Speech jammer?!

Here’s something you should watch out for at your local occupy protest… a speech jammer! Yup apparently if you’re within about 100 feet of this thing when the trigger is pulled you will start to stutter. On the plus side, if you’re prone to stuttering, it might make you speak normally? I’m not buying it. …

Spinning lady: Right vs. Left Brain

This is making it’s way around the internet at present. An animation of a spinning lady below… I can make make her spin either way pretty easily. Apparently it’s a left brain vs. right brain kind of thing. But I don’t read too much into this. There are other phenomena that illustrate this difference much …

Rise of the machines: Humanoids and AI

AI is coming on strong. I read about this creepy-looking robot two years ago. And in the mean time is has allegedly taught itself how to walk. And in another two years it will have learned how to speak short sentences.  This robot is essentially a 33kg baby and it works by mimicking the emotions …

Visual Image Reconstruction

So here’s something right out of a sci-fi film…  a Japanese company has developed a system for visual image reconstruction technology.  It uses a functional MRI system for monitoring brainwave activity to the visual cortex when a person views images. In a few words, this is basically a primitive method for eavesdropping on the information …