Paralysed woman moves robot with her mind

Cathy Hutchinson has been unable to move her own arms or legs for 15 years. But using the most advanced brain-machine interface ever developed, she can steer a robotic arm towards a bottle, pick it up, and drink her morning coffee. The interface includes a sensor implanted in Cathy's brain, which 'reads' her thoughts, and a decoder, which turns her thoughts into instructions for the robotic arm. In this video, watch Cathy control the arm and hear from the team behind the pioneering study.
LINK: Youtube

Obsessively Detailed Doodles of Sagaki Keita

Found at a Friends Blog. Be sure to check it out. Very interesting Site.


Arbyn's Cloud Mind

Achievements Of The Human Mind

“Man is a fortunate species. The marvelous (and still largely mysterious) complexity of the human brain has gifted him with speech, language, and the power of creative, abstract thought. Over thousands of years our intelligence has given us tools and technology, art and science, society and civilization. We now possess a treasure house of intellectual achievements in which all of us can take a pride. I present here ten works of superlative genius, in no particular order.” LINK

Mr. Hudson - White Lies

Boy haven't we all heard a few of these. LINK: Vimeo

Louis Vuitton Journeys Awards - Aurore

“A man travels through his senses, and through the other’s body, discovers his own.”

Full story at the Vimeo link.

Thought-terminating cliches

A thought-terminating cliché is a commonly used phrase, sometimes passing as folk wisdom, used to quell cognitive dissonance. Though the phrase in and of itself may be valid in certain contexts, its application as a means of dismissing dissent or justifying fallacious logic is what makes it thought-terminating.

* "Whatever."
* "We will have to agree to disagree."
* "I'm just sayin'."
* "Such is life."
* "Think about it."
* "God works in mysterious ways."
* "Love it or leave it."
* "That's a conspiracy theory."


Many more examples at Wikipedia. (Via: tywkiwdbi)

Computer can Tell You What You’re Looking at by Reading Your Mind

Neuroscientists from UC Berkeley have developed a rudimentary brain scanner that can "read your mind" to tell you what you’re looking at:

The scientists used a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine — a real-time brain scanner — to record the mental activity of a person looking at thousands of random pictures: people, animals, landscapes, objects, the stuff of everyday visual life. With those recordings the researchers built a computational model for predicting the mental patterns elicited by looking at any other photograph. When tested with neurological readouts generated by a different set of pictures, the decoder passed with flying colors, identifying the images seen with unprecedented accuracy. LINK, Via: Neatorama