back to see after 30 years thanks to a bionic implant
The news is reported on November 27 times online and also on the recovery corriere : a man, part of an extensive study on 32 people, has begun to see after 30 years blindness, thanks to a special implant inserted surgically on retina, optic nerve at the base of and connected to a wireless video system able to collect, process and send the images taken from the environment.
Peter Lane , This is its name, now can distinguish the contours of the furniture and recognize small words . "I see the cars" - said in an interview - and seem to cotton balls. "
The news was echoed at the site of IAPB (International Agency for Prevention of Blindness).
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From a Yamaha piano granconcerto ... but digital
costs a tenth of his brothers acutistici, this great concert grand piano made by Yamaha . Lighter, smaller, no need to be tuned and played like a piano by $ 120,000 or more. It's called Avant-Grand and costs "only" $ 15,000 / $ 20,000.
For details on this gem, here the website dedicated to Yamaha , here an article from Spectrum .
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The brain of the cat cloned into a chip
Carryover from an article published today Republic on an important news in the field of artificial intelligence . He still talks about Blue Gene (we had talked about here ) and progress in the path of artificial reproduction of the functioning of the human brain .
Carryover from an article published today Republic on an important news in the field of artificial intelligence . He still talks about Blue Gene (we had talked about here ) and progress in the path of artificial reproduction of the functioning of the human brain .
Republic headline: "The brain of the cat cloned into a chip." The study by scientists IBM and Stanford University . "We will to the robot cognition. " "Ten years from now also realize that human"
The step was taken by scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center (USA) with colleagues at Stanford University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In practice, using the supercomputer, "Blue Gene 'of Livermore have reproduced and put into action the cerebral cortex of a cat with a billion neurons and ten thousand billion of synaptic connections.
a nice article on the history and on the future of the project taken from the spectrum.
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