OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
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Via Modern Mechanix: Reading Thoughts by Radio Can thoughts be read by radio? "Madam Radora" seems to prove that they can. Madam is not a human being, but a life-size automaton shown at the Permanent Radio Fair in New York. Her "thoughts" and movements are controlled entirely by wireless; no...
Posted on January 25, 2008 4:08 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The memory-evaluation study, headed by Dr. Franklin McCarroll of New York University's School of Psychology, revealed that approximately 47 percent of Jenkins' hippocampus is dedicated to storing notable video-game victories and frustrating last-minute defeats, while 32 percent of his amygdala contains embedded neurological scripts pertaining to game strategies, character back...
Posted on January 12, 2008 10:50 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The mind is a complicated and a still very much unknown entity. The earliest conceptions of the mind didn't even have it placed in the brain, instead it was very much separate from the body. This is of course all very silly, the only possibility is that the mind wholly...
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Posted on January 4, 2008 6:29 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The answer is a resounding sorta. Scientists at Harvard have done that calculations and found that "the aerodynamics of a flexible, rippling sheet moving through a fluid" ... should make it "possible to make one that will stay aloft in air." However, No such carpet is going to ferry people...
Posted on December 23, 2007 8:09 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There are many brain fitness software products available these days so when I was offered a copy of Core Learning's program Mind Builder, I agreed to check it out. It offers a series of test questions similar to America's SAT, while Mind Builder Pro is a fuller package that...
Posted on December 17, 2007 8:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In a parody of Make Magazine projects, Austrian group Monochrom demonstrate how to create a brain computer interface, a.k.a. braicin, using household materials like duct tape, old ice skates, a vintage calculator, and onions in alcohol ("preferably Romanian"). Via Boing Boing TV. Link to extended director's uncut version (shown here)....
Posted on December 14, 2007 8:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Omni Brain met its fundraising goal of $1000 for music education programs through DonorsChoose. Thank you to everyone who's donated. You rock! Now 30 kids will too. But it'd be okay, you know, permissible (haha) to exceed our goal if you'd still like to help a Lisa Simpson. A...
Posted on October 24, 2007 8:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Congratulations Russia on your great new bomb that is nicknamed the "dad of all bombs" and is four times more powerful than the U.S. "mother of all bombs." "The tests have shown that the new air-delivered ordnance is comparable to a nuclear weapon in its efficiency and capability," said Col.-Gen....
Posted on September 12, 2007 12:42 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 on September 11, 2007 8:57 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 on September 11, 2007 9:36 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Steve Higgins is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, Steve is a real graduate student at a real school.
