Besides the traditional economic issues, such topics as the application of genetic engineering technology, artificial prolongation of human life, and the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life were discussed this year at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In the opinion of scientists, in the near future, medical science will possibly…
Technology is supposed to make our lives better and easier. However, sometimes it is really difficult to understand why to waste effort and time to invent something completely useless. Here are the top 10 weirdest inventions of the 20th century that are certainly among the most useless too: 1. Cigarette…
Nikola Tesla was certainly an eccentric scientist, but some people believe that his inventions were more noticeable than the ones of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison. His electric machine, violent imagination, and eccentric style have become a symbol of "mad genius". Here are some of the weirdest inventions of…
Telekinesis, or moving objects with the mind, is this possible? Some people truly believe that any object can be controlled with thought alone. If you are convinced that only heroes of science fiction movies are able to move objects by the power of thought, it is time to get rid of…
How many times we wished to be able to contact someone without words… New company for scientific and military research plans to make the dream come true by giving us a possibility to send a text or audio message by thought. The technology of so-called synthetic telepathy is based on…
Neuroscientists invented a mind-reading device that allows converting brain waves into words. In fact, a big part of our thought processes takes place in the region of the brain called the superior temporal gyrus, which is a part of the auditory system. It makes it possible for us to elicit…
What is a sensory deprivation tank and what does this experience feel? And most importantly, should you try it? John Lennon was not referring to actual floating when he sang, "turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream" in the Beatles' groundbreaking 1966 record "Tomorrow Never Knows." Rather, the song…
Scientists have designed a device that is claimed to read thoughts. They tried the "iBrain" on British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. In a way, they were able to read Stephen Hawking's mind. A mind-reading device is created by scientists in California to be used in patients with diseases such as that…
