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WELCOME TO THE WEIRD Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
Two psychologists in Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, have designed a thinking cap that can help improve or hinder a person’s ability to learn by sending a mild electrical current to the brain. While it could help you learn that new language, the researchers say that the research could have clinical benefits in the treatment of conditions like schizophrenia and ADHD.
(Video: Vanderbilt University/YouTube)
So you may have heard the news that Facebook bought virtual reality company Oculus VR for $2 billion earlier this week. Before that, we were looking forward to playing Half Life 2 and Minecraft on it, but the latter isn’t going to happen as its creator, Markus Persson, announced on Twitter that he canceled the deal. Nooooooooooo!
(Image: Markus Persson/Twitter)
Our only hope now is Minecraft will make its way over to Sony’s own VR offering, Project Morpheus.
Your next electricity source could come from a wind turbine inside a floating blimp. At least that’s the idea from US company Altaeros which introduced the Buoyant Airborne Turbine (BAT), a 60-foot-diameter helium aerostat with a three-blade-rotor spinning inside.
According to Fast Co, it rises 1,000 feet off the ground and sends back power via high-strength tethers.
(Video: altaerosenergies/YouTube)
LG just launched its own smart bulb which can be controlled by your smartphone. You can customise them so they flash whenever you get a phone call or getting them to turn on slowly to wake you up in the morning.
Two Dutch programmmers have given Google Maps its best use yet. Google Naps will help you find the best napping spots in the world, or let you share the best ones. The most popular spots being the middle of the Atlantic ocean, outside the White House and Monaghan for this gem.
(Image: Google Naps)
A Swiss organisation has announced the Cybathalon, a new sports competition much like the Olympics, but for athletes using prostheses and other assistive devices with robotic technologies.
Hosted by a Swiss robotics labs and taking place in Zurich in October 2016, the event will feature different competitions featuring wearable arm prostheses, powered exoskeletons, powered wheelchairs, and power knee prostheses.
(Video: rienerr/YouTube)
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The Go Compare fella? Knew there was a reason I always hated him
Isnt this sort of an irrelevant story?
Last seen tying a damsel in distress to a train track.
Why do we need to know this
Should be in the daily edge section
This looks Copied and Pasted from some British website, complete with UK phone numbers
We moustache you a few questions regarding an assault.
Doubt anyone will recognise through that disguise. Anyway why is this non-story here? Fistfight in london on NYE, no-one died, who cares?
‘The motive for the attack is unclear’. The motive for this story is utterly OPAQUE. Why do you think this is news? It happened in January. In Eltham. In London. Why was this deemed relevant? Bizarre. Was he the relevant in the room?
Really really irrelevant story. Is that the best you can come up with, Journal ??
Poirot has let himself go
Fat idiot
What a recycled half-arsed story. So irrelevant.
Once again I will ask-is this a uk site?were there any recent assaults lately in France maybe?why is this news in ireland?
And yet you’re asking them to write about the assaults in France …
Irony fail Su
What the hell journal. Wtf. This must be a joke?
A five year old child journalist would find a more meaningful and interesting news story relevant to currant Irish or world affairs. Holy fcuk.
D’ya think folks that maybe the Met Police may have asked media organisations in Ireland to publish the story in the belief that the perpetrator has a connection with Ireland and could be identified by someone in Ireland? Whadda’ya think..? Certainly not unknown for British publications to reciprocate….
Journal write out one hundred lines. I must not publish articles that readers don’t want to see but read them anyway so they can have a good old cry about it.
Lived in plumstead as a student, it makes darndale look like a heavenly paradise
It Steven Avery
Go compare?
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