Intellectual Orgasm could be viewed as the new digital impulse to procreate advanced memes and to spread our cognitive DNA. It is this new “Trans-Sapien” drive that urges us to create more complex intellectual foreplay. We send pictures, texts and tweets of intellectual enlightenment. The digital universe is not a passive place. We are constantly…
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Fears and concerns about an individual’s right to privacy have often been felt or vocalized in some respect, ever since surveillance technologies became widespread. While measures like the Patriot Act and NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) continue to raise flags and cause unrest in many, perhaps none of the above has garnered as much attention…
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[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B0071FK66K” locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31JL2rd9CjL._SL160_.jpg” width=”128″] Imagine a world where all the headlines of the latest happenings or news that you are concerned with from your preferred sources list themselves on a screen or in a holographic projection near your bed each morning you wake up. Or perhaps they would be near your breakfast table…
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[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B00AJS5OC2″ locale=”us” height=”100″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21Xr-cpMcxL._SL160_.jpg” width=”100″]How many times have you watched your favorite football player fumble the ball only to yell out, “What were you thinking?!” Now imagine live sports commentary that answers that very question for you. The latest in EEG technology is the Emotiv which has the capability to monitor user’s emotional…
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[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B007N9217Q” locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418hTsPu5gL._SL160_.jpg” width=”107″]As technology increases in complexity, with more servers crunching more data, shouldn’t the way the humans interact with computers also grow in complexity? At the same time, shouldn’t they also be ameliorating to a state where complex objectives can be executed without equally complicated computer input? As the vastness…
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DetailsImagine a personal digital assistant inside your brain that allows you to check your vitals, evaluate your cognitive functioning, and tell you where the nearest Starbucks is located. What’s more, instead of going to say, medical school, to learn your particular trade of interest, you can do the majority of your studying before you ever…
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Have you ever thought of an object or toy so incredible and singular that you wish you could just make it out of thin air? This concept may have seemed impossible – and perhaps a little childishly amusing – up until May 8th , when George Laskowsky Ziguilinsky of Thinker Thing placed on an Emotiv Epoc…
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The Human brain may still be man’s greatest mystery, but we are making advances everyday that could dramatically alter our understanding and treatment of it. To get a clearer picture of this, let’s explore a few up and coming scientific breakthroughs, starting with one that affects our everyday lives: cell phones. At the present time,…
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Have you ever had the experience of looking at your friend across the room and knowing that she is thinking the same exact thing as you? You’re pretty sure you have just shared a telepathic moment. Except that telepathy doesn’t exist. Or does it? (Insert dramatic ‘bum bum buuuuum’ here) Miguel Nicolelis and his research…
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In his State of the Union address on February 12, 2013, President Obama announced a proposal for the Brain Activity Map (BAM) project. The ambitious initiative is meant to advance neuroscience the way that the Human Genome Project has revolutionized genetics. Following the announcement, I simultaneously felt the thrill of a national endorsement for [easyazon-link…
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Let me start off by saying year-end music lists are terrible, unproductive ways to somehow discuss and rank the work of established and up-and-coming artists of the day. I hate list titled in any/all of these formats and more: “Best Albums”, “Best Artists”, “Biggest Letdowns”, “Biggest Disappointments”, “Best Albums by Bands with Stupid Band Names”,…
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