All Articles Tagged As: senses
Combining screening techniques from molecular biology with high-performance gaming hardware advances the building and understanding of visual systems.
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 | PhD Engineering student creates a software system that uses a simple webcam to map objects into a digital image. ...> Full Article |
Visually challenged MIT poet's 'seeing machine' allows sight-impaired to take, see photos
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Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in inducing people with an amputated arm to experience a prosthetic rubber hand as belonging to their own body. The results can lead to the development of a new type of touch-sensitive prosthetic hands.
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Prosthetic ears appear to improve hearing and speech recognition in noisy environments
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 | "Smart" contact lenses that measure pressure within the eye and dispense medication accordingly could be made possible using a new material ...> Full Article |
 | Ten patients are enrolled in a clinical trial of the device ...> Full Article |
A low-power microchip developed at the University of Michigan uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market.
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Systematic way to evaluate the robot visual capability humans need to drive the device
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Electric-acoustic stimulation research could help discover important acoustic cues used to improve the hearing of certain profoundly hearing-impaired people
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As fantastic as computers are at processing mountains of data at lightning speed, they still can't beat the human brain at, for instance, detecting a friend's face in a crowded airport terminal, or even at more specialized tasks such as detecting suspicious objects in X-ray scans of checked baggage. The human brain can do these tasks not just very well but also very rapidly, within a fraction of a second, says Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientist Maximilian Riesenhuber, Ph.D., of the Laboratory for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. However, while the brain's visual system can perform the actual detection task very rapidly, even for multiple images presented at the same time, turning these decisions into behavioral responses is much slower.
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 | Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or touch-based, interface developed at Carnegie Mellon University. ...> Full Article |
With its expansion to Europe, the only long-term retinal prosthesis study under way worldwide offers hope for treating blindness.
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 | Optical scientists have broken a technological barrier by making three-dimensional holographic displays that can be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes. ...> Full Article |
A delicate surgery that involves placement of tiny electrodes onto the brainstem is helping some people avoid total hearing loss.
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 | Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes -- visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control panels and even as a way to surf the Web on the go. ...> Full Article |
 | Research may be first step in creation of electronic interfaces to eyes and brain. ...> Full Article |
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