Video displays today have great colours, can occupy a significant real estate to provide immersive feeling but they are still far from the real thing! Seeing a real object is a quite different experience from seeing it displayed on a screen, no matter how much faithful and bright its image …

Who would have predicted twenty years ago, or just 5 years ago, that today we can use our cell phone to detect cosmic rays? Scientists have been studying cosmic rays for several decades using quite sophisticated machinery that both in cost and size are beyond reach of anyone of us. …

The future of health care will involve processing quite a bit of personal information that will be derived from sensors monitoring vital parameters in every day activity. The problem is how to pick up these parameters, that is how to have sensors that can track them in an easy and affordable …

Computer are faster, but brains are smarter. And don’t think about our brain. All brains are smarter than computers: a fly can take decision on the best fly route and avoidance with just 5,000 neurones and do that using an infinitesimal fraction of the power needed to a flight management …

Advanced in material science are opening up new paths in many areas. Here is the news from Melissa Grunlan at Texas A&M University that along with her team has developed a Shape Memory Polymer (SMP), also known as Shape Shifting Material that can easily be ashamed in any form when heated to …

I already observed in these posts that advances in science are mediated, made possible, by advances in our way to observe and measure things. Our hope to eventually come to a good understanding of the brain, and to its manifestations like emotions and thoughts, strongly depend on advances in looking at …

Ever thought about our computer feels when you win a chess game or when it beats you at chess? Probably not, at least I never did because of course my computer is completely oblivious and indifferent to the bits (electrons) flowing through it. And yet what is it that makes …

I did attend the kick off meeting for the IEEE BiG Data Initiative at Stevens, NJ, and I enjoyed the insightful presentations offered. I also enjoyed the following discussion. Among several other things it made me think that we are possibly on the edges of a second revolution in the …

There are many researchers going on to overcome the limits of silicon and let the Moore’s law live into the next decade (although somebody has pointed out that strictly speaking the Moore’s law is no longer valid today). Graphene as I mentioned several times in these posts or other materials like …

Yesterday I participated at the WCIT in Guadalajara and took some time visiting the Expo. I run onto the Fujitsu stand and I had the pleasure to try out a prototype tablet they had on show. I have been reporting on research on haptic interfaces for some years now, and a few …