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News - Failure breeds success

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Psychologists from the University of Exeter have identified an early warning signal in the brain that helps us avoid repeating previous mistakes. Tagged by mabisa under article, psychology, failure, learning, success, research,

Semaphore Flag Signalling System

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

The Semaphore flag signaling system is an alphabet signalling system based on the waving of a pair of hand-held flags in a particular pattern. Tagged by mabisa under communication, flags, signalling, semaphore, semaphores, semaphorics, language,

Brain-machine Interfaces : Web focus : Nature

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Brain-machine interfaces promise to aid paralyzed patients by re-routing movement-related signals around damaged parts of the nervous system. A new study in Nature demonstrates a human with spinal injury manipulating a screen cursor and robotic devices by Tagged by mabisa under brain, interface, Nature, neuroscience, experiment, experiments, robotics, transhumanism, research, *****,

Paralyzed Man Uses Thoughts to Move a Cursor - New York Times

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Dr. Donoghue and other proponents of the implants say they have the potential to be a lot better, because they are much closer to the relevant neurons than are the scalp electrodes, which get signals from millions of neurons all over the brain. Tagged by mabisa under article, NYTimes, mind, brain, neuroscience, neurobiology, paralysis, impants, cyborgs, transhumanism, technology, robotics,

New Scientist Tech - Breaking News - Brain-implant enables mind over matter

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

"The fundamental findings are that you can record activity from the brain years after injury, that thinking about movement is sufficient to activate the brain, and that we can decode the signal," says John Donoghue of Brown University Tagged by mabisa under article, NewScientist, brain, mind, neuroscience, neurobiology, technology, computing, electrodes, transhumanism, cyborg,

New Scientist Breaking News - ‘Big Brother’ eyes make us act more honestly

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Eyes are known to be a powerful perceptual signal for humans. People behave more cooperatively when they are being “watched” by a cute image of a robot or even abstract “eye spots” on a computer screen. Tagged by mabisa under psychology, eyes, science, watching, gaze, article, NewScientist,

A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Tagged by mabisa under blog, usability, webdesign, web2.0, 37signals, design,

Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare.

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Tagged by mabisa under web2.0, web, software, collaboration, writing, tools, 37signals, ajax, socialsoftware, social,