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<p><img src="/uploads/548a3e5560b12_828.JPG" unselectable="on"></p><h4></h4><h4><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/bionics/how-to-insert-a-memory-into-the-brain-of-a-sleeping-mouse">How to Insert a Memory into the Brain of a sleeping Mouse </a></h4><p>By Eliza Strickland Posted 9 Mar 2015 | 20:00 GMT</p><p><img alt="" src="http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/ee5d299a-92b8-4769-8287-05a3b899afe8-1425926480531.jpg" image="ee5d299a-92b8-4769-8287-05a3b899afe8-1425926480531.jpg" unselectable="on"></p><figcaption>Photo: Oktay Ortakcioglu/Getty Images</figcaption><p>The lab mice awoke with happy memories… that researchers had inserted into their brains while they slept. <a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.3970.html">New research</a> in <em>Nature Neurscience</em> is the latest proof that we may soon live in a Philip K. Dick <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Wholesale">short story</a>, where synthetic memories can be created via neural stimulation. </p><p>Hyperbole aside, here’s how they did it. The researchers set out to test the following hypothesis: Animals consolidate memories while sleeping by reactivating neurons associated with the remembered experience. In five mice, the researchers used a clearly defined spatial memory. Each mouse had electrodes implanted in its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus">hippocampus</a>, the structure associated with memory. The electrodes recorded neural activity while the mouse explored a new environment. By monitoring the recorded signals, the researchers could identify spikes of electrical activity in certain neurons that were associated with a certain place in the chamber. </p><p><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/bionics/how-to-insert-a-memory-into-the-brain-of-a-sleeping-mouse">Read more</a></p><p><img src="/uploads/54ad19735dcd3_828.jpg" unselectable="on"></p><h4></h4><h4></h4><h4><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/devices/wearable-vitals-tracker">Wearable Vitals Tracker</a></h4><p>By Charles Choi Posted 24 Feb 2015 | 0:00 GMT</p><p><img style="width: 499px;" alt="img" src="http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/6fe46d42-8d64-43ce-9e74-03aa676de6df-1424728817199.jpg" unselectable="on"></p><p>In order to better care for patients, infants, and the elderly, research teams worldwide are investigating novel ways to continuously monitor people's health by tracking key life signs such as heart rate and body temperature. Such applications require sensors that are flexible and wireless for maximum comfort, self-powered to avoid replacement of batteries, and cheap enough to permit disposable use to ensure proper hygiene.</p><p>A new wearable electronic device that is the brainchild of scientists at the University of Tokyo might fit those criteria. It's an armband that combines a temperature sensor to measure body heat under the arm, a piezoelectric speaker to provide audible feedback, amorphous silicon solar cells for power, and circuits made of organic ink printed onto a plastic film. The same researchers previously developed flexible electronic skins with an eye toward covering prosthetic limbs and humanoid robots.</p><p><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/devices/wearable-vitals-tracker">Read more</a></p><p><img src="/uploads/54ad198cb3e7b_828.jpg" unselectable="on"></p><p><img src="/uploads/548a3e7b0c3f9_828.jpg" unselectable="on"></p><h4><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/video/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/google-glasss-thad-starner-wears-the-future">Google Glass’s Thad Starner Wears the Future</a></h4><p>Starner has built and sported his own augmented-reality glasses since 1990</p><h4></h4><h4>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-9lOrqVAzD4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></h4><p>By Celia Gorman and Ariel Bleicher Posted <label>1 Jul 2014 | 20:00 GMT</label></p><p><a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/home/thad/">Thad Starner</a> has been living the future for more than two decades. As a graduate student at MIT in the early 1990s, he found it frustrating that he couldn’t fully attend to a lecturer and take careful notes at the same time. So he built one of the first wearable computers - a head-up display, which weighed as much as a textbook and connected to a one-handed keyboard called a <a href="http://www.handykey.com/">Twiddler</a>. The contraption let him keep his eye on the speaker while simultaneously typing up what he was learning.</p><p>He’s worn some version of the system ever since. The latest iteration is <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/google-gets-in-your-face">Google Glass</a>, which Starner is helping develop as a technical lead while also keeping his full-time gig as a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta. He still uses the Twiddler to browse the Web and take notes on the go without ever pausing to look down at a screen. And because he has more than 20 years of experiences stored in the thumb-size, baby-blue computer at his temple, he can immediately call up relevant but not-quite-fully-remembered details to inform a conversation and almost never has to ask someone for the same information twice.</p><p><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/video/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/google-glasss-thad-starner-wears-the-future">Read More</a></p><h4></h4>
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