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the internet is fantastic. you can explore an effectively infinite space while eating pringles. some rooms of the giant jungle gym have leaves, some have ferns, and some have animated gifs of baby jesus. you never know precisely what you’ll find, and there’s enough that the joy of discovery rarely fades… but you can still have at least some say in where the results go, leaving you feeling comfortably in control. [click to continue…]

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Epically Evolved Human Machine Interfacing

March 18, 2008

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 [...]

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Blue Brain, Simulated Rat Brain Consciousness

March 4, 2008

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 [...]

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