Memory and Power
Wired is full of good stuff today.
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Chips Coming to a Brain Near YouProfessor Theodore W. Berger, director of the Center for Neural Engineering at the University of Southern California, is creating a silicon chip implant that mimics the hippocampus, an area of the brain known for creating memories. If successful, the artificial brain prosthesis could replace its biological counterpart, enabling people who suffer from memory disorders to regain the ability to store new memories.
And it's no longer a question of "if" but "when."
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Pumping Up the Power of the IPodWired News tested a $40, high-capacity, 2,100 mAh (milliamp hour) replacement iPod battery from Newer Technology. It was easy to install and delivered 22 hours of continuous play -- more than double the play time of the original battery. (The battery tested is for first- and second-generation iPods; Newer also sells one for third-generation iPods.)
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On the Trail of the AnalemmaIf you want to photograph the analemma -- the yearlong pattern the sun etches in the sky as the Earth orbits around it -- there are lots of things to worry about.
Forty-year rainstorms, unstable cameras and balky batteries -- these are just a few. Ask Anthony Ayiomamitis, who has encountered all of it.
Fortunately for Ayiomamitis, he walked away from the experience with nine complete photographs of the phenomenon -- well more than what he needed to become the eighth known person in the world to have ever photographed a perfect solar analemma.
* Ray, 10/22/2004 01:54:08 PM
