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Proud Pixels | Short film Singularity. Fashion. Reincarnation.
December 6, 2011
Proud Pixels | Short film created for a fashion event. We shot with almost no budget (something about $200). With the project, except me, worked two talented designers and photographers as well as a musician and fashion designer whose clothes you can admire on the screen. Greetings to everyone who helped us on this film. Enjoy watching. Shot on: Canon 5d mkII, Canon 24-70 L, Canon 70-200L, Zeiss ZE 35mm F2.… read more
Enabling end-users to program new skills on their robot
November 19, 2012
Robots like Willow Garage’s PR2 have the physical capability to do a range of useful tasks for humans, but they’re limited by the software applications written by highly specialized programmers. Instead, Maya Cakmak from Georgia Tech, envisions robots that can be programmed by their end-users for their own specific needs.
Cakmak developed a spoken dialog interface that allows a user to program new skills by physically… read more
Video Source: Willow Garage
Teaching Kinect for Windows to read your hands
March 7, 2013
One promising direction in the evolution of Kinect for Windows is enabling hand-gesture recognition. A machine-learning project uses a large, varied set of images of people’s hands to train Kinect to determine if a hand is open or closed. This enables the development of a handgrip detector, which could launch another step forward in natural user interfaces.
— Microsoft Research
Video Source: Microsoft Research
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The Seasteading Intitute | The Seasteading Institute believes that innovative political systems could serve humanity far better than our governments do today. That’s why we work to enable “seasteads” — floating cities — which will give people the opportunity to peacefully test new ideas about how to live together. The most successful will become thriving new societies — inspiring change around the world. We’re creating this future because our governments… read more
Video Source: Reuters / The Seasteading Institute
MediaCart | Shopping cart of tomorrow
March 27, 2010
MediaCart | MediaCart has developed a computerized shopping cart that assists shoppers, delivers targeted communications at the point of purchase, and streamlines store operations. The MediaCart system accurately anticipates and responds to the shopper’s needs — helping them locate products, check prices and product information, and manage their shopping lists.
Most product purchasing decisions (over 70%) are made at the point of purchase in the store. Until now, effectively… read more
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Building the #Knowosphere
April 27, 2012
In a talk, “Building the #Knowosphere: How new ways to share and shape ideas can help build durable progress on a finite planet“ on Earth Day 2012 at MIT, New York Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin suggests how to use the Web and other emerging communication tools and networks to make the world a better place
The notion of Knowosphere has… read more
Video Source: MIT TechTV
The coming civil war over general purpose computing
August 27, 2012
Even if we win the right to own and control our computers, a dilemma remains: what rights do owners owe users?
Cory Doctorow gave this talk at Google in August, and for The Long Now Foundation in July 2012.
Video Source: BoingBoing
Robot copies your muscles and bones
December 12, 2012
Meet Kenshiro, developed by University of Tokyo researchers as a bio-inspired musculoskeletal humanoid robot. They have added more muscles and more motors to their Kojiro robot from 2010, making Kenshiro’s underlying structure the closest to a human’s form so far.
Video Source: University of Tokio
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The Daily | ‘Tase of Our Lives’
March 19, 2012
The Daily | New police surveillance drones could be armed with nonlethal weapons. As a Texas sheriff prepares to use an unmanned drone as his force’s eye in the sky, and perhaps even arm it with nonlethal weapons like tasers and rubber bullets, civil liberties groups are crying foul.
Video Source: The Daily
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.
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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.
Video Source: Google
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3-mile-long asteroid seen by SLOOH space camera
December 13, 2012
The irregularly-shaped space rock named 4179 Toutatis was captured by the SLOOH team on December 11th, 2012. Its closest approach to Earth was nearly 4.4 million miles away on December 12th.
Video Source: SLOOH Space Camera
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