YouTube in 3D?
July 24, 2009
One of Google’s developers has been working on a “20% project” to create a 3D effect for videos.
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YouTube goes live
November 24, 2008
YouTube has broadcast its first live event, an extravaganza that was part concert and part variety show.
YouTube for test tubes
November 27, 2006
The newly launched Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) consists entirely of videos of scientists performing basic molecular-biology protocols.
The goal is to help scientists improve the reproducibility of their work, while also providing a window for the public to view what goes on in the lab.
Your Virtual Clone
April 20, 2007
MyCyberTwin lets users craft sophisticated online agents that can chat with your online friends when you’re not available.
Your Thoughts Are Your Password
April 28, 2006
Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, are exploring the possibility of a biometric security device that will use a person’s brain wave patterns to authenticate her or his identity.
Your secrets are safe with quasar encryption
March 30, 2006
Japanese scientists have come up with a method for encrypting messages using radio waves from quasars.
The researchers believe quasars could make an ideal cryptographic tool because the strength and frequency of the radio pulses they emit is impossible to predict. Each communicating party would only need to know which quasar to monitor and when to start in order to encrypt and decrypt a message.
Your Robotic Personal Assistant
November 28, 2007
New software lets robots pick up objects they have never seen before–an important step toward creating multifunctional domestic helpers.
Some roboticists are building perception systems for robots that look for certain features on objects that are good for grasping. A Stanford team has approached the problem by collecting a number of previously fragmented technologies, such as computer vision, machine learning, speech recognition, and grasping hardware, and put… read more
Your phone records are for sale
January 9, 2006
The Chicago Police Department is warning officers their cell phone records are available to anyone — for a price. Dozens of online services are selling lists of cell phone calls, raising security concerns among law enforcement and privacy experts.
To test the service, the FBI paid Locatecell.com $160 to buy the records for an agent’s cell phone and received the list within three hours, the police bulletin said.
Your Personal Genome
December 6, 2007
George Church, a Harvard geneticist and pioneer in developing gene-sequencing technology, is spearheading the Personal Genome Project, a nonprofit effort to make both the DNA sequence and the health records of many individuals publicly available.
The project, which is now recruiting 100,000 people to have parts of their genomes sequenced, aims to serve as a test bed for technological, security, and ethical issues that might arise with the growing… read more
Your Permanent Record
July 24, 2003
By the decade’s end, we’ll have a fully realized digital memory management system, with the storage capacity approaching the largest paper-and-ink archive on earth, says Microsoft CTO David Vaskevitch.
Every picture or video snippet that you shoot be embedded with date and GPS location information. Your OS will include sophisticated face-matching software. Photos will categorize themselves “automagically” and provide us with a second memory system — a backup for… read more
Your next mayor: a computer
April 23, 2012
Three years ago, 100 Parisians volunteered to wear a wristband with a sensor in it. The sensors measured air and noise pollution as the wearers made their way around the city, transmitting that data back to an online platform that created a virtual map of the city’s pollution levels, which anyone with an Internet connection could take a look at.
This was a peek at ab urban… read more
Your next battery
November 25, 2003
Scientists are scrambling to perfect the fuel cell as a methanol-powered source for energy-hungry laptops and other portable devices.
Your Life: The Shirt-Pocket Movie
March 23, 2010
With an $80 miniature wearable camcorder called the uCorder, you can document every mundane aspect of your life.
Your Lapel Is Ringing
June 22, 2004
Wrist-watch phones, minute handsets woven into clothes, and more are already on sale in Asia. Expect to see them in the U.S. over the next 12 months.
You’ll see cell phones that are cleverly disguised in watches, bracelets, jacket lapels, backpacks — any imaginable place that will make gabbing a fashion statement.
NTT DoCoMo is developing a technology called FingerWhisper that uses a hand’s bone structure. When a… read more