Honda creates a robot controlled by power of thought | Mail Online

The Japanese company has developed a way to read patterns of electric currents on a person's scalp as well as changes in cerebral blood flow when a person thinks about four simple movements - moving the right hand, moving the left hand, running and eating.

Electroencephalogram your next gizmo

The latest human-computer interface, an EEG that lets you visualize your brain waves or control a "Star War Force training tube" toy [USA today]

Wolframalpha bot to threaten Google

@ Uberface, we're big fans of semantics-based artificial intelligence. Here is Wolframalpha, a venture of Stephen Wolfram (picture), the founder of Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica, the famous fully integrated technical computing software.

According to his own talk, Wolframalpha would answer your questions online :

Wolframalpha.com will offer answers to questions, online - answers that do not necessarily already exist somewhere on the web.

Via one simple input field, users will have access to “a huge system, with trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms.”

Launch is promised in May.

Surce : [FT Alphaville : "Genius or dingbat?"]

H+ magazine

Transhumanism strikes back undercover of a new magazine, fully available in a slick digital format for print-it-yourself purpose!

Don't miss this issue, with its interesting articles about the credit crisis...

http://hplusmagazine.com/digitaledition/2009-spring/