Archives > 2014-01

Via Futuristic news He’s the creator of “Spaun” the world’s largest brain simulation. Can he really make headway into mimicking the human brain? Chris Eliasmith has cognitive flexibility on the brain. How do people manage to walk, chew gum and listen to music all at the same time? What is our brain doing as it switches between these tasks and how do we use the same components in head to do all those different things? These are questions that Chris and his team’s Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network (Spaun) are determined to answer. Spaun is currently the world’s...

The Intel® Core™ i7-based MemoryMirror takes the clothes shopping experience to a whole different level, allowing shoppers to try on multiple outfits, then virtually view and compare previous choices on the mirror itself using intuitive hand gestures. Users control all their data and can remain anonymous to the retailer if they so choose. The Memory Mirror uses Intel integrated graphics...

Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on distressed (type D) personality traits: a randomized controlled trial. J Behav Med. 2013 Aug;36(4):361-70  Authors: Nyklíček I, van Beugen...

Mobile biofeedback of heart rate variability in patients with diabetic polyneuropathy: a preliminary study. Clin Physiol Funct Imaging. 2014 Jan 20; Authors: Druschky K, Druschky A...

The innovative system is described in a paper published in the journal Nature Communications , co-authored by MIT professors Marin Soljačić and John Joannopoulos , graduate student Chia...