The Hindu : Health : Breakthrough: sensors that can convert thoughts into speech. A mind reading machine has edged closer to reality after scientists found a way of converting thoughts into words. Researchers were able to render brain signals into speech for the first time, relying on sensors attached to the brain surface. The breakthrough, which is up to 90 percent accurate, will be a boon for paralysed patients who cannot speak and could help read anyone’s thoughts ultimately, reports the Telegraph.
Melting Steel With Only the Sun (Video) Photo: Youtube screen grab.
See video below. Steel's Melting Point is Approx. 1,370 °C (2,500 °F) Melting steel in a solar oven (aka solar concentrator) isn't new or unique, but it's always cool to see and a good reminder of just how much energy is hitting the sunny side of the planet at any moment. The video below shows a short exerpt of James May's "Big Ideas" series (James is better known for the Top Gear show), and they start by cooking, er, burning a sausage, and then they melt a steel plate. Electrolux Design Lab 2010 Eight Finalists Reviewed.
This illusion will drive you mad. What you burn. Next: What comes outUp: The Rubber Bag Previous: What goes in ``What you burn'' is the number of calories your body uses to provide the energy for everything you do, from heartbeats and breathing to running a marathon.
The daily calorie requirement varies quite a bit from person to person depending on size, shape, basic metabolic rate, and degree of physical activity. A rough estimate of calories per day can be obtained by multiplying the ideal weight for your height and body type by a number based on your level of physical activity, ranging from 11 for a pure couch potato to 17 for a person engaged in heavy physical labour or strenuous exercise on a daily basis. The following tables give estimates of the calories burned per day for men and women at their ideal weight, based on height and body type. Height in these tables is your barefoot height. Daily calories burned: Men Daily calories burned: Women. Cell Size and Scale. Some cells are visible to the unaided eye The smallest objects that the unaided human eye can see are about 0.1 mm long.
That means that under the right conditions, you might be able to see an ameoba proteus, a human egg, and a paramecium without using magnification. A magnifying glass can help you to see them more clearly, but they will still look tiny. Smaller cells are easily visible under a light microscope. BioMotionLab. A Sense of Scale: Absolute Zero. By Glenn Elert Posted 01.08.08 NOVA At roughly minus 460°F, absolute zero is abysmally cold, yet at least we can imagine it.
Being only a few hundred degrees below zero, it's in the realm of something we can put our minds around. This is not true of the opposite of absolute zero, the theoretical highest possible temperature. In conventional physics, this is approximately 100 million million million million million degrees. Interesting High-speed Video Clips.
DIY Skylights From Used Water Bottles Replace 50-Watt Bulbs. Image via YouTube video.
Watch out if your daddy likes physics... Map of the World Drawn Entirely Using Facebook Connections. Aerogel: See-Through, Strong as Steel & Ligher than Air. See How It Flies. First 3D Map of the Brain’s Connections.
We knew anatomy could be gorgeous, but this is beyond anything else we’ve ever seen, and it’s guaranteed to be something you haven’t seen, being the first 3D image of a brain’s connections.
Www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/antisense/tree.pdf. InnerSuper. Scientists Create World’s 1st Practical Artificial Leaf, 10X as Efficient as the Real Thing. True-size-of-africa.jpg (2482×1755) Simple animation to explain complex principles - Electronics.
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Carr and H. Craighead, Cornell. The world's smallest guitar is 10 micrometers long -- about the size of a single cell -- with six strings each about 50 nanometers, or 100 atoms, wide. Made by Cornell University researchers from crystalline silicon, it demonstrates a new technology for a new generation of electromechanical devices. Eric Giler demos wireless electricity. Humansanddinos_tr2_png_800x1000_q100.png (800×570) Chunnel Vision. In the 1860’s, the British and French first began thinking about building a 30-plus mile tunnel under the English Channel to connect their two countries. The engineering companies estimated that it would cost over $10 million (U.S.) to complete– not a small piece of change 150 years ago.
A little old Jewish man heard about their plans. He approached the Commissioner of Transportation and said he would do the job for $50,000. “How’s that possible?” He asked. He didn’t get the job. Teenagers' brains 'can resist temptation'