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Action Video Game Improve Visions?

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — March 31, 2009 / 3:42 pm

It was revealed in Nature Neuroscience that the high level action video games increase a player’s real-world vision. But Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, found that very practiced action gamer have an increase in their ability to discern slight differences in shades of gray as 58 [...]

Fossil Fuel From Burnt Ice

1 comment Yessi Pratiwi — March 27, 2009 / 12:07 pm

Biofuel known to be the solid, liquid or gaseous fuel derived from relatively recently dead biological material and is distinguished from fossil fuels, which are derived from long dead biological material. This gives us an information that biofuel can be derived from fossil fuels, and fossil fuels derived from long dead living material. What about deriving the [...]

Flash of Light For Parkinson’s Treatment

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — March 20, 2009 / 8:29 pm

Scientists believe that parkinson is intimately linked to brain, where it occurs when a group of cells in an area of the brain called the substantia nigra begin to malfunction and die. Parkinson happens in the form of movement disorder that is chronic and progressive that can be worsen over time.  You know, nearly one [...]

Nanoball Battery To Recharge Car

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — March 12, 2009 / 9:00 pm

To date, the term of “battery” is often used for the electronic equipment. Battery substitutes the use of electricity for some devices. What pops up in your mind when I say that nowadays, we can find battery for car? Is that possible? Certainly it is. The nanoball battery has been developed to be used for car, exactly [...]

First Virtual Reality Headset Has Been Developed

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — March 5, 2009 / 12:42 pm

What does it feel when you can interact with an environment or the world you’ve imagined for so long? Do you have thoughts when the world in your dream, or the place you want to visit are now no longer imagination, but real?  Now, with the first virtual reality headset, it is no longer impossible to [...]

Trauma Pod, Robots That Do Surgery

The maturity of technology has entered a new phase. This time, it is not impossible anymore for soldiers to have the first surgery help, eventhough the closest field hospital is more than an hour away. A non-profit lab SRI International, based in Menlo Park, California claimed that the device called Trauma Pod will enable soldiers [...]

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