All the stories tagged with: brain
Overclock your brain with a $99 DIY kit
03/14/2012, Here is a little lesson in reasoning – your brain is a computer, and hence, if you can overclock computers, surely the same applies to your brain as well. Unfortunately, there are no jumpers or adjustable voltage for us to [...]
Computer chip does the human brain tango
11/16/2011, Hmmm, it seems that computers are slowly making progress in terms of matching the way our brains work – and the keyword here is “plasticity”. Yes sir, this term could very well be the key that enables the grey matter [...]
Scientists Create First Expandable Memory For The Brain
06/21/2011, If you’ve watched the Matrix movie you probably remember parts of the movie where the characters “download” various learning tools into their brain, i.e. learning to fly a helicopter or ride a motorbike and learning martial arts in seconds. If [...]
Teen brain data used to predict the success of a pop song
06/13/2011, Teen brain data can be used to predict the success of a pop song, according to the latest findings of scientists at Emory University. They performed an experiment where they got a group of twenty-seven teenagers, aged 12-17 and played [...]
Check out a brain in 2D
06/06/2011, If you’ve always been curious about how a brain works or how it is laid out there’s tons of information available out there, but at the moment we have very complex diagrams that have been created using diffusion imaging. These [...]
Petri dish has 12 second memory, longer than some people
05/26/2011, Remember the movie 50 First Dates? Well, memory loss can be quite a frustrating thing of experience, but here is an artificial brain that is grown on (where else) but an old school petri dish, comprising of around 60 rat [...]
DIY Steampunk mouse is awesome
03/28/2011, For those of you who aren’t satisfied with your typical run-of-the-mill mouse you find in computer accessory shops, there is always the option to customize your own device to your heart’s content. And that’s what hardware designed Peter Balch did. [...]
Cellphones do affect the brain: new study
02/23/2011, In yet another such study, the National Institute of Health finds that using a cellphone for as little as 50mn does modify the brain activity in the region near the antenna. Don’t panic yet: there’s no signs that this is [...]
Drive your car with your brain
02/18/2011, If you thought driving your car with your cellphone was amazing, wait ’til you get a hold of this – some scientists from Freie Universität Berlin have figured out a way to allow people to drive cars with brain power. [...]
Brain scans can tell if you’ll really quit smoking
02/01/2011, Do you have the ability to quit smoking? If you’re not sure if you’re on the right path, technology can help you find out if it’s working or not. According to some researchers at the University of Michigan, they found [...]
Sharp PW-AC20 Brain dictionary
01/25/2011, Sharp wants you to get a new “brain” with their PW-AC20 electronic dictionary, where it will target those who want to improve their English skills and their TOEIC score. Head on here if you want to know what TOEIC (Test [...]
Researchers try to determine if you’re a pro gamer with science
01/13/2011, Are researchers running out of things to research about? Probably not, but a group of psychology professors at the University of Illinois have been doing some research and discovered that you can tell how gifted someone is at gaming by [...]
Brain Athlete device helps you concentrate better
12/16/2010, [Sport Science & Technology Fair] Brain Athelete from B-Bridge from HIC Network on Vimeo. Hmmm, we did think that the whole “brain game” craze has died down after Brain Age on the Nintendo DS first made its debut a [...]
