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  • Mobile phone may impair your ability to make...

    From textually.org  Electromagnetic radiation from your mobile phone may impair your ability to make snap decisions, such as when driving a car, an Australian study shows, reports Optus.net via Engadget Mobile and Techdirt Wireless . "The study, which will be published in t... Read more ...

    Published on 04/27/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Deep Brain Stimulation Shows Promise in...

    Via Medgadget    According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons , Deep Brain Stimulation  (DBS) technique could be useful for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD): DBS has been used to treat intractable pain for several decades, and more recently, ... Read more ...

    Published on 04/27/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Your Thoughts Are Your Password

    From Wired   Scientists hope that mind-reading computers will one day replace typed passwords, making fingerprint readers and retina scans obsolete. Skeptics say don't count on it.   Read full article   Read more ...

    Published on 04/27/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Neural interfaces for gaming

    Via VRoot Mercurynews reports that at least two start-ups have developed technology that monitors a player's brain waves and uses the signals to control the action in games. They hope it will enable game creators to immerse players in imaginary worlds that they can control with their thou... Read more ...

    Published on 04/26/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Idearium

    Funded by Leandro Agrò and maintained by over 400 contributors since 2001, Idearium.org is the meeting point of the Italian Interaction Design community.   It is a place for the exchange of ideas, debate and reflection around the many issues relating to this multi-disciplinary area ... Read more ...

    Published on 04/26/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Simulator Allows Doctors To Experience Heart...

    Via the Presence Listserv From the web site of WCAU , NBC10, in Philadelphia   PHILADELPHIA -- Every year more than a half-million Americans go into heart failure. Cardiologists know the symptoms, but can they really understand what heart failure patients go through? Doctors a... Read more ...

    Published on 04/26/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Is technology changing our brains?

    From Smart Mobs Neuro-biologist Susan Greenfield asked this interesting question:   " In just a couple of decades, we have slipped away from a culture based essentially on words to one based essentially on images, or pictures. This is probably one of the great shifts in the sto... Read more ...

    Published on 04/25/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Text messaging in psychotherapy

    From Smart Mobs  Instant messaging, favored by chatting teens and office gossips, is a growing tool for therapists counseling people on everything from smoking cessation to sexual-abuse trauma, reports the Pioneer Press . Proponents say the text-based conversations are appealing bec... Read more ...

    Published on 04/25/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Toward brain correlates of natural behavior:...

    Toward brain correlates of natural behavior: fMRI during violent video games. Hum Brain Mapp. 2006 Apr 20; Authors: Mathiak K, Weber R Modern video games represent highly advanced virtual reality simulations and often contain virtual violence. In a significant amount of young males, pla... Read more ...

    Published on 04/25/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

  • VRoot.org -: Neural Interfaces: Scientists...

    From Yahoo News : PENSACOLA, Fla. - In their quest to create the super warrior of the future, some military researchers aren't focusing on organs like muscles or hearts. They're looking at tongues. By routing signals from helmet-mounted cameras, sonar and other equipment through the tongue... Read more ...

    Published on 04/25/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

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