Downsizing those giant airport scanners you stand inside of to handheld should cut their price and offer new applications areas: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog
These tiny detectors convert terahertz waves into sound for handheld devices in Jay Guo's lab
Cognitive computers—cognizers—aim to instill human-like intelligence into our smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices using microchips that emulate the human brain. Dubbed the “Future of Computing” by the NYTimes, one of the “Best Innovation Moments of 2011” by the Washington Post and one of “10 World Changing Ideas” in a Scientific American cover story “A Computer Chip that Thinks” this book reveals how neuroscience and computer science are merging in a new era of intelligent machines light-years beyond Apple's Siri, IBM's Watson.