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Brain simulates actions in stories as a person reads: study

What scientists discovered was that parts of the brain associated with certain activities described in the story would light up as the person read those sections.

This study suggests that readers do mental simulation when they comprehend a story,"

«Nous exposons notre cerveau à cet environnement et nous lui demandons de faire des choses qui ne font peut-être pas partie d'une évolution normale, résumait il y a quelques semaines le neurologue américain Adam Gazzaley, de l'Université de Californie, dans les pages du New York Times.

le mythe de l'humain multitâche et hautement productif avec son iPhone en main qui lui permet de suivre les cours de la Bourse, de programmer sa télévision à distance, de gérer sa bibliothèque musicale, de tenir à jour son agenda, d'informer ses amis de ses déplacements tout en téléchargeant des livres d'histoires à lire à ses enfants le soir avant de se coucher.

La technologie tend à reconfigurer les connexions du cerveau, mais elle est aussi contre-productive lorsqu'utilisée avec excès, estiment les chercheurs, et le fléau touche certainement la majorité des ménages dans les sociétés hautement numériques

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developer site for iGoogle, Google's personalized homepage. Gadgets on iGoogle now support canvas view and OpenSocial, a common set of APIs, HTML, and JavaScript designed to let you easily build social applications. Build and test your gadget in the new sandbox for iGoogle.

iGoogle gadget dashboard to manage gadgets created by you and browse gadgets developed by others.

What is Arduino?

Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.

Inexpensive - Arduino boards are relatively inexpensive compared to other microcontroller platforms. The least expensive version of the Arduino module can be assembled by hand, and even the pre-assembled Arduino modules cost less than $50

make thoses phone events visible somewhere else, on your wearable, in your living room, on your robot, in your office or where ever you want it to occur? Or would you like to use your smartphone sensors, like the accelerometer, light sensor, compass or your touchscreen to control other devices? 'android meets arduino' is a toolkit, basically consisting of an Android application and an Arduino library which will help you to interface with your phone in a new dimension. You can build your own interfaces almost without any programming experience.

The conversion of sunlight into electricity has been dominated by photovoltaic and solar thermal power generation. Photovoltaic cells are deployed widely, mostly as flat panels, whereas solar thermal electricity generation relying on optical concentrators and mechanical heat engines is only seen in large-scale power plants. Here we demonstrate a promising flat-panel solar thermal to electric power conversion technology based on the Seebeck effect and high thermal concentration, thus enabling wider applications. The developed solar thermoelectric generators (STEGs) achieved a peak efficiency of 4.6% under AM1.5G (1 kW m−2) conditions. The efficiency is 7–8 times higher than the previously reported best value for a flat-panel STEG, and is enabled by the use of high-performance nanostructured thermoelectric materials and spectrally-selective solar absorbers in an innovative design that exploits high thermal concentration in an evacuated environment.

WiMAX is a wireless digital communications system, also known as IEEE 802.16, that is intended for wireless "metropolitan area networks". WiMAX can provide broadband wireless access (BWA) up to 30 miles (50 km) for fixed stations, and 3 - 10 miles (5 - 15 km) for mobile stations. In contrast, the WiFi/802.11 wireless local area network standard is limited in most cases to only 100 - 300 feet (30 - 100m).