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Information Technology in a Global Society studies the Social and Ethical impacts of IT on different Areas like Business and Employment, Health, Education, Entertainment, Art, Politics, and Science.

Showing posts with label Area of Impact : Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Area of Impact : Health. Show all posts

Monday, November 17, 2008

An eye for an eye .. mm how about an eye-cam instead?




Tanya Vlach, a San Francisco-based artist, lost her eye in a 2005 car accident, and now keeps a blog chronicling the "monocular life." She's got a real-enough looking prosthetic eye, but Tanya's a self-described "sci-fi geek," and, with the approval of her doctor, she's put out a call for engineers to build her a camera... for her fake eye.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

I think, therefore I Browse!



Fact or Fiction? Partially paralyzed users were able to move a computer mouse on a screen using mind power. FACT! Believe it or not, but a brain cap with over 60 electrodes interprets brain activity to enable disable people to better interact with PC's through thought.

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