Le Corps - Innovation Numerique

"Il y a quelques années, les scientifiques ont découvert en nous l'existence d'un deuxième cerveau. Notre ventre contient en effet deux cents millions de neurones qui veillent à notre digestion et échangent des informations avec notre "tête". Les chercheurs commencent à peine à décrypter cette conversation secrète. Ils se sont aperçus par exemple que notre cerveau entérique, celui du ventre, produisait 95 % de la sérotonine, un neurotransmetteur qui participe à la gestion de nos émotions. On savait que ce que l'on ressentait pouvait agir sur notre système digestif. On découvre que l'inverse est vrai aussi : notre deuxième cerveau joue avec nos émotions."

"AGI (sometimes referred to as strong AI) is different from conventional AI (weak AI) in the sense that it is capable of performing (and learning from) very general tasks. Most AI (weak AI) is programmed to perform a very specific task, such as decoding house signs in Google Streetview, or IBM's Jeopardy-playing Watson. AGI, on the other hand, is programmed so that it solves problems in a much more human way. Where weak AI is usually characterized by speed and accuracy, strong AI is more closely linked to reasoning, planning, self-awareness, consciousness, and communicating in natural language. In other words, if you want to build useful, human-like robots, you need a really good AGI."

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"Ce patch fixé à même la peau via un sparadrap (4mm d'épaisseur) mesure la température, l'activité - via le nombre de mouvements effectués dépassant une certaine amplitude - et l'inclinaison du corps. Une fois les informations transmises en temps réel par Bluetooth 4.0 jusqu'à une montre (ou bien stockées dans le patch), il permet un suivi en temps réel de l'activité de personnes malades de maladies chroniques, du bon respect de programmes de rééducation physique thérapeutiques, ou encore de s'assurer qu'un insuffisant cardiaque ne se tienne jamais à l'horizontal."

"The Worldwide Health Organization declared Air Pollution a Group 1 Carcinogenic, in the same dangerous ranks as asbestos and cigarette smoke. With over 6M premature deaths a year, a resulting decrease in life expectancy and 1 out of 3 children living with respiratory or allergy issues, air pollution is an invisible hazard. Given the amount of time we spend inside and the control we have over our offices and homes, we have full ability to change our behaviors for better living. With indoor air measured to be 5 to 8 times more polluted than our outdoor environments, this is a large problem, but an invisible one."

The suppression of feelings in the workplace in the hope of greater professional success, notes designer Jonas Loh, has led to unusually high rates of employee suicide; a particularly troubling statistic comes from France Télécom, where 23 employees ended their lives over the span of 18 months in 2008 and 2009. To counteract this stifling and dangerous social conundrum, Loh created the Amæ Apparatus, which makes a person's feelings explicit. Loh calls it an early-warning system for stressed-out people, soliciting sympathy and allowing assistance to be provided in a timely manner. Amæ, whose name comes from a subtle Japanese concept describing the desire for attention and care from a person of authority, is worn like a backpack and interprets the wearer's stress levels through a skin sensor; color-coded smoke erupts from a spout in a canister to alert coworkers to various emotional states.

Taxidermie est un film franco-austro-hongrois réalisé par György Pálfi, sorti le 23 août 2006 en France.

Vous avez peur des maladies et de la vitesse à laquelle elles se propagent? Vous voulez éviter les personnes contaminées? Il est désormais possible de suivre le développement des épidémies grâce aux messages des malades sur Twitter. Les applications ne sont cependant pas encore tout à fait au point et la contribution des usagers est demandée pour identifier les messages ambigus.

C'est pour ces raisons que le sang artificiel sera une bonne alternative au sang naturel.Le sang artificiel est une solution envisageable puisqu'il permettrait de supprimer les risques d'incompatibilité de groupe sanguin et donc éviter une réaction hémolytique.

April 5, 2012 at 10:45 AM ET Thanks to the ruckus surrounding "Girls Around Me," we now know how easy it is for apps and other services to repackage our personal data for disturbingly creepy ends. The Girls Around Me might be the latest report to blow up in a big way over this issue, but it certainly hasn't been the first.

By taking advantage of the natural movement of liquid through paper, researchers at Harvard's Whitesides Research Group may have found a way to make microfluidics technology much cheaper. The result could be disposable diagnostic tests simple and abundant enough for use in the developing world.

The USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a leader in basic research and advanced technology development of virtual humans who think and behave like real people. ICT brings together experts in clinical psychology, cognitive science, computer vision, speech processing and artificial intelligence. This video shows two interactive technologies recently developed for multimodal perception and healthcare support

a wearable device to understanding human networks

In a stunning first for neuroscience, researchers have created an electronic link between the brains of two rats, and demonstrated that signals from the mind of one can help the second solve basic puzzles in real time - even when those animals are separated by thousands of miles.