Portabee: an affordable, portable 3D printer
November 28, 2012
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Printing a bicycle with a 3D printer
October 25, 2012
The BBC explores how industrial 3-D printers can go from a nylon plastic powder to any conceivable shape. At this U.K. factory, engineers try to produce a ready-to-ride.bicycle in one go.
Video Source: BBC
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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Prized Science | Peter Wolynes: untangling protein folding
November 9, 2012
Peter Wolynes, winner of the 2012 ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry, spent his career untangling the process of protein folding and discovered a process through which these chain molecules tumble into shape. His discovery may help usher in new techniques for personalized medicine and reveal how protein mutations affect the body.
Video Source: American Chemical Society
Prized Science | Robert Langer: a founding father of tissue engineering and controlled drug release
November 7, 2012
The first episode of the 2012 season of Prized Science highlights the work of Robert Langer, Institute Professor at MIT. His influential research on tissue engineering and controlled drug release earned him the 2012 American Chemical Society Priestley Medal, the highest honor given by the world’s largest scientific society.
To get a sense of Langer’s prolific career, just look at the numbers: He runs one of the largest academic… read more
Video Source: American Chemical Society
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Project Natal demo for Xbox 360
January 25, 2010
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Project Natal interactive Milo demo
January 25, 2010
“Peter Molyneaux gives us a look at Milo, which uses Project Natal for amazing interaction with an on-screen character.”
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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
Quantic Dream | Tech demo features sophisticated performance-capture and self-aware android
March 9, 2012
Wired: Tech Life | A new tech demo featuring sophisticated performance-capture technology made by the game developer Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Indigo Prophecy) was inspired by Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity is Near.
The clip, which David Cage, the head of Quantic Dream, unveiled on Wednesday at a Game Developers Conference presentation, shows an android named Kara becoming self-aware as she is being assembled, and desperately insisting… read more
‘RADICAL OPENNESS’ for TEDGlobal 2012 by Jason Silva
June 26, 2012
Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second
July 29, 2012
Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look “around” corners or see inside the body without X-rays.
Photography is about creating images by recording light. Ramesh Raskar and his team members have invented a camera… read more
Video Source: TED
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Ray Kurzweil on Singularity 1 on 1: be who you would like to be
October 22, 2012
During our conversation with Dr. Kurzweil we cover a wide variety of topics such as: how and why at age 5 Ray decided to become an inventor; his unique background of being born to Jewish parents but brought up in a Unitarian Church; his early interest in issues such as religious tolerance, poverty, social inequality and justice; 3D printing, open source, patents, progress and intellectual property rights; Watson, artificial intelligence,… read more
Video Source: Singularity Weblog
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Reactable, a tangible, multi-user electronic musical instrument
February 4, 2004
Reactable | The Reactable is a new electronic musical instrument which enables musicians to experiment with sound, change its structure, control its parameters and be creative in a direct and refreshing way. The instrument uses a “tangible interface,” where the musician controls the system by manipulating tangible objects.
The instrument is based on a translucent and luminous round table. By putting pucks on the Reactable surface, turning them… read more
Video Source: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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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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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