Scientists restore vision in a mouse

Through the years, there have been reports of various cures for blindness, but this new one seems to be definitive. Researchers and scientists from the University of Berkley have managed to restore the vision of a mouse after injecting a chemical directly in their eyes. This chemical is known as AAQ, and acts as a kind of photo interrupter, and which does is to unite the ion channel proteins with cells from the surface of the retina. When exposed...

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University of Taiwan claims that Apple copied the Siri

  Accustomed to sue the other for breach of patents, Apple had a taste of own medicine last Friday, when a university in Taiwan announced that it would bring a lawsuit against the U.S. company for an alleged illegal use of patents in personal assistant Siri. The system Siri allows iPhone users to perform various tasks using just your voice. However, Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, claims that the voice recognition tool infringes two...

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Time to write to the movement of our eyes

  The dr. Jean Lorenceau, University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, has developed a device by which the movements of our eyes can be used as a way of writing. This product was not developed earlier because of a simple cause: lack of technology. The human eye produces many involuntary movements, and these to be interpreted by the device became anything but writing desired. With some new developments, dr. Lorenceau been able to use...

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The shirt of the future may charge the 'tablet' or 'smartphone'

  Researchers at the University of South Carolina have invented a shirt that can store energy and charge mobile devices. This technology is still under experimentation that could design the clothes of the future, because we are increasingly dependent on electricity in motion. The project began when researchers at the University of South Carolina and Lihong Bao Xiaodong Li tried to find out what happened to the cellulose fibers of...

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