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more about #brains more comments → Alfisted: Suddenly, I feel like having a nice pastrami. more » tande04: I'm going to go ahead and say that this job would suck. Was kinda interesting to watch for the first couple hours but got old fast. Could only imagi... more » Wburg: I don't see any brain? more » tande04: I'm surprised they didn't do a more high tech approach. Do what they did for the visible man project and just take a high resolution picture of the t... more » Jacubious: I was pretty disturbed by this article as I usually am when I read things about people getting death sentences. I must say though, the comments really... more » ForestFire0: So the jury came to the same conclusion, but it took 9 hours longer, and that is a victory? "Well, you'll still be killed, but they thought about it ... more » Duckspwn: Wooo! Death penalty! This article had a happy ending. more » yogibimbi: interesting to know that forensics seem to understand the brain better than neurobiology does. fMRI so far is mostly empirical data, meaning, that in ... more » Canoehead: Strikes me as a darned good reason to kill him, since apparently his brain architecture will prevent rehabilitation. One would think that defense cou... more » Nelson: Still waiting for advances in dream-recording technology, and then using a combination of someone's dream and intent to convict people. When that happ... more » tomsomething: I don't see this as a gateway to guilt-sniffing robots. This is a medical image used to prove that someone's brain is broken and could not function co... more » Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: Pop a xanax. more » travisco_nabisco: This is truly a disturbing concept. I have not doubt that science will one day get to the point where this is reliable, but it should take a lot more ... more » Nathan Obbards: I don't think anyone should be subject to the death penalty ever, but I also think that people who suffer from psychosis or who are pscyho/sociopaths ... more » Kaiser-Machead: And what's to distinguish guilt of a murder from guilt from infidelity. more » -
#madscience
A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind
By placing electrode grids inside patients' skulls, researchers at the Mayo Clinic have created a way for people to type words using only their brainwaves. It's a major breakthrough for brain-computer interface research. [io9] -
#brains
50 Hour Livestream of Patient H.M.'s Brain Being Sliced
Studying Henry Gustav Molaison, more commonly known as Patient H.M., and his memory impairments has revolutionized our understanding of human memory organization. Researchers will analyze his brain next, but first they're slicing it up in a 50 hour long livestream. More » -
#crime
How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
I know it's science, which is ostensibly more objective than human intuition, but there's something unnerving about an MRI brain scan being admitted as evidence in a murder trial in Chicago, the first in the US. More » -
#ai
Rat Brain Simulator Calls IBM's Cat Brain Simulation Bogus
The cat brain simulation IBM supposedly pulled off has just been called out as a "PR stunt" by the leader of the Blue Brain project, who says that it's all a "mass deception of the public." More » -
#brains
Scientists Create Eerie Ambient Music Using Human Brains, MRI Machines
A professor at Trinity College in Connecticut has written what is essentially a MIDI player for the human brain, converting MRI imagery into a sort of bleeping, blooping ambient music.
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#neurosky
Neurosky Brain Gaming Headset Now Has Free SDK
Remember the Neurosky mind-gaming headset we tried earlier this year? The one that actually worked? It's getting a free SDK. More » -
#caprica
Battlestar Galactica Prequel Caprica Says You Can Store 13.3 Brains On an iPod Shuffle
According to the script, each person's consciousness only takes 300MB. Do you believe it? Does this make you want to watch the series more or less? [io9] -
#rumor
Emotiv Epoc Mind Reading Controller Delayed For Not Reading Minds Very Well
Emotiv's "mind-reading" controller is a press darling, mainly because it's really cool. Apparently, though, Emotiv won't have the headset ready to go for the planned December release, because it doesn't, strictly speaking, well, work. More » -
