Looking for a new way to enhance your sex life? Tired of using the same old vision technology? Try hooking 144 electrodes up to your tongue. Paul Bach-y-Rita is developing a high-resolution interface to one of the most dense areas of nervous endings, which also comes with great conductance thanks to saliva.
The wired article that [...]
When did man become best pals with the dog? Recent genetic research suggests that dogs may have evolved as recently as 40,000 years ago in East Asia, assumedly through human domestication of wolves.
So how has this tightly coupled evolution affected our relationship with the little woofer? Cognitive research shows that dogs respond to human social [...]
The most surprising nugget in this Brown University newspaper interview with stoner hero Ellen Feiss (like my computer totally crashed and it went bleep bloop bloop bleep so i switched to apple) is the director of the series: Errol Morris. I had no idea that this docugenius was behind the clever character presentation in the [...]
A debate has ensued between myself and a friend, and I’m calling on the weblog community to help us solve it. So here it is:
Which is more probable: a meteor hitting a commercial airliner, or a meteor hitting a person?
There are quite a few variables in this debate, which I will list along with my [...]
Nothing is better than when a good friend documents your life for three years and then edits it down into a three minute movie. Aisling has been around me continuously during my time here in dorkland, constantly taking pictures and video of the experience. Sit back and enjoy her (and my) life at one of [...]
The music: Kraftwerk, Expo 2000
The theme: talent show dance competition
The outcome: some kid makes the competition look like 7 year olds hopped up on sugar with his sophistication [via b3ta]
Talent Show: 21st century dancing (requires Windows Media Player)
I can’t really tell what kind of animals these singing Swedish pets are, but they’re damn cute with their hip hairstyles and endearing facial expressions.
While search engine companies struggle to provide effective geographical search methods, the BBC news service points to a simple and effective trick for identifying sites around you: search for your postal code.
In this case, I used my postcode as the only search criteria, ensuring that the whole thing was in quote marks. A full [...]
The Media Lab has many interesting relationships with our corporate sponsors. One of these that evolved a few years ago is the fellowship program, where sponsors can choose to support a given student in hopes of fostering a tighter relationship between our research and theirs. Ever since I arrived at the Lab, I have been [...]
People are apparently not too excited about J-Lo’s new song Jenny from the block is making some people want to give her a curb job (instead of a block party). Fox newscasters have their minds on other things it seems…
Fox News: Curb Job or Block Party?