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Last year, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students built a virtual reality contraption that let them soar through the sky, held aloft by a trapeze harness and seeing through HMD-covered eyes. This year, they’re controlling it with the power of their minds. For his master’s thesis, project leader Yehuda Duenyas added an Emotiv headset — the same one controlling cars and the occasional game — to make the wearer seemingly able to levitate themselves into the air by carefully concentrating. Sure, by comparison it’s a fairly simple trick, but the effect is nothing short of movie magic. See it after the break.

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Continue reading Emotiv EEG headset hacked into VR trapeze act, lets you fly like Superman (video)

Emotiv EEG headset hacked into VR trapeze act, lets you fly like Superman (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Detecting cancer could be on the verge of getting a whole lot cheaper — and better. Researchers at Harvard and MIT have come up with a device that, using a needle to get a tissue sample, has achieve 96 percent accuracy despite having a cost to produce of just $200. It’s called a mini NMR (for nuclear magnet resonance) and also gives results in under an hour, giving the good or bad news on a smartphone display. The cost, simplicity, and portability could make it much easier for cancer to be caught and diagnosed early, but naturally it still has a good bit of testing left before it’ll be ready for prime time.

$200 ‘Mini’ NMR detects cancer faster and cheaper than full biopsies originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on July 31, 2006 by CyberNet.

Million Dollar Monday

How might this change your everyday life? Just think about how your shopping experience would change. You’re in an electronics store looking for a camera. You walk in front of one camera to check it out and immediately you’re hearing all about the features of the camera you’ve stepped in front of. You step to the right of the camera, and you can’t hear it. You step to the left, and you can’t hear it. The only place you’re able to hear the message is when you’re directly under the ‘beam’ or in this example in front of the camera. You could move from camera to camera or product to product, stand in front of it and get a brief run-down without the entire store hearing about it. Now how cool is that?


Just imagine what could be done with this technology. Kevin Maney over at USA today brought up the idea of integrating this technology into laptop speakers. Only the person sitting in front of the laptop would be able to hear the sound. How perfect would that be for a plane ride or sitting in a lecture? Another example he gives is in the car. Mom and Dad could be listening to one CD up front with the kids listening to another in the back. It could even work great for trade shows or corporate lobbies. The possibilities are endless. Everyone wants to get their hands on this technology to experiment with it. Companies like Wal-Mart and McDonalds have expressed some interest as well as Fox and Sony.

Not only is this technology being considered for commercial use, it is also being used for more serious endeavors by military and police forces. Similar to HSS, LRAD which stands for Long Range Acoustic Device, as its name states is for long range use. It can produce a sound so piercing it could bring someone to their knees. LRAD was put into use after the attack on the USS Cole. It works as an unbelievable way to notify from a distance and provide information. It is turning out to be an effective non-lethal form of a weapon for militaries and police forces to use.

The inventor of HSS, Woody Nooris won the Lemelson-MIT prize of $500,000 for revolutionizing acoustics. He’s described as a classic independent inventor. His curiosity is unbounded and spans many fields. While we probably won’t see this technology mainstreamed quite yet, there are countless possibilities with it. Could this possibly be the next generation of advertising?

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Back in June at Computex, Microsoft announced the successor to Windows CE — Windows Embedded Compact 7 – and it’s finally hitting the general availability mark today. The guys in Redmond posted a 180-day trial of the final WEC7 bits yesterday, and while it is unclear when it was released to manufacturers, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley notes that the digital signature on the bits is February 19th. So, what does it all mean? Well, you’ll definitely want to check out our Windows Embedded Compact 7 explained post, but we should start seeing the new OS powering phones (don’t forget WP7 is built on the Win CE kernel), medical devices, retail systems, and maybe even some tablets soon. As for the latter category, you may rememeber that we saw that WEC7 prototype tablet above at Computex, however while some like ASUS promised early on that it would use the software for its EP101TC, it quickly ditched that idea and went with Android. Our guess is that will be the case for most out there, but the lightweight OS, which now can run on ARM V7 architecture, has built-in support for Silverlight for Windows Embedded and Flash 10.1, clearly has advantages over Windows 7 on tablets at the moment. Hit the source link for some more details, and we’ll make sure to keep an eye out for new devices running the new wordy OS.

Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 now available, may or may not make its way to tablets originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Design project paints city’s WiFi networks with light

Design project paints city’s WiFi networks with light originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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