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Comment Might be able to help... (Score 1) 552

by cjardin on Thursday June 05, 2014 @03:24PM (#47174213) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Communication With Locked-in Syndrome Patient?

I am a little gun-shy about commenting; Been reading Slashdot daily since lat 90's but I think this is the first time I have ever commented.. That said, I am unable to get this story out of my head on the basis I might be able to help... Although I am a Machine Learning Computer Scientist, I have been working with EEG technologies for the last 6 years.. If you have not had anyone reach out and offer help, please let me know and would be happy to see what I can do.. not sure how I give you my contact info, but happy to chat about it... Again.. Sorry for being such a newbie..

Fusion-io IoXtreme's Consumer-Class PCIe SSD — Impressive Throughput 110

Posted by timothy on Monday November 16, 2009 @05:40PM from the annoying-use-of-the-word-play dept.

MojoKid writes "When Fusion-io's first ioDrive product hit the market, it was claimed to be a 'disruptive technology' by some industry analysts, with the potential to set the storage industry on its ear. Of course the first version of the ioDrive was an enterprise-class product that showed the significant potential of PCI Express direct-attached SSD storage, but its cost was such that the mainstream market couldn't possibly justify it, no matter what the upside performance looked like. Then we heard of Fusion-io's more consumer-targeted play, the ioXtreme, that was announced this past summer. Fusion-io has only very recently released these new, lower cost cards to market. The first-ever full performance review of the product over at HotHardware shows the half-height PCI Express X4 cards are capable of a robust 800MB/sec read bandwidth and about 300MB/sec of write bandwidth. The cards particularly excel versus a standard SSD at random read/write requests and even perform relatively well with small block transfers."

Carbon Nanotube Solar Cells On the Horizon 150

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @10:50AM from the on-the-horizon-they're-closest-to-the-sun dept.

MikeChino writes Carbon nanotube news abounds as of late, and the next application for the up and coming material may be hyper-efficient and economical solar cells. Led by professor Paul McEuen, researchers at Cornell recently tested a simple solar cell (called a photodiode) crafted from a single carbon nanotube. Surprisingly, researchers discovered that more light shined on the nanotube created even more electricity, a huge difference from today's silicon solar cells where excess energy is lost in the form of heat rather than used to create more electricity."

Liposuction Leftovers Make Easy Stem Cells 67

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @12:36PM from the our-nation-is-wealthy-again dept.

uuddlrlrab sends along this quote from a report in Nature: "The Stanford researchers used liposuction to extract a couple liters of fat from the bellies of four overweight individuals aged 40 to 65. They then treated the tissue to remove all the gooey, globular fat, leaving behind a collection of fat tissue stem cells. Unlike standard techniques, which require about a month to culture skin biopsies to populations large enough for the reprogramming process, the fat tissue was ready to go after two days of pretreatment. What's more, the cellular reprogramming took only two more weeks and was 20-times more efficient than when converting fibroblasts using the same technique. 'We basically shave off six to eight weeks compared to what the other guys are doing with fibroblasts,' says [Stanford's Joseph Wu], who is now working to find safer ways to reprogram fat without using viruses."

Wired Writer Disappears, Find Him and Make $5k 135

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @01:28PM from the hiding-in-plain-sight dept.

carp3_noct3m writes "A freelance Wired magazine journalist has decided to see what it is like to disappear from normal life, all while staying on the grid. The catch, is that he is challenging anyone and everyone to find him, take a picture, and speak a special codeword to him. If you can do that, you can make 5000 dollars, which happens to come out of his paycheck for the article he'll be writing. Oh, and to top it all off, whoever finds him gets pictures and interviews in Wired. He has been posting to his Twitter, using TOR for internet, and the Wired website will be posting his credit card transactions."

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