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5 Cups of Coffee Protects you from Alzheimer’s Disease!

Posted on June 30, 2010 by max

My grandmother has the dreaded Alzheimer’s Disease, she doesn’t even remember me anymore.

But the good news if that scientists have figured out that coffee is good for your brain. In fact, drinking 5 cups of coffee protects you from Alzheimer’s Disease.

Well, I drink about 4 cups a day, I guess I will have to get a bit more jittery.

They’ve found that adding caffeinated water to rodents’ diet results in big improvements. The mice perform better on short-term memory and thinking tests. But only if they get enough caffeine.

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Breaking Medical News – Scientists Restore a Blind Eye with Stem Cells!

Posted on December 26, 2009 by max

Here’s a breaking medical news where scientists have restored a man’s blind eye with stem cells.   Perhaps one day, every blind person in the world don’t have to be blind no more.  Amazing.

Eye surgeons at the North East England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI), has almost completely restored the vision of Russell Turnbull who was blinded in one eye by a chemical attack.

The attack, which badly burned and scarred Russell (38) as he intervened to stop a fight, left him with permanent blurred sight and pain whenever he blinked.

Now, however, his sight has

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Brain Controlled Robot From Japan!

Posted on July 13, 2009 by max

We’ve had many previous blog posts on brain-controlled robots.  Well, here’s another one to keep your mind interested!

Japan scientists at the Honda Research Institute have unveiled the world’s first brain to machine interface. Dubbed BMI short for Brain Machine Interface this new technology system will enable people to control robots using their mind.

via hackedgadgets

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DIY OLED Christmas Tree from GE!

Posted on December 26, 2008 by max

Well, I have been literally getting thousands of requests for help on my Christmas Controller every year (and increasing annually, sorry if I haven’t got back to you yet), but here’s a really cool OLED Christmas Tree!

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqMXk3mntOQ

In the spirit of the Holiday season, GE showcases its OLED technology in a relevant fashi

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World’s Strongest Man Made Tornado Rules!

Posted on June 14, 2008 by max

Watch the vid and see the world’s strongest man made tornade in action!

This must be great way for scientists to discover ways to stop tornados too.

You may have seen this man-made wonder

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Scientists now can control Insect Movement!

Posted on June 10, 2008 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCLBG9KeX4

Wow, this is something that could get out of hand like a scary movie.  What if someone evil controlled like 100 million beetles or somethin’?  Scary…

DARPA’s goal is to create cyborg insects that can fly at least 100 metres from their controller and land within 5 metres of a target, then stay put until commanded to buzz off again. How the insects will be guid

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Roadrunner Supercomputer – The Fastest $133 Million computer in the World!

Posted on June 9, 2008 by max

I’ve always been fond of supercomputers and I even did a college final project on supercomputers. (That’s 10 years ago..)

Here’s Roadrunner Supercomputer, based out of Los Alamos National Laboratory, supposedly a lot faster than the now-runner-up BlueGene from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Livermore, California.

Damn, I wish Google released how big their computers are, I bet it lists high on the list too.

The new machine is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest supercomputer, the I.B.M. BlueGene/L, whic

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Cuttlefish learns in the Embryo!

Posted on June 9, 2008 by max

Lol, this is cool, I guess Cuttlefish is the only living organism that can learn inside the egg…

Before they have even hatched, cuttlefish embryos can peer out of their eggs and spot potential prey. It is the first time any animal has been shown to learn visual images before they are born.

Ludovic Dickel and his colleagues at the University of Caen Basse-Normandy, France, made the discovery by placing crabs alongside cuttlefish eggs in a series of laboratory tanks. Those embryos exposed to crabs preferred them as prey later in life, th

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Wall Climbing Robot!

Posted on May 21, 2008 by max

Here’s a pretty impressive wall climbing bot.

Ever rub a balloon and stick it to a wall? If only larger objects could defy gravity the same way.

Later this week, researchers from the non-profit group SRI International will unveil the design of a wall-climbing robot at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Pasadena, Calif. It can clamber up all common building materials, the scientists told Popular Mechanics—and proved it to us with t

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Ants that Eat Electronics – a Miracle!

Posted on May 17, 2008 by max

Well, here’s some great news that we’ve FOUND ants that can eat electronics, including your household computer, microwave, and anything with PCBs in it.

Why is this a good news?

Well, think of the electronics that cannot be recycled! If we can control and colonize these electronic-eating ants and use them to destroy old electronics, we can prevent the lead parts from electronics going into the earth and wala, we have a solution to the biggest problem in the electronics industry, the crazy rasberry ants.

With most countrie

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