brain

'Brain Training' scoops innovation award

News Kawashima's Brain Training at a ceremony that ended the first day of the Edinburgh gaming festival. The Nintendo representative who picked up the prize said that Brain Training represented the different direction in which the company is headed, one...

22 August 2006, 9:26

Videogame violence stimulates aggression in brain

News Violent videogames appear to put the human brain in a mood to fight, according to a new study from Michigan State University. In the study, 13 males played the first-person-shooter Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror while in a functional magnetic...

13 October 2005, 10:33

IBM supercomputer to simulate human brain

News IBM has sold a multimillion-dollar model of its new Blue Gene/L supercomputer to simulate the workings of the human brain. The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland purchased the supercomputer, dubbed Blue Brain, and its...

6 June 2005, 9:41

Your brain: search engine or calculator?

News For years, cognitive theorists have likened the human brain to a computer that completes tasks by breaking down complex problems into a series of small yes/no decisions. A recent study, however, shows that the brain adjusts its thinking as more...

30 June 2005, 9:50

News.blog: MIT's brain-to-machine aid

News Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said on Wednesday that they've developed an algorithm for a neural prosthetic aid that can link an individual's brain activity to the person's intentions and then translate that intention...

4 October 2007, 8:55

Mobile tumour study 'very selective'

News The mobile industry has hit back at a neurosurgeon's study that claimed there is evidence of a link between mobile phones and certain types of brain tumour. Khurana, a neurosurgeon based in Australia, recently completed a 15-month study that he...

Tags: mobile phone, study, industry, research

2 April 2008, 9:14

Photos: The pigeon as cyborg

News In actual fact it's a bird that can now receive computer commands through electrodes in its brain from the device attached -- somewhat cumbersomely, it seems -- on top of its head. The implants stimulate various regions of the pigeon's brain.

1 March 2007, 10:14

Attention deficit disorder? Play videogames

News The smart box is a modified game controller that collects a real-time signal from the brain, or a snapshot of brain activity every 30 seconds. What sold her on games, instead of medication, was NASA technology that could help 'tune' her child's...

9 November 2005, 9:51

News.blog: Scientists erase rat's memory

News In the experiment, neuroscientists from MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory targeted the hippocampus, an area of the brain that's key to forming and maintaining memory. The findings could lead to methods for augmenting memory in...

25 August 2006, 9:06

News.blog: Get on your feet with 'Wii Fit'

News Like Brain Age used the Nintendo DS to exercise your brain, Wii Fit will use the Wii to exercise your body. Just like Brain Age and Wii Sports, Wii Fit will record and track various performance statistics, so you can watch your progress over time.

12 July 2007, 8:56

Photos: Playing mind games

News Sensors in the Emotiv Control Unit's helmet pick up on electric signals in the brain. The system software analyses the brain signals and wirelessly relays what it detects to a receiver. Emotiv Systems has developed a neural-processing technology...

9 March 2007, 9:18

Nintendo DS Lite in UK on 23 June

News Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? Nintendo has announced that the DS Lite will be available in Europe from 23 June at an estimated retail price of £99.99 in the UK and €149.99 in Europe.

22 May 2006, 9:20

Monitor turns satellite images into 3D models

News Technically, the images aren't 3D, but the brain thinks they are. Because the perspective from each eye is slightly different, the brain thinks it is looking into three-dimensional space rather than at a flat image, and it processes it accordingly.

14 September 2005, 9:26

Photos: Displays of the future

News The camera only picks up colour fringing -- not having a brain, the camera cannot be tricked into thinking it sees 3D images. These lenses create separate images of the material that, when received by your eye and brain, get interpreted as 3D imagery.

8 June 2006, 11:02

Nintendo smiling over record sales

News Diamond and Pearl, the seemingly omnipresent Brain Training/Brain Age titles and Mario Party DS were flagged up as key successes for the format. With Mario Kart Wii reaching the top of the UK sales charts in its first week of release, the Wii and...

Tags: training, charts, cent, financial

25 April 2008, 9:07