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Seth Lloyd on quantum life
October 9, 2012
Seth Lloyd of MIT spoke at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.on how organisms have evolved to make use of quantum effects.at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Video Source: TVO
AeroVironment/DARPA | Nano hummingbird reconnaissance UAV
February 19, 2011
Newly released Aerovironment demo footage of the final project phase of the Nano Hummingbird aerial reconaissance vehicle, developed for the DARPA Defense Sciences Office. The flight test video shows the “birds eye view” on screen as well as the bird and engineer. Bird flies outside and then goes inside the building. We see what it sees via flat panel screen. Battery-powered and remote-controlled, the hummingbird-like prototype uses flapping wings for… read more
Video Source: AeroVironment, Inc.
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Google Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review
December 25, 2012
1.2 trillion searches.
146 languages.
What did the world search for in 2012?
2012 was a year of big moments, from global games to historical elections and everything in between. With this site, we’ve analyzed over one trillion queries to showcase what the world searched for.
We studied an aggregation of over one trillion searches (or queries) that people typed into Google Search this year. We used data… read more
Video Source: Google Zeitgeist 2012
Documentary overview:
The Machine That Changed the World is the longest, most comprehensive documentary about the history of computing ever produced, but since its release in 1992, it’s become virtually extinct. Out of print and never released online, the only remaining copies are VHS tapes floating around school libraries or in the homes of fans who dubbed the original shows when they aired.
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The first… read more
Video Source: WGBH Boston/BBC TV coproduction in association with NDR Hamburg
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
Video Source: IEEE Spectrum
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Movea’s Data Fusion Transforms Sensors Into Indoor Navigation
TrapWire: spying On YOU?
August 16, 2012
“Emails obtained via a hack of intelligence agency Stratfor have shed light on a secret, comprehensive U.S. surveillance effort led by Virginia-based TrapWire. The details were released by whistleblower site Wikileaks, but an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Wikileaks.org has made it difficult to access the TrapWire docs…”. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Video Source: The Young Turks Network
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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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video sources: Sony Pictures / RETV
SIGGRAPH 2012 : computer animation festival trailer
July 27, 2012
The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is the annual festival for the world’s most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators. An internationally recognized jury receives hundreds of submissions and presents the best work of the year in daily Festival Screenings and the Electronic Theater. Selections include outstanding achievements in time-based art, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, and narrative shorts. SIGGRAPH 2012 takes place 5-9 August in Los… read more
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Dr. Takehiro Tawara, research scientist at RIKEN, Japan has developed an augmented reality system that provides an intuitive 3D working environment for segmenting volumetric medical imaging data, such as CT or MRI scans, to select structures and areas in the images for further study.
Video Source: Takehiro Tawara/RIKEN
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These ads featuring eerily familiar (yet-to-be-created technologies) were produced by AT&T and broadcast on mainstream television from 1993-1994.
A savvy YouTuber culled them together in one convenient spot (video above) — “FunkyWitDaSysTm” says: “I could never find a complete compilation of all of these videos, so I put all 7 together and uploaded it for the world. Looking back on these ads, I remember how moved I was… read more
Video Source: AT&T
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
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
TED | Markus Fischer: A robot that flies like a bird
August 3, 2011
TED | Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.
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Off The Grid — inside the movement
July 11, 2012
Some of the characters (including author Carolyn Chute) from the book – OFF THE GRID – Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government and True Independence in Modern America, (Penguin, August 2010).
I traveled around America meeting these extraordinary people and writing about their lives. Above all I wanted to find out WHY they live off the grid.
Video Source: Off-Grid
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