Stroke can cause permanent neurological damage, complications, and death. It’s the leading cause of adult disability in the United States and Europe and the second leading cause of death worldwide. Stroke experts in the U.K. are working with Limbs Alive to develop a collection of action video games that encourage patients to re-learn arm and hand control of their weak limbs. In Short, the video game will help stroke patients to recover from physical disabilities.
Reporter:Smith
Under: Science
On May 20, 2012(5 days, 6 hours ago.)
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Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a method for generating power using viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity. Researchers have put viruses to work in the lab, using them to build tiny devices that gather energy from mechanical forces, and to run a small liquid-crystal display.
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At the University of California, a group of engineers have deployed a fleet of 100 floating robots in the Sacramento River. The robots were GPS-enabled and equipped with Smartphone. The purpose of the engineers was to demonstrate the next generation of water monitoring technology, promising to transform the way government agencies monitor one of the state’s most precious resources.
Augmented reality devices have increasingly been gaining traction in the tech world and a number of companies are trying to create their own fully-functional augmented reality devices. Now, it has been revealed that the tech giant, Microsoft, is also working on one. It is being touted as ‘MirageTable’, essentially a tabletop set up where people at remote locations can come together, feeling that it is happening in real 3D.
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The space science group National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) may take us on a ride for their fifth wave of microgravity experiments aboard the International Space Station. All international students including US from grade 5 to university level have been invited to submit their ideas until September 12th, 2012. No doubt, this is a golden opportunity for a student to show his talents.
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Film maker James Cameron along with others including Google CEO Larry Page and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi, former presidential candidate’s son Ross Perot Jr., personal spaceflight industry leader Peter Diamandis and others have announced the inauguration of Planetary Resources on April 24, 2012. The company, formerly known as Arkyd Astronautics, will develop and deploy commercial asteroid mining technologies to expand earth’s natural resource base.
Reporter:Smith
Under: Science
On April 29, 2012(25 days ago.)
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A project to build a 3-billion pixel Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) has got the nod of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The project, overseen by LSST Corporation, has received Critical Decision -1 (CD-1) from DOE. A detailed engineering design, schedule, and budget phase will start shortly, and the construction of the telescope could begin 2014.
Solar power is increasingly making encroaches into the tech world. Given the fact that it’s clean makes it very relevant to environmental ventures. That is precisely why Panasonic has announced to broadcast the May 20th solar eclipse live from Japan using batteries running on solar power.
Reporter:Salman
Under: Science
On April 21, 2012(1 month, 3 days ago.)
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In a medical, we find lots of people are lying on bed or sitting on a wheel-chair. It’s really tough to lift up a bedridden person from the bed to a wheelchair or the reverse one. If you don’t know the techniques of how to lift up a fully paralyzed patient easily, then there will be no limits for your trouble. While lifting up the patient, the most hard thing is maintaining the balance. It’s really a difficult job. But ITRI MediRobot may make our job easy. The robot is specially designed to lift and transfer patients very easily. This robot may become the future’s perfect nurse!
Reporter:Smith
Under: Science
On April 17, 2012(1 month, 7 days ago.)
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Every digital device maintains basic rules of logic gates (- idealized or physical device to implement Boolean functions). But, only people working in related fields have the chance to know them by heart. It can be assured that an average Joe or David have little chance to know about logic gates. That is, on average 99% of huamn beings might not even know about the concepts of logic gates which powers the digital world. Seems, crabs have beaten human beings on the knowledge of logic gates. A recent study shows that crabs don’t only know them, they live them! A group of Japanese researchers at Kobe University found that swarms of crabs exactly follow the logic gate model like AND, OR and NOT gate. How implausible it may seem, it’s true!
Reporter:Forman
Under: Science
On April 17, 2012(1 month, 8 days ago.)
Cooperation leads to intelligence. In fact, researchers believe that Intelligence correlated with the size of a brain’s neural network. But experimental evolution of vertebrate brains is impossible but there’s a way to measure the evolution of human intelligence through artificial intelligence. In fact, this is the best way to evaluate the plausibility of the hypothesis. Luke McNally, a Ph.D. student of Trinity College in Dublin’s Theoretical Ecology Research Group, conducted the study with colleagues Sam Brown and Andrew Jackson. They created digital organisms that electronically evolved ‘brains’. The researchers found that, the digital organisms typically started to evolve more complex brains when their societies began to develop cooperation which clearly signifies the idea that cooperation helped to drive the evolution of intelligence in at least certain species.
Reporter:Smith
Under: Science
On April 14, 2012(1 month, 11 days ago.)
Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA. Endeavour was delivered by Rockwell International Space Transportation Systems Division in May 1991. It has an amazing view inside with hundreds of lights and blinking buttons. However, this space shuttle Endeavour prepares to make its last journey.
Reporter:Smith
Under: Science
On April 9, 2012(1 month, 15 days ago.)
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Last week on Tuesday afternoon, Texas became a victim of few tornadoes. The tornadoes were such dangerous and devastating that had never happened in Texas before. NASA has revealed some stunning 3D images of the 14 confirmed tornadoes that devastated different parts of Texas last week. The images reveal some unbelievable tornadoes. These tornadoes had great powerful thunderstorms more than eight miles high. The thunderstorms destroyed several neighborhoods to the ground.
Reporter:Smith
Under: Science
On April 9, 2012(1 month, 16 days ago.)
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Its not a robot, its a film. But latest news describing it as “self repairing”! That’s not the end of the story, the film can repair scratches within 10 seconds! Should we call this a robo-film?
Reporter:Forman
Under: Science
On April 9, 2012(1 month, 16 days ago.)
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3/4 of the earth’s surface is filled with water. But these huge amount of water is almost undrinkable. Imagine a world, where there is no water. The water that are left in the world is only in human and animal body. I hope you understand what I mean. If you have to drink water, then you will have no option except drinking your own emerged water. Anyway, that’s a nightmare. I’m sure, no has thought about it in dreams. But, guess what? Microsoft owner Bill Gates is investing his money for making a new machine for transforming toilet water into drinking water. Really?
Reporter:Smith
Under: Science
On April 8, 2012(1 month, 17 days ago.)
