YouTube Space Lab helps students design science experiment in space

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Video content site YouTube as well as computer company Lenovo have come together to roll out a worldwide initiative that targets 14 to 18 year-old high school students, gaining the assistance of space agencies NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in the process to roll out the YouTube Space Lab, an initiative that enables students to design a science experiment which astronauts will then perform in space. Hmmm, space monkeys pulling tricks now?

A couple of experiments will have the privileged of being performed from space as well as live-streamed on YouTube, so make sure what you have in mind is good enough to impress the panel of venerable judges who include Stephen Hawking, ESA astronaut Frank De Winne and Cirque du Soleil’s founder Guy Laliberté. Interested students are required to submit a 2-minute YouTube video describing their experiment, and when March 2012 rolls around, half a dozen finalists will head off to Washington DC in order to take part in a ZERO-G flight that simulates the experience of life in outer space.

With two winners selected from the crop, their experiments will then be conducted 250 miles above Earth.

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Nissan’s car reads minds, helps you navigate roads safely

Nissan’s car reads minds, helps you navigate roads safely | Ubergizmo window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({ appId : '139683546053659', status : true, // check login status cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session xfbml : true // parse XFBML }); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement('script'); e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'; e.async = true; document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e); }()); Network:Ubergizmo English, French, SpanishUberphones Subscribe to RSS Ubergizmo ReviewsMobileGamingAndroidAppleComputersGadgetsConceptsPhoto/VideoEvents |  Jobs Home > Transportation > Nissan’s car reads minds, helps you navigate roads safely Nissan’s car reads minds, helps you navigate roads safely Edwin Kee 09/29/2011 08:35 PDT

Nissan has teamed up with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland (EPFL) in order to develop a new kind of mind-reading vehicle technology, which in due time, might even usher in hands-free driving. Who would have thought (pardon the pun) that you could actually direct your car using nothing but your mind in the future? I’m a bit wary of that though, since most of the times we drive without using our minds as everything is so mechanical already, so to have a blank mind or one that is concentrating on something else might not make your car go anywhere.

As concentration levels that are required to control thought-reading systems is extremely high, EPFL and Nissan intends to take a different route by relying on a device which uses statistical analysis instead to predict your next move behind the wheel. It does so by monitoring brain activity, eye movement, and the surrounding environment so that it knows ahead of time whether you are about to overtake that car or not.

Hopefully there is a manual override the moment you start using the steering wheel with your hands – otherwise you might want to double up on that insurance premium before you head out on one of these new-fangled vehicles.

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Autom robot helps you lose weight

Autom robot helps you lose weight | Ubergizmo window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({ appId : '139683546053659', status : true, // check login status cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session xfbml : true // parse XFBML }); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement('script'); e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'; e.async = true; document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e); }()); Network:Ubergizmo English, French, SpanishUberphones Subscribe to RSS Ubergizmo ReviewsMobileGamingAndroidAppleComputersGadgetsConceptsPhoto/VideoEvents |  Jobs Home > Medical > Autom robot helps you lose weight Autom robot helps you lose weight Edwin Kee 09/25/2011 21:12 PDT

I believe that at the end of the year, if enough marketing money is pumped into pushing out the Autom robot among the masses, it will do very well. After all, how many robots out there help you shed weight? Rarely, considering the fact that they tend to help you pile on the pounds simply because they make your life easier. The $865 Autom from Hong Kong is a 15? tall talking robot that sports an LCD touchscreen display, where you will use it to insert data on calories which you consume as well as the amount of exercise that you perform each day.

Depending on your performance and what you put into your body, the robot will respond with customized advice and encouragement, where you can also keep things fresh by downloading new speech patterns from the Internet.

According to developer Cory Kidd, Autom is more successful than phone- or Web-based apps when it comes to the battle of the bulge simply because there is a “psychological difference” which concerns a machine that sports a head, blinking eyes, and body.

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Ford MyKey helps prevent EU teens from speeding

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One thing about teens getting their driver’s license for the first time – they might think life is a video game and put the pedal to the metal, resulting in a speeding ticket at best alongside irked parents. Well, Ford might have something that parents would definitely approve of – that is, the Ford MyKey system that will be able to limit a vehicle’s top speed (a Ford, obviously) to just 80mph, while making sure that seatbelts are worn at all times, while the green driver behind the wheel will be prevented from disabling any safety features in the car.

To prevent parents from bailing out their kids from a tight spot, the MyKey system will also deliver an earlier-than-normal low-fuel warning while limiting the volume on the car audio system to just 44% – which some parents might think is still way too loud with their teen’s favorite death metal band in play. Heck, even speed alert chimes can be programmed to beep at 45, 55 or 65mph marks.

This system has proved to be a reasonable success Stateside, and the motor giant is expected to deliver the same system to the UK and Europe in 2012 – fingers crossed, they will do well there too.

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The Help Helps The Labor Day Box Office Win Big

While (mostly) everybody was enjoying their three-day weekend in the U.S., the ladies of The Help helped out the Labor Day holiday by making it to the number one spot for the third week in the row.

The movie made $14.2 million, which was far better than any of the weekend's new releases.

Ouch.

Helen Mirren's thriller The Debt came in second place with $9.7 million while new releases Apollo 18 and Shark Night 3D finished in third and fourth places, with less than $0.1 million sales apart from each other.

It's safe to say that The Help is clearly a hit with a collective $118.6 million. Could it possibly become an Oscar contender too??

Here's the top six movies of the weekend:

1. The Help – $14.2 mil
2. The Debt – $9.7 mil
3. Apollo 18 – $8.7 mil
4. Shark Night 3D – $8.6 mil
5. Rise of the Planet of the Apes – $7.8
6. Colombiana – $7.4 mil

So, what did U see this weekend??

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Piano Stories - How Literature Helps Piano Students Become Successful Musicians

Do you remember the very first stories you learned as a young child? I bet you do. And most likely you learned them from your parents and caregivers who used song as a way to comfort, teach and entertain you. Yep! All those nursery songs about the alphabet, numbers, and eeeentsy-weeentsy spiders were using music to prepare your brain for speech. So forget all that left brain nonsense our parents were taught about music. When grandma was playing the piano, she was enjoying the interplay of both left and right brain activity. This is why learning to play the piano is so beneficial to children. It stimulates neural development, using all five of the basic creative skills. They include Seeing (or Visualization), Observing, Forming Analogies, Inverting, and Simplification. These are the same creative applications found in literature, art and science.

Just as musical stories helped your child establish a foundation of creative skills for language and math concepts, the reverse is also true. Literature, art, and science can help your child achieve their musical dreams! Below are examples of how this happens in piano.

Visualization - "What would it look like if you could do it?

Visualization is probably the most difficult creative skill to develop. Having a keyboard in the imagination, however, gives a powerful boost to piano students' playing and note reading ability. So it's worth it for students to spend time developing this creative skill. Here's an example of how young piano students can start to do this. The piano has groups of two and three-black keys. There are three white keys around each group of two black keys. Ask your child in piano to close their eyes and pretend to draw two very large black keys in the air. Then while their eyes are still closed ask: "Can you see the white key of the left of the two-black keys? It's a C. Can you see the one on the right? It's an E. Can you see the one in the middle? It's a D." Keep this up throughout piano lesson sand soon your child will be able to visualize music, scales and chords, as well as hear them! Use visualization whenever your child is frustrated with learning something new in piano. Just ask, "What would it look like if you could do it?" This gets kids using their imagination and seeing possible solutions through their mind's eye, just as stories do.

Observation - "Eureka! I never noticed that before!"

Observation is about carefully noticing the little things to find similarities and differences. For example, what's the difference between staccato and legato notes, or an accent mark and a tenuto mark. Hey, is that a triplet or three eighth notes? Wow, this creative skill sure is important in playing piano! Students use this skill in learning piano when they ask? "How are these notes the same? How are they different?" Piano students use this creative process just as scientists do to find surprises in nature that were always there, waiting to be discovered. Remind your child in piano to use observation to overcome challenges in the music. You'll enjoy hearing them say things like, "Eureka! I never noticed that before!"

Analogies - How to Gain Perspective/ Change Perspective?

Analogies are used to gain or change our perspective. Here are some examples of how analogies help piano students. To play legato, pretend your fingers are an eeeentsy-weeensty spider. Curve the spider's legs and walk your fingers on the piano keys. To play staccato notes, imagine the piano keys are hot! To show your child how analogies can change our perspective, and teach us new concepts, try this: Sing the words to the song Amazing Grace to the tune from the television show, Gilligan's Island. Go ahead. Sing it now. "I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind but now I see." I bet that made you laugh :o)

Inverting - What would that look like if I turned it upside down?

Inverting also affects perspective by turning things upside down, or by taking things to extremes. Einstein did this when he obsessed over a beam of light and invented the theory of relativity. Einstein also loved music. Like his theory of relativity, many things we want to understand are counter-intuitive, including the piano techniques students need to play well. To tap into this creative function piano students can ask this question. "What would this look like if I turned it upside down?" Here's a creative suggestion you can give your child for polishing a recital piece using this skill. Play the music backwards! Start with last measure instead of the first. Then play the last two measures, then the last three, then the last four, etc., until you reach the first measure. Then play the song all the way through and see how much better you can do it. This is a great way for students to thoroughly learn a piece of music.

Simplifying - "I've seen that some place before?"

Simplifying is how we find creative solutions to difficult challenges by eliminating what is unnecessary. Ever try too hard? Here's a tip - Sometimes less is more. Before trying to re-invent the wheel, look back through the history books to see where this problem has been solved before by someone else, or yourself. Piano students can do this by asking, "Where have I seen this in music before?" "How did I play it then?" "What strategy can I follow to break this down and make it easier?" "What playing strategies has my piano teacher told me that I could apply here?" Or students can read a book to find out what other pianists have done.

So there you have it, piano parents. Five creative reasons to use literature, as well as art, science, and history to help your musical child achieve their piano dreams.

To learn the best way to share the gift of music with children visit Amazon.com for my Piano Bears Musical Stories for Children The exciting Piano Bears Musical Stories for children ages 5 to 11 feature the loveable characters, Mrs. Treble Beary and her new piano student, Albeart Littlebud. Children love following along with Albeart to Mrs. Treble Beary's piano studio in Musical Acres Forest. Here they learn what piano lessons are all about in a fun way that kids readily understand and appreciate! Piano students laugh and giggle while reading "Little Bear's Musical Garden" and "Little Bear's Piano Goals."

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