Exploring Your Brain Using Virtual Reality
Reading a recent article about virtually representing persons’ brains brought my thoughts back to the Iron Man 3 movie, where main characters walked through a real-time holographic brain projection....
View ArticleFrom Futuristic Fantasy to Reality: Star Trek Health Technology Becoming Real
I remember when I admired Dr. Leonard McCoy (Bones) in Star Trek using a small handheld medical reader, the tricorder, to measure physiological parameters and diagnose diseases. As futuristic as the...
View ArticleA Smartphone App To Help People With Bipolar Disorder
The interest in using smartphone apps in psychiatry is continuously growing. Patients are looking for improved tools to manage their own illnesses. Mental healthcare professionals aim to better...
View ArticleNeuro-Inspired Computing – Is a New Era of Algorithms Coming?
Computers are becoming ever better: more efficient, faster and smarter. However, they are not even close to the processing and memory capability of the human brain that is able to handle almost any...
View ArticleMoving Objects With Your Mind
Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) also called brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) are a focus of research in computer science. The goal of developing better BMIs is to assist, improve or repair human...
View ArticleNeuromorphic Computing Advances: Foundation for Mimicking Human Cognition in...
Neuromorphic engineering is a field of research that is investigating how computing techniques can mimic human cognition. Electrical engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently developed...
View ArticleCharging your Phone via Wireless Power Transfer
Nowadays, we use all kinds of wireless electronic devices including cell phones, wearable gadgets, laptops, tablets etc. With these devices we were moving away from needing to be continuously plugged...
View ArticleHow Can Object Detection Software Make Driving Safer?
Object detection involves algorithms that allow identifying specific real-world objects including faces, bicycles and buildings in digital images or videos. Advanced object detection algorithms...
View Article3D Printing Electronic Circuits and Sensors
Nowadays, every office has a printer – first offices even 3D printers. 3D printing, also called additive manufacturing (AM) is a process of creating three-dimensional (3D) hard object of almost any...
View ArticleGame-Theory-Based Scheduling Algorithms with High Potential for Large-Scale...
Grid computing, a form of distributed computing. It is concerning networks that are loosely coupled and physically separated computers trying to perform data-intensive calculations through connecting...
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