Neuroscience
- Teleneurosurgery
First - Omni Brain has moved to ScienceBlogs.com, part of the Seed Media Group responsible for many interesting projects (see Phylotaxis). Steve and I will continue to post brain silliness, for lots more readers. My blog attention has been focussed on...
- Interview With Steven Hackworth
Steven Hackworth is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Pittsburgh who worked on the DBS-RF (a wireless deep brain stimulator) as well as the Radio Frequency-powered Neural Stimulator (RFNS) vagus nerve stimulator system. He's now doing research...
- “if I Cover My Eyes I’ll Be Hidden” – How Young Children Understand Visibility
Young children aged between two and four years believe that you only have to hide your head to become invisible – if your legs are on view, it doesn’t matter, you still can’t be seen. That’s according to Nicola McGuigan and Martin Doherty who...
- Robotic Exoskeletons - Handy At Work And Home
Great work by Tsukuba University: "An exoskeleton that can be worn by a human is a new type of robot under development at Tsukuba University. It's called Hybrid Assistive Limb, HAL for short, and anyone who wears it has potential to lift up to 10-times...
- Stroke And The Myomo E100
From today's New York Times: In Latest Robotics, New Hope for Stroke Patients By AMANDA SCHAFFER The New York Times Published: July 10, 2007 Mary O’Regan more or less ignored her left arm for 20 years. As a sophomore in college, in 1986, she fell...
Neuroscience
Remote "whiskers" for long-distance haptic sensing (via IR!)
Quite clever; I should have come up with this myself. I did suggest something like this for a haptic cane for the blind, but nothing as clever as 360* IR "whiskers".
New Scientist Technology Blog: Head-mounted device is the cat's whiskers
New Scientist Technology Blog: Head-mounted device is the cat's whiskers
"...Check out this head-mounted haptic device developed by researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan. It lets a wearer "feel" their surroundings from a distance, roughly as if they had several long whiskers sticking out of the head. At least, that's what the researchers say.
A series of infrared sensors positioned around the device act as invisible whisker or antenna sensors. When these detect an object, a small motor vibrates on the appropriate side of the wearer's head to alert them."
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- Teleneurosurgery
First - Omni Brain has moved to ScienceBlogs.com, part of the Seed Media Group responsible for many interesting projects (see Phylotaxis). Steve and I will continue to post brain silliness, for lots more readers. My blog attention has been focussed on...
- Interview With Steven Hackworth
Steven Hackworth is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Pittsburgh who worked on the DBS-RF (a wireless deep brain stimulator) as well as the Radio Frequency-powered Neural Stimulator (RFNS) vagus nerve stimulator system. He's now doing research...
- “if I Cover My Eyes I’ll Be Hidden” – How Young Children Understand Visibility
Young children aged between two and four years believe that you only have to hide your head to become invisible – if your legs are on view, it doesn’t matter, you still can’t be seen. That’s according to Nicola McGuigan and Martin Doherty who...
- Robotic Exoskeletons - Handy At Work And Home
Great work by Tsukuba University: "An exoskeleton that can be worn by a human is a new type of robot under development at Tsukuba University. It's called Hybrid Assistive Limb, HAL for short, and anyone who wears it has potential to lift up to 10-times...
- Stroke And The Myomo E100
From today's New York Times: In Latest Robotics, New Hope for Stroke Patients By AMANDA SCHAFFER The New York Times Published: July 10, 2007 Mary O’Regan more or less ignored her left arm for 20 years. As a sophomore in college, in 1986, she fell...