April 2012
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Patients to Begin Receiving Bionic Eyes Next Year →
Bionic vision researchers intend to test a functional bionic eye on patients next year.
“Our primary aim is to complete the first prototypes of the bionic eye so they can be tested in human recipients in 2013,” said Gregg Suaning, a professor from the University of New South Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, in a statement.
Suaning is also the leader of Bionic Vision Australia’s...
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“We are living in an everyone-is-special-and-there-are-no-losers society. As a...”
– Simon Doonan
(Kim Kardashian: Why does she fascinate us? We used to revere scientists and surgeons! - Slate Magazine)
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WatchMicrosoft Research - Semantic Map Vision
SemanticMap, The Next Step In Public Information and Navigation On The Go is is a Digital signage prototype featuring proximity detection, face recognition and gesture interaction technologies developed in Microsoft Research Asia. The system provides the right amount and detail of map-related information according to the user’s distance from the...
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Next-gen cargo ships could use 164-foot sails to... →
Of the world’s nearly 45,000 cargo ships, many burn a low-grade bunker fuel in their engines and produce pollution equivalent to millions of automobiles. To help reduce that toxic load and keep the price of shipping freight reasonable, engineers at the University of Tokyo (UT) and a group of collaborators have designed a system of large, retractable sails measuring 64 feet (20 m) wide by 164...
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SpaceX considering a new 'Commercial Cape... →
SpaceX has filed a notice of intent with the FAA, indicating it wants to conduct an Environmental Impact Study for the construction of a new spaceport in Cameron County, Texas, on the Gulf and very near the northern border of Mexico. The site could make Texas a powerhouse in commercial space.
The filing, which was apparently first found by enthusiast site HobbySpace, reads: “Under the Proposed...
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Unreal games engine licensed to FBI and other US... →
The Unreal computer games engine is being licensed to the FBI and other US government agencies.
The software - which powers titles including Batman: Arkham City, Mass Effect 3 and Infinity Blade - will be used for training programmes.
Developer Epic Games and its partner Virtual Heroes described the deal as a “long-term” agreement to support the technology on web browsers, consoles and handheld...
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A New Microchip Knows Just Where You Are, Indoors... →
Broadcom has just rolled out a chip for smart phones that promises to indicate location ultra-precisely, possibly within a few centimeters, vertically and horizontally, indoors and out.
The unprecedented accuracy of the Broadcom 4752 chip results from the sheer breadth of sensors from which it can process information. It can receive signals from global navigation satellites, cell-phone towers,...
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Researchers use brain injury data to map... →
CHAMPAIGN, lll. — Scientists report that they have mapped the physical architecture of intelligence in the brain. Theirs is one of the largest and most comprehensive analyses so far of the brain structures vital to general intelligence and to specific aspects of intellectual functioning, such as verbal comprehension and working memory.
Their study, published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology,...
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