Inside the Mysterious Electron
The interactions between electric currents and magnets are described by Maxwell’s equations, which, since their derivation in the 19th century, have set the basis for all electrodynamical phenomena. However, our understanding of electromagnetism remains limited by our understanding of the electron. As surprising as it may sound, no one really...
AI Technology Provides New Asset to Patent Process
Consider that you are the leader of a firm that has made a significant breakthrough in your field, and your firm is actively spreading the word about your products and developments through a well-thought-out and attractive product. Everything is going well until you discover that out on the Internet there...
The Biometric Threat: Some Preventative Measures
We live in an age where personal information is difficult to protect, and passwords are far from unbreakable. Recently, IBM surveyed nearly 4,000 people and learned that 67% are comfortable using biometrics, and 87% would be comfortable using biometric authentication in the future. Millennials are particularly comfortable with biometric security,...
The Brain-Computer Interface
With the many developments underway in the field of brain-computer interfaces, we’re really only scratching the surface of what’s possible. One of the bigger questions at the outset of these developments is the choice of invasive or noninvasive approaches to how the electrodes are deployed on or in the human...
The Fourth Age
In his new book The Fourth Age, GigaOm’s Byron Reese brings a refreshingly human perspective to the exponential technologies that are converging, if not conspiring, to usher in a new socio-industrial paradigm. While the subject matter is fascinating in its own right, it is Reese’s insightful and thoughtful approach to...
The New Popular Electronics
Click Here to Read on Issue (with Download) Click Here to Read on Kindle In this special edition of Popular Electronics: – Special focus on the brain-computer interface – Circuits for harvesting free energy – New design contest—build it and win! – Amazing Wi-Fi innovations – All about Arduino – Machine learning insights – New and emerging computing...
The Future of the Touchscreen is … Touchless
If seeing is believing, then feeling has got to be downright convincing. But feeling something that really isn’t there? Ultrahaptics brings the long-neglected sense of touch to the virtual world. And now you can add this to your own products and customer experiences. Anyone taking in Disneyland’s 1994 3D attraction,...
Teslapathic: Mind Control for your Car
The notion of brain waves being able to exert sufficient energy to influence objects would involve nothing short of a miracle—especially considering that the radiance of the wimpy signals emitted by neural activity don’t extend beyond a few millimeters from the skull. Spoon benders need not apply. But moving a...
What Lies Beneath
The Hill of Tara is a grand stage, an ancient host of a mélange of ritual performances played out over millennia—perhaps 4,000 years or more—spanning the Neolithic to the early Christian period. Throughout its occupation, each incarnation of beliefs and practices subsumed into its worldview the expression of the former...
