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Tuesday January 29, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines A safer way to vaccinate First 3D ghost images from a single pixel DeltaMaker: an elegant personal 3D printer DARPA looking for technology to create ‘transient electronics’ devices Magnetically levitated tissues could speed toxicity tests Google Glass patent applications: bone conduction, laser-projected keyboard, more Latest News A safer way to vaccinate January 29, 2013 Vaccines usually consist of inactivated viruses that prompt the immune system to remember the invader and launch a strong defense if it later encounters the real thing. However, this approach can be too risky with certain viruses, including HIV. In recent years, many scientists have been exploring DNA as a potential alternative vaccine. About 20 … more… First 3D ghost images from a single pixel January 29, 2013   Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics in China physicists have designed and built a remote-sensing “ghost imaging” device that uses a single pixel to record three-dimensional images, MIT Technology Review reports. Ghost imaging is the extraordinary technique of bouncing a laser beam off an object and making high quality images from the reflected light … more… DeltaMaker: an elegant personal 3D printer January 29, 2013   The DeltaMaker team  has launched a Kickstarter  project to develop an elegant personal 3D printer “We will provide our backers with a 3D printer that runs faster, looks better, and is just more fun to watch. With the help of our Kickstarter supporters, we will put DeltaMakers on as many desktops, and inside as many … more… DARPA looking for technology to create ‘transient electronics’ devices January 29, 2013   The sophisticated electronics used by warfighters in everything from radios, remote sensors and even phones can now be made at such a low cost that they are pervasive throughout the battlefield. But it is almost impossible to track and recover every device. These electronics are often found scattered across the battlefield and might be captured … more… Magnetically levitated tissues could speed toxicity tests January 29, 2013   In a development that could lead to faster and more effective toxicity tests for airborne chemicals, scientists from Rice University and the Rice spinoff company Nano3D Biosciences have used magnetic levitation to grow some of the most realistic lung tissue ever produced in a laboratory. The research is part of an international trend in biomedical … more… Google Glass patent applications: bone conduction, laser-projected keyboard, more January 29, 2013   Recent patent applications related to Google Glass are providing insight into the hardware behind the Glasses. Bone conduction for covert audio. This would allow more privacy so that no one can overhear a conversation; a vibration transducer allows the technology to work without a direct connection. U.S. patent application   A laser projector can be … more… New VIDEOS   Lew Keilar | The Singularity in three minutes   Google Glass concept video revisited New books Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain author Werner Loewenstein   No one can escape a sense of awe when reflecting on the workings of the mind: we see, we hear, we feel, we are aware of the world around us. But what is the mind? What do we mean when we say we are “aware” of something? What is this peculiar state in our heads, … more… The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World author Sean Carroll   Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found. In The Particle at the End of the Universe, Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll takes readers behind the scenes of the Large Hadron Collider at … more… Latest Kurzweil Collection posts Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil about the future of mankind and technology   Source: Slashdot — January 28, 2013 The recipient of nineteen honorary doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents, Ray Kurzweil’s accolades are almost too many to list. A prolific inventor, Kurzweil created the first CCD flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, and the first music synthesizer capable of … more… Read full article here Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.