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Paralyzed Patients Move a Robotic Arm With Their Own Thoughts

With the BrainGate interface, Cathy Hutchinson, who is paralyzed from the neck down, moved a robotic arm toward a coffee cup, grasped it and was able to take a drink. It was the first time in 15 years that she was able to drink her coffee on her own. […]

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Nicholas Carr Foresees Brains Optimized for Browsing

“In simple terms, our brains seek efficiency — they adapt, at a cellular level, to the way we use them, strengthening frequently used modes of thinking and weakening modes of thinking that we don’t exercise.”

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Wikispeed: How A 100 mpg Car Was Developed In 3 Months

What if the car you drove to work every day got 100 mpg? Joe Justice and his Wikispeed team have developed a functional prototype. Using Agile radical management methods, their prototype was developed in just three months, instead of the multi-year process that traditional manufacturing requires.

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During an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said he believed same-sex marriage should be legal.

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What Happens in an Internet Minute

Via Intel:

In just one minute, more than 204 million emails are sent. Amazon rings up about $83,000 in sales. Around 20 million photos are viewed and 3,000 uploaded on Flickr. At least 6 million Facebook pages are viewed around the world. And more than 61,000 hours of music are played on Pandora while more than 1.3 million video clips are watched on YouTube.

All in all, that’s 625 terabytes of information sloshing about the tubes each minute.

If we do some math that’s 878.9 petabytes per day which is a bit difficult to wrap our mind around.

But if we convert that to the universal measurement of the MP3, we get the equivalent of about 235.9 billion songs passing through the internet and mobile networks each day.

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The ‘living’ micro-robot that could detect diseases in humans
http://helldesign.net, kurzweilai.net

A tiny pro­to­type robot that func­tions like a liv­ing crea­ture is being devel­oped which one day could be safe­ly used to pin­point dis­eases with­in the human body.

Called ‘Cyber­plasm‘, it will com­bine advanced micro­elec­tron­ics with…

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LG’s Flexible E-Paper Display Is Coming to Europe in April

LG has announced it has started mass production of its electronic paper display (EPD) product, with a planned launch in Europe next month.

LG’s EPD is a 6-inch, 1024×768 e-ink plastic screen. It’s 0.7mm thick, it weighs 14g, and LG claims it’s resistant to scratches and drops from a 1.5 meter height.

Full Story: Mashable