Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Imaging: Precise real time Three dimensional Hand Mapping.
It is typically difficult to map in three dimensions (3D) at a very close distance in high precision very quickly. There are different ways to accurately represent three dimensions but that requires a 3D scanner that will take a number of “images” with light or infrared or sonar and then map it correctly. However, if…
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Technology: Does brain perform multi-tasking like computers?
The term multi-tasking probably originated from computer terminology wherein two simultaneous tasks are carried on by the computer by distribution of tasks to various processors. A “super”computer was defined as on which had many processors and a lot of memory that could process computations in parallel. The human brain is obviously capable of some elementary…
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Mobile Medical Devices Funding
Mobile devices have become omnipresent electronics available to everyone and application development has led to a few developers becoming wealthy. However, for many of them, the money generated is not from sales but rather the advertisements that are displayed at the bottom of the application. If the app is free then all the revenue is…
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Increasing In vitro protein production through gel
In vitro protein production is a very useful technique to quickly produce the protein of interest within a few days especially if your need s are for low amounts and you want to produce a variety of proteins or their modifications. Essentially, you mix the DNA template of interest with a cell extract. Incubate and…
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Information Integration – Brain Hemispheres
There are many steps required to understand any data. First is the gathering of the data, analyzing the data, then fitting the data to a model and finally the understanding. Obviously, there are many more steps and these phases can also be subdivided into many subsections. How does the human brain do it ? Each…
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Big Data analysis for language translation
Translating languages is a tough problem and there were many players in the market. However, Google seems to dominate the market with their search appliances and other vendors have been reduced to domain specific areas. So why has Google been successful? Is it just a question of resources? To translate language requires two broad steps.…
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New Data analysis estimates Heart attack risk
To estimate risk of a disease, the earliest method that scientist used were epidemiological data analysis. For example, in the 1950’s they found that smokers got an increased incidence of lung cancer. It took the society nearly 3 decades before it was generally accepted and warnings started being issued but that is another story. Currently,…
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Big Data definition
In 2006, the world economic forum created a term “Data is the new oil” just like any other asset. Since then the term data has been superseded by Big Data. The definitions are as numerous as the amount of data. To quote Wikipedia, “In information technology, big data[1][2] is a collection of data sets so…
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Mobile phone controlling real things
Mobile phones are great if all that you want to do is to check your email and then do something simple- like call a friend! However, when you try to control other electronic things with your phone then things get complicated. The interfaces from the phones are many: infrared, Bluetooth, wifi and of course the…
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Biologics and drugs are not the sole solution
Consider the chemical war on mosquitoes. Mosquito has been the vector of so many diseases including malaria and dengue that it makes one wonder whether we are capable of winning this battle with the mosquito. This little pest has probably killed more humans than all wars combined and yet we have not been able to…
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