3D Laptop for Gamers!!

Acer is coming out with a new laptop that is geared towards videogaming and movie enthusiasts. This laptop will be equipped with a 3D screen and glasses. It's called the AS5738 and it is designed to deliver 3D multimedia and can translate 2D media into the 3rd dimension. This laptop has this capability though TriDef 3D technology which focuses on bring 3D to mainstream media.

Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as the speed of light!

According to a pair of physicists, if processors continue to accelerate we will hit faster processing in about 75 years. Processor fabrication using new technologies such as imprint lithograph, graphene, and quantum computing continue to yield faster and smalled chips. However, these advance techniques stave off the absolute ceiling for speed, no matter how small the components get.

Brain-Computer Interface Communicates Between People

Southampton University as research that shows it is possible to communicate person to person through thought. Using electrodes, computers, and the internet, Dr. Christopher James is taking brain-computer interfaces (BCI) to new levels. His proof of concept is showing that brain-to-brain communication (B2B) is possible. The full concept has yet to be grasp but the B2B can be useful in helping people with severe dibilitating muscle wasting diseases, "locked-in" syndome, communicating, and gaming applicaions.

New type of excitonic computer!

Physicists at UC San Diego a year ago created an integrated circuted using excitons. They now have discovered that a technique that allows for these particles to operate at cold temperatures. This discovery is bring to reality a computer that operates at extremely fast speeds. When commercially available, this could speed up computing and communicating.

Retinal Implant

At MIT, a professor leds a team with 20 yrs of retinal implant research to a discovery of a prosthesis that can one day help bring back a useful level of vision to certain groups of blind people. This implant is design for individuals who have suffered from blindness due to either retinitis pigmentosa or age-related macular degeneration. It electrically stimulates nerver cells that control visual imput from the retina to the brain. This prosthesis is different than those of other research groups because it attaches outside the eye and electrodes are implanted behind the retina. This surgical procedure is less than invasive than others and wont damage the eye.

Technology that promises and threatens to alter our lives!

Author of Neuroengineering the Future and Digital Design, Bruce F. Katz believes that there is a revolution in neuro science that will greatly reshape our views of perception, cognition, emotion and personal identity. Advancement in the study of neural systems and intersecting technologies is quickly changing from perceptual aids to technological devices that will enhance and speed up thought. According to Katz, this may free the mind from its bound state in the body to a platform independent existence.