Minority Report is Real

Atta texana: a view underground

3d model on immersive system, created from a Ground Penetrating Radar scan of an Atta texana leafcutting ant colony in Texas.

http://www-viz.tamu.edu/faculty/lurleen/main/attatunnel/01.htm

What's really cool is they use a nintendo Wii game controller as their navigation device!

http://www-viz.tamu.edu/faculty/lurleen/main/attatunnel/immersive.htm

Scientists extract images directly from brain

This is downright spooky.
-jeroen

Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/

Gestures Lend A Hand In Learning Mathematics; Hand Movements Help Create New Ideas

While we think about gesture-based interface design, this article shows how gesturing is an important part of learning. I wonder if one could develop a gesture-based teaching tool? i.e. to re-enforce the brain pathways for the concept being taught.

-jeroen

ScienceDaily (Mar. 6, 2009) — Gesturing helps students develop new ways of understanding mathematics, according to research at the University of Chicago.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224133204.htm

Brain scan reveals memories of where you've been

Scans of the part of the brain responsible for memory have for the first time been used to detect a person's location in a virtual environment. Using functional MRI (fMRI), researchers decoded the approximate location of several people as they navigated through virtual rooms.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16751-brain-scan-reveals-memories-of-where-youve-been.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news