Sight — the future of Project Glass?
July 30, 2012
A short film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo about a blind date in an augmented-reality future.
Video Source: Sight Systems
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Prized Science | Chad Mirkin: gold nanoparticles & the future of medical diagnostics
November 8, 2012
Chad Mirkin, Ph.D., the 2012 winner of the American Chemical Society’s Award for Creative Invention, is no stranger to the value of gold, but not in the traditional sense. Working in the nano scale, Mirkin uses gold particles to create promising new medical diagnostic tools that could lead to future cancer treatments and ways to track and treat diseases at earlier stages. Mirkin and his team discovered a method in… read more
Video Source: American Chemical Society
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BeeBee’s special enhancement
November 1, 2012
BeeBee, a tiny Chihuahua, was born with no shoulder blades; she can’t put any weight on her front legs or straighten them. So engineering students at Bollman Tech, in Thornton, Colorado built a special wheelchair just for her.
Video Source: USA TODAY
LS3 Follow Tight (mobile, semi-autonomous legged robot)
December 21, 2012
For the past two weeks, researchers from DARPA’s LS3 program have been testing the Legged Squad Support System (LS3), a four-legged robot.
They have demonstrated new advances in the robot’s control, stability and maneuverability, including “Leader Follow” decision making, enhanced roll recovery, exact foot placement over rough terrain, the ability to maneuver in an urban environment, and verbal command capability.
This video shows the… read more
Video Source: DARPA
The Eye Tribe — eye control for mobile devices
October 25, 2012
The Eye Tribe software (formerly known as Senseye) allows users to interact with their mobile device using their eye movements.
A simple webcam and a set of infrared LEDs are connected to the USB port of the tablet. The software records the eyes and calculates the point of the screen where the user is looking.
Video Source: The Eye Tribe
Record-setting asteroid flyby
February 1, 2013
On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth closer than many man-made satellites. Since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s, astronomers have never seen an object so big come so close to our planet.
— NASA Science
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‘RADICAL OPENNESS’ for TEDGlobal 2012 by Jason Silva
June 26, 2012
Next generation DNA sequencing
May 22, 2013
The advent of next-generation sequencing is considered the most propelling technological advance, which has resulted in the doubling of sequence data almost every five months and the precipitous drop in the cost of sequencing a region of DNA.
This is a rebroadcast of a webinar that tracks the evolution of next-generation sequencing and explores what the future holds in terms of the technology and its medical applications.
Panelists:… read more
Video Source: Gerontology Research Group
Best Buy | SXSW interview — ‘A genius predicts the future’
March 15, 2012
Best Buy | The inventor of text-to-speech says you won’t need text or speech to surf the Web.
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Best Buy | Ray Kurzweil featured in Best Buy’s Super Bowl ad featuring tech pioneers
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AIRobots: remotely controlled aerial robots
December 24, 2012
The University of Twente AIRobots project is developing a new generation of remotely controlled “aerial service robots” (a.k.a. drones). The researchers plan to use virtual reality, augmented reality, and haptic (touch) devices to allow the operator to guide the robot while hiding the complexity of the vehicle dynamics.
Video Source: University of Twente
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Kevin Margo | Grounded — film trailer
September 19, 2012
One astronaut’s journey through space and life ends on a hostile exosolar planet. Grounded is a metaphorical account of the experience, inviting unique interpretation and reflection by the viewer. Themes of aging, inheritance, paternal approval, cyclic trajectories, and behaviors passed on through generations are explored against an ethereal backdrop.
Video Source: Kevin Margo | Grounded
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Hackers On Planet Earth 2012
July 20, 2012
Highlights of the Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference, held July 13-15, 2012 in New York City.
Video Source: HOPE
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Mona Lisa beamed to Moon probe in laser-link test
January 18, 2013
As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from Earth.
The iconic image traveled nearly 240,000 miles in digital form from the Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging (NGSLR) station at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., to the Lunar… read more
Video Source: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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Bioprinting a pancreas
March 12, 2013
The Biomanufacturing Laboratory at the University of Iowa College of Engineering’s Center for Computer Aided Design is developing a process for bioprinting a glucose-sensitive pancreatic organ that can be grown in a lab and transplanted anywhere inside the body to regulate the glucose level of blood.
Their bioprinter has multiple arms that can print several materials concurrently. This capability offers a time-saving advantage when attempting… read more
Video Source: University of Iowa
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Google CEO Larry Page’s talk titled “Beyond Today” at this year’s Zeitgeist was centered around all of the areas that Google focuses on, including Project Glass, the power of the smartphone, Google+, and increased interest in all things mobile.
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