What Babies Can See That Adults Can’t

Until they reach the age of five months, babies have an ability to perceive and distinguish images more efficiently than adults. The news comes from research conducted by the Chuo University in Japan, which studied how babies between the ages of three to four months reacted to new images. They found that they had a striking ability to discriminate changes in illumination and glossy or …

A Search Engine For Your Memories

If you’ve ever forgotten someone’s name or had trouble recalling a certain thought, you know how frustrating it is to finally give up on trying to remember it. James Kozloski, an inventor at IBM who focuses on computational and applied neuroscience, is working to create a cognitive assistant that can help solve this problem. He recently filed a patent for a program that can basically …

Experience Shakespeare’s Globe Theater Through Virtual Reality

The legendary plays put on by Shakespeare at the Globe Theater are no longer the stuff of history books. Students at the Florida International University in Miami have created an entire virtual world replicating the space, performances and atmosphere just as it was in 1598 London. A collaboration between architecture, computer science and theater students, the project (called I-CAVE) hopes to introduce a new way …