[ZDNet]Chemical mind hacking: legit, or corporate cheating?

Hmmm... I'll just stick to caffeine, taurine, ginseng, B-complex, and sugar.

Double Espresso, anybody? 8)

There is an absolutely fantastic article by Margaret Talbot in this week’s New Yorker about the use of “neuroenhancers” — that is, neuroenhancing drugs such as Adderall, Ritalin and Provigil that are typically prescribed for ADHD and dementia — to effectively “hack” the brain and coax more productivity from it.

The whole article: http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=3573#

Honda's Experimental Walking Assist Device

TOKYO, Japan, April 22, 2008– Honda Motor Co., Ltd. will showcase an experimental model of a walking assist device which could support walking for the elderly and other people with weakened leg muscles...

The whole article here:
http://world.honda.com/news/2008/c080422Experimental-Walking-Assist-Device/

[ZDNet] Core i5 details leaked.

The Core i5 (codenamed Lynnfield) is basically a Core i7 part with the third memory channel removed and the QuickPath interconnect dumped and replaced by a cheaper Direct Media Interface.

More info here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=4176&tag=nl.e589

[ZDNet] Nine more Firefox add-ons to try.

http://content.zdnet.com/2346-9595_22-289082-3.html

Netbook Chips Create a Low-Power Cloud

Using a cluster of the same processors that normally show up in netbooks and similar mobile devices, researchers have created a powerful server architecture that draws less power than a lightbulb.

The architecture, dubbed a "fast array of wimpy nodes," or FAWN, offers a way to decrease by an order of magnitude the amount of power used by the computational infrastructure of Internet giants like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, and others. If the predictions of its inventors are borne out, it could have a significantimpact on both the bottom line and the environmental impact of cloud computing.

The whole article here:
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22504/?a=f

CNVF problem.

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Kepler's 95-MegaPixel Camera!

Kepler is NASA’s first mission capable of finding Earth-size and smaller planets in the habitable zone of stars similar to our Sun.

It is equiped with a photometer that is composed of just one "instrument", which is, an array of 42 CCDs (charge coupled devices). Each 50x25mm CCD has 2200x1024 pixels. This photometer is equivalent to a 95-megapixel digital camera (whew!).

Kepler was launched last March 6, 2009, for three and one-half or more years of mission.
Here are the official NASA Kepler pages:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html
http://kepler.nasa.gov/about/

Wikipedia Entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_Mission