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Neosensory Wins Honorable Mention in Health and Wellness in Fast Company's 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards Share Article The annual awards honor the products and companies pursuing innovation for the good of society. We’re honored to be recognized for our efforts to aid and expand human senses via our sensory substitution devices. PALO ALTO, Calif. (PRWEB) May 05, 2021 The winners of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced this week, honoring the businesses and concepts that combine new levels of inno...

Felipe Posada He works six to seven days a week, but when he goes home for dinner with his family, Thomas Yadegar, MD, takes a few minutes to gather himself before going inside. Sometimes he breaks down. The 20 physicians he leads at the ICU at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in L.A. and West Hills Hospital & Medical Center confide in him that they too “stop on their drive home and just cry,” he says. They all have nightmares. “I don’t see how any human who has gone through and witnessed what we have could not be changed dramatically and to the core,” he says. He has...

Listen to the story. A doctor looks at PET brain scans in Phoenix on August 14, 2018. A big study to help Medicare officials decide whether to start covering brain scans to check for Alzheimer’s disease missed its goals for curbing emergency room visits and hospitalizations. The results announced on July 30, 2020 call into question whether the costly tests are worth it for a disease that currently has no cure. Credit: Share Our brains are incredibly nimble pieces of machinery, and are actively being rewired and rewritten in response to gathered experience. According to David Eaglema...

Car chases have long been a staple of blockbuster cinema, so it’s more than likely you’ve seen the wagon-wheel effect in action. According to Gizmodo’s Robbie Gonzalez, the reason that wheels look like they’re moving backward once a car gets up to speed has a lot to do with the way cameras work. Understanding this concept means recognizing that moving images or motion pictures are technically illusions. They’re constructed from a series of still images that flash in front of us in such a way that our eyes can’t perceive the space between each picture and instead interpret them as ...

Time has been a great mystery for many philosophers, mathematicians, physicists, and other great thinkers.