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 »

At Nokia World 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany, Nokia Research Center showed a new concept in user experience: Nokia Mixed Reality
The concept features three concepts:

• Gaze-tracking eyewear which allows the user to select and browser with the eyes
• 3D Audio
• Haptic wrist device to feel and fetch media through gesture and touch

This concept allows to you to experience immersion and effortless navigation in an Augmented Reality environment. New types of interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch. Through these new types of social linkages people will be connected in innovative ways between the physical and digital worlds, as described on Nokia Research Center Website

Take a look at this video to get an idea about Nokia’s vision of future technology. Read More »

After a successful trial in using a rat brain to control a robot, the scientists at the University of Reading in Great Britain will take their project to the next step and try for the first time to connect a robot to a human brain.
The first experiment used 300 000 nerve cells from the rat brain to control a small robot on wheels. The project initially aimed at getting a deeper knowledge of how the human brain works in order to get a better understanding of brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson by studying the brain signals.
The experiment with human brain cells is the first of its kind and could bring bioengineering and biomechanics in particular into a new era.
Optimists are already speculating the birth of AI: Artificial Intelligence. Read More »