The “Intel Inside” tag has marked the desktop PCs (74% acc. Q4 2008) since the 1990s. In 2020, Intel expects to stample “Intel Inside” on our foreheads.
According to PhysOrg, Computer chip maker Intel wants to implant a brain-sensing chip directly into the brains of its customers to allow them to operate computers and other devices without moving a muscle.
Research projects to connect animal brains to robots have been carried out for many years. Rats and monkeys have already been able to control robots with brain signals. It was a matter of time before some large company announces a product that will allow human brain to communicate with electronic devices around them. Who’s better than the world leader in silicon innovation and world’s largest semiconductor chip maker to take that challenge? Read More »
A chip implant in your brain by Intel
No shuttles to space? Take the elevator
While the world is still struggling with financial crisis and swine flu, the people at NASA are always looking for new ways to send people to space. I heard some stories few years ago that a bus shuttle is being developed that would be able to take people on a ride to the moon.
While these stories might be just rumors, taking the elevator on the other hand might be a more realistic option.
In a Power Beaming Challenge competition arranged by NASA and Spaceward Foundation, a prize money of $900,000 went to LazerMotive, a Seattle company
that successfully demonstrated new wireless energy beaming technology which could one day be used to help power a “space elevator.”, according to the press release by NASA.
As usual, a video to illustrate the event is available below Read More »
Mobile Microscope from UC Berkeley
Developments in mobile phones are generally targeted to the mass and to satisfy the needs of the normal user in the daily life. We have seen High definition camera, Mobile TV, Mini Projectors in Mobile Phones, internet browser and more or less a tiny computer, not to forget the wide range of applications in the smart phones (especially iPhones and android based handsets) that transform the phone to a GPS receiver, sophisticated game console and so on. But a microscope ??
While this is not a feature that a normal mobile user would need, but it certainly has an advantage for researchers out in the field away from the lab. Using about $10 off-the-shelf components and mobile phone, the researchers at UC Berkeley have created a microscope.
Check the video below to know more about this innovation. Read More »
Argleton the town that only exists on Google Maps
Unusual and weird stories are always viral because it is simply the nature of human behavior to seek the unusual and odd in life. Many people have searched this morning for a town called “Argleton” on Google Maps and got a match to a small village just off the A59 near Ormskirk, Lancashire, United Kingdom. However, Argleton doesn’t actually exist.