GrenadePod » medicine http://www.grenadepod.com Dispersing the Seeds Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:30:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc When you’re in a headstand… http://www.grenadepod.com/2010/01/09/when-youre-in-a-headstand/ http://www.grenadepod.com/2010/01/09/when-youre-in-a-headstand/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:01:35 +0000 pulegium http://www.grenadepod.com/?p=724
  • …snow is going up instead of going down
  • …you’re holding the whole Earth instead of the Earth holding you
  • …your feet feels light
  • …your brain gets more blood
  • …you think that you look silly
  • …you once again get that idea that it’s not as hard to get into the position as it looked when you didn’t know how to
  • …you realise that the God made a good decision placing the vestibular system as high as possible in your body
  • …neighbours dog is still as annoying
  • …black is still black and white is still white
  • …music sounds just the same
  • …although is fading a bit with time
  • …you don’t care that you look silly
  • …your feet starts to get numb
  • …you start thinking that your blood system hasn’t been designed for you to remain in headstand for a long periods of time
  • …snow is still going upwards
  • …and your nose is blocked it gets worse
  • …it gets worse even if it is not blocked
  • …ok, you DO look silly, probably it’s about the time to get back

No, I’m not a yoga fan or anything, I don’t even do yoga. But I like to go into headstand every now and then, really straightens the spine and gives a mild shake to the body. There are loads of articles about the benefits of doing the headstand so I’m not going to list them here once again, give it a go if you dare and see for yourself… :)

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    • ]]>     Interesting concept of an electronic contact lense has been presented by Babak A. Parviz, an associate professor at the University of Washington. He published an article at IEEE Spectrum, where he discusses the progress of his team in creating this, probably the first ever, cyber device.

    Primary goal for developing this device is to monitor the level of glucose in human blood. However more interesting application would be augment reality. By the way, did you noticed, that augment reality is gradually taking over the virtual reality. It is more practical and has more advantages of the virtual reality, which doesn’t allow, or at least is not convenient as, interaction with the real world.

    Obviously implementation and development of augment reality is a lot more complicated.

    Going back to this cyber device, there is a third application to it – extending the vision, for example by introducing IR sensors, which would allow night vision.

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