Just like hard drive sectors can fail, neurons can go bad as data processing, memory-storing units in your brain. In this video, a neuron lacks the protein needed to make connections with other cells, essentially becoming a bad sector. More??
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Watch a Neuron Go Bad [Neurology]
iLuv iPad cases are available at iLuv for $24.99-$39.99. You know you need a case for you iPad.
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iLuv iPad Cases keeps your iPad loved
This week, we’re looking at the ever-increasing digitization of memory , and indeed, today’s technologies can even access memories stored on the most closely-guarded of hard drives: our brains. In a recent study, MRIs accurately predicted what individuals were remembering. More??
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Brain Scans Can Access Your Memories [Memoryforever]
This week, we’re looking at the ever-increasing digitization of memory , and indeed, today’s technologies can even access memories stored on the most closely-guarded of hard drives: our brains. In a recent study, MRIs accurately predicted what individuals were remembering
When Apple unveiled the iPad, the fast rendering of the user interface raised a lot of attention. Apple just said that the iPad is powered by their own chip called the Apple A4. Apple did not reveal further details about the A4, but we have learned in the …
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Apple iPad A4 Chip believed to be not that Magical
Staples offers the Dell Inspiron 15 Pentium Dual-Core 2.2GHz 15.6″ Widescreen Notebook in Black (pictured), Blue, Pink, or Red for $499.98 with free shipping. That’s $35 over our mention of a similar Inspiron from a week ago; however, this one has a f…
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Dell Inspiron 15 Intel Dual Core 2.2GHz 16-inch Laptop for $500 + free shipping
Austrian company Guger Technologies is exhibiting a brain computer interface at the CeBIT 2010 that lets you control an avatar just with your thoughts.
We reported about the g.BCIsys Brain Computer interface solution already a over a year ago the first …
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Brain Interface controlling Second Life Avatar debuts at CeBIT 2010 [Video]
Neurologists have built an ultrasound device which uses focused sound waves to destroy stroke-causing blood clots in brains. The procedure is non-invasive—requiring no drugs or surgery—and is already being tested on patients.
The machine and procedure allows doctors to “surround the head with an array of transducers that can focus ultrasound beams on a single spot in the brain without damaging the skull.” This means that diseased tissue could be destroyed without any collateral damage or risky surgery. [Technology Review via Pop Sci]
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Sound Waves Being Used to Treat Strokes [Health]
Tonight’s the Men’s Olympics Snowboarding Halfpipe event. Have you heard of Shawn White’s personal superpipe in which he compressed the training equivalent of years into a day, mastering insane new tricks that I can’t even wrap my brain around?
The 550-foot long half pipe is located 7 miles from Silverton, which is built around Silverton mountain: a ski resort with the most advanced terrain of any resort in America, with no groomed runs, and only one lift chair. It was constructed out of snow from the surrounding inclines, and get this: To pile up the snow—250,000 cubic yards worth—Red Bull took one of their private helicopters around and dropped about 30 satchels of explosives that weighed 25 pounds each into surrounding inclines, triggering slides that would gather up at the bottom. They hired Frank Welsh, the world’s best pipe shaper, to carve out the final shape. Unlike regular resort pipes, which are comprised of man made and natural snow, this pipe’s uniform material meant it didn’t chunk off as others might.
Next, Red Bull constructed a foam pit from 8,000 pounds of steel and about 7,000 foam blocks that Shawn could flip into when trying new rotational combinations like his his Double McTwist. They hauled up the thing on a truck and then when the truck couldn’t get any further, snow cats. At one point the foam threw back some stored energy from his fall and he chipped the bone in his ankle, so it’s not like the danger was completely gone. But a lot of it was. Enough that Shawn would learn new tricks never before performed, in a matter of hours. By his reckoning, it compressed his learning curve “by years”.
Shawn appears to be air lifted to the practice site by private helicopter and shuttled to the top of it by snowmobile, of which I saw a pair.
I saw a clip of Shawn at the Grand Prix the other day and I thought to myself, it’ll take a miracle for anyone to touch this guy at the half pipe today. Sure, luck is a factor, but If there’s anything an olympic halfpipe athlete can do to to make his own luck, it’s to make his own private superpipe in the secret wilds of Colorado.
If you have your doubts, watch him perform his new tricks, which are on the website below. In a way, you’d think he’d want to keep his new tricks secret from his competitors. But like any competition, there’s a pregame mental battle and you can bet the guys in that contest have watched those videos a couple dozen times, each time saying WTF to themselves a couple dozen times. It can’t be good for morale. Unless you’re Shawn White.
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The Secret Snowboarding Superpipe [Snowboarding]
I asked Bob Wallace—author and former CIA tech office director—about the preponderance of ever-awesomer kids’ spygear. We shared a laugh about cheap cameras, false notions of privacy, and unstoppable technological progress. His point? We ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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No Privacy? Just You Wait [Blockquote]
Black Circle: A Carol Reed Mystery (PC)
Available on Big Fish games today.
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Merscom Releases Black Circle: A Carol Reed Mystery
Many classic arcade titles have been mysteriously removed.
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More XBLA Games Delisted
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (PC)
Funcom launches official guild rankings on the ‘Age of Conan’ community portal.
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Update 6: ‘Return of Thoth-Amon’ Now Live On ‘Age of Conan’ Servers
Nearly a quarter of all consumers now play social games regularly; women drive latest videogame trend ahead of men.
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New Survey Reveals Social Gaming Phenomenon in U.S. and U.K.
Memory Clinic (PC)
Get ready to play mind games this March with the first hidden object game created to improve your memory and sharpen your brain skills.
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Digi Ronin Games Announces "Memory Clinic"
