Have you seen the movie “Scrooged” with Bill Murray? I loved it. In the movie, Bill Murray is a top TV executive. The crazy Chairman of the Board says that TV programs should start catering to animals, so the production team (putting on the live version of Scrooge) add some mice. Later in the movie, …
Alyssa Danigelis writes another great article in Discovery News about how multi-touch is becoming even more ingrained in stuff we use everyday. Distance driving can be mind-numbingly boring, but looking away from the road to text or change songs is a life-or-death gamble. Plus, buttons embedded in the wheel only control a fraction of a …
Thin screens for televisions, computers and other big display devices may soon have brilliant, sharp pictures while consuming much less power, thanks to transistors that use carbon nanotubes to deliver current in a new way. It will be at least a few years until the technology, described in the April 29 Science, graces your flat …
Just when I thought screens couldn’t get any brighter . . . Read More »
NeuroFocus Announces World’s First Wireless Full-Brain EEG Measurement Headset: Mynd™ Company’s Breakthrough Technology Poised to Revolutionize the Future of Neuromarketing; Endorsed by Leading European Brain-Computer Interaction Consortium NEW YORK, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — NeuroFocus unveiled the first dry, wireless headset designed to capture brainwave activity across the full brain today at the 75th Annual …
I am thrilled to announce that my theorem has been confirmed via proof by induction and proof by rippling at the University of Edinburgh. Per the long-standing tradition in mathematics that the author of a new theorem has the authority to name it, I have recorded my theorem as “The Thompson Postulate.” Thank you, thank …
I was at Lowe’s with my son (who is 6) and we stopped to look at the holiday displays. They had trees, lights, ornaments, yard displays and more – pretty much everything you would need to decorate a town for the holidays. We checked out a few of the displays and, since I am a …
It’s beginning to sound a lot like the holidays . . . Read More »
Google TV that is – not spirits trying to pull you into a different dimension in order to lead them into the light . . . oh, never mind. Either you got the Poltergeist reference in the title or you didn’t. The real point of the title is that Google TV has started the engine …
Braess’s paradox states that adding extra capacity to a network, when the moving entities selfishly choose their route, can in some cases reduce overall performance. This is because the Nash equilibrium of such a system is not necessarily optimal. The paradox has generally been applied to traffic, but more and more agencies are finding that …
Want to know how a Japanese person is feeling? Pay attention to the tone of his voice, not his face. That’s what other Japanese people would do, anyway. A new study examines how Dutch and Japanese people assess others’ emotions and finds that Dutch people pay attention to the facial expression more than Japanese people …
