By adkoill on September 19, 2010
The Department of Defense and Southern Methodist University have teamed up to develop prostheticsthat use two-way fiber optic communication between artificial limbs and peripheral nerves to essentially give these devices the ability to feel pressure or temperature. The technology is called neurophotonics, and it will someday allow hi-speed communication between the brain and artificial limbs. But [...]
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By adkoill on September 9, 2010
The human face is based entirely on Phi The human face abounds with examples of the Golden Section or Divine Proportion. We’ll use our building blocks again to understand design in the face: The head forms a golden rectangle with the eyes at its midpoint. The mouth and nose are each placed at golden sections [...]
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