Brain-Machine Interfaces and Nanotechnology

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Advancements in both neuroscience and microelectronics over the past decades has brought about new ways for computer interfacing with the human brain. Neuroscience has brought about enhanced understanding of the working of the brain via electroencephalography and has applied such understanding to neuroprothetics offering various ways of repairing damage caused by stroke or trauma. Meanwhile, microelectronics continues ...

Nanotechnology, Robotics and Virtual Reality

Monday, October 6th, 2008

When most people think of nanotechnology the first thing to come to mind may be an image out of the movie Fantastic Voyage or of the theoretical "nanorobots" from Michael Crichton's novel Prey. Similarly the topics of robotics and virtual reality are often first thought about in terms of images from popular science fiction movies. However, ...