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#2,161 – Living Chandelier

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The only thing I don’t like about renting an apartment is that I can’t upgrade the appliances and fixtures the way I would want. That means no Nest thermostat or Ring doorbell for me. And definitely no Living Chandelier. Wait. What? My Modern Met explains: “Design engineer and biotechnologist Julian Melchiorri —who first gained attention by creating the first synthetic biological leaf —recently came up with an ingenious lighting design that is as beautiful as it is eco-friend

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#2,144 – I Miss My Bar

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Do you miss going out? Partying? Socializing with other living, breathing human beings in a public place? If so, you’re in luck. Sort of. Thanks to a new website that mimics the sound effects you typically find in a bar to help virtually teleport you to a better time. The Verge explains: “Sure, you can drink at home with some music on, but that doesn’t replicate the feeling of being out at a bar among friends and total strangers.

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#2,138 – Brain Week: Mind Hacking

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Here’s something they don’t teach you in school: the idea that you can hack your mind. Sure I always knew that the brain was malleable with neuroplasticity allowing for our adult minds to learn new tricks or recover from injury. But the idea of Mind Hacking goes far beyond mere plasticity. Rather, it points to programming. To the idea that we can actively hack our minds the way a computer programmer hacks software to effect real change.

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#2,137 – Brain Week: BrainEx

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

You spend your whole life learning stuff, building up experiences, working out to stay in shape, evolving as an individual, etc. and then you get hit by a bus and in a flash your whole life is over. That sucks. But what if “dying” wasn’t the end? What if you could be brought back to life several hours after your brain has ceased functioning?

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#2,127 – Brain Week: Liquid Neural Network

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I’ve spent a lot of time this week discussing how the human mind works but just as interesting are all the unique ways that we can program inanimate objects to think thanks to advances in AI and computing. Such as a new liquid neural network concept that could help computer systems think for themselves. According to The Next Web : “MIT researchers have invented an adaptive ‘liquid’ neural network that could improve decision-making in self-driving cars and medical diagnosis.

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#2,119 – Brain Week: Mood Altering Tech

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We all get moody from time to time. Thrown off our game by diets, workloads, stress factors, bad news, arguments with our significant others or even just something annoying that one of our friends said. Wouldn’t it be great then if there was a way to simply and easily alter our moods to avoid feeling down or depressed? Well, soon that may be possible and we may even be able to use a smart phone app to pull it off.

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#2,108 – Alexa Hunches

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The goal of Google and Amazon when it comes to search and voice activated personal assistants is to get to the point where these devices know us better than we know ourselves, serving up relevant information and answers to questions before we even know we want it, before we even ask for it. And Amazon just got one step closer to that goal by enabling Alexa to act on the “hunches” its been accumulating.

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