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 October 28th, 2009 | Category: technologyHere’s an interesting piece of technology developed by a group of scientists. It’s able to fetch information from the internet to dynamically composite images. All it takes for it to happen is your ideas communicated in the form of sketching. Below are storyboards from the proposed technology, showing how input equals output. To get [...] There’s a science museum close that the wife and I have had the pleasure of visiting several times. We are both geeks and love going to these places. That’s why it was totally awesome to hear about this world touring BBC dinosaur show, “Walking With Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular“, that was going [...] October 13th, 2009 | Category: technologyMost everything in the natural world takes on a new personality when slowed to frame rate that allows us to focus on the nuances of the moment. Metallic objects appear as heated butter, shearing at imbalanced angles. I wonder how they were able to hit the moving bullets with other projectiles. Germany’s Werner Mehl [...] March 19th, 2009 | Category: technologySweet. Just found out about this program that allows you to paint with the Nintendo DS. It’s called “Colors!” The results are pretty neat, with paint sketches like this. You can visit the site and download it here. A big thanks to the developers who put this project together. You’ll need to have a [...] February 24th, 2009 | Category: technologyRobotics firm Little Island claim they can create a tiny likeness of anyone even replicating the sound of your voice. To make the so-called ‘Look A Like’ doll, the company only needs to receive a photograph of the subject and six weeks later they will send you a doll doppelganger. Despite the simplistic features, the insides are [...] A perplexing array of geometry has been located 3.5 miles below the surface of the ocean. Could it be the long lost city heralded in myths of centuries past? Thanks to Google Earth adding new ocean mapping features, the question is now being pursued on a new platform. The satellite image captured from Google Earth The [...] Imagine a future in which everything from cars, to planes, even the monitor you are reading this blog entry…constructed from paper. If the manufacturing process is seen into successful implementation, we could have a material potentially 500 times stronger than steel, and 10 times lighter within our lifetime. Ben Wang, a professor of industrial [...] January 25th, 2009 | Category: technologyIf I was prone to having regular backyard barbecue I’d consider getting one of these things. They look fun to use. Yeah, and it’s not a prank either, they have an official website and everything. The device is officially hailed as the “Condiment Gun”, as it is capable of dispensing various liquid [...] Food and water. Yeah it’s something we need. What if something cataclysmic where to happen (nuclear winter, asteroid collision, pole shift) and most agriculture was wiped off the face of the map? Not a pleasant thing to hypothetically brood over, but a tangible architectural [...] Common and Microsoft have collaborated on some interesting retro designs. These remind of the days of only working in command prompts. I think my favorites are the Bill Gates mug shots and the DOS logo. I might have to get one of these for my Dad. As an engineer from the [...] YouTube recently announced on their blog the ability to stream HD video, so I decided to find out what the recommended requirements were straight off the Help Center. This past summer I picked up the Canon Vixia HF100 and was waiting for them upgrade to get some of my clips online in a resolution closer [...] First there were dancing robots, then house-sitting robots and now a new breed of acting robots is making its big debut on the Japanese stage. The play, which had its premiere at Osaka University, is one of Japan’s first robot-human theatre productions. The machines were specially programmed to speak lines with human actors and move around the [...] Staring at the below picture reminds me of the cauldrons and alchemy of past civilizations. It’s interesting that several other planets in the solar system share the same phenomenon as our own northern lights. That’s something that I would like to see with my own eyes someday. A stunning light display over Saturn has [...] BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb [...] subject "C" is tested to decide whether the individual is "A" or "B" The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine’s ability to demonstrate intelligence. A human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which try to appear human; if the judge cannot reliably [...] Dubai seems to be ahead of the curve with architecture and urban planning. A thousand years from now, who knows? Perhaps in time our planet will be covered with geometric structures like this. I myself would be interested in seeing the technology on a more modular level, where I could buy a [...] This will a be a milestone when fully developed, but should be developed in caution. My main concern is second generation technology that could evolve from this, such as self-replicating nano-machines. The notion of terminators in the future may be much smaller than we think….. A team of biologists and chemists is closing in [...] The progress of the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, has been an interesting one. An air of cautious and excited attitudes have followed the project as it’s evolved through phases of development. There’s been some controversy surrounding the construction of the device, and with a recent breach of helium containment, it will [...] I’ve run into a wall recently, and it’s 32 bit. The setup I currently have is good enough for most everything else (low to mid-stress games, artwork, etc), but 1080p HD playback and editing required a re-think to what hardware I was running everything on. I never upgrade hardware unless it limits my software’s work [...] In totality as a civilization, how do we rank on a cosmic level in energy processing and efficiency? Haha, apparently dudes like Carl Sagan put us low on the scale. It’s interesting to think if we even hope to ascend to a point where one could travel from one star system to another, [...] |
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