Virgin Galactic first powered flight VNR
May 1, 2013
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DARPA: Driving critical technological surprise
April 30, 2013
In this Pentagon media briefing, DARPA Director Dr. Arati Prabhakar explains what the Agency does for the U.S., how it does it, how it thinks about its mission in the context of today’s realities, and the future that it’s building by creating the next generation of technology to give Defense leaders more options for tomorrow’s missions.
She mentions innovations in cyber warfare, electronic warfare, position navigation and timing… read more
Video Source: U.S. Department of Defense
Oblivion Trailer 2013 Tom Cruise Movie – Official [HD]
April 28, 2013
Tom Cruise stars in Oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from the director of TRON: Legacy and the producer of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man’s confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind.
Opened April 19 in theaters.
— Universal Pictures
Video Source: Universal Pictures
Alexander Graham Bell voice recording recovered
April 26, 2013
A dramatic application of digital technology has allowed researchers to recover Alexander Graham Bell‘s voice from a recording held by the Smithsonian — a breakthrough announced in the Smithsonian magazine for the first time.
The precise methods they employed in early efforts to play back their recordings are lost to history. As a result, says curator Carlene Stephens of the National Museum of American History, the discs, ranging… read more
Video Source: Smithsonian
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A prosthetic hand controlled by mobile app
April 24, 2013
The Touch Bionics i-limb ultra revolution, featuring a powered rotating thumb, 24 grip options, and extra-sensitive electrodes, is the first upper-limb prosthesis that can be controlled via a mobile app.
Video Source: Touch Bionics
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In a new study performed at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, researchers have for the first time been able to see the self-assembly of nanoparticle chains in situ, that is, in place as it occurs in real-time.
The scientists exposed a tiny liquid pouch that contained gold nanoparticles covered with a positively charged… read more
Video Source: Argonne National Laboratory
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Evolving soft robots
April 22, 2013
University of Wyoming scientists have developed a simulated robot made up of two different kinds of muscles along with bones and soft tissue for structure. This robot was devolved over a thousand virtual generations to move as fast, as far, and as functionally as possible.
Video Source: The Golem Project
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My 90 year old grandmother tries the Oculus Rift
April 20, 2013
Paul Rivot’s 90 year old grandmother tries Oculus Rift VR (Tuscany demo) in this viral video, with 1,426,368 accesses as of 4/20/2013.
YouTube celeb Rachel Mahassel (Grandma) says “Thank You!”
Video Source: Paul Rivot
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AirHarp
April 17, 2013
AirHarp is the result of a weekend hacking session with a Leap Motion dev board. Leap Motion is a highly precise and responsive motion tracking device, making it a perfect tool for expressive musical interactions. AirHarp is being developed in C++ using my audio processing toolkit, MusKit.
My own fork of the project will show up in Leap Motion’s AirSpace app store as a polished, cross-platform… read more
Video Source: Leap Motion
Toward Intelligent Humanoids | iCub 2012
April 15, 2013
This video, released by the IDSIA Robotics Lab as part of the ongoing work in the EU-funded project IM-CLeVeR, shows recent skills learned by the iCub humanoid.
The IM-CleVeR project, launched in 2009, aims at “developing a new methodology for designing robots that can cumulatively learn new skills through autonomous development based on intrinsic motivations, and reuse such skills for accomplishing multiple, complex, and externally-assigned… read more
Video Source: IDSIA Robotics Lab
Elysium
April 12, 2013
In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. The people of Earth are desperate to escape the planet’s crime and poverty, and they critically need the state-of-the-art medical care available on Elysium – but some in Elysium will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and… read more
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After Earth movie trailers starring Will Smith
April 6, 2013
Sony Pictures | After Earth movie trailers starring Will Smith
RETV | Comic Con sneak peak of After Earth
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Building new experiences with Glass
April 5, 2013
Timothy Jordan gave developers at SXSW in Austin, TX a sneak peek at the Google Mirror API, which is what they’ll use to build services for Glass. With the presentation, we set out to help developers and entrepreneurs start imagining what they could do on Glass.
Video Source: Google
Software company Movea helps app developers corral the data from the sensors that pack today’s mobile devices, such as gyroscopes, magnetometers, accelerometers, GPS receivers, pressure sensors, ambient light detectors, air sensors, temperature sensors, microphones, and cameras,
— IEEE Spectrum
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