When I read this news I though it was not really high tech, nothing to compare with plasmons I wrote about just few days ago and so I decided it was not worth reporting. Then, curiosity led me to look at the video clip associated to it, and I decided …

Freud was probably the first who tried to peek inside the human brain to detect emotion and try to explain them. He also went a step further. By using induced stimulation (posing questions, having person looking at graphic clues,…) he was able, sometimes, to re-condition the way a brain reacted …

From time to time a news brings me in the not so distant future, we are talking about ten years and if I look back ten years seem just like yesterday, but at the same time it portends such a change that it actually seems like being eons away. This …

When we look at a new product, be it a strawberry or the latest iPhone,  we seldom realise that such a product is just the tip of the iceberg, that most of our awe should not be placed on the product itself but on the "tools" that have made such …

Sometime ago I posted a news about researchers at UMass Amherst studying how a gecko can walk upside down on ceilings and easily walk on smooth vertical walls. They managed to create a material that, mimicking the gecko "paws" can stick on smooth surfaces.  Unfortunately, that material wouldn’t work on …

The debate has been going on for a long long time: in order to create an intelligent computer, where "intelligent" means able to process information and react as a human brain, can we relay on specific software that "simulates" the brain processing or we need a physical underpinning that works …

Native American Indians have developed across centuries a rain dance (look at the clip for a bit of culture and fun) that was supposedly effective in bringing rain to an area. I can understand if you are a bit skeptical about its effectiveness … Anyhow, the need for rain is …

At the EIT ICT Labs one of our partners, CRF, has been working for quite a while in the area of car to car communications as a way to improve safety on the road.  It is therefore an area that piques my interest. I just read of a successful experimentation …

I have posted once in a while some news about adds on to transform your cell phone into a microscope. Although effective these adds on where a bit bulky. Now a young researcher just out of the Washington University is proposing a very simple add on you can stick on …

There are many sort of sieves, from the ones I uses daily to get rid of the water after the "spaghetti" have cooked to the ones used to separate trouts in fish farms. The concept behind a sieve is quite clear. You have a surface that is impermeable and you …