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Eye implant surgery takes only 30 minutes, restores lost vision from retinal damage.
No, this is not a video from Deus Ex—though it certainly looks and sounds like one to me. Scientists from the US, UK, and Israel have developed a minimally invasive procedure to implant a chip that restores vision to people suffering from macular degeneration. ‘Bio-Retina incorporates various nano-
Toymaker littleBits is scaling up for mass production.
Big things come in small packages, they say. And as it turns out, toymaker littleBits won’t be so little for much longer. They’ve just secured $3.65 million in funding and will soon be ramping up production. The toys are as easy to assemble as Legos—but as sophisticated as you would expect from the
Recurse merges Twister, Keep Away, and the front camera on your iPad
Matt Parker, former Eyebeam fellow and NYC game designer extraordinaire, has just released Recurse, one of the first game’s I’ve ever seen to use the front camera on the iPad. The object is simple — keep your body with the green blocks and avoid the red ones. Simple to play and lightly calesthenic,
fMRI allows you to control a robot with just your thoughts.
Research earlier this year from the Advanced Virtuality Lab at the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel demonstrated that it is possible to control a virtual or robotic avatar with only your mind. While EEG human-computer interaction—like Emotiv—as well as eye-tracking and neural implants have been in
How to moralize the manufacturing of technological addiction.
In a recent article on Tech Crunch, Nir Eyal—a founder of two startups and a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business—admits that he wants you to be addicted to his products. Despite the abounding rhetorical drug associations, he believes that a certain reinterpretation of a
LEPOS is at it again with another street art videogame clip.
KS fave Diego Bergia has a new project called The Primary Invasion and took a run at recreating the Street Fighter 2 car destruction bonus level. Bergia’s a big fan of games and put together an amazing LEPOS exhibition with a fake Neo Geo arcade cabinet.
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