Thursday, May 26, 2005

For the Coolest Ear Décor, Buds You Can Barely See. Shure's new E4c Sound Isolating Earphones cost as much as a 20-gigabyte iPod that holds 5,000 songs. But they sound pretty amazing. By ANDREW ZIPERN. [NYT > Technology] 5:48:29 PM      Google It!.

A Watch That Senses You're Ready to Get Up (and Tells You So). Sleep specialists say it's more difficult to wake up from a period of deep sleep than from a light one. To improve on the traditional alarm clock - which, if it jolts you awake from a deep sleep, could leave you feeling drowsy during the day - an Atlanta company called Innovative Sleep Solutions has designed an alarm wristwatch called the Sleeptracker. By ADAM BAER. [NYT > Technology] 5:47:18 PM      Google It!.

Is seeing the same as eating? How what you see affects what you taste. Heinz's green ketchup nothwithstanding, we generally like our foods to be predictable colors: milk, white; bananas, yellow; oranges -- well, you get the idea. But when foods are the "right" color, do they actually taste any different? We all know that food coloring is tasteless, so what happens when we dye foods different colors? The results [...] [Cognitive Daily] 5:28:29 PM      .

Keep Fit Program For The Brain [Slashdot:] 3:34:47 PM      Google It!.