We've seen more eyesight restoration efforts than we could easily count , but rather than tooting their horn about some theoretical discovery, boffins at Kings College Hospital in London are actually putting their hard work to use on real, live human brings. The new process, which goes by the name brachytherapy, is a...
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" We have captured it! First circulating beam of 2009!" And with that tweet, researchers at CERN announced that they did in fact activate the Large Hadron Collider , after quite a long delay and despite warnings of a looming, nefarious Higgs boson . Whether or not we will have had total destruction...
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For many, the consequences of constant gaming dwell within the subconscious. Dreams of making that perfect KO or impalement by tetrimino are common enough, but do they actually improve game play? A recent study at the Harvard Medical School asked a similar question, and yielded some surprising results. The study used the well-loved...
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One of the earliest exposures for children to the way that technology actually works is the pinhole camera. A shoebox, a pinhole, a piece of photo-sensitive paper and a finger doubling as the shutter has demystified that magic, picture taking box for millions of kids of all ages. Making a pinhole camera —...
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Amazon’s Kindle has received some unwelcome bad press thanks to the National Federation of the Blind. The organization has announced that the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University will put on hold on any roll out of the Kindle DX device. The rub seems to be that the organization does not believe the...
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For the most part, the zero bar phenomenon for most cell phone users is a thing of the past, with a few esoteric exceptions like the Antarctic ice climber and Indonesian cast away. A thick network of cellular towers the world over supplies at least some reception to the vast majority of the...
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If you are looking for a stylish portable time piece that won’t let you down as far as accuracy is concerned, then consider this Atomic Pocket Watch to keep you from being late to your next meeting. Made from surgical-grade stainless steel and sporting both analog and LCD watch faces, once a day...
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The basics The X-Rite ColorMunki Design is a unique multi-function color calibration and capture tool aimed at the professional graphic design market. It profiles and calibrates monitors and printers, but as an added bonus feature, it can read color off of any surface.
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The CEO of Nvidia, Apple’s key GPU partner, has agitated spirits on a recent trip to Dubai by demoing a cool tablet prototype that the media deemed Apple’s. Not so fast! When Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang participated in a round-table discussion following a speech he gave at American University of Dubai on Monday,...
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With the ubiquitous colored song birds of their logo, manufacturer Viewsonic have long given consumers a decent deal on decent, if not spectacular, display hardware. I have one of their LCD monitors myself, and have never had much reason to complain, for the price. Today, however, Viewsonic announced that they were releasing a...
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