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People who talk with one-eyed filmmaker Robert Spence may find it creepy to realize they’re staring into a bionic eye camera – and that’s the entire point of the “EyeBorg” project. Spence wants to raise awareness of concerns in an increasingly networked society, by using a wireless video camera disguised as a natural eye to create a documentary. The purpose, he says, is to highlight privacy issues raised by technologies which have become hidden in modern life.
The smell of space will linger for the seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery long after they return to Earth on Saturday.
“One thing I’ve heard people say before, but it wasn’t so obvious, was the smell right when you open up that hatch,” Discovery pilot Dominic “Tony” Antonelli said after a March 21 spacewalk. “Space definitely has a smell that’s different than anything else.”
A specially-equipped Roomba robot vacuum cleaner can now sense human emotional states. University of Calgary researchers published their results in a paper titled “Using Bio-electrical Signals to Influence the Social Behaviours of Domesticated Robots.”
Video games with lots of action, such as the shoot-’em-up variety, can improve your vision, a new study finds.
Players became up to 58 percent better at perceiving fine contrast differences in the tests.
