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here come the thought police: fmri and mindreading studies

fmri mindreading

Science is now a little bit closer to revealing the true you, thanks to research from Rutgers and UCLA researches on fMRIs, or functional MRIs. Can these brainscans read your thoughts? Not quite, but nosy scientists can get a general idea more than half the time!

The researches scanned the brains of 130 volunteers as…

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July 25th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

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clock-a-doodle-doo: time telling magna doodle hack

Clock-a-Doodle-Doo

This unique electromechanical clock is like a cross between a Magna Doodle and an Etch-a-Sketch.

Using a modified Magna Doodle as the basis for their display, the Clock-a-Doodle-Doo is the brainchild of a recent UCLA mechanical engineering class.
The clock uses a XY plotter-like mechanism to “draw” the current time by neatly arranging the magnetic…

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August 9th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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