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Nice article about nVidia’s ESA platform

Source: Dailytech , BBCNews

Tech firm Emotiv developed the advanced mind-controlled gaming device. The device, titled “The Epoc,” will retail for $299 and provide advanced control by reading electrical signals generated among the brain. Among its key features is its ability to detect over 30 facial expressions, emotions and actions based on these signals.

Source: Dailytech

Researchers at Stanford have created a new camera chip that can see in 3D that could lead to better images, especially at higher ISO settings where grain is a big issue. Anyone who shoots with a digital camera that offers adjustable ISO settings has seen the noticeable grain that shows up in images. The quality of the camera will affect how high the ISO setting can go before grainy images are a significant issue.

Source: Dailytech

Stem cells carry high hopes to help treat and possibly cure a myriad of diseases. However, the use of stem cells is a subject of great debate do to the fact that the best source for stem cells for use in this type of research is from human embryos.

Reuters reports that researchers from California-based Novocell Inc. recently used human embryonic stem cells to treat diabetes in mice. The stem cells were implanted into mice and were turned into “nearly” normal insulin-producing cells in the mice.

Source: BBCNews

A computer does better than a doctor at diagnosing certain brain diseases, research has suggested.

Experts taught a standard computer how to diagnose Alzheimer’s from brain scans, and got a 96% success rate.
The accuracy of diagnosis from standard scans, blood tests and interviews carried out by a clinician is 85%.

Welcome to MAL UPDATER - v1.0, 2008/02/20

MAL Updater is a Windows application that connects to your MAL user profile and updates your currently watching episodes on the go. It detects when you are using Media Player Classic, then retrieves and identifies the anime media being played. If it matches one in your list and the episode is higher than the last one you watched, it will update it automatically. You can let it run in the background and forget about updating your list after every episode

MAL is the most featured anime and manga comunity in the net and lets you catalogue all your anime/manga easily. Click the banner to visit the updater club

Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows OS, from Win95 to Vista, 32 and 64 bit editions supported.
- .NET is NOT required
- Internet connection
- You must use Media Player Classic (included in k-lite codec pack http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm )
- If you use a firewall, you might need to give it permissions to access techsuki.net (for program updates) and myanimelist.net (list retrieval and episode updates)

More players will be supported eventually, including videos from YouTube watched in your browser.
It might also work in linux by using wine, however it would be restricted to manual updates unless you use MPC as well.

Themes:
Two themes are included in the install, the default one and a very basic one. Visit the Gallery below for more. A theme maker could be provided in the future to make your own. Meanwhile, you can request one in the MAL CLUB forum by providing an image and picking a color for window transparency.

If you wish to support this application, please include this minibanner in your forum signature and link it to the club:

Download: http://techsuki.net/apps/MalUpdater/MalUpdater100Setup.exe ~1 MB

Extra Themes:

Sources: Dailytech, xenu.net

The Church of Scientology is a vicious and dangerous cult that masquerades as a religion. Its purpose is to make money. It practices a variety of mind-control techniques on people lured into its midst to gain control over their money and their lives. Its aim is to take from them every penny that they have and can ever borrow and to also enslave them to further its wicked ends.

Demonstrations occurred in a reported 93 cities worldwide, including Sydney, Los Angeles, New York, London, Dublin, and Stockholm. Donning signs with slogans such as “Knowledge is Free,” “Question $cientology,” and “Enlightenment should not cost £100,000,” Anonymous took a vocal stand against the Church of Scientology’s alleged human rights violations and relentless suppression of dissent. Demonstrations proceeded peacefully, with protesters concealing themselves behind Guy Fawkes masks – among other things – as popularized in the movie “V for Vendetta.”

Source: Akihabaranews

Article about clothing and accesories for maid cafes

Source: Dailytech

British scientists reported last week that they successfully created human embryos from the DNA of not two, but three people — two women and a man. Researchers tried to downplay concerns of ethics with genetic modification, citing that the embryos chiefly consist of the DNA from one man and one women, but contain select segments from the other women.

Source: Anandtech

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Source: Dailytech

Scientists use nanogenerators in fabric to generate electricity

A group of scientists in the United States has a plan that will boost the run time of small gadgets like phones a MP3 players to possibly unlimited proportions, without the need for batteries. The scientists hope to do this with fabric that generates its own electricity.

The idea is that fiber-based nanogenerators would be woven into the fabric of a shirt and the friction cause by moving around would be transferred into energy to power the device. Scientists even say that simply standing in a breeze could generate all the power your iPod needs to play indefinitely.

Source: Dailytech

Samsung announced in a press release that its 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64GB SSD with a SATA II interface is now in the mass production stage. The new SATA II version of the drive was announced in Q4 2007 and is said to remove the bottlenecks of the PATA interface used in the previous version of the drive.

According to the director of Samsung Semiconductor’s flash marketing department, “While there will always be a market for HDDs, we see growing demand for our new SSDs, especially now that they are available with the SATA II interface.”

Source: Sharp develops new laser to enable recording of dual layer Blu-ray discs at 6x

Sharp has unveiled new technology which will definitely make things better for media geeks in coming months. Reportedly the firm has developed a new type of laser that enables recording of dual layer Blu-ray discs at 6x speed. The new laser achieves highest industry standards of 250mW output pulse and comes in small package of 3.3mm diameter for use in laptops.