Dozing 'dragons' could change how we think about sleep - Tribune
Dozing 'dragons' could change how we think about sleep By The Washington Post | Saturday, April 30, 2016, 11:00 p.m. Email Newsletters Sign up for one of our email newsletters. Updated 5 hours ago The dragon's eyes twitch under its lids. An electronic monitor hooked up to its brain shows activity spiking across it. Somewhere inside its reptilian subconscious, a dream may be playing out — of enjoying a satisfying meal or relaxing on a sun-baked stone. The dragon is sleeping, sc..>> view originalUC Berkeley Team Creates Complex Neural 'Atlas' Showing Where Ideas Originate in Our Brain
Scientists at UC Berkeley have mapped the brain’s inner regions where different ideas take birth. Such a complex neural atlas has been created for the first time. Humans have a wide variety of cells in this part of the brain, which provide them the ability to interpret the meaning of the words they are hearing. The research being conducted by the scientists is mainly focusing on people’s ability to link words with their meanings—the most basic level of brain work. This phenomenon could, hope sc..>> view originalTailless Comet Nicknamed 'Manx' Might Be as Old as the Earth
A rocky, tailless comet, nicknamed Manx after the mostly tailless Manx cats, that possibly originated in the Oort Cloud, might be as old as the Earth and composed of similar elements. The tailless comet, discovered in 2014, is known by the designation C/2014 S3 or S3 for short, and it might hold clues as to how the solar system was formed. Karen Meech, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, was the lead researcher of a study published on April 29 in the journal Science Advances. Tailless C..>> view originalXiaomi prepping to launch a Mi Smartwatch this 2016
Told ya, Xiaomi is busy. But hey, what tech company isn't busy these days? It's actually better than being silent just waiting for financial reports to tell you revenue is going down. It may have been replaced by Huawei but Hugo Barra's baby will continue to deliver quality products. We're expecting the Xiaomi Max, MIUI 8, a chipset, plus possibly a Xiaomi UnionPay mobile payment service (Xiaomi Pay?). Xiaomi entered the wearable game with the Mi Band 1S late last year and now we're expecting..>> view originalEcho Dot is Alexa without the big speaker; GoodGuide aims to inform shoppers
ECHO DOT $89 Virtual assistant helps connect your home Echo, at $180, is a wireless speaker combined with a virtual assistant called Alexa. The new Echo Dot is Alexa without the big speaker. The Dot has a tiny speaker so you can interact with Alexa, but it really shines when you connect it to speakers you already own through an aux-out port or Bluetooth. Say you have a system that plays in separate rooms. Connect to Echo Dot, and you can say, “Alexa, play my James Taylor station from Pandora,” ..>> view originalPuma training robot lets you compete against Usain Bolt's championship records
Sports apparel brands are increasingly finding ways to create wearable tech that enhances the training experience, but one new piece of technology takes that dynamic to a new level by adding robots. The Puma BeatBot is a small, box-shaped automated device that literally races against humans to help them improve their running times. Equipped with an accelerometer, infrared sensors that help it follow the lines on a track, an Arduino microcontroller and a front facing camera, the BeatBot count..>> view original
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