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Uma revolução vinda de Dresden: Um leitor de plástico

September 22nd, 2008 | Ainda sem Comentários, quem quer iniciar a discussão? | Guardado em Coisas, Gadgets, Web


Foi apresentado ao mundo recentemente um gadget que promete revolucionar o negócio dos Editores e Jornais. Vem de Dresden na Alemanha e muito simplesmente é um leitor digital feito em plático, muito resistente, muito fino, capaz de armazenar imensa informação e com uma bateria de grande capacidade. O produto descrito pelos seus autores:

Plastic Logic is using our proprietary technology leadership in plastic electronics to create a range of products enabling information access, organization, and consumption. Our first product, focused on reading digital content, will enter the market in early 2009.

Differentiated by a stunning form factor (the size of 8.5 x 11-inch paper), the Plastic Logic reader features a big readable display. Yet it’s thinner than a pad of paper, lighter than many business periodicals, and offers a high-quality reading experience - better than alternatives of paper or other electronic readers on the market today.

The Plastic Logic reader supports a full range of business document formats, such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and Adobe PDFs, as well as newspapers, periodicals and books. It has an easy gesture-based user interface and powerful software tools that will help business users to organize and manage their information. Users can connect to their information either wired or wirelessly and store thousands of documents on the device. The reader incorporates E Ink technology for great readability and features low power consumption and long battery life. The Plastic Logic reader is scheduled to ship in the first half of 2009.

The Plastic Logic reader brings a panoply of business information to your fingertips with powerful tools to make people more productive and simplify their work lives.

O video de apresentação na Demo deste ano:

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Provas ciêntificas que o Amor é cego. Mas alguém tinha dúvidas?

September 10th, 2008 | Ainda sem Comentários, quem quer iniciar a discussão? | Guardado em Coisas, Família, Mundo, Vida


Li um artigo interessantíssimo sobre o amor. O sumário é o que se segue e basicamente diz-nos com provas ciêntificas aquilo que há muito sabiamos: o amor é cego é sabe muito bem!

Romantic and maternal love are highly rewarding experiences. Both
are linked to the perpetuation of the species and therefore have a
closely linked biological function of crucial evolutionary importance.
Yet almost nothing is known about their neural correlates in the
human. We therefore used fMRI to measure brain activity in mothers
while they viewed pictures of their own and of acquainted children, and
of their best friend and of acquainted adults as additional controls. The
activity specific to maternal attachment was compared to that
associated to romantic love described in our earlier study and to the
distribution of attachment-mediating neurohormones established by
other studies. Both types of attachment activated regions specific to
each, as well as overlapping regions in the brain’s reward system that
coincide with areas rich in oxytocin and vasopressin receptors. Both
deactivated a common set of regions associated with negative emotions,
social judgment and ‘mentalizing’, that is, the assessment of other
people’s intentions and emotions. We conclude that human attachment
employs a push- pull mechanism that overcomes social distance by
deactivating networks used for critical social assessment and negative
emotions, while it bonds individuals through the involvement of the
reward circuitry, explaining the power of love to motivate and
exhilarate.

O link para o artigo completo, aqui.

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