Technology

Robot Tongue Identifies The Correct Beer Every Time

By Lisa Marie Potter (Inside Science)-- Machines mimicking a human's sense of taste are going on a beer-tasting binge. Despite being called electronic tongues, these devices aren't party robots, pouring beer onto wagging, mechanical tongues. &qu ...

Article - Lisa Marie Potter - May 25 2015 - 10:54am

Brain-Computer Interface Makes Communication For Kids With Cerebral Palsy Easier

The Augmented BNCI Communication projects has developed a new brain-computer interface system to enhance communication skills of people with cerebral palsys. Cerebral palsy is a chronic movement disability affects between 2 and 3 per 1,000 people. People w ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2015 - 10:49am

Emotion-sensitive Assistance Systems: Technology That Will Make You Feel Good When Helping

A new assistance system wants to help users in a wide variety of situations and it will do so by measuring user brain activity to determine whether they are pleased or displeased with system-initiated help. NeuroLab is measuring brain activity as part of t ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2015 - 10:47am

Orion Through The Camera — But Which Type?

Recently on Countryfile (BBC) we saw a presenter and a photographer together in the Pennines, the mountains that form the ‘backbone’ of England.  The photographer makes a living by taking spectacular scenes with a high-end camera and all different lenses, ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jun 10 2015 - 11:42am

DIY Prosthetics: How An Athlete Who Wanted To Ski Again Built A New Kind Of Knee

When Brian Bartlett was 24 he was hit by a car from behind so hard it ripped his right leg off instantly. It all happened so fast. He doesn’t like to talk about it. “You really can’t understand,” he told me. “There’s just no way to…until you have an injur ...

Article - Mosaic Science - May 28 2015 - 8:00am

Programmatic Marketing: Sometimes It Actually Is Rocket Science

If you have gone to a new web page and seen an advertisement based on things you looked at in your browser history, you have likely been impressed or creeped out. You can thank MIT for a lot of this “programmatic marketing”- and rocket science. It is also ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2015 - 10:10am

Mexican Team Develops Cosmic Ray Detector For The Large Hadron Collider

A multidisciplinary team from Mexico created ACORDE, a full cosmic ray detector, and Sergio Vergara Lemon, researcher at the University of Puebla says it is the first Mexican cosmic ray detector. ALICE is one of five experiments installed in the Large Hadr ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2015 - 5:07pm

Gaming on Windows 10 Build 10122, The Good, The Bad and The Malfunctioning. (UPDATE 10130 same issues)

W indows 10 build 10122 marks the arrival of something like a first beta Build of Windows 10.  (Build 10130 has a bit more polish, new icons, but has the same issues as 10122.) As such, one can now start to ask the question how will my favorite games fare ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 30 2015 - 7:36am

Gamify Your Life: Social Media Metrics Let You Get A Quantified Digital Version Of Yourself

Earlier this month, LinkedIn announced an update to its users’ already-teeming profile view. The social network now lets you track and chart who’s viewed your posts, complete with a “performance summary” and a colorful demographic breakdown. ...

Article - The Conversation - May 31 2015 - 9:28am

The Legacy Of Texan Surgeons And Artificial Hearts

Haskell Karp was 37 when he suffered his first heart attack, and over the next ten years he suffered a variety of related problems. By 1969 even the slightest effort, like combing his hair or brushing his teeth, would bring on chest pain or extreme shortn ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Jun 2 2015 - 8:30am