Stuff Flashcards
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Q
Brain memory
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The part of brain that deals with memory has capacity of a Petabyte. Roughly equivalent to 4.7 billion books.
The human brain has enough capacity to store every book published 36 times over.
1 petabyte = 1000 terabytes
1 terabyte = 1000 gigabytes
So one Petabyte = 1,000,000 gigabytes, one million
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Q
Theremin
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Russian inventor, Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928.
Consists of two metal antennas that sense the relative position of the thereminist’s hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.