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Monday, November 23, 2009
Apple computers have recently launched the new Apple iMac, the all in one desktop computer loaded with splendid features and newly induced advanced technology.
The Apple iMac is more than just a regular desktop, with its high features and functionalities it provides the users with an ultimate all in one solution for flexible computing.
Wireless connectivity is the highlighting feature of the new Apple iMac, say good-bye to wires and complex connections as this amazing desktop computer comes with wireless keyboard & mouse and the processing unit is attached internally to the display.
Also there are no buttons for clicking or scrolling wheel as with the new Multi-Touch technology in magic mouse you can click, scroll, or swipe anywhere.
The fully fledged Apple iMac is loaded with some other amazing features and technical specifications like:
The new Apple iMac comes with an optional 21.5 inch or 27 inch display screen with edge to edge glass that covers the entire front enclosure. It has a High aspect ratio of 16:9 inches and LED backlight display.
With all these new innovative features that provide a smooth computing environment for the users, this amazing Desktop computer from Apple is available at a starting price of $1169 USD for 21.5 inches and $1699 USD for 27 inches display.
Apple computers have recently launched the new Apple iMac, the all in one desktop computer loaded with splendid features and newly induced advanced technology.The Apple iMac is more than just a regular desktop, with its high features and functionalities it provides the users with an ultimate all in one solution for flexible computing.
Wireless connectivity is the highlighting feature of the new Apple iMac, say good-bye to wires and complex connections as this amazing desktop computer comes with wireless keyboard & mouse and the processing unit is attached internally to the display.Also there are no buttons for clicking or scrolling wheel as with the new Multi-Touch technology in magic mouse you can click, scroll, or swipe anywhere.
The fully fledged Apple iMac is loaded with some other amazing features and technical specifications like:
The new Apple iMac comes with an optional 21.5 inch or 27 inch display screen with edge to edge glass that covers the entire front enclosure. It has a High aspect ratio of 16:9 inches and LED backlight display.
With all these new innovative features that provide a smooth computing environment for the users, this amazing Desktop computer from Apple is available at a starting price of $1169 USD for 21.5 inches and $1699 USD for 27 inches display.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
A mind-reading machine that can produce pictures of what a person is seeing or remembering has been developed by scientists.
The device studies patterns of brainwave activity and turns them into a moving image on a computer screen.
While the idea of a telepathy machine might sound like something from science fiction, the scientists say it could one day be used to solve crimes.
Leap forward: Halle Berry in X-Men. The telepathic abilities from the films are closer to reality after inventors created a mind-reading machine
In a pioneering experiment, an American team scanned the brain activity of two volunteers watching a video and used the results to recreate the images they were seeing.
Although the results were crude, the technique was able to reproduce the rough shape of a man in a white shirt and a city skyline.
Professor Jack Gallant, who carried out the experiment at the University of California, Berkeley, said: 'At the moment when you see something and want to describe it you have to use words or draw it and it doesn't work very well.
'This technology might allow you to recover an eyewitness's memory of a crime.'
The experiment is the latest in a series of studies designed to show how brain scans can reveal our innermost thoughts.
Using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, normally found in hospitals, the American team scanned the brains of two volunteers while they watched videos.
The results were fed into a computer which looked for links between colours, shapes and movements on the screen, and patterns of activity in the brain.
The computer software was then given the brain scans of the volunteers as they watched a different video and was asked to recreate what they were seeing.
According to Dr Gallant, who has yet to publish the results of the experiment, the software was close to the mark.
In one scene featuring comic actor Steve Martin in a white shirt, the computer reproduced his white torso and rough shape, but was unable to handle details of his face.
In another, the volunteers watched an image of a city skyline with a plane flying past.
The software was able to recreate the skyline - but not the aircraft.
A mind-reading machine that can produce pictures of what a person is seeing or remembering has been developed by scientists.
The device studies patterns of brainwave activity and turns them into a moving image on a computer screen.
While the idea of a telepathy machine might sound like something from science fiction, the scientists say it could one day be used to solve crimes.
Leap forward: Halle Berry in X-Men. The telepathic abilities from the films are closer to reality after inventors created a mind-reading machine
In a pioneering experiment, an American team scanned the brain activity of two volunteers watching a video and used the results to recreate the images they were seeing.
Although the results were crude, the technique was able to reproduce the rough shape of a man in a white shirt and a city skyline.
Professor Jack Gallant, who carried out the experiment at the University of California, Berkeley, said: 'At the moment when you see something and want to describe it you have to use words or draw it and it doesn't work very well.
'This technology might allow you to recover an eyewitness's memory of a crime.'
The experiment is the latest in a series of studies designed to show how brain scans can reveal our innermost thoughts.
Using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, normally found in hospitals, the American team scanned the brains of two volunteers while they watched videos.
The results were fed into a computer which looked for links between colours, shapes and movements on the screen, and patterns of activity in the brain.
The computer software was then given the brain scans of the volunteers as they watched a different video and was asked to recreate what they were seeing.
According to Dr Gallant, who has yet to publish the results of the experiment, the software was close to the mark.
In one scene featuring comic actor Steve Martin in a white shirt, the computer reproduced his white torso and rough shape, but was unable to handle details of his face.
In another, the volunteers watched an image of a city skyline with a plane flying past.
The software was able to recreate the skyline - but not the aircraft.
