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Elite shivering joysticks, magnetic levitation devices, techno-basin shaped interfaces, complex algorithms, remote controlled machines and reflexive mechanical force feedback controllers are just the beginning of what comes as a result of the development of Haptic apparatuses. Haptics, the science and technology of tactile sensations is explored in this article by Daniel H. Wilson at Popular Mechanics.
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Editor and writer Jonah Lehrer, recently posted an interesting article in Seed Magazine titled “Out of the Blue, Can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?” In the article there is much talk of: patch clamp technique, eavesdropping on neurological interactions, neuroscience looking to physics, mind modeling, and dizzying sums of data. Blue Brain, a concentration of 8,000 IBM microchips programmed to replicate real neurons and cellular activity inside the brain, was designed and constructed from the bottom up by neuroscientist Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain project at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. I especially dug the probable outcome of the Blue Brain project mentioned early in the article: [click to continue…]
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