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Researchers Are Creating Robot Avatars That Can Be Operated Using Mind Scans

Researchers Are Creating Robot Avatars That Can Be Operated Using Mind Scans | Science News | Scoop.it

Scientists have developed a robot that can be controlled through mind scans. They hope that the robot could be used to create avatars for people with locked-in syndrome or other conditions that do not allow for movement of the body.


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This is Your Brain on No Self-Control

This is Your Brain on No Self-Control | Science News | Scoop.it

The study could also modify previous thinking that considered self-control to be like a muscle. Hedgcock says his images seem to suggest that it’s like a pool that can be drained by use then replenished through time in a lower conflict environment, away from temptations that require its use.

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A Countdown to a Digital Simulation of Every Last Neuron in the Human Brain

A Countdown to a Digital Simulation of Every Last Neuron in the Human Brain | Science News | Scoop.it

Reductionist biology—examining individual brain parts, neural circuits and molecules—has brought us a long way, but it alone cannot explain the workings of the human brain, an information processor within our skull that is perhaps unparalleled anywhere in the universe. We must construct as well as reduce and build as well as dissect. To do that, we need a new paradigm that combines both analysis and synthesis. The father of reductionism, French philosopher René Descartes, wrote about the need to investigate the parts and then reassemble them to re-create the whole.


 


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Supermarket Scanner Recognizes Objects, Makes Barcodes Obsolete #DigInfo

Supermarket Scanner Recognizes Objects, Makes Barcodes Obsolete DigInfo TV - http://diginfo.tv 6/3/2012 RETAILTECH JAPAN 2012 Toshiba Tec Object Recognition ...
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Bosses finger printing scan all staff at Qantas, Dan Murphy's, Breville and Unomedical

Bosses finger printing scan all staff at Qantas, Dan Murphy's, Breville and Unomedical | Science News | Scoop.it
FINGERPRINT scanners are being used to monitor workers' hours and lunch breaks, with some businesses using the technology to dock employees' pay if they are late.
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[VIDEO] Going 3D: the Latest in CT Scanners

It’s the most advanced imaging scanner in Lee County. When doctors need quick access to better see what’s going on it the body, they can now rely on a new 3D scanner. 3D images are going from the movies into the exam room.
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[VIDEO] Coffin construction

CT scans revealed how the coffin of the teenaged boy Minirdis was constructed.
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Neuroscience: Making connections

Neuroscience: Making connections | Science News | Scoop.it
Is a project to map the brain’s full communications network worth the money?

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Star Trek Tricorder revisited: Toward a genre of medical scanners

Star Trek Tricorder revisited: Toward a genre of medical scanners | Science News | Scoop.it
A hand-held scanner, reminiscent of the fictional Star Trek medical Tricorder, images blood vessels through the skin and projects a map onto the skin showing nurses exactly where to insert a needle.
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