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Tuesday November 13, 2012 |
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News and Blog Headlines
Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind published
Thermoelectric generator converts light and heat to electrical current
World’s First 3D printing photo booth to open in Japan
How to connect your home appliances to the Internet of Things
How to detect microvesicles in the bloodstream to diagnose and monitor brain cancer
Latest News
Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind published
| Ray Kurzweil’s new book — How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed* — was published today, Nov. 13, Viking has announced. The book opened on Monday as #1 among all books on the Barnes & Noble bestseller list. It is now available from the book website or from all major booksellers, and available in … more… |
Thermoelectric generator converts light and heat to electrical current
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University of Texas at Arlington associate physics professor Wei Chen has helped create a hybrid nanomaterial that can be used to convert light and thermal energy into electrical current, surpassing earlier methods that used either light or thermal energy, but not both. The team synthesized a combination of copper sulfide nanoparticles and single-walled carbon nanotubes … more… |
World’s First 3D printing photo booth to open in Japan
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The world’s first “3D printing photo booth” is set to open for a limited time at the exhibition space EYE OF GYRE in Harajuku, Japan, Spoon & Tamago reports. From November 24 to January 14, 2013, people with reservations can go and have their portraits taken. Except, instead of a photograph, you’ll receive miniature replicas … more… |
How to connect your home appliances to the Internet of Things
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French startup SigFox thinks it can help usher in a second mobile Internet boom by connecting millions of low-power sensors worldwide to the Internet, MIT Technology Review reports. SigFox is focused on connecting cheap sensors and “dumb” home appliances to the Internet. The goal is to make all kinds of appliances and infrastructure, from power … more… |
How to detect microvesicles in the bloodstream to diagnose and monitor brain cancer
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Diagnosing glioblastoma brain cancer is a real challenge for neurologists because they are deep in the brain and hard to test for. Now there’s a promising new solution. A novel miniature diagnostic platform using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology that can detect minuscule cell particles known as microvesicles (shed by cancer cells) in a drop of … more… |
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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
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The bold futurist and bestselling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential—and often controversial—futurist. In How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization—reverse engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge … more…
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