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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Rihanna Leads 'Battleship' Premiere In Today's Twitter-Wood
This time next week "Battleship" will blast into theaters, but a few lucky people saw the film at the L.A. premiere last night! Rihanna brought her whole family along for the voyage as she hit the blue carpet in a revealing dress that made us question why she ever held boob envy for Brooklyn Decker. [...]
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Could There Be a Cooler Maurice Sendak Tribute Than This Awesome Axe? [Video]
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Samsung's big-chinned SPH-L300 gets papped by Mr Blurrycam
Keep it under your hat, but Samsung's reportedly got a Sprint-exclusive handset in the works. If the images are to be believed, the SPH-L300 draws design cues from the chinny HTC Legend and packs NFC. According to BriefMobile's sources, there's a 800 x 480 display in the front, a Snapdragon S4 MSM 8960 in the middle and a 5-megapixel snapper 'round back. It'll also come with 4GB onboard storage, LTE and Ice Cream Sandwich from the get-go, oh, and it'll do a flawless impersonation of Bruce Campbell when things get slow at parties.
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Google Maps for Android takes you inside with improved walking directions
All right, so Google Maps has gotten you safely to your destination. Now what?! Don't panic -- the company is rolling out indoor walking directions for the app's latest Android release. Version 6.7 also features 360-degree photo views of businesses, to help ensure that you really don't get lost once inside. Also new is nearby deals that can be accessed by clicking "Offers," so you can nab some sweet deals within arms' reach. The latest version is up for the download now via Google Play. If you're still lost, please consult the instructional video after the break.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
SoundCloud Gets A Major Makeover, But Only Private Beta Users Can See It (For Now)
Most people probably don't stick around social music service SoundCloud's site to ogle its design, but apparently the team felt there was plenty of room for improvement. To that end SoundCloud, who not long ago raised a $50 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, officially pulled back the curtains on their handsome new interface in San Francisco earlier today.red hook romney tax return the tree of life movie academy award nominees 2012 2012 oscar nominations kyle williams florida debate
Sweat-sensing bracelet could detect fatal seizures
A sweat-sensing wristband can tell the difference between a relatively safe seizure and one that could kill you. The device works as accurately as an electroencephalogram (EEG), the current standard for gauging seizure severity, and it may even be able to predict seizures ? without the patient ever needing to come into hospital.
The wristbands measure skin conductance, or how easily an electrical current can travel across the skin, which is related to how much you sweat. It's a useful way to measure how emotionally aroused a person is ? although it can't tell which specific emotion is being felt ? because sweat glands are activated only by the sympathetic nervous system, which controls the fight-or-flight response. When something fires you up or sends chills down your spine, your skin conductance goes up.
"The sensors are wireless and comfortable, so we can do experiments in the field," says Javier Hernandez Rivera of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Rosalind Picard and colleagues at the Media Lab initially developed the wristbands to study the emotional states of children with autism, who can't always communicate what they're feeling. One of her undergraduate students brought the sensors home over winter break to test them out on his autistic brother.
One day shortly after Christmas, Picard noticed an enormous spike in activity in one wristband, but not the other. The student checked his records and realised that the peak came 20 minutes before his brother had a seizure.
"This was a total accidental finding," she says.
A lot of children on the autism spectrum have seizures, Picard says, and seizure-related consequences kill more people every year than breast cancer. But no one is sure how to tell from the outside which seizures should be allowed to run their course, and which will be life-threatening.
"Other than hitting your head or drowning, why do people die after a seizure?" Picard says. At least one study, led by neurologist Samden Lhatoo of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, suggests lethal seizures are associated with suppressed brainwave activity after the seizure is over. "That's something that could end your life, if your brain doesn't bounce back," Picard says.
Doctors usually measure the severity of a seizure by how long it lasts, but that turned out not to be related to brainwave suppression. EEGs can measure brainwave activity, but require lots of sensors to be attached to the scalp. Those sensors can get ripped off during a violent seizure, and are impossible to wear all the time.
Picard, her student Ming-Zher Poh, MIT neurologist Tobias Loddenkemper and colleagues fitted wristbands on 11 children who were being evaluated as candidates for brain surgery. They recorded a total of 34 seizures.
They found that the higher a patient's skin conductance during a seizure, the longer it took their brainwaves to return to normal afterwards.
The wristbands also picked up on seizure signals earlier than EEGs in some cases. EEG can only pick up activity in the cortex, the outer layer of the brain.
"If the seizure starts in the amygdala, the EEG won't see it, but the skin sensors will," Picard says. That doesn't necessarily mean the wristbands can predict seizures before they happen. "We think we can predict, but we can't claim that yet," she says. "We need more data."
At the moment, the wristbands are only available for research purposes. But in 2009, Picard co-founded a company called Affectiva to commercialise her lab's work. She thinks the devices could help collect data on epilepsy patients in their daily lives, and help them sleep better at night.
"Let's say I have epilepsy, and I'm afraid to go to sleep at night because I don't know if I'll wake up," she says. If her wristbands record a severe seizure, "I could have it call for help for me."
Lhatoo thinks the wristband "seems a neat little gadget to use", although he hasn't had a chance to try it out yet.
Picard's work also supports his best idea for why patients with suppressed brain waves die: something is wrong with their autonomic nervous system, which regulates heartbeat and breathing. Bugs in that system should show up in skin conductance, he says.
"It strengthens a relationship between autonomic dysfunction and brain suppression," Lhatoo says. "It suggests that, yes indeed, we should focus on [EEG suppression] as being something that could potentially help us identify patients that are most at risk, and thereby give them and their caretakers or relatives reason to heighten awareness."
Journal reference: Neurology, DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318258f7f1
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AT&T's HTC One X gets rooted, catches up with the global gang
No sooner did the international variant of the One X reveal its source code, now the AT&T version has landed itself an unofficial root. Better still, the folks over at xda-developers have already squeezed the occasionally laborious process into a one-click install. For those not in the know, this doesn't mean an unlocked bootloader, which is still wrapped up in AT&T red tape. Root meddling types can hit up the source for the necessary files. Just, be careful -- that's some pricey polycarbonate and the Galaxy S III's still some weeks away.
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