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Submission + - Scientists Demonstrate First Direct Brain to Brain Communication Over Internet (eurekalert.org)

Submitted by anzha
anzha writes: Scientists working with experimental subjects Spain and France demonstrated direct brain to brain communication without intrusive surgery. The words 'ciao' and 'hola' were encoded via electroencephalogram (EEG) and decoyed via transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). An error rate of 11 percent was detected on the decoding side and 5 percent on the encoding. Synthetic telepathy is coming. Is the next big thing the 'Thinking Cap?'

Submission + - DogeCoin to the Moon via a Google Lunar X PRIZE Team (revuprender.com)

Submitted by anzha
anzha writes: After sponsoring a NASCAR racer, DogeCoin's community has wondered, "What next?" The answer is literally "To The Moon!" RevUp Render is sponsoring a DogeCoin promoting micro rover challenge, the Lunar Iditarod. The micro rovers, called DogeSleds, are the size of an smart phone and will be first qualified and then raced here on Earth. The top three competitors will be placed on a Google Lunar X PRIZE team's lunar lander to conduct a short, nine meter race on the moon itself. Registration opens on May 21st and closes July 31st for the first race. The first quarterly race will take place September 5th through September 7th. The event will be public and in the San Francisco Bay Area. All teams, international and American, are welcome, but be forewarned, all fees are in...dogecoin!

Comment Re:Reflective Armor (Score 1) 173

by anzha (#45708025) Attached to: Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test
answer is no. HELSTF did a bunch of tests during the 1980s with spinning reflective cylinders against different laser powers. The results were surprisingly negative for protection: the battlefield is dirty/mirrors like to be clean and mirrors for lasers tend to be VERY wavelength sensitive.

Submission + - U Washington Demonstrates First Brain to Brain Interface 1

Submitted by anzha
anzha writes: Researchers at the University of Washington have successfully demonstrated the first brain to brain interface. One college successfully controlled another's movements. The implications of the demonstration of the technology is pretty profound, even if its in a very early and ideal form. Beginning of Star Trek's Borg? Or David Gerrold's Teep Corps?

Submission + - Researcher controls colleague's brain from remote location (washington.edu)

Submitted by vinces99
vinces99 writes: University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motions of a fellow researcher. Using electrical brain recordings and a form of magnetic stimulation, Rajesh Rao sent a brain signal to Andrea Stocco on the other side of the UW campus, causing Stocco's finger to move on a keyboard. The researchers believe this is the first demonstration of human-to-human brain interfacing. Rao looked at a computer screen and played a simple video game with his mind. When he was supposed to fire a cannon at a target, he imagined moving his right hand (but didn't actually move it) to cause a cursor to hit the "fire" button. Almost instantaneously, Stocco, who wore noise-canceling earbuds and wasn't looking at a computer screen, involuntarily moved his right index finger to push the space bar on the keyboard in front of him, as if firing the cannon. Stocco, who jokingly referred to the phenomenon as "the Vulcan mind meld," compared the feeling of his hand moving involuntarily to that of a nervous tic.

Submission + - Has Supercomputing Hit the Shoulder of the Sigmoid? 1

Submitted by anzha
anzha writes: Horst Simon, Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has stood up at conferences of late and said the unthinkable: supercomputing is hitting a wall and will not build an exaflop HPC system by 2020. This is defined as one that passes linpack with a performance of one exaflop sustained or better. He's even placed money on it. You can read the original presentation here.

Comment Re:Speaking as a Team Leader... (Score 1) 74

by anzha (#39740559) Attached to: In Google's Moon Race, Teams Face a Reckoning
AFAIK, no. If there is someone to talk to about that, point me that way! That'd be awesome and I'd happily list /. as a backer/sponsor. That said, if you are looking for an open source team, you are looking at FredNet. If you are looking for the Silicon Valley big money team, you are looking at Moon Express. If you are looking at the university student/professor teams, you are looking at Astrobotic, PennState, and Omega Envoy. If you are looking for the traditional aerospace guys, you are looking at Rocket City Space Pioneers. If you are looking for very STEM oriented, educator focused, you are looking at JURBAN. If you are looking for the scrappy Silicon Valley startup, that'd be us: Team Phoenicia. There are more. Go to the Google Lunar X Prize website (http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams) to check us all out. Take a look at what Mike Doornbos of evadot has to say through his rankings of the teams: http://evadot.com/glxpscorecard/

Comment Re:Speaking as a Team Leader... (Score 1) 74

by anzha (#39740389) Attached to: In Google's Moon Race, Teams Face a Reckoning
The Romanians considered the rockoon approach and discarded it. Instead they are building - yes, really! - a rocket powered seaplane to do an air launch of their rocket carrying their moonbot. They are nuts. And they are soooo fscking awesome. The problem with the rockoon is that even once you are outside the atmosphere, you are still subject to the rocket equation of getting to the moon with the delta V. Some things just don't scale down well.

Comment Speaking as a Team Leader... (Score 3, Interesting) 74

by anzha (#39738455) Attached to: In Google's Moon Race, Teams Face a Reckoning
The single biggest problem that any team is facing is getting cash and sufficient cash to pay for a launch. This has been a problem for Astrobotic (and why they have postponed to 2015). This has been an issue for Moon Express. This is an issue for Rocket City Space Pioneers. And, yes, it is an issue for Team Phoenicia (my own team). For FredNet, too. Getting material donations has not been difficult. Just the $. That's why Team Phoenicia has been selling engines and rockets. If you want to help and not just snark, go to your favourite team's website and hit the donate button. They all have them. If /. or any other entity would use the /. effect to that end, it'd be a wondrous and helpful thing.

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