at University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo.


Talking aloud helps solve mathematical problems more quickly, according to a study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Those students who think aloud while solving a mathematical problem can solve it faster and have more possibilities of finding the right solution that those who do not do it. Likewise, drawing or making a pictorial representation ...


Blinding sunshine, dark shadows and the lunar lander Antares

Apollo Chronicles: Dark Shadows

Space & Earth /

created Jan 04, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

On the next sunny day, step outdoors and look inside your shadow. It's not very dark, is it? Grass, sidewalk, toes--whatever's in there, you can see quite well.


39 percent of Britons polled said climate change had not yet been proven to be man-made

Half of Britons deny climate change man-made: poll

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 72

Almost half of Britons do not believe human behaviour is the main cause of global warming, a new poll showed Sunday, a day before world leaders begin crunch climate talks in Copenhagen.



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