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IBM Labs | Five innovations that will transform our lives over the next five years

February 17, 2011

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IBM Labs | IBM explores its “Next Five in Five” — a list of innovations with the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The “Next Five in Five” is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s Labs around the world that can make these innovations possible.

Video Source: IBM Labs

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IBM Labs YouTube Channel

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Internet/Telecom

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GoPollGo brings real-time polls and results to the Web, Robert Scoble interviews founder Ben Schaechter

March 26, 2012

GoPollGo

Scobleizer | This is really cool. You can ask your followers a question and see their answers in real time. You see this after I asked a question. Here you meet Ben Schaechter, CEO, who tells you about his new company and explains how the technology works. GoPollGo lets you build your own. My polls are here.

Wikipedia | Robert Scoble is an American blogger,… read more

Video Source: Scobleizer

Topics: Internet/Telecom | Social Networking/Web/Education

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Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain

July 11, 2012

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There have been remarkable advances in understanding the brain, but how do you actually study the neurons inside it? Using gorgeous imagery, neuroscientist and TED Fellow Carl Schoonover shows the tools that let us see inside our brains.

Carl Schoonover is a neuroscientist and one of the founders of NeuWrite, a collaboration between writers and neuroscientist.

Video Source: TED

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Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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Nokia “Morph” nanotechnology concept phone

March 31, 2008

YOUTUBE POSTER | Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices. Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting and self cleaning. Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes. Nanotechnology enables it to have adaptive materials yet rigid forms on demand. It was featured in the MoMA exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” (highlights… read more

Video Source: Nokia

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Cambridge Nanoscience Centre
MoMA's Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit
Nokia Research Center

Topics: Electronics | Internet/Telecom | Nanotech/Materials Science

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GE Healthcare: engineers molecularly alter garnet to convert X-rays into light

June 5, 2008

GE | Building upong the natural properies of garnet gemstone, scientists at GE have created a new material, making the world’s first HDCT possible.

At the heart of Gemstone Spectral Imaging is the first new detector material in 20 years; one that is, quite literally, a gem. GE engineers discovered that, by changing the molecular structure of real garnets, they could develop a scintillator capable of delivering images 100… read more

Video Source: GE Healthcare

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GE Healthcare's Gemstone Spectral Imaging

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Computers/Infotech/UI | Electronics

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Microsoft Office Labs | Prescient Microsoft ‘Healthcare Future Vision’ seamless systems concept video from 2007

February 19, 2011

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Microsoft | Health Future Vision — Imagine healthcare of the future where emerging technologies may provide more seamless connections across healthcare providers and equip patients with the knowledge and control they need for a more comprehensive, personalized healthcare experience — enabled by products like HealthVault and Amalga. This video is from 2007.

Video Source: Microsoft

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Microsoft Office Labs

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Singularity/Futures | VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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Thiel Foundation | 20 Under 20 fellowship program is now accepting applications: $100,000 grant to skip college

November 29, 2011

20 Under 20 fellowship program is now accepting applications: $100,000 grant to skip college

The Thiel Fellowship | The Thiel Foundation’s 20 Under 20 fellowship program is now accepting applications for their second round of fellows for 2012. The deadline is December 31, 2011. To get a sense of what life is like as a fellow, they’ve created a short documentary series.

“A radical re-thinking of what it takes to succeed, the Thiel Fellowship encourages lifelong learning and independent… read more

Video Source: The Thiel Fellowship

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Singularity/Futures | Social Networking/Web/Education

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Boston Dynamics “Big Dog” Ft. Benning report Feb 2009

March 15, 2009

This is the Army news channel Benning Report spot on the Boston Dynamics robot Big Dog. This video was uploaded from a .wmv file available on the Boston Dynamics website.

Video Source: Ft. Benning Public Affairs Office

Topics: AI/Robotics

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Leveraging Web 2.0 to Ensure the Democracy of Technology

November 2, 2009

MERITALK | Ari Schwartz, vice president and chief operating officer for the Center for Democracy and Technology discusses the use of Web 2.0 to ensure the democracy of technology.

Video Source: MeriTalk Conference 2010

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MeriTalk website

Topics: Internet/Telecom | Social Networking/Web/Education

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George Carlin’s Modern Man

June 29, 2010

PBS | Taped at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on November 10, 2008, the 90-minute 11th Annual Mark Twain Prize honoring George Carlin featured tributes and comic testimonials from a star-studded cast including Richard Belzer, Lewis Black, Margaret Cho, Ben E. King, Denis Leary, Bill Maher, Joan Rivers, Garry Shandling, Jon Stewart, and Lily Tomlin.

Video Source: PBS

Related:
PBS Mark Twain Prize
George Carlin official website

Topics: Entertainment/New Media | Social/Ethical/Legal

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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

November 12, 2010

These images, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), were assembled from 342 separate exposures taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) of the Hubble Space Telescope between December 18 and 28, 1995. Representing a narrow “keyhole” view stretching to the visible horizon of the universe, the HDF images cover a speck of the sky only about the width of a dime located 75 feet away. Though the… read more

Video Source: Tony Darnell’s Deep Astronomy

Related:
Better Living Through Astronomy

Topics: Space

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The Economist | The World in 2012 Festival predicts the future ahead

December 21, 2011

The World in 2012 Festival predicts the future ahead

The Economist | With lively presidential elections in America and France, the Olympics in London, and massive change happening in every corner of the globe, the year 2012 promises to be a big one. And this year, like every year for the past 25, The Economist has published The World in…, a collection of trends and predictions about the year ahead. Journalists from The Economist and leaders in business, government and a wide… read more

Topics: Singularity/Futures

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Bringing light: an innovation in detecting brain tumors

December 21, 2012

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In the painstaking process of removing brain tumors, neurosurgeons are constantly challenged by the inability to distinguish healthy tissue from tumor in the operating room. “Bringing Light” focuses on a new innovation that will change everything.

BRINGING LIGHT is a Finalist in the $200,000 FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition and is in the running to become the $100,000 Grand Prize Winner. It could also be named an Audience Favorite if… read more

Video Source: Bert Klasey, Chris Baron, James Allen Smith/Focus Forward Films

Related:
Scorpion Protein Illuminates Brain Tumors for Surgeons

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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Project Natal demo for Xbox 360

January 25, 2010

Video Source: Xbox

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Entertainment/New Media | VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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To Age or Not to Age, documentary film by Robert Kane Pappas

March 10, 2010

FILM WEBSITE | Imagine a 120-year-old living like today’s 50 year-olds. Possible? Yes, according to the scientists in Robert Kane Pappas’ new film, To Age or Not to Age. The scientists featured have found the means to postpone and possibly mitigate diseases tied to aging, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, and diabetes. Genes that control aging, among them SIRT2/SIRT1 genes, when altered, may, as a side effect increase… read more

Video Source: film website

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Film's Official Website and Blog

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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