Meet the Real-Life Tech Wizards of Middle Earth

Episode 1: New Zealand’s freaky AI babies, robot exoskeletons, and a virtual you.

By Ashlee Vance

If you’re asked to travel to New Zealand to interview people about the country’s technology scene, prepare to hear about one thing over and over again:

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Catching Waves and Turning Them Into Electricity

An artist’s rendering of experimental buoys made by Carnegie Wave Energy. The buoys harness the motion of waves  off Australia and use it to create electricity and desalinate water CreditCarnegie Wave Energy Limited

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Eight weeks to a better brain – Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress

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Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. In a study that appear in the Jan. 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Harvard-affiliated researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reported the results of their study, the first to document meditation-produced changes over time in the brain’s gray matter.

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