Google Glass and the Rise of POV
• David Zax via TechnologyReview.comWill Google Glass revive a controversial cinematographic technique?
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World's Tiniest Movie Uses Atoms As Actors
• popsci.com"A Boy and His Atom" is the must-see film of the year.
Eating Boogers Could Be Good For You
• popsci.comCanadian biochemistry professor proposes a deep investigation.
Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second
• ted.comRamesh 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.
Tiny New Compound Camera Is Built Like a Bug’s Eye
• Wired.comScientists have built a digital camera inspired by the compound eyes of insects like bees and flies.
Prenatal DNA Sequencing
• Technologyreview.comReading the DNA of fetuses is the next frontier of the genome revolution. Do you really want to know the genetic destiny of your unborn child?
Memory Implants
• Technologyreview.comA maverick neuroscientist believes he has deciphered the code by which the brain forms long-term memories.
Artificial heart tissue could replace and regrow the real thing
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben CoxworthOne of the things that makes heart disease so problematic is the fact that after a heart attack occurs, the scar tissue that replaces the damaged heart tissue isn’t capable of expanding and contracting – it doesn’t “beat,” in other words.
Simple Trick Turns Commercial Polymer Into World’s Toughest Fiber
• Technology ReviewA materials scientist has created the world’s toughest fiber using a mechanism based on a slip knot.
Cancer Drugs Should Cost Less, Say Doctors
• Susan Young via TechnologyReview.comDoctors argue that some drug companies are charging too much for their cancer drugs, to the detriment of patients.
Remaking the World with Phone Data
• David Talbot via TechnologyReview.comAt conference starting Wednesday, huge trove of research papers point to enormous possibilities, but privacy issues remain.
Why Your Brain Craves Music
• Joseph Mercola via LewRockwell.comIf you’re a music lover, you already know that turning on the tunes can help calm your nerves, make stress disappear, pump up your energy level during a workout
Shapeshifting Smartphone Literally Bends To Your Command
• Colin Lecher via PopSci.comWe've seen ideas for flexible, paper-thin electronics before, but these prototypes for stretchy mobile devices are pretty neat.
For Five Bucks, Every Screen In Your House Could Be A Touchscreen
• Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.comTech hooks into your home's electric system to track touch from afar
Terrifying Robot Snake Will Rescue You Whether You Like It Or Not
• Colin Lecher via PopSci.comThe snake 'bot will slither through collapsed buildings on its way to saving you and/or scaring you out of your mind.
Intelligent Headlights Make Raindrops Disappear
• Colin Lecher via PopSci.comA camera finds individual drops, then a projector blacks them out of the driver's view.
This Company Dares You To Crack Its Encryption Software
• Kelsey D. Atherton via PopSci.comA decade in the making, this new encryption system is so far unhackable.
Touch-Sensitive Robot Arm Can Tuck You In At Night
• Francie Diep via PopSci.comThe robot's stretchy, sensor-studded "skin" lets it touch humans without crushing them.
The Scientific Reason You Won't Throw Your Stuff Away
• Shaunacy Ferro via PopSci.comEmerging research on hoarding classifies it as its own distinctive disorder, separate from OCD.
Warming Causes Plants To Release Gases That May Mitigate Global Warming
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comA newly identified negative feedback loop could counteract global warming, by a teeny, tiny amount.
Sewage Plants Dumped 11 Billion Gallons Of Waste Into Waterways After Sandy [Infographic]
• Francie Diep via PopSci.comThat's the equivalent of New York City's Central Park, packed 41 feet high with untreated sewage.
DARPA Wants To Build A Better Battlefield Internet
• Kelsey D. Atherton via PopSci.comWar waits for no router setup. Functioning internet takes time to set up, which is not a luxury a military on the move usually has, and it's definitely not an option when troops get ambushed.
Honeybees May Be Dying Off Because They're Eating Inferior Honey Substitutes
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comHoney is bees' best medicine, so maybe we shouldn't take all of it from them.
Government Seeks to Fine Companies for Not Complying With Wiretap Orders
• Kim Ketter via WIRED.comIt isn’t often that communications companies push back against government requests to monitor customers and hand over information about them
No One Wants the Pentagon’s Gigantic Hydrogen-Powered Drone
• Rober Beckhusen via WIRED.comThe Pentagon spent millions developing a humongous hydrogen-fueled drone that, it hoped, could fly at soaring altitudes for a week at a time. Now the drone is all on its lonesome, because no one wants to buy it.
Behind the Scenes of SpaceShipTwo’s First Powered Flight
• Jason Paur via Wired.comThe first rocket-powered flight of SpaceShipTwo lasted mere seconds, but getting it there took hours
Chinese Rocket Launches Four Satellites into Space
• Stephen Clark via Space.comA Chinese Long March rocket blasted off from a remote desert launch base Friday (April 26) with a high-resolution Earth-imaging payload, Ecuador's first satellite and two other small satellites.
World's Largest Infrared Space Telescope Shuts Down Forever
• Miriam Kramer via Space.comAfter nearly four years mapping the "hidden universe," the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space has reached the end of its life, European Space Agency officials say.
NASA to Pay $70 Million a Seat to Fly Astronauts on Russian Spacecraft
• Mike Wall via Space.comNASA has signed a new deal that will keep American astronauts flying on Russian spacecraft through early 2017 at a cost of $70.7 million per seat — about $8 million more per astronaut than the previous going rate.
Why Big Companies Are Investing in a Service that Listens to Phone Calls
• Jessica Leber via TechnologyReview.comA startup that converts conversations to text so it can offer instant information gets financing from Telefónica, Samsung, and Intel.
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