Sugar and Spice, and Biochemistry

Several big food and beverage companies are looking at a new ingredient in the battle for health-conscious consumers: a chemical that tricks the taste buds into sensing sugar or salt even when it is not there. Kraft Foods, Nestlé, Coca-Cola and Campbell Soup...

Futureneering or future nearing?

I have recently acquired an awesome piece of software, Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 8. This is voice recognition on steroids. I am in the process of training it to my voice and my vocabulary. In fact, this particular blog entry has been done entirely by voice...

Chip reads mind of paralysed man

by Raymond Is this the first real-life example if effective ‘wet-work’?!?!?! ‘wet work’ – sci-fi speak for computer technology interfaced with human biological systems. Check it out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1448908,00.html Ian...

From B to E

Wonder what the beer ‘die hards’ are saying this week (Feb 14, 2005 – Anhauser Busch announce their new ‘B to E’ drink, a cross between Red Bull and Budweiser)? Probably very similar to the cricket ‘die hards’ with the advent...