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Monday February 4, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines British Army deploys tiny helicopters If you give people virtual superpowers, will they use those abilities for good or evil? Mind-meld brain power is best for steering spaceships Software predicts tomorrow’s news by analyzing today’s and yesterday’s Meta’s AR headset lets you play with virtual objects in 3D space Could stem cells repair damaged cones in retinas, allowing for daylight color vision? Drug-delivery nanoparticles mimic white blood cells to avoid immune rejection Latest News British Army deploys tiny helicopters February 4, 2013   A tiny remote-control helicopter is being used for surveillance on the front line to detect enemy threats to British troops. British troops are using a nano drone just 10cm long and weighing 16 grams on the front line in Afghanistan to provide vital information on the ground, Sky News reports. They are the first to … more… If you give people virtual superpowers, will they use those abilities for good or evil? February 4, 2013   Researchers at Stanford recently investigated the subject by giving people the ability of Superman-like flight in the university’s Virtual Human Interaction Laboratory (VHIL). While several studies have shown that playing violent videogames can encourage aggressive behavior, the new research suggests that games could be designed to train people to be more empathetic in the real … more… Mind-meld brain power is best for steering spaceships February 4, 2013   Researchers are discovering that they get better results in some tasks by combining the signals from multiple BCI users. Until now, this “collaborative BCI” technique has been used in simple pattern-recognition tasks, but a team at the University of Essex in the UK wanted to test it more rigorously, New Scientist reports. So they developed … more… Software predicts tomorrow’s news by analyzing today’s and yesterday’s February 4, 2013   Prototype software can give early warnings of disease or violence outbreaks by spotting clues in news reports. Researchers have created software that predicts when and where disease outbreaks might occur, based on two decades of New York Times articles and other online data. The research comes from Microsoft and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, MIT … more… Meta’s AR headset lets you play with virtual objects in 3D space February 4, 2013   A new augmented reality headset from Meta puts a full twin-display digital environment — controlled by two-hand 3D tracking — in front of the user, Slashgear reports. The prototype headset uses Epson Moverio BT-100 see-through glasses with a low-latency 3D camera mounted on top. Both components reportedly feed into custom electronics in a separate wearable … more… Could stem cells repair damaged cones in retinas, allowing for daylight color vision? February 4, 2013   University of Alberta (UA) researchers have discovered that a zebrafish’s stem cells can selectively regenerate its damaged photoreceptor cells. UA lead researcher Ted Allison says that for some time geneticists have known that stem cells in zebrafish can replace damaged vision cells. Rods and cones are the most important photoreceptors. In humans, rods provide us … more… Drug-delivery nanoparticles mimic white blood cells to avoid immune rejection February 4, 2013   Scientists at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute have found a possible way to fool the immune system to prevent it from recognizing and destroying nanoparticles before they deliver their drug payloads. “Our goal was to make a particle that is camouflaged within our bodies and escapes the surveillance of the immune system to reach its … more… New EVENTS   FutureMed Special Event February 9, 2013 Dates: Feb 9, 2013 Location: Santa Clara, California more... Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.