Some day soon, you'll be able to order a wedding dress on your tablet and feel the fabric and the veil just by touching the screen. When you feel an object, your brain registers the series of vibrations on your skin as being smooth, rough, sharp, etc. Computer sensors are becoming sophisticated enough to do that too.Within the next five years, vibrators within smartphones will be precise enough that they could be designed to mimic the vibrations experienced when your fingers touch a particular surface. Even though you'll just be touching glass, it will feel like you're touching whatever object is displayed on the screen. Source: The Coming Crisi...
By 2018 computers 'will have 5 senses
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New member of the exclusive space club
The successful launch of North Korea's Unha-3 rocket on Decembfer 12, 2012 became the top news in the world of cosmonautics. Even the previous day's story of the United States launching, for the third time, its X-37B unmanned experimental OTV-3 (“Orbital Test Vehicle”) was eclipsed by Unha-3. The flight's duration, aims and objectives though have yet to be disclosed. News of the successful North Korean rocket launch provoked heated reactions at all levels, from space fans to high-ranking state officials. If we lay aside the political and economic considerations, launching a satellite is, in any case, an outstanding achievement for any country. However, it should be mentioned that, according to North Korean media, the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3, put into orbit on December 12, is actually the country's third such satellite: another two were launched in August, 2008 and in April, 2009. But back then, they went unnoticed in orbit; so there was nothing to talk about. But this time the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has confirmed the latest satellite launch. The height of its orbit is about 500-580 km with an orbital cycle of around 95 minutes. It is noteworthy that this is the second attempt to put the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 into orbit. The first, in April, ended in failure when the carrier rocket exploded over the Yellow...
US scientists turn brain waves into actual words
Mind Reading Device
What will you do if someone will know what you are thinking? The day is closer as scientists are now able to read the minds. A new study conducted in theUniversity of Californiahas enabled scientists to find a way to decipher actual words from human brain waves. A team of neuroscientists worked with a group of epilepsy patients who were under the treatment for difficult curable seizures. They implanted the required electrodes deep in patients' brains to locate the source of seizures and help doctors remove the malfunctioning tissue. “During normal process about a week the patients are just sitting around in their hospital rooms and some of them were generous enough to participate in our experiment,” said study leader Brian Pasley of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. While the patients' brain waves were being recorded, researchers chased the waves through a program to translate the brain's electronic signals into actual sounds. “Researchers are still a long way from actually reading people's minds, but it may be possible one day,” said Pasley. Although the new research may sound like scary science fiction, it can have enormous positive uses for patients who have lost their speaking ability. “If we are somehow able to encode...
84 Million Stars and Counting
VISTA gigapixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way
Using a whopping nine-gigapixel image from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, an international team of astronomers has created a catalogue of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way. This gigantic dataset contains more than ten times more stars than previous studies and is a major step forward for the understanding of our home galaxy. The image gives viewers an incredible, zoomable view of the central part of our galaxy. It is so large that, if printed with the resolution of a typical book, it would be 9 metres long and 7 metres tall.
Wide-field view of the Milky Way, showing the extent of a new VISTA gigapixel image
“By observing in detail the myriads of stars surrounding the centre of the Milky Way we can learn a lot more about the formation and evolution of not only our galaxy, but also spiral galaxies in general,” explains Roberto Saito (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Valparaíso and The Milky Way Millennium Nucleus, Chile), lead author of the study.
Optical/infrared comparison of the central parts of the Milky Way
Most spiral galaxies, including our home galaxy the Milky Way, have a large concentration of ancient stars surrounding the centre that astronomers call the bulge....
3D Printing Could Land on the Moon
3d moon printing photo
Bisarbeat: Using 3D printers to make consumer goods—like shoes, housewares, and gadgets—is slowly transitioning from science-fiction to reality. Now, Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of California, is planning to take it further—by using printers to manufacturing building components. It’s an idea, he says, that is long overdue. And, the innovative approach to building design and construction has far-reaching implications: Khoshnevis believes the technology could be used to build shelters on the Moon. Source: Bisarbea...
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