dreams
Science
New Technology Could Display Your Dreams on Screen
3:00AM Sean Fallon | A research team at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Japan has successfully displayed simple images produced in the human brain on a computer screen. Dream recorder anyone? More »
Science
Study Finds the Colour of Dreams Dependent On the Colour of Your Childhood TV
12:00AM John Mahoney | Further evidence that media’s placating massage fingers mine even the deepest jelly regions of our brains, a new study has claimed to prove the long-thought notion that the type of TV and film exposure during youth drastically affects the colour of dreams, even much later into life. In the study, only 4.4 percent of those who grew up with colour TV reported dreaming in B&W, but those who were raised on Howdy Doody and other monochrome entertainments had colourless dreams nearly 25 percent of the time. More »
Design
Dream Captcha: Type The Characters You See Here For Nightmare Protection
2:30AM John Mahoney | Spam bots deserve every nightmare. Jeffrey Augustine’s Dream Captcha updates a familiar faux-cultural symbol with the security layer consumers expect from their nocturnal hallucination protection device. [Jeffrey Augustine via Neat-o-Rama] More »
Gadgets
DIY Sleeping Mask Puts You In Control of Your Dreams
9:50AM Benny Goldman | There’s a Lucid Dream Machine sleeping mask on Instructables that pulses LEDs in your eyelids four hours after you fall asleep, waking you up just enough to notice your dreams and control their outcomes. The mask requires a fair bit of soldering and programming experience, so it isn’t for DIY luddites like me. Which is good, because my sleep is too precious and my dreams are too weird to want one of these anyway. [Instructables via Make] More »
Phones
LGs “Innovation Challenge”: Design Your Dream Phone and Win Money, Gadgets
11:00AM Sean Fallon | The folks at LG must be running out of ideas because they are once again tapping the general public for new designs. Earlier this month, they launched a touchscreen UI contest, but now they have moved on to hardware with the Innovation Challenge. The goal: design your dream phone. The payoff: LG will manufacture your phone (one of which you get to keep), pay you $10,000 and adorn your pad with a LG 52″ LCD TV and a HD-DVD (whaa?) or a Blu-ray player. Better hurry though, the contest ends on 4/30. [LG Innovation Challenge] More »
Robots
