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Screen addiction causing neurological damage to children’s brains

The addiction to electronics, and especially cell phones, has become a world wide  problem even though the majority of people refuse, as do all addicts, to understand and realize that they are addicted. One of the world’s leading researchers and experts on addiction in general, and electronic addiction in particular, Dr. Nicolas Kardaras, posits in …

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Is the World Wide Web about to crash?

The World Wide Web, and its underlying infrastructure known as the internet, has reached a critical mass point where, if more bandwidth isn’t brought in soon, the entire communication apparatus could crash. According to recent research, the World Wide Web traffic globally keeps expanding by around 22% every year. The current pace doesn’t allow broadband …

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New game controller lets you play AND work out

The new SymGym may look like a piece of serious exercise equipment but it is actually a combination of workout equipment and video game controller. In reality, it allows the player to receive a full body exercise workout while playing their favorite video games. SymGym is a new start up company based in Chicago and …

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You can now touch stuff in videos?

Researchers at MIT have developed technology that now enables people to actually reach out and touch, and even manipulate, objects in videos. The researchers are a part of the university’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the technology they have created is known as Interactive Dynamic Video (IDV). The new technology will allow a …

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Researchers grow miniature brains

Researcher scientists in Singapore have recently grown tiny miniature brains in petri dishes in their laboratory. In actuality, they have created small versions of the human mid brain. the 3D created versions of the human brain are, they hope, a serious step toward curing certain brain disorders, especially Parikinson’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease. According to …

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Reading books increases life span significantly

A research team at Yale University recently completed a study that declares people who read books can vastly outlive those who never read. The Yale research team found their findings to be significant and that those who read books have a “significant survival advantage” over people who don’t read books. The researchers approached 3,635 people …

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New drunk sensor knows how much you’ve had

Scientists, electrical engineers in fact, at the University of California at San Diego have invented a new electronic sensor that adheres to the skin and lets the wearer know exactly how much alcohol they have had to drink. According to the research team, the electronic sensor patch sticks to the skin and is so accurate …

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