Imagine: your wife begins to think you’re a closet alcoholic, so she purchases a breathalyzer to test your blood alcohol content (BAC) throughout the day. Your doctors concur with her assessment, thinking you’re sneaking off into dark corners to imbibe without the judging eyes of the world to condemn you. The only problem, you really haven’t been drinking. All of the begging and pleading in the world won’t convince anyone. After all, you’re constantly drunk.
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Your computer can be hacked. Your phone can get hacked. Your e-mail account. Your Facebook account. And even… your brain. AsapSCIENCE explains how we’re coming up with ways to use technology—special lasers!—to hack our brains.
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The 475-foot "drop tower" in Bremen, Germany, is not a rocket disguised as a building, but a giant hollow tube used for experimentally dropping things—letting go of objects, watching them plummet toward the ground, and using those nearly 10 seconds of free-fall as a way to study the effects of weightlessness.
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We can always get behind a 3D-printed object that does something practical. So we’re intrigued by the Blizzident 3D-printed toothbrush, because this insane thing basically does all the brushing for you.
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If there ever was a corporate stunt that deserved a ‘do not try this at home’ warning, this is it. Working with scientists from the University of Southampton—translation: people who know what they’re doing—Nokia
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Who doesn’t love free money? Nobody, that’s who. And while technically Richard Wiseman’s latest collection of guaranteed bets will cost you friendships, relationships, and maybe even your job, the satisfaction of one-upping everyone you know makes it still totally worth it.
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It’s been just over a week since we roamed the halls of the Makuhari Messe in Japan for the Tokyo Game Show, and we’re already back to take a broader look at tech coming from Japan, from the Sonys and the Panasonics down to the Companies You’ve Never Of. There’s going to be a particular focus on car makers this year, with both Nissan and Toyota promising us some interesting new things and you’ll find everything we discover at the dedicated CEATEC 2013 page.
Filed under: Cellphones, Robots, Wearables, Storage, Science
Forget Python and Java. Ruby? Get outta here. If you’re gonna learn to write code, you better make it useful—so why not one that builds DNA when you run it?
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Researchers and scientists have been working for years to develop artificial limbs that function like a natural limb. This research has been going on for years and has resulted in varying degrees of success. One of the biggest challenges facing amputees and researchers in developing new robotic limbs is finding ways to control the limb. […]
Chalk one up for atomic force microscopy. As detailed in a paper published recently in the journal Science, researchers in China have used the imaging technique (as opposed to scanning tunnelling microscopy) to capture an image of a hydrogen bond for the very first time. As io9 explains, hydrogen bonding is common in nature — responsible for the properties of water and the link between the two strands of DNA’s double helix — and it’s something that chemists have long been able to visualize, albeit only on a theoretical level. According to Chemistry World, while there remains much to learn about the nature of hydrogen bonds, the researchers hope that this latest development will help lead to atomic force microscopy (or AFM) being used as a routine tool to examine molecules and offer a clearer picture of them.
Source: Science
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