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Brown University creates first wireless, implanted brain-computer interface | ExtremeTech - 0 views

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Technology science wireless implants brain-computer interface

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Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. The wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs and monkeys for over 13 months without issue, and human subjects are next.
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Brown’s wireless BCI allows the subject to move freely, dramatically increasing the quantity and quality of data that can be gathered — instead of watching what happens when a monkey moves its arm, scientists can now analyze its brain activity during complex activity, such as foraging or social interaction
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the device’s power consumption, which is just 100 milliwatts. For a device that might eventually find its way into humans, frugal power consumption is a key factor that will enable all-day, highly mobile usage
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Amusingly, though, the research paper notes that the wireless charging does cause significant warming of the device
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While the wireless BCI isn’t approve for human use (and there’s no indication that they’re seeking approval yet), it was designed specifically so that it should be safe for human use.
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Hand Gestures Could Make Kids Smarter | TIME.com - 0 views

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Using hand gestures may be important for more than just making a point; they could help children to learn.
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Once something is learned, however, it’s a challenge to unlearn and inhibit the reflexive response. That’s why it helps to develop good habits early
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It’s easier to learn something correctly the first time than it is to unlearn ineffective techniques and relearn better ones.
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During the task, some of the children instinctively used gestures — making rabbit ears when they knew shape mattered, or moving their palms from facing up to turning sideways when they were sorting by the teddy bear’s orientation — to guide themselves.
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What’s more, she found that this effect had a stronger effect on successful performance than age — a powerful finding given that children’s skills improve rapidly with age during this stage of development.
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The toddlers’ gestures could be interpreted as a glimpse of their brains at work, as they figure out how to exert the cognitive control necessary to complete their tasks.
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Earlier work showed that older children were better able to learn math if taught to use gestures while doing so. And they often found the right answer physically — for example, by making movements to signify the numbers that needed to be kept together to add correctly — before finding it verbally
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That has implications for improving the way we communicate and think, and could help to address developmental disorders associated with cognitive control issues, such as autism
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3 | This Is What It Looks Like When A School Becomes A Community Hub | Co.Exist | ideas... - 0 views

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collaboration of architecture and design firms consisting of MKThink, Concordia, and DSK are creating what the developers call "a full service community, where the school district and city work cooperatively to improve access to learning and opportunities to all members of the community through a highly coordinated City/School partnership.”
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The local community contributed heavily to the school design. "I’ve been doing this for 30 years, and there’s never been a project that I’m aware of that has required and gone through such an open and transparent communication process with the community,"
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The design team drew inspiration for its "school as the center of community" project from the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ)
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education programs for residents of all ages--an attempt to create a healthy environment for local kids
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Telegraph: чайник iKettle можно вскипятить через Wi-Fi - Газета.Ru | Новости - 0 views

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Samsung Invents a Clever Cardboard Printer That Folds Up | Wired Design | Wired.com - 0 views

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Technology 3D printing Environment

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architectural experiment constructed at MIT, was “3-D printed” using 6,500 live silkworms
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The project started with experiments to see if the spinning patterns of the silkworms could be controlled by altering the environment they operated in. It turns out they could,
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a silkworm is a sophisticated multi-material, multi-axis 3-D printer.
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Potential applications are varied, but include fashion and architecture, and it’s possible to imagine a system like this being deployed in the aftermath of a natural disaster to build environmentally friendly shelters for refugees
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One Day, Google Will Deliver the Stuff You Want Before You Ask | Wired Business | Wired... - 0 views

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Technology shopping anticipation tracking tech

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As personal digital assistant apps such as Google Now become widespread, so does the idea of algorithms that can not only meet but anticipate our needs
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eBay lets you shop at only one store at a time and promises delivery “in about an hour,” while Google lets you shop at multiple stores and pick your own delivery time window.
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customers won’t be ordering stuff from eBay anymore. Instead, they’ll let their phones do it.
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“Ambient commerce is about consumers turning over their trust to the machine,” Sheldon says
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Between what these companies know about our interests, our friends, our whereabouts, our purchases, and anything else we’re willing to feed them, whether by email, Twitter, Facebook, GPS, or credit card, they probably should have a very good idea of what we want and when and where we want it.
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A New Version Of Monopoly That Isn't About Getting Rich And Bankrupting Your Friends | ... - 0 views

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"Unlike Monopoly, the goal of Commonopoly is not the exhaustion, through monopolization, of a virtual stock of goods, but rather the expansion and preservation of a self-propelling sustainable system of recycling, production and distribution," the creators write.
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Commonopoly, which has recently resurfaced in a couple of places online, demands that players brainstorm alternative economic systems through activities placed around the board.
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Commonopoly also triggers another recent memory. In 2012, a team of psychologists from the University of California, Berkeley, designed several experiments to measure how wealth impacted unethical behavior.
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The results of the other experiments came to the controversial conclusion that those with wealthier backgrounds were more likely to cut off other drivers, lie in negotiating, or cheat.
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