If you’re old enough to remember the cassette tape, you’re also old enough to remember the pure joy of creating a mixtape for someone. Sennheiser is hoping to remind you of those glory days with a new Facebook app that lets you – wait for it – create a virtual mixtape for your special someone. More »
Memory is a fickle thing. As far as my brain is concerned, I didn’t exist before age three. Remembering four or five is easier, but there are holes. Thankfully, all it takes are some voyeuristic navigation tools to fill them. More »
The Salman Rushdie archive on display at Emory, with its handwritten journals and 18GB scattered across four Apple computers, is unlike any other – you can log in to a computer, search his folders, scan his Stickies, run his apps. More »
Eerily similar to the memory-erasing concepts in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, researchers have found a chemical that has proven to target and erase specific long-term memories, which could be useful in treating people with severe phobias or post-traumatic stress disorders. However, although these tests have been producing amazing results in mice brains, human memories are so much more complex that it could still be a while before you can forget that time you pissed your pants while giving your Abraham Lincoln presentation in the second grade, and Helen Vanderly, the cutest girl at school, pointed and laughed at you. Remember: although you may be able to one day forget, it doesn’t mean that others will too! [Technology Review]
