Technology
- REMPARK: Wearable System Treats Parkinson’s Patients In Real Time
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Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s disease. Now patients are getting some high-tech help. REMPARK (Personal Health Device for the Remote and Autonomous Management of Parkinson’s Disease) is a wearable ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 26 2012 - 2:24am
- Smile, You're In Our Database
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What exactly happens to your face when you smile spontaneously, and how does that affect how old you look? Computer scientists from the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Science recorded the smiles of hundreds of visitors to the NEMO science centre ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2012 - 2:30pm
- The Million Song Dataset- Science Concludes Modern Music Too Loud, All Sounds The Same
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Crotchety old men seem to have won this argument. Modern pop music is too loud and does sound all the same, just like angry old types have been saying for 70 years. A team from Spain analyzed music from a 55 year period, using an archive known as the Mill ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 30 2012 - 6:23pm
- Human Evolution: Speeding? Splitting? Borging? And The Future Of The Olympics
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A number of recent web-notables all seem to revolve (eccentrically) around the question of human evolution. Whether it continues. Whether there is such a thing as "selection in groups." Whether our technological (cyborg) augmentations and/or in ...
Article - David Brin - Jul 31 2012 - 10:11pm
- Real-Life Robotech Mecha Have Finally Arrived
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Suidobashi Heavy Industry of Japan has finally found a way to make (a) work or (b) laser tag interesting to me; put me inside a giant robot. But to get the "Kuratas mecha" you will have to spend $1.35 million. You will want to, because they ha ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 31 2012 - 4:54pm
- Quantum Key Distribution And Unbreakable Communication Networks
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An experiment using single particles of light, photons, have produced and implemented them intoa quantum key distribution (QKD) link. The single photons were produced using two devices made of semiconductor nano-structures that emitted a photon each time t ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2012 - 9:58am
- Markerless 3-D Motion Capture From A Single Camera
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Conventional motion capture for film, like Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and game production ("Mass Effect 3") involves multiple cameras and actors festooned with markers but the future of motion capture may look much diffe ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2012 - 2:00pm
- Lithium-Ion Battery Cell Simulation Software Unveiled
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CD-adapco has released the STAR-CCM + Battery Simulation Module, designed to simulate spirally wound lithium-ion battery cells, which could help the automotive and battery industries more quickly design and develop advanced electric drive vehicle power so ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2012 - 11:30pm
- Science 2.0 Collaboration Update: Mendeley Dashboard Means Real-Time Impact Factor
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Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 7 2012 - 5:19pm
- Semantic Sommelier: Wine Tasting 3.0
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Can't tell a $4 bottle of wine from a $40 one? Neither can the best sommelier s in the world. But in the future you might at least seem like an expert, thanks to the power of s emantic Web technology. Deborah McGuinness, professor at Rensselaer Po ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2012 - 5:30pm
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