Technology

Since the concept of 'brain plasticity' made its way into the study of the nervous system, many scientific works have been carried out to find out the type of activities that are capable of producing the change in the structure of our brain or in its shape. According to statistics, 40% of Spaniards have played a video game in the last year.

When we surf the internet, what is called a 'banner' frequently appears, a form of online advertisement that usually includes images or animations and whose objective is to capture our attention to attract us to another website where a product or service is offered. However, much to the dismay of marketers, many of these advertisements are known to go unnoticed, unattended.

For the first time in thirteen consecutive years, Coca-Cola has ceased to rank first in Interbrand's top 100 most valuable brands in the world. The position has been taken from him by Apple. Google, in second position, has also managed to get ahead of the soft drink brand this year.

Little bigger than the size of a folio. That is the surface that connects the cars with the asphalt through the tire. And both the pavement conditions and the type of tires on the vehicles are crucial for stability, stopping distance and so on. That is why Michelin has organized a day dedicated to checking how all these variants affect the Michelin Passion Day, where sensations meet the road.

“I imagine a room covered with electronic wall paper programmed to show a series of Van Gogh punctures, and roll-up paper newspapers that are reused the next day and show new news every day,” predicts Zheng-Hong Lu, a researcher at the University from Toronto (Canada) and creator of Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diodes (FLOEDs). With them, he assures, all screens could be replaced by a thin, light and transparent film capable of adapting to any shape.

The company Opertech Bio, based in Philadelphia (USA), has succeeded in patenting a methodology and a device for the evaluation of taste. It is the Microtiter Operant Gustometer (MOG), a system that allows measuring both flavor quality and palatability, as the creators have made public through a study published in the journal PLOS ONE.

They are hated, ignored and avoided, but junk emails fill our inboxes every day. Already in the same Dirty Dozen report from last year prepared by the security company Sophos, it was revealed that India was the country that emitted the most spam. Now, a year later, the situation has changed and the United States is once again at the top of the ranking. In what position is Spain?

In the laboratories of the MT Media Lab, engineers and scientists working in the Mediated Matter group are developing a new form of 3D printing that uses a six-axis robotic arm to print thermoplastics in air that are solidified with the help of cold air. once launched, which allows creating geometrically very complex structures and without the need for support structures. And they have also developed printers of buildings, models, psychedelic clothing ... We show you.