Planning a geekend

Moin

If you ever wondered if geeks are social here is the answer. Yes they are and they are very social and organising some very cool events which are called “geekends”. Combination of weekend and geek. Not just going for hiking with friends. No developing, building, ironing and coding very cool and geeky things.

As being a reader of the very cool MAKE magazin I read the article on a brain machine the other day. This project is great for a geekend. Something to build, some hardware, software and after all a great toy to play with.

The idea is to build one of these Brainwave (aka Light and Sound Machines) on your own with a little micro controller. Lets see if we can optimize the hard and software a little bit. The original one is based on an other project and therefore the hard and software is not optimizes for a LSM.

More Information on the original project you can find the the blog here.

Stay tuned to my blog to read more on this geekend.

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Flushing someones brain

Moin

Just read an article on Heise Technology Review on “Die-selektive-Loeschung-von-Erinnerungen” (selective remove of memories). Not on a computer, on mice brains!!! The researcher say it will be very great to help patients with post posttraumatic stress disorder. Well I am a great fan of Science and Research but just think how you can easily misuse this drug. On one hand as being a victim of it (leaving your company and get a small bye bye pill) or as misusing yourself (“I never did it!”). I think the researcher working on this project now have a lot of new friends from all kind of business.

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