If memory keeps failing you, worry not. IBM has been working on a software that might help you in recalling forgotten pieces of your life. Pensieve is a software that organizes information stored and recorded on mobile devices and helps people recall names, faces, conversations and events. Though it might not help in short term memory or autobiographical memory, it might help in semantic memory, which is a part of the long-term memory. Pensieve organizes, stores and extracts collected information much like the human memory works. IBM’s project is similar to Microsoft’s research work in the similar field. This kind of software may help people with memory difficulties and also those who suffer from recollection problems.
Via: Slashdot
Pharmaton does it for me, thank you. ;)
Hey, the Pensieve is also the stone receptacle that Dumbledore used to store thoughts in and re-view them in Harry Potter! Dumbledore would be so happy to hear this news, if he was alive. He always hoped for for a smooth interaction between the real and the magical world..
