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Dec 20, 2009

Head Chaise: Couching One's Thoughts into a Brain Wave Sofa

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From Scientific American Two European designers, Dries Verbruggen and Lucas Maassen used their alpha waves as a source of inspiration for their design work, which resulted in a piece of furniture, the Brain Wave Couch. “The process is a wink to a rather futuristic design process,” the couch creators wrote in a press release, “for which a designer merely has to close his or her eyes, or merely rest, to have the brain do all the work, and create the data needed to have the CNC machine cut the shape of the sofa.” The x-axis of the couch represents Maassen’s brain waves in hertz,...

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Dec 20, 2009

Famous thoughts on manuscript reviews

from Edward Ross (Division of Nephrology, Hypertension & Transplantation, UFla) in The Lancet today … To die while awaiting the review… alone . Ernest Hemingway It is the nature of reviews to be late . Aristotle I invented slow manuscript reviews . Al Gore There is more to life than simply increasing the speed of manuscript reviews. Gandhi I deny reviewing any author....

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Dec 14, 2009

Get relief from stress

Stressed by technology? Let out your office anger and smash up your computer !

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Dec 13, 2009

Augmented Cognition

Dec 13, 2009

Mobile phones to record and map noise pollution

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