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Dec 5, 2015
Finland plans to give every citizen a basic income of 800 euros a month — By Olivia Goldhill | Quartz
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: governance
“The Finnish government is currently drawing up plans to introduce a national basic income. A final proposal won’t be presented until November 2016, but if all goes to schedule, Finland will scrap all existing benefits and instead hand out 800 euros per month—to everyone.”
Dec 5, 2015
Two pro drivers raced against each other while wearing VR headsets—here’s what they saw
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: virtual reality
Dec 5, 2015
Here’s everything Microsoft got right about today’s technology back in 1999
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Dec 5, 2015
Iron Man Hulkbuster costume at New York’s Comic Con
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Also you should watch Giant Fully-Mechanized Hulkbuster Toy Has a Full Iron Man Inside SDCC 2015 http://goo.gl/4KLlP1
Video courtesy Tech Insider.
Dec 5, 2015
Autodesk will bring digital designs into the real world with Microsoft’s HoloLens
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: augmented reality
Autodesk and Microsoft have teamed up to bring virtual product designs into the real world using augmented reality. The two companies announced on Monday that Autodesk Fusion 360 — software that lets users design, test, and ultimately manufacture physical objects — will connect with Microsoft’s HoloLens headset.
Right now, details about the final product are scarce, but the two companies have spent time working together over the past year on bringing 3D models from a screen to the real world by displaying them to users wearing the HoloLens. The collaboration could make it possible for designers working in Fusion to work together on digital models in the physical world, if everyone involved is wearing one of Microsoft’s augmented reality headsets.
Doing that has the potential to be a boon for product designers, since they wouldn’t have to spend as much time manufacturing physical prototypes to be able to see how a product could look in real life. The HoloLens likely won’t replace physical prototyping entirely, though: the device’s field of view is fairly limited at this point, which means that it could be hard for designers to get a full feeling of what an some objects would look like, especially if they’re particularly large.
Dec 5, 2015
Fastest Charging Electric Bus Charges In 10 Seconds In
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
The world’s fastest charging electric bus is now operating in the eastern Chinese port city of Ningbo.
According to local transportation authorities, the public bus — which was manufactured in Ningbo and runs along a 24-stop, 11 kilometre route — takes as little as 10 seconds to charge up and be ready for the next leg of its journey.
Dec 4, 2015
3D Printers Can Now Churn Out “Living” Blood Vessels
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, materials
In a breakthrough that could lead to printable organs and an enhanced understanding of human physiology, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Labs have 3D-printed functional blood vessels that look and function like the real thing.
3D bioprinters are similar to conventional 3D printers, but instead of using inert materials, they use “bio-ink:” basic structural building blocks that are compatible with the human body.
Dec 4, 2015
‘Gene repair’ could be tested on people in 2017
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
Human trials of Crispr editing are being proposed by Massachusetts-based start-up Editas Medicine to treat a rare form of blindness knwon as Leber congenital amaurosis.
