Archive for September, 2011

Turning Brain Visions Into Digital Imagery

Posted in Mind, Science on September 24, 2011 by Simon

We have always left the idea of having a screen display our mind’s visuals to science fiction. Guess what? It’s still mostly science fiction, but we’re getting more and more towards making it science non-fiction. Scientists at UC Berkeley have found a way to take a person’s visual activity data and match it to a database of generic viagra similar visuals. So it’s not quite projecting your mind, generic viagra but it’s matching your mind to generic viagra a library of possible visuals. With a big enough library, who knows. Part of me hopes I’m dead before this goes mainstream.

Lab Grown Sausages

Posted in Science on September 9, 2011 by Simon

Apparently, we’re 6 months away from sausages grown in a lab. How petri dish meat will taste, I do not know (how delicious does horse fetal serum sound?), but the thought of meat manufacture is magical. I’m no vegan, but meat without killing animals is an interesting concept.