Sentences with phrase «in brain technology»

«By the same token, creativity, invention, innovation and imagination also know no borders and therefore, initiatives seeking the next big thing in brain technology should by definition be global endeavors.»

The conference joins stakeholders from around the world to support the entire lifecycle of innovation in brain technologies.

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The thrilling thing is that you do not have to be a millionaire to boost your brain power, nor do you have to go back to school or invest in expensive technology.

Enter brain fitness, a new healthy - living trend driven not only by the aging population but also by developments in technology and neuroscience.

In the future, Johnson expects the technology to progress so that even healthy humans can get chips implanted in their brains — and become, in effect, superhumaIn the future, Johnson expects the technology to progress so that even healthy humans can get chips implanted in their brains — and become, in effect, superhumain their brains — and become, in effect, superhumain effect, superhuman.

In a statement, Brain Corp. said it is also testing its technology at its development partner sites.

In the case of robotics technology geared toward commercial cleaning jobs, Brain Corp. would be wise to try to appeal to the 2 - million - member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents employees in a variety of labor fields, including janitorial serviceIn the case of robotics technology geared toward commercial cleaning jobs, Brain Corp. would be wise to try to appeal to the 2 - million - member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents employees in a variety of labor fields, including janitorial servicein a variety of labor fields, including janitorial services.

Earlier this year, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk backed the company Neuralink with the intent of further developing brain - machine interfaces, a technology that would merge humans with computers and could, in theory, make knowledge downloadable.

All of the technology in the world can't make us anything more than human, but understanding how our own brains work can give us an advantage over other mere mortals.

While some companies like Tesla already offer semi-autonomous technology — where the driver can take their hands off the wheel for brief periods of time — it is likely to be several years before people can turn over the majority of the driving to the «brains» in their vehicle.

Even the fact that you were born at this time in history, that you were given a brain and a heart that you didn't have to earn, and that you get to benefit from the awesome power of modern technologies like the Internet — none of this was within your control, nor did you create these gifts.

Overall, if you include the medical uses of neurotech, other devices, and all the businesses that can benefit from brain - related technologies, this is a field that's generating well over $ 150 billion in revenues annually.

The «floating brain» is equipped with IBM's Watson artificial intelligence technology and is expected to assist astronauts during the European Space Agency's Horizons mission in June.

Most AI solutions are trained on left brain information, but the real value (just as Westworld predicted) is in teaching your technology how to navigate the right brain.

In 2016, Musk founded Neuralink, which is trying to find a way for computers to interact directly with the human brain, and the Boring Company, which is building tunnels to transport people and cargo using another proposed new technology — electric sleds.

Our vision is to one day see a world where degenerative brain diseases do not exist and science and technology play a direct role in extending the healthy lives of ourselves and our loved ones.

In an article in the MIT Technology Review, Kurzweil estimated that to emulate the human brain, a computer would need to perform around 100 trillion calculations per seconIn an article in the MIT Technology Review, Kurzweil estimated that to emulate the human brain, a computer would need to perform around 100 trillion calculations per seconin the MIT Technology Review, Kurzweil estimated that to emulate the human brain, a computer would need to perform around 100 trillion calculations per second.

In the last year, the technology long used by researchers to measure brain activity has become affordable enough for some toy makers to incorporate it into their toys and video games.

And in Canada, InteraXon is at the head of the pack when it comes to developing innovative applications for the brain - computer interface technology.

But that chip inside the head could soon vanish as scientists say we are poised to gain a much greater understanding of the brain, and, in turn, technologies that empower brain computer interfaces.

Here's a news item that has interesting theological implications: Medical review boards in both the U.S. and India have granted permission to two biotech companies to experiment with new technology that they hope could bring back patients who are brain dead — something currently considered impossible.

Rabbi Neuberger asserted that «it's really important that one accepts that... new scientific research has taught us... that the human embryo is not as unique as we thought before... We do have to think differently about the «unique quality of human embryos» in the way that Peter Saunders is saying... The miracle of creation... may have to be explained somewhat differently... Our human brains are given to us by God... to better the life of other human beings... and if this technology can do it..., and I don't believe that anybody is going to research beyond fourteen days, then so be it, lets do it.»

What I find disappointing is that grown adults can see that after centuries of evolution, in which we have grown taller on the average, our brains have enlarged, and technology has altered our everyday way of life... can sit back and say stupid stuff like that.

At that time the technology of transplant surgery was beginning to make progress, and some people suspected that the desire to establish in law a concept of brain death was motivated only by the wish to obtain organs for transplant before those organs had deteriorated (as they will rapidly when heart and lung activity fail).

Also, the men in Bible times surpass us when it comes to intelligence, while we depend on calculators to compute numbers and technology, they used their God given Brain.

With all our knowledge, big brains, university degrees and amazing (to us) technology, consider than we dwell on a damp little planet, in an ordinary solar system, in the boonies of a very ordinary spiral galaxy which is composed of billions of stars, millions of which are much, much larger than our sun.

With cutting edge technology at our disposal and some of the best brains in the field of packaging by our side we stand committed to continually add value to the business of our clients.

In 2016, Brain set up the Dolce consortium with starch - based ingredient supplier Roquette and natural product specialist AnalytiCon Discovery to develop natural sweeteners and sweetness enhancers using the technology.

New technologies, like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), allow us to look inside the brain when it's in the throes of love — or just mere attachment love.

Arming sideline personnel (especially a certified athletic trainer) with new, cutting edge tools and technology, including impact sensors to track hits and alert sideline personnel to those which might result in concussion or brain trauma from an accumulation of sub-concussive blows, and a battery of quick and reliable sideline assessment tests to make «remove from play» decisions;

(As anyone who has been visiting MomsTEAM's Concussion Safety Center for the past twelve years knows, science and technology have yet to come up with a way to prevent concussions; the most we can realistically hope to do at this point is a better job of identifying concussions when they occur and managing them in such a way as to keep the recovery time to a minimum and to keep kids from returning before their brains have fully healed so as to minimize the risk of serious, long - term effects, or even, in rare cases, death).

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

While researchers continue to look for the concussion «holy grail» in the form of specific impact thresholds above which concussions are highly likely and / or the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season that substantially increase the risk of long term brain injury, impact sensor technology is available right now to do what we can to reduce total brain trauma by using impact data to identify kids who need more coaching so they can learn how to tackle and block without using their helmets.

Lastly, at the end of this film, Christopher Plummer was experimenting with a brain - scanning technology on two subjects and placed them in a room with a wired device on their heads.

They may have minor anxiety or low social skills but sometimes the exposure to new technology in which they're flooded with sexual images or sexual text stories, or the opportunity to be sexual in ways that they never could have imagined, sometimes the opportunity by itself can be addictive like we saw with crack cocaine many years ago, so people got addicted to crack cocaine who did not have a typical profile, just the exposure to the drug was enough to flood the brain and get people hooked in a very short period of time.

A former Army bomb disposal officer and business development executive, Crossman has been instrumental in the development of numerous life - saving technologies, including the bomb suit featured in the Oscar - winning movie, The Hurt Locker, Advanced Combat Helmet impact pads, roadside bomb jammers used by the United States Marine Corp, and, most recently, helmet impact sensors used by U.S. Army and USMC to help detect traumatic brain injury (TBI) in deployed soldiers and Marines.

Launching in fall 2013, the NFL, Under Armour and GE will invite proposals for new materials and technologies that can protect the brain from traumatic injury and new tools for tracking head impacts in real time.

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The researchers used functional near - infrared spectroscopy, a technology that measures oxygenation in regions of the brain using light, to assess the babies» brain activity.

Supported by the Government of Canada through Grand Challenges Canada's «Saving Brains» program, as well as Colombia's Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (COLCIENCIAS), the study is published today in the journal Pediatrics.

This funding has provided us with the means to create a new community art center, merging fine art and innovative state of the art digital technologies and will offer access to artistic self - expression to people who have intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities and traumatic brain injuries and have interests in the arts.

A key pillar of this vision is to leverage on Information Communication technology (ICT), to take advantage of the vast brain power Ghanaians have been endowed with to make a difference in the lives of the ordinary Ghanaian.

When former President Barack Obama launched the BRAIN Initiative five years ago (SN: 2/22/14, p. 16), the goal was to support technologies that would, in part, «open new doors to explore how the brain records, processes, uses, stores and retrieves vast quantities of information,» according to the White HBRAIN Initiative five years ago (SN: 2/22/14, p. 16), the goal was to support technologies that would, in part, «open new doors to explore how the brain records, processes, uses, stores and retrieves vast quantities of information,» according to the White Hbrain records, processes, uses, stores and retrieves vast quantities of information,» according to the White House.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig found out that the new fitness technology called Jymmin makes us less sensitive to pain.

Significant advances emerging from neuroscience and computer technology have long been a goal of the U.S. military in its quest to find better ways to use brain - related technology to boost national security, and more recently, address debilitative injuries resulting from improvised explosive devices and posttraumatic stress disorder, according to two experts on neuroscience and ethics.

The developments have generated new ethical concepts such as «cognitive liberty» that asks whether a person should be the only one with access to their thoughts and whether brain alterations should be made reversible in addition to concerns related to technologies falling into the wrong hands.

Dr. Giedd's research team seeks to use cutting edge technologies to explore the relationship between genes, brain and behavior in healthy development and in neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood onset.

Because its powerful technology can measure microstructural features in the brain, such as the diameter of nerve cell axons, it enables researchers to answer entirely new questions, says CUBRIC director Derek Jones.

In general, these interfaces rely on the user's ability to learn how to self - induce particular mental states that can be detected by brain - scanning technologies.

Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»