Sep 27
While traditional stories about sleep and creativity emphasize vivid dreams hastily transcribed upon waking, recent research highlights the importance of letting ideas marinate and percolate.
Source: By LESLIE BERLIN
Feb 16
Filed under: Robots
Forget controlling your dreams — after all, isn’t the idea of having a mechanical buddy act out whatever your off-kilter brain thought up last night much more appealing? In an interesting endeavor, Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns have teamed up to design a humanoid that actually takes sophisticated dream interpretation results (garnered by analyzing data from a variety of sensors) and acts out whatever was going on in one’s mind. Quite frankly, we’re not even sure we’d like to remember some of those overnight journeys — let alone see some bot play it back — but if you glanced this headline and immediately crossed your fingers for a video, head on past the jump to get just that.Continue reading Humanoid acts out your dreams, encourages insomnia
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Source: Darren Murph
Aug 28
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We’ve seen gadgets blamed for increased violence, the fall of contemporary art, and even broken hearts, but the latest study to pin more blame on the gizmos we simply can’t do without purports that teens are missing out on crucial sleep thanks to their gadget addictions. According to a recent report by The Sleep Council, “gadgets in bedrooms such as computers and TVs are fueling poor quality ‘junk sleep,’ and considering that nearly a quarter of respondents “admitted that they fell asleep watching TV, listening to music, or with other equipment still running more than once a week,” it’s not too hard to understand how the conclusion was drawn. Nevertheless, it was suggested that these electronics were hindering kids’ ability to get the recommended eight hours of sleep each night, but hey, when (most) free nights begin at 9:00PM, how can ya blame ‘em?
[Thanks, Joel]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Source: Darren Murph