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Cell phone radiation protects chitchat addicted mice from Alzheimer’s
Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by Alex.
Time to cross out the first word in your tastefully markered “Not In My Backyard!!!!” posterboards. According to this jaw-dropping study, 96 mice were protected against memory problems from mice Alzheimer’s by daily 1-2 hour phone calls, mostly to the mice next door who were testing bust enhancing drugs.
Interesting to note was that the radiation [...]
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Transparent screens: too soon?
Posted on 09. Jan, 2010 by Alex.
This Samsung laptop prototype has a transparent OLED display. Although it does have some useful applications (who else is excited about Facebook chatting while doing donuts on Mr. Sweenson’s yard?), it’s a little too soon for this technology to have big impacts. Until this can be used on windows, contacts, and ironically aforementioned windshields, this [...]
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The Achilles’ Heel of Aging [SEED Magazine]
Posted on 03. Jan, 2010 by Alex.
Image by Greg_e via Flickr
During my daily scramble to flush all of my free hours down the dirty toilets of the internet, I accidentally found a SEED magazine article which includes a great basic breakdown of why resveratrol is so important to the fight against aging.
In summary: sir2, a human enzyme, has two functions: controlling [...]
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Uruguay Plugs Children into the Yaytrix
Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Alex.
(Just so we’re clear, “the Yaytrix” is what the kids are calling the Grinternet nowadays.)
In accordance with his governmental policy of frenzied Latino passion, Uruguayan president Tabaré Vázquez instituted a program in 2007 that is providing all schoolchildren with their own One Laptop Per Child laptop. The program, which includes internet infrastructure and training, costs [...]
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New feature: Depressing Video of the Day. Today: “Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground”
Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Alex.
Just because you don’t buy blood diamonds from Congolese street vendors or subsidize the beat-stick funds of Uzbeki cotton plantations, doesn’t mean you aren’t committing horrible atrocities every day just by living out your disgusting bourgeoisie life. Enter e-waste, the latest form of the age old dump the rich has been taking on the poor [...]
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Google Goggles – It Had to Happen Sometime
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Alex.
It seems like it was just yesterday that I was making fun of a Google duo trying to explain a new service with video. I won’t spend too much time ripping today’s new one, because I’m too in shock both at the amazingness of this product (and name), and at how someone could [...]
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Rabbits Wear Contact Lens With LED Display, Make Rabbit Friends Jealous
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Alex.
University of Washington professor Babak Parviz has taken humanity one step closer to building Iron Man with a contact lens that possesses a microcircuit-powered LED. Its working control circuits, power circuits, communications circuits, and antenna provide a proof of concept for Augmented Reality lenses that could receive information from a phone or computer and display [...]
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Google gets (more) personal
Posted on 06. Dec, 2009 by Alex.
According to a random singer-songwriter and a guy whose right upper lip is in a fight with the rest of his body, Google is now ranking search results according to what they think you want to find, based on your browsing history.
Though personalization is old news at Google, this has potentially paradigm-shifting results for web [...]
