Dialing with Your Thoughts
• technologyreview.comA new brain-control interface lets users make calls by thinking of the number—research that could prove useful for the severely disabled and beyond.
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Silent Film App Can Make You a Techie Charlie Chaplin
• wired.comNothing adds nostalgia to a just-taken iPhone video like retro visual effects and silent film-inspired title cards.
Organ Regrowth: Printing a New Pair of Eyes
• PC WorldFirst scientists said, "I wonder if we can print body parts." Then they said, "I wonder if we can grow new blood vessels." Scientists have, for the first time ever, grown a rudimentary eye in a petri dish.
Video: In Roiling Seas, Navy Laser Sets a Ship On Fire
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comA Navy laser set fire to a small ship bobbing in unruly seas this week, the first at-sea demonstration of one of the Navy’s ray guns.
Sports Illustrated - Tablet Demo 1.5
• YouTubeThis collaboration between The Wonderfactory and Time, Inc. is an excellent example of how tablets will enable the creation of innovative, addictive experiences by publishers, media companies, and advertisers.
Bright Idea: USB Cartridge Could Let Any 35mm Film Camera Shoot Digital
• Julie Beck via PopSci.comFor photographers who are attached to their analog equipment but can no longer resist the pull of the digital age, RE35 proposes a solution: a digital cartridge that fits into any 35mm camera and connects to your computer via USB.
How It Works: 3-D TV Without Glasses
• Amanda Schupak via PopSci.comHow a series of thin near-vertical lines placed in front of a display can create a stereoscopic image
Device-to-Device Media Sharing that Works
• technologyreview.comOne proximity-based app has nailed the triangulation problem.
New Modular Robot Fits Together to Form Larger Modular Robots
• popsci.comMeet iMobot, a new reconfigurable robot that can be linked together like a chain to form larger versions of itself. With four degrees of freedom, it can stand itself up and turn into a tiny camera stand, roll end-over-end like a mini tank tread, or h
Fields of Dreams: Ballparks Unveil Tech Upgrades
• Kyle Stack via WIRED.comProfessional sports teams are attempting at a furious rate to lure fans away from the comfort of their couches to live games. And sweet technological upgrades to their home venues become a bigger selling point every year.
Conrads Quadrocopter: Modellflug-Plattfom mit Luft-Kamera | CHIP
• youtube.comConrads Quadrocopter
Handspring Puppet Company: The genius puppetry behind War Horse
• Ted.com"Puppets always have to try to be alive," says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors.
DARPA Creates Interactive 3-D Holographic Map Table
• Julie Beck via PopSci.comThe Urban Photonic Sandtable Display (UPSD) allows up to 20 participants to simultaneously view and manipulate the 360-degree, 3-D image on the table, without having to wear 3-D glasses.
Testing the Goods: The iPad 2
• John Mahoney via PopSci.comIs the iPad 2 worthy of replacing an original iPad after just under a year?
Mind melds coming: The astounding nerve-electronic hybrid
• Terrence AymSomeday you might be like Star Trek's Mr. Spock. No, you won't be a Vulcan, but you may have the ability to mind-meld like the popular science fiction character. A discovery about the biological structure of mouse nerve cells has led researchers to
3-D Models Created by a Cell Phone - With a few snapshots, you can build a detailed virtual replica.
• Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.comThree dimensions needn't require the budget of Avatar. App developed by Microsoft researchers can be sufficient. The software uses overlapping snapshots to build a photo-realistic 3-D model that can be spun around and viewed from any angle.
A New Way to Churn Out Cheap LED Lighting
• technologyreview.comMaking LEDs with microchip manufacturing methods could slash the cost of lighting.
An On-Off Switch for Anxiety
• Emily Singer via TechnologyReview.comResearchers discover a brain circuit that can instantly dampen—or exacerbate—anxiety in mice.
Taking Control of Cars From Afar - Researchers show they can hack into cars wirelessly
• Erica Naone via TechnologyReview.comResearchers who have spent the last two years studying the security of car computer systems have revealed that they can take control of vehicles wirelessly.
80 Seconds of Warning for Tokyo - Earthquake-detection technology investment pays off for Japan.
• David Talbot via TechnologyReview.comResidents of Tokyo likely had about 80 seconds of warning before a devastating quake rumbled through the city after striking 373 kilometers away, off Japan's northeast coast, thanks to a new early warning system.
New Silkworm Dye Method Could Help Build Silks With Medicinal Properties
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comWe pay close attention to the modifications scientists are making to goats, moths and worms so they can harvest their silk. Now researchers in Singapore are reporting a new advancement: dyed-in-the-worm silks, which look pretty and could have interes
Video: Jelly-Like Artificial Muscles Improve Robotic Flexibility With Rotary Motion
• Julie Beck via PopSci.comReplacing some of the nuts and bolts in robots’ bodies with stretchy artificial muscles would allow them to be more flexible and lifelike than ever. Researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute in New Zealand have succeeded
Boeing’s Biggest Bird Prepares for First Flight
• Jason Paur via WIRED.comThe first flight window for the new Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental opens Sunday, and if the flight goes off it will be the company’s third first flight in less than 18 months.
Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots
• Steven Levy via WIRED.comOne afternoon about 12 years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin gave John Doerr a call. A few months earlier, the Google cofounders had accepted $12.5 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
Implantable Tumor Tracker Is a Tiny Lab That Lives Inside Your Body And Reports Back
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comRather than bringing people into the lab, researchers at MIT are putting tiny labs into people via a tiny implantable capsule that can track the growth of a tumor or detect heart-deterioration or even silent heart attacks from inside the body.
AT&T to cap users’ Internet access, impose fees for too much information
• Stephen C. Webster via the raw storyTelecommunications giant AT&T said this week that it will join Comcast and other providers in a controversial business model that limits the amount of information subscribers can access, and imposes penalties for overages.
A Search Engine for the Human Body
• technologyreview.comMicrosoft software recognizes organs and other structures in medical images.
Turn Your Cellphone Into a High-Powered Scientific Microscope
• wired.comUsing tape, rubber and a tiny glass ball, researchers transformed an iPhone into a cheap, yet powerful microscope able to image tiny blood cells. They’ve also added a clinical-grade cellphone spectroscope that might be able to measure some vital sign
Video: Drones Perform Closest-Ever Autonomous Refueling Maneuver
• popsci.comIn a recent test of autonomous in-flight refueling, two unmanned aircraft flew within 40 feet of each other at an altitude of 45,000 feet, an aviation record.
Video: Combo-Cracking Robot Makes Quick Work of Padlocks
• popsci.comCracking combination locks has never been so easy. A group of engineering students at Olin College of Engineering have built a robot that will solve any MasterLock combination in a under two hours by running through all the possible combinations. Jus
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