Can Humans outperform the newest technology? Many of you might have seen the recent Jeopardy episodes that featured Watson, IBM’s super computer who was up against the two all-time winners and super human minds of Jeopardy Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. In the end, Watson dominated his two super intelligent counterparts. But what is to…
Read MoreIs Botox the Key to Curing Depression?
An NBC2 Florida (WBBH) news program recently aired a segment about the possibility of Botox being used to help treat depression. Dr. Eric Finzi, a board certified dermasurgeon, began studying the effects of Botox injections on women with major depressive disorder in 2006. He injected Botox into the frowning muscles (located between the eyebrows) of…
Read MoreEmotion Recognition Technology on the iPhone?
iPhone users: Blue Finger, Inc., a South Korean development company, has released a new iPhone app that reads facial expressions from photos (as well as in real time, if you purchase the full version.) The app scans the faces and gives you one of 12 answers: happiness, excitement, anger, joy, worry, loneliness, tiredness, sadness, “poker-face,”…
Read MoreA Helping Hand: Hand Gestures and the Mind
New research suggests that hand gestures may boost spatial visualization by helping a person keep track of an object in the mind as it is rotated. At least that is what an article in US News Health has reported. Researchers examined the relationship between hand gestures and spatial visualization in three experiments. One of the…
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