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Jan 8, 2021

An Update on the Green Run Hot Fire Test for Artemis I on This Week @NASA – January 8, 2021

Posted by in categories: media & arts, space travel

An update on the Green Run hot fire test for Artemis I, a commercial cargo spacecraft leaves the space station, and innovative ideas for exploring unexplored areas of the Moon … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-An%20Update%20on%20the%20Gre…08,%202021

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Jan 3, 2021

Scientists Replicate Self-Cleaning Anti-reflective Nanocoating of Insects’ Eyes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, economics, media & arts, nanotechnology

Scientists from Russia and Switzerland have probed into nanostructures covering the corneas of the eyes of small fruit flies. Investigating them the team learned how to produce the safe biodegradable nanocoating with antimicrobial, anti-reflective, and self-cleaning properties in a cost-effective and eco-friendly way. The protection coating might find applications in diverse areas of economics including medicine, nanoelectronics, automotive industry, and textile industry. The article describing these discoveries appears in Nature.

Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Russia) teamed up with colleagues from University of Geneva, The University of Lausanne, and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich for an interdisciplinary research project during which they were able to artificially reproduce the nanocoating of the corneas of fruit flies (Drosophila flies) naturally designed to protect the eyes of the insects from the smallest dust particles and shut off the reflection of light.

The craft of nanocoating meets demands in various fields of economics. It can wrap up any flat or three-dimensional structure, and, depending on the task, give it anti-reflective, antibacterial, and hydrophobic properties, including self-cleaning. The latter, for example, is a very important feature for expensive reusable overnight ortho-k lenses that correct the eyesight. Similar anti-reflective coatings are already known though created by more complex and costly methods. They are being used on the panels of computers, glasses, paintings in museums can be covered with them in order to exclude reflection and refraction of light.

Dec 25, 2020

DeepMind’s New AI Masters Games Without Even Being Taught the Rules

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

It’s the next step toward self-directed learning about the real world. Cue the shark music.

Dec 20, 2020

AUTOMATICA — Robots Vs. Music — Nigel Stanford

Posted by in categories: entertainment, media & arts, robotics/AI

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdqazixuRY&list=RDAMVMbAdqazixuRY

► Album & 4k Video: http://NigelStanford.com/y/a-/Automatica.

► Spotify: http://NigelStanford.com/y/Spotify.

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Dec 15, 2020

Playtronica’s MIDI device turns vegetables into musical instruments

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, food, media & arts

Creative technology studio playtronica has found a way of making music with pretty much anything including vegetables. their electronic devices transform touch into midi notes making anything into a midi controller including one that turns the human body into a keyboard. how it works is by effectively creating a circuit between the device and human body or the fruit. it’s then connected to a computer so when you touch the instrument the circuit is closed, and a specified sound is played. the tools are designed to work with organic materials and mostly anything that has water inside.

Nov 23, 2020

Futuristic device from Israeli firm puts music in your head, without headphones

Posted by in categories: futurism, media & arts

‘Sound beaming’ 3D technology from Noveto Systems tracks ear and sends it audio using ultrasonic waves, creating personal listening pockets.

Nov 21, 2020

An Interview with David Ettinger on the Cryonics Institute (Detroit)

Posted by in categories: cryonics, life extension, media & arts

Nov 18, 2020

Researchers hacked a robotic vacuum cleaner to record speech and music remotely

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

It seems these robots could be used to spy on you from home. 😃


A team of researchers demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be remotely hacked to act as microphones.

The researchers—including Nirupam Roy, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science—collected information from the laser-based in a popular vacuum robot and applied and deep learning techniques to recover speech and identify playing in the same room as the device.

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Nov 13, 2020

Astrocytes Identified as Master ‘Conductors’ of the Brain

Posted by in categories: media & arts, neuroscience

Summary: Astrocytes are involved in regulating inhibitory synapses by binding to neurons through the NrCAM adhesion molecule.

Source: Duke University

In the orchestra of the brain, the firing of each neuron is controlled by two notes–excitatory and inhibitory– that come from two distinct forms of a cellular structure called synapses. Synapses are essentially the connections between neurons, transmitting information from one cell to the other. The synaptic harmonies come together to create the most exquisite music–at least most of the time.

Nov 12, 2020

New device puts music in your head — no headphones required

Posted by in categories: computing, media & arts

New device puts music in your head — no headphones required…


LONDON (AP) — Imagine a world where you move around in your own personal sound bubble. You listen to your favorite tunes, play loud computer games, watch a movie or get navigation directions in your car — all without disturbing those around you.

That’s the possibility presented by “sound beaming,” a new futuristic audio technology from Noveto Systems, an Israeli company. On Friday it will debut a desktop device that beams sound directly to a listener without the need for headphones.

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