The newest smartphone from Palm, dubbed The Pre, was initially revealed during the CES (arguably the biggest tech conference of the year) a month ago in Vegas. The capable new gadget was shown to include a slide-out keyboard, an 8GB memory capacity as well as a 3.1 inch touch-screen.
The mobile operates on a newly created operating system, named Web OS which gives users the capability to connect directly to web data through cloud computing. Even though it is not due out until an unspecified date sometime this year, it was still named as the number one hot gadget by on the yearly “Hot Gadgets” list which is produced by Gadget Magazine T3.
Surprisingly, there were no products produced by Apple on this year’s top ten, not even the ever popular iPhone. That is likely because the Hot Gadget list is largely comprised of unreleased, or very newly released gadgets.
Scientists have now shown that it could be conceivable to “read” inside the mind of a person by looking at activity produced by the brain. With the use of an fMRI blood flow scanner, British researchers stated they is was possible to find out where volunteer participants were positioned in a virtual reality testing area. The researchers say the possibility of “intrusive” reading of the mind is still far in the future. Instead, the Journal Cell Biology article stated that the research will help memory disorders therapies, for such diseases as Alzheimer’s, through the use of hippocampal investigation to see how the brain assimilates memories.
This research will begin the process for investigating how thinking, even visualization of the future or past memories, are based across brain cells. This may lead to the use of fMRI for examination of all thinking activity, a risky prospect at best. At this time, the research is only produced with research participants and scientist Demis Hassabis predicted forensic applications would start appearing no earlier than 10 years from now.