Feng GUI: Free Heatmap Service

Feng GUI is a free heat map service which unlike other services, generates its heat maps using algorithms. A heat map is visual representation of how people interact with a website, it shows areas where people pay more attention to as being 'hot' and low attention grabbing areas as being 'colder'. There are several ways to generate a heat map; you can track peoples eye movements, track mouse clicks or, as Feng GUI does it, use algorithms which try...

Right Brain or Left Brain

Here is a little trick to determine which side of your brain is dominant. If you see the dancer turning clockwise, like I do, you use more of the right side of your brain and if the dancer is turning anti-clockwise your left side of the brain is more dominant. It's a weird feeling to know that other people are seeing this moving picture differently. However, if you concentrate you can see the dancer go the opposite way. It took me about a minute...

Science Through the Ages

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Mathematics of Beauty

Researchers at Cambridge university have found that the closer a woman's hips to waist ratio is to 0.7 the sexier her walk is. This is one of the reasons why Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world. So, a woman with 25 inch waist and 36 inch hips, has all she needs for a perfect walk. You may not be surprised to hear that Jessica Alba has that magical ratio. For men, a ratio of 0.9 has been shown to have a strong correlation with general...

Quantum Uncollapse: Unmeasuring Things

I have recently read one of the most strangest articles on quantum physics, then again most things in quantum physics is strange. It is about two physicists, Andrew Jordan from the university of Rochester and Alexander Korotkov who's from the university of California, who are claiming to have verified something called the 'Uncollapse' hypothesis.In the crazy world of quantum physics an object can be both a wave and a particle at the same time, they...

I Hate Internet Explorer

If this is not your first visit here you may have noticed a few changes to the site. I have been tinkering away the past two days, mainly just rearranging things. All I have done is moved both columns to the right, added a search box to the header and changed the header picture. Every time I make any changes to the site I check that it looks good in all the browsers, and every time I find theres something wrong in the way my site looks in internet...

Rat-Brained Robot

Gee Brain, what do you want to do tonight? The same thing we do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world. On a serious note researchers from the university of Reading have managed to create a robot that is controlled by neurons from a rats brain. About 300,000 neurons, which are kept in a controlled environment separate to the actual moving robot in order to keep them alive, are not only communicating with each other but are also forming new connections. The robot and the neurons are interfaced together using Bluetooth. The robot, placed in...

Reduce Linux Power Consumption with PowerTop

Since version 2.6.21, the Linux kernel has had a feature called tickless. This was implemented to help reduce the power consumption by keeping the CPU in low power mode for longer periods. Ever since I started using Linux I have been under the impression that because it's less bloated than Windows it would be much less power hungry. However from what I've heard and seen there doesn't seem to be any big differences. I have even heard people say that...

CERN Rap Video

This is so cool, just watch you might learn something about particle physi...

Lightning in Slow Motion

I used to own the LG KU990 phone and one of the things I miss about it is its camera. It had the capability to record at 120fps which I had a lot of fun with. Someone with a much faster camera than the LG KU990 has used it to capture some amazing footage of lightning. You can see the intricate details as the bolt comes zigzagging down. Check out the video below.Source:Todaysbigthing....

Morpho Towers

I have just come across this video showing something called a Morpho Tower, this device, created by Sachiko Kodama, is essentially a computer controlled electromagnet with a liquid ferromagnetic material surrounding it in a bowl. When it's turned on the liquid climbs up the spiral cone to produce some very beautiful patterns. I don't know if this will ever be sold to the general public but I would buy it over the lava lamp any day. Check out the vid...

EEEBuntu: Ubuntu for the EEE PC

Recently I have been pondering whether to buy the eee pc 1000 for university work. Being a massive Ubuntu fan the first thought that came into my mind was can I install Ubuntu on it. The answer is yes, however there are a few issues. People have been eeexperiencing(sorry I just had to do it once) problems with getting the wifi and microphone working. Although there are solutions for these problems, it is still a bit of a hassle. But do not worry,...