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Entries from September 1, 2009 - September 30, 2009

Face in a Place of the Day

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Super High - 100 m Tree in one Photo!

Have you ever stood in a dense forest, looked up and thought, wow what a high tree! And now imagine you have the task to take a photo of it. How the heck you gonna fit the whole tree in when you can't get far away enough, cause you are surrounded by other trees?!

Well, National Geographic photographer Michael Nichols came up with a solution  - after one year of preparation he created this image of a 1500 year old Redwood. Amazing!

Photo: Michael Nichols - National Geographic

And here is how he did it, pure technical brilliance:

There is a massive fold out with the photo of it in the latest issue of National Geographic wich came out yesterday!

RCR - Remote Controlled Rat

I m a bit on a science trip here lately. But i just happen to stumble across those incredible developments - like this one here.

Scientist managed to implement technology into a rat's brain, so that they are able to remote-control its walking direction with a computer. This is just the beginning it of they say.

Seeing with your tongue! Yes! With your tongue!

Picture: WICAB - Original Article from Scientic American / Mandy KendrickScience can be so mesmerising! I just read an article about a new device that allows blind people to see by connecting a little camera with their tongue!

The camera (placed on a pair of sunglasses) records light signals from the environment, which are translated via a little handheld device and then transferred to a little tongue piece. The nerve centres in the tongue translate these electric signals which then somehow arrive in the brain so that the blind perceive them as visual information - they see!

Apparently it feels like a champagne tickle on the tongue. The whole process is like when a baby learns to see the world around it for the first time - and only takes a few days.

The device is ready to be sold by the end of this year! Wow!

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE HERE>>

Face in a Place of the Day

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