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Comment Re:My phone has a camera (Score 1) 652

by RubberChainsaw (#39199081) Attached to: Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014

If they aren't paying attention their mirrors and turning round to look in their blind spots - what makes you think that they will pay attention to a screen on their dash?

We're talking about Americans, most of whom have been conditioned since childhood to pay close attention to television screens for hours on end. I know that I find that on screen display in my prius naggingly annoying. I have to disable it for long drives.

Comment Re:Slow burn fitness... (Score 3, Informative) 437

by RubberChainsaw (#39056037) Attached to: Scientists Study How Little Exercise You Need
Slow burn is where to raise and lower a weight very slowly (about one rep every 20-30 seconds), while maintaining proper form. The idea is that you can't unconsciously use momentum and leverage to help you lift the weight, hence you will reach full fatigue faster than the standard quick rep method. Since you'll theoretically get a full workout in about 2/3rds the time, you spend less time in the workout overall.
Medicine

Submission + - Pieces of Einstein's Brain Now on Display

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "For nearly half a century the pickled brain of Albert Einstein has roamed the world — in Tupperware containers, courier packages, and, most famously, car trunks but now if you've ever wondered what the brain of a genius looks like, make your way to Philadelphia's Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library where for the first time visitors can view 45 brain slides of the brain of Albert Einstein and see one magnified under a lens. "He was a unique individual," says museum curator Anna Dhody. "and to have the organ that's most associated with intelligence of this great man is a wonderful opportunity." The brain slices have had a strange journey since Einstein's death in 1955 at age 76 from an abdominal aneurism. Pathologist Thomas Harvey completed Einstein's autopsy, then removed Einstein's brain as part of standard autopsy procedure — and failed to put it back. Harvey later said that Einstein's son had given him permission to take the scientist's brain, but the Einstein family disputed that claim. Einstein's brain will be in good company at the museum, which also boasts displays of a tumor from President Glover Cleveland and neck tissue from John Wilkes Booth."
Data Storage

Submission + - Stanford creates everlasting battery electrode (extremetech.com)

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MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "If it wasn’t for one, niggling, deal-breaking factor — reliability — alternative, renewable energy sources would probably overtake fossil fuels in terms of commercial viability and desirability. Wind and solar power plants are awesome, cost-effective, infinite-until-the-Sun-burns-out solutions — but when the sun goes in, or the wind dies down, you need a backup power source. Today, that’s fossil and nuclear power — but thanks to a discovery made by Stanford University researchers, we might soon be able to use batteries. Stanford has developed a new, mega-rugged, high-voltage battery cathode, made from copper nanoparticles, that can survive 40,000 charge/discharge cycles — enough for 30 years of use on the grid. If that wasn't enough, the cathode works with an electrolyte that is water-based and "basically free." To make an actual battery, however, the Stanford researchers now need to find a matching low-voltage anode — but they already have some "promising candidates," so here's hoping."
Medicine

Submission + - Bionic implants and spectrum clash (techworld.com.au)

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "The battle over scarce radio spectrum that has embroiled the mobile broadband world even extends to a little-known type of wireless network that promises to reconnect the human nervous system with paralyzed limbs. At its monthly meeting next week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will consider whether four sets of frequencies between 413MHz and 457MHz can be used by networks of sensors implanted in patients who suffer from various forms of paralysis. One intended purpose of these MMNS (medical micropower network systems) is to transmit movement commands from a sensor on a patient's spinal cord, through a wearable MCU (master control unit), to implants that electrically stimulate nerves."

Submission + - Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eye (newscientist.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: The future of augmented-reality technology is here — as long as you're a rabbit. Bioengineers have placed the first contact lenses containing electronic displays into the eyes of rabbits as a first step on the way to proving they are safe for humans. The bunnies suffered no ill effects, the researchers say.

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