“For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.”
Thanks for the tip jonny records.
Meet man’s next best friend.
“Can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?”
Great article about the Blue Brain project which attempts to map the brain comprehensively in hardware and software.
Infrared sensors detect eye blinks – lets you change tracks, pause, etc. From Tokyo, of course. More here.