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Comment Small fizzle, but solar cycle 24 is interesting. (Score 1) 131

by velocirupture on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @08:37AM (#35208328) Attached to: Sun Produces First Cycle 24 X-Class Solar Flare

It's just an X2.2 R3 "event". Which means, in worst case: "HF Radio: Wide area blackout of HF radio communication, loss of radio contact for about an hour on sunlit side of Earth." "Navigation: Low-frequency navigation signals degraded for about an hour." In 2003 there was a solar flare at X28++ ... don't think anyone remembers that. It might however be somewhat interesting for people following cycle 24, with all the sunspot magnetic fields progressively getting weaker and all... http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php/111142-Solar-Cycle-24-Update

Comment Video of RC Beetle (Score 1) 101

by velocirupture on Friday February 20, 2009 @08:00PM (#26936767) Attached to: DARPA Creates Remote Controlled Insects

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFguLwUT5lg. they don't mention range though...

Comment Re:How much of a rise? (Score 1) 877

by velocirupture on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @09:07PM (#26287279) Attached to: Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow?

~7cm yearly past 3, 1-1,5cm norm.

Electrode Implant Gives Mute Man a (Synthesized) Voice 58

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 04, 2008 @07:12PM from the paradoxically-enough dept.

Iddo Genuth writes with an excerpt from The Future of Things: "A surgical procedure performed by a team from Boston University, Massachusetts led by Professor Frank Guenther, has enabled a mute man to speak again. An electrode implanted in the patient's brain made it possible for the patient to produce vowels by thinking them, using a speech synthesizer. In the future, this breakthrough may help patients with similar injuries produce entire sentences, using signals from their brains."

Submission + - Monkey Makes Robot Walk Using Only Her Neurons (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by geekbits on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:00PM

geekbits writes: For all those who have at one time or another been too lazy to get up off the couch and go to the fridge and get a beer, heat up some pizza, or change the channel when the remote is missing, we may be one step closer to being able to keep our tushes parked just a little while longer. There may also be some slightly more noble implications here. According to an article in The New York Times, in an experiment at Duke University, a'12-pound, 32-inch monkey made a 200-pound, 5-foot humanoid robot walk on a treadmill using only her brain activity. She was in North Carolina, and the robot was in Japan.'

Submission + - Virtual robots fooled by visual illusions

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Sunday September 30, 2007 @11:23AM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "Researchers at University College London (UCL) have written a computer program using neural networks which are duped by optical illusions the same way as we do. Their virtual robots, which were trained to 'see' like us, could help to understand why we fall for optical illusions. This might also be important for robot vision. If robots are trained to 'see' like us, they will act like us — and make mistakes. Very interesting... But read more for additional references and one of the visual illusions featured on the Web site of the lead researcher for this project."

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