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Driving beats violence for emotional gaming
Posted under Uncategorized on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 by techroids
VIDEO games don't have to be violent to trigger an emotional response. It turns out that driving games can activate more brain regions involved in emotional processing than shoot 'em ups.Many studies have suggested that violence in video games could be linked to aggression. To investigate further,...
Bionic eye cam to shine a light on society
Posted under Uncategorized on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 by techroids
Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence damaged his right eye in a childhood accident and was later given a prosthetic replacement. Like any other false eye, it was designed to be purely an aesthetic replacement, but he realised that the vacant bit of face real estate could be put to better use in his...
Recycled plastics giving criminals a break
Posted under Uncategorized on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 by techroids
Recycling may be good for the planet, but it is causing problems for CSI teams. Chemists that set protocols for developing fingerprints at the UK government's Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB) are having to rethink their techniques to make them workable on the recycled plastics that...
Bug eats electricity, farts biogas
Posted under Uncategorized on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 by techroids
Single-celled organisms that can convert electricity into methane could help solve one of the biggest problems with renewable energy – its unreliability compared to the steady output of polluting fossil-fuel power stations.Wind power is capricious, while solar cell output drops off at night or on...
Intelligent car door clams up when danger's about
Posted under Uncategorized on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 by techroids
Accidents caused by car doors being opened into the path of oncoming vehicles or cyclists are common in cities. But these incidents could become a thing of the past, if doors that react to potential impacts catch on.The brainchild of Michael Graf at BMW and Michael Strolz's team at the Technical...
Innovation : The mobile future of the keyboard
Posted under Uncategorized on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 by techroids
Innovation is our new column that highlights the latest emerging technological ideas and where they may lead.Cellphone users don't have it easy – many enter far more letters than numbers into their gadgets, but most phones still make you do so using a number pad. Meanwhile, the designers of smart...
Yeast-powered fuel cell feeds on human blood
Posted under Uncategorized on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 by techroids
Yeast cells feeding on the glucose in human blood might one day power implants such as pacemakers. A living source of power that is able to regenerate itself would eliminate the need for regular operations to replace batteries.Now that prospect is a step nearer. A team at the University of British...
Battlefield lasers move a step closer
Posted under Uncategorized on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 by techroids
"WE'RE doing our part to make gunpowder a 20th-century technology." So says Dan Wildt of Northrop Grumman, whose battlefield laser weapon passed another milestone last week.In tests, it fired a 105-kilowatt beam - enough to destroy rockets, mortars and artillery shells - at a stationary target for...
U.S. agency moves toward smart-grid road map
Posted under Uncategorized on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 by techroids
National Institute of Standards and Technology hires nonprofit to work on interoperability and standards issues.The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a $1.3 million contract to the Electric Power Research Institute to help the agency determine the architecture...
In defense of telecommuting
Posted under Uncategorized on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 by techroids
Sure, it takes effort to get it right, but a telecommuting program can benefit companies, employees, and the environment.In the business world, it's easy to make even the most promising project fail, if you want it to. All you need is cynicism and a few strategic missteps. Have someone on high at...
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