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Spy in the sky: DB's anti-graffiti campaign goes high-tech
2013-07-18 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Deutsche Bahn is testing an unmanned drone as a new method of tracking and deterring Germany's illegal graffitists. But will the system prove effective, and in a country with strict privacy laws, is this level of surveillance a step too far?
Real-time adaptive brain control: Combining a BCI with DBS to treat Parkinsons
2013-07-17 16:56:52| Extremetech
Perhaps the biggest advance in DBS systems since they were first developed has just been reported by a group of researchers working in the movement disorders group at Oxford University. By recording activity with what is essentially a Brain Computer Interface (BCI), the researchers were able to close the stimulation loop with direct feedback from the subthalamic nucleus. The ability to incorporate meaningful data from the implant user's brain into the moment-to-moment control of the stimulation puts the one-size-fits-all DBS system on the fast track to obsolescence.
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