Robert A. Freitas‘ dermal display concept functions as a medical nanorobot control center to keep one’s health in check. His book, Nanomedicine, Volume I: Basic Capabilities, is the first technical design study of nanotechnology in medicine and medical nanorobotics. Watch Gina Miller‘s animation of the dermal display concept. [video (qt)]
via Medgadget
God will always be there for you. [launch igod]
Dr. Andrea Berger and her colleagues are continuing Dr. Karen Wynn’s study on young babies and their grasp on mathematical concepts. Berger connected her 50 baby subjects to a ‘geodesic-net’ sensor cap, that measures the electrical activity produced by the brain. “Babies can process quantity data very, very early in life and can even perform very basic mathematical operations like addition and subtraction.” Using the ‘geodesic-net’ ERP (event-related potential) tool she is “able to identify the exact millisecond when the baby is presented with an impossible event, and we can examine the brainwaves and the pattern of activity.”
GNOM‘s latest genetic network explorer combines the oracle (circular) and landscape (nodal) interfaces to represent the structural description and functional relations of Escherichia Coli genes.
Just switch on the National Geographic Magazine layer in Google Earth and get ready to browse through articles and 500 stunning Megaflyover images photographed by Mike Fay on his journey across Africa.
via Google Blog
N J Wildberger‘s new book, DIVINE PROPORTIONS : Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry, proposes to replace the grueling learning curve of trigonometry with a much simpler concept of quadrance and spread. “Quadrance is a way of measuring the separation between two points: it’s the distance squared,” he said. “The spread is the ratio of two quadrances obtained by dropping a perpendicular line from one point on one of the lines to another line.” In the book Wildberger illustrates how his method solves problems with more accuracy without tables or calculators.
via Physorg | The Australian
The InVision Guide to a Healthy Heart beautifully illustrates how a healthy heart works and why it sometimes fails with highly detailed images and a few 3d models with interactive layers.
The researchers were able to take several 10-minute sound recordings of users typing at a keyboard, feed the audio into a computer, and use an algorithm to recover up to 96 percent of the characters entered. The algorithm distinguishes the acoustical nuances in each of the keyboard’s buttons and uses statistical algorithms to weed out unlikely letter combinations. [article]
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Digital Derive, by senseable city lab, taps into the social network of the ubiquitous cell phone in Graz, Austria. The density of cellphone calls, origins and destinations of the calls, and position of users are tracked anonymously in real time, visualizing the organism that social networks of communications are any moment.
Thanks, EZCT.
The always interesting James Patten in collaboration with Mariliana Arvelo have created this series of tactile photographic prints as part of a project about the deafblind community in Boston, called “Senses”. The works are produced through a CNC laser etching process that removes the top portion of the wood. The darker the image is a any particular point, the more wood is removed by the laser at that point. The result is a photographic relief that can be touched as well as seen. [gallery]