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Virtual Walt Disney World Added To
Google Earth
Top Tech News June 6, 2008
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Disney and Google have announced
Walt Disney World Resort in 3-D. All
four theme parks and more than 20
Disney Resort hotels of the Orlando,
Fla., tourist destination have been
placed on Google Earth. Users "can
zoom down Main Street, USA, fly
around Cinderella Castle, explore
Spaceship Earth and climb the Tree
of Life," and plan a...
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'Skin-tenna' wireless signals creep
over human skin
New Scientist Tech June 6, 2008
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A wireless antenna that channels
signals along human skin could
broadcast signals over your body to
connect up medical implants such as
pacemakers or portable gadgets.
(QUB/W Scanlon) Developed at Queen's
University in Belfast, the new
design's ability to produce signals
that travel along the skin makes it
more efficient than existing...
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Silicon chip filters out cancer
cells (article preview)
New Scientist June 7, 2008
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Princeton University and Boston
University researchers have
developed a silicon wafer that can
isolate cancer cells by separating
them out according to size....
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Blocking chemical lets cells feast
on brain plaques
New Scientist news service June 8, 2008
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Yale University researchers have
found that transgenic mice
predisposed to develop brain
plaques, and with a gene that also
blocks TGF-beta, performed better on
various mazes than mice with brain
plaques alone, and had up to 90 per
cent fewer plaques in their brains.
Blocking TGF-beta apparently allowed
macrophages (immune cells that
digest...
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Researchers Design Band-Aid-Size
Tactile Display
PhysOrg.com June 6, 2008
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Researchers from Sungkyunkwan
University in Korea and the
University of Nevada have developed
a flexible tactile display that can
wrap around the fingertip, palm, or
arm. (Ig Mo Koo, et al.) The key
material in the display is an
electroactive polymer that can
stimulate the skin. It consists of
eight layers of dielectric elastomer
actuator...
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Origins of the brain: Complex
synapses drove brain evolution
PhysOrg.com June 8, 2008
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Contrary to current thinking, it is
the increase in number and
complexity of synapse proteins--with
the evolution of invertebrates and
vertebrates--that accounts for more
sophisticated thought in larger
animals, not size alone, say
scientists in the Genes to Cognition
Program at the Wellcome Trust Sanger
Institute. Simple invertebrate
species...
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The future of e-paper: The Kindle
is only the beginning
Computerworld June 6, 2008
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Displays on devices like the Kindle
and its rival, the Sony Reader 505,
are beginning to provide the
contrast and resolution of
traditional ink on paper. But the
technology is rapidly moving to
plastic substrates that will make
e-paper almost as flexible as paper,
and color e-paper displays, expected
to be available in two or three
years....
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Tracking the Immune System
Technology Review June 9, 2008
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Scientists at UCLA's Jonsson
Comprehensive Cancer Center have
developed an imaging probe for
positron emission tomography (PET)
that tracks an immune response
throughout the body as it fights off
cancer and infection. (UCLA's
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center)
The probe measures systemic immune
response by monitoring the "DNA
salvage...
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Adapting Websites to Users
Technology Review June 9, 2008
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Researchers at MIT's Sloan School
of Management hope to make websites
better at selling products by making
them adapt automatically to each
visitor, presenting information in a
way that complements the user's
cognitive style, as indicated by
click...
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Moving Mountains With the Brain,
Not a Joystick
New York Times June 8, 2008
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The new EPOC headset system from
Emotiv Systems picks up electrical
activity from the brain, and from
facial muscles and other spots, and
translates it into on-screen
commands for video games and other
uses. (Jim Wilson/The New York
Times) A similar headset just
announced by OCZ Technology Group
uses muscle signals alone....
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Military Supercomputer Sets Record
New York Times June 9, 2008
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The "Roadrunner" supercomputer,
built by IBM and Los Alamos National
Laboratory scientists, has reached a
computing milestone by processing
one thousand trillion calculations
per second (a petaflop). It is more
than twice as fast as the IBM
BlueGene/L, the previous record
holder, which is based at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, and...
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