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Hacked Brainwave Headset Lets You Control Architecture By Thinking
In the age of ubiquitous computing, we’ve grown fairly used to infrastructure, objects and even furniture that adapt to the presence of humans. But what if you could control the behaviour of a wall or room simply by thinking harder?
Watching Your Brain Freak Out On A Scanner Calms You Down
People who observed their own brain activity using real-time fMRI feedback were better able to control and reduce their anxiety, a new study says. In a quirky new experiment, researchers at Yale University found that simply showing people what their anxious brains look like was enough to help those subjects lessen their anxiety.
What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains
You love the internet. You’re not alone, obviously. That guy in the cubicle next to you is on the internet too. That girl checking her email while walking down the street loves the internet too. Your mum who messages you on Facebook, yeah, she’s on it too. Everybody uses the internet. But what is the internet, a drug that everyone takes, doing to our brains?
Science Finds Fountain Of Youth Brain Region That Slows Down Ageing
Eternal or even elongated life is an idiotic thing to wish for. You don’t want to get old, and then tack on 50 more years of wrinkles and Metamucil. But prolonged youth? Full body youth? More time being young and nubile and beautiful? Absolutely. And the key to that could lie right inside your brain.
Australian Neural Implant Prototype Knows When Your Next Seizure Will Strike
Epilepsy affects some 60 million people worldwide, and for 40 per cent of them, the drugs don’t work — conventional treatments show no effect against their disease. And while the seizures themselves are generally brief, the constant gnaw of not knowing when the next one will strike severely impacts patients’ quality of life. This prototype early warning implant could give epileptics the freedom to live their lives.
These Brain-Hugging Transistors Will Make Real-Life Cyborgs
Transistors were one of the most revolutionary developments in modern computing. And that was without directly implanting them in our brains. Now, the first microscopic organic transistor arrays promise to let us do just that.
Happy Hour: Why Do We Get Emotional When We Drink?
Drinking influences our personalities in a variety of ways. Some people get happy. Others turn combative orimpulsive. At one time or another, though, we’ve all been the emotional drunk, a condition typically marked by ill-timed espousals of affection (or reprisal), acute introspection, and an uncontrollable urge to cry in the middle of a crowded bar.
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