Friday, November 14, 2014

Typing with your mind

                Ever wondered if we will be able to one day type without physically touching the keyboard? That is becoming a possibility due to the Brain- Computer Interface (BCI) created by Wadsworth Center in Albany, NY.


The BCI home system Source: http://www.wadsworth.org/
                The way it works is with a machine which takes readings of patterns when certain letters flashes, verifying the target letter. For now, it is extremely expensive and uses very complex programming. In hopes of this becoming a affordable way for anyone with disabilities limiting their abilities to type. While typing is a major point in this program, it is only a speck of the possibilities such programs can provide.

Friday, November 7, 2014

Are we closer to Back to the Future?

Source: Back to the Future
Source: inventist.com
Electric skateboards and magnetic skateboards with no wheels are becoming more common as 2015 is coming closer. In the 1985 movie, "Back to the Future" Marty McFly used a hover board. The truth is, we might not have that technology any time soon, so we have to make due with what we have now, motorized personal transportation. They are simple concepts, attaching motorized wheels anything transportation. Ranging from different sizes of small to large, from the size of a baseball to the size of a long board. They are often very versatile and fairly affordable. Many independent companies like Inventist have started to take on the challenge of creating a easy, safe, and effective way to commute to work, to the movies, to the park, or simply go down the street to a friend's house. They made a very compact and easy to control way of transportation such as their Orbit Wheel.