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Steve Higgins is sometimes a Psychologist, sometimes a Neuroscientist, and sometimes even a Human Factors Engineer. He works for the U.S. Government. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Psychology.
Category: Drugs
Mind Hacks has alerted us to some amazing engineering from Harvard University: A team from Harvard Medical School are interested in how smoked marijuana affects the brain, but have come to the inevitable conclusion that it's actually quite hard smoking a joint when you're lying on your back being brain...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 10:22 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Brain Toys
A group funded by the Royal College of art has created an ice cream dispenser named Dr. Whippy. The good doctor will dispense a prescription for ice cream if you sound sufficiently miserable. It is based on a voice-stress analysis of various answers to questions it asks. Check it out,...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 8:57 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
Head over to Mind Hacks for more MRI madness! There you will read about the many examples of all the stupid shit people brought into the room with a big freakin' magnet and ended up flying across the room (and sometimes tragically killing someone). Here at Omni Brain we figured...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 9:36 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Parapsychology
Growing up I used to read Omni magazine and would always see all sorts of devices that supposedly could induce lucid dreams or tapes that had subliminal messages recorded along with Bach to create special brain states where you'd be particularly receptive to messages like - "you will be psychic......
Posted by The Omnibrain at 2:33 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychology
Ok... not really at home (Are they really suggesting in the picture that you can do it yourself?). There are now some relatively simple consumer devices on the market that will let your Psychiatrist wave his magic wand over your head, helping to alleviate your depressive symptoms in his office...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 9:18 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neurotech & Robotics
The first story is from Wired and focusses on the use of neuroscience techniques (fMRI, EEG, etc.) to help soldiers be more effective killers. Since 2000, Darpa, the Pentagon's blue-sky research arm, has spearheaded a far-flung, nearly $70 million effort to build prototype cockpits, missile control stations and infantry trainers...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 11:20 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychology
Sometimes when I'm futzing around the web looking for interesting pieces of news a theme just seems to pop out at me. Today it happens to be the over reliance and distractions of technology. The first story is an old one... The elderly German motorist set out sans a clue...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 11:09 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Mind Control Pigeons poop on command.
Posted by The Omnibrain at 10:51 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Brain Toys
An interesting youtube video from the Discovery Channel featuring the research of Chance Spalding. The video features a monkey who can control a robotic arm with the implanted electrodes in its brain. via boingboing...
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Category: Video
Video of robot fish.
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