Nature gives us a charge from the possible use of electric eel generating systems to power replacement organs:
… Read the rest “Electric-eel power plants could fuel artificial organs”The prototype, described in Nature on 13 December, runs on a solution of salt
Science Daily reveals how MIT researchers used 3D printing to create the world’s first temporary tattoo made from living cells that act as sensors or circuits:
… Read the rest “A living tattoo that’s also a computer.”The cells are engineered
New York Times has the latest high-water mark in our society’s ever-rising tide of irony – an antipsychotic medication that, as paranoid as this sounds, really does tell the… Read the rest “FDA OKs putting tracking devices in schizophrenia pills. (Yes. They really did.)”
Nature explores the possibilities of, in not so many words, putting electronic receivers in our brains:
… Read the rest “Tiny antennas make brain implants a little more possible.”Metal antennas that send and receive TV signals and radio waves could soon be replaced
SONG: “Glassy Carbon Rods.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Big improvement to brain-computer interface,” Science Daily, 17 Feb 2017, as used in the post “Brain-electronics… Read the rest “SONG: Glassy Carbon Rods”
Science Daily reports on “glassy carbon electrodes,” a breakthrough in the interfaces that connect computers to our brains:
… Read the rest “Brain-electronics just got better”The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering
Nature pores over the blueprints drawn up using today’s technology… and a $126 million budget… for the next big step in computing power:
… Read the rest “We can build a quantum computer today. But it’ll be as big as a stadium.”“Yes it will be big, yes it will
Nature seems awfully optimistic about a program for recycling and processing “e-waste” in the Holy Land:
… Read the rest “Discarded computers could bring Israelis and Palestinians together”Electronics are dismantled in nearby villages as part of a massive
This is a cartoon – a *funny* cartoon from about a hundred years before smartphones became a thing.
We knew what they would do to us. Even then, we knew.
It was published… Read the rest “Science Art: Forecasts for 1907, Punch Magazine, 1906.”
University of Washington undergrads have won $10,000 for designing gloves that translate sign language into text or speech:
… Read the rest “These gloves translate sign language.”The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is a nationwide search for
Readers of a certain age will remember these waveforms – not by looking at them, but by sound. This is what data looked like as transmitted by a 4800-baud modem.
It’s kind of funny… Read the rest “Science Art: HAPN-T 4800 Baud Modem, 1991.”
Wired reveals a pair of smart glasses that don’t look any different than any other pair of prescription frames – wearable computers just the way Zeiss (and maybe the rest of … Read the rest “Like Google Glass, but invisible.”
Nature reports on the creation of a rose implanted with electronic circuits:
… Read the rest “A bionic rose, for electronic lovers – growing circuitry inside.”Researchers at Linköping University have created bionic roses by incorporating plant-compatible electronic
BBC News has some details on a wireless device that gets charged wirelessly, too:
… Read the rest “They’ve got a camera that’s powered *by ambient wi-fi*.”The battery-free camera was modified so it could scavenge power from ambient wi-fi signals, store it and
Science Daily peers into the smoke clouds to see the truth behind biodegradable computer chips make from wood:
… Read the rest “Wood chips (of the computer variety).”Portable electronics — typically made of non-renewable, non-biodegradable
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