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Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Pay attention…

Magicians exploit the fact that we often don’t pay attention to what is going on around us. Even though our eyes take in everything and faithfully report what they see, the brain simply must choose what to focus on. There is too much out there to take it all in and process it. [...]

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Years ago, scientists were able to link a monkey sitting in North Carolina with a robotic arm situated at MIT’s Touch Lab. This doesn’t seem all that remarkable until you notice that the control is entirely by thought. The monkey is manipulating the arm using a brain wave-machine interface that could be used [...]

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