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Sep 13, 2015
Physicist discovers that the reason we all live in cities is… 1.15
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
There is a mathematical pattern that connects all cities across the world, transcending political and geographical boundaries, according to British scientist Geoffrey West.
Sep 12, 2015
Automakers Will Make Automatic Braking Systems Standard in New Cars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: electronics, transportation
DETROIT — Federal regulators said on Friday that 10 automakers had agreed to install automatic braking systems, which use sensors to detect potential collisions, as standard equipment in new vehicles.
But the automakers have not set a timetable for the introduction of the systems, and regulators may still seek government rules that would require the equipment as a standard feature in all cars and trucks — just as airbags were mandated a generation ago.
Anthony Foxx, the transportation secretary, said in a prepared statement that emergency braking technology could reduce traffic deaths and injuries.
Sep 12, 2015
Listen To The Solar System Sing With This Fantastic Simulation
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: media & arts, space
This is a seriously cool visualization of the solar system. What if you turned the planets into a sort of music box? That’s the point of Solarbeat, which turns the movement of the planets into music.
Solarbeat actually launched five years ago in 2010, but the designer Luke Twyman decided to revamp the website recently in light of the New Horizons and Dawn missions.
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Sep 12, 2015
This hand-held molecular scanner will tell you what any object is made of
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: electronics, mobile phones
Sep 12, 2015
This mind-controlled prosthetic robot arm lets you actually feel what it touches
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, electronics, neuroscience, robotics/AI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bwz9SPMDO2k
The US government said today (Sept. 11) that it’s successfully made a Luke Skywalker-like prosthetic arm that allows the wearer to actually feel things.
At a conference in July, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) presented the achievements it’d had to date in building a robot arm that can be controlled by a human brain. A little over two months later, the agency has announced at another conference that it’s managed to update the technology to give the wearer the feeling of actually being able to sense things with the arm.
Sep 12, 2015
The making of a working Star Wars BB-8 droid
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
The making of a working Star Wars BB-8 droid.
You can now buy Star Wars’ adorable BB-8 droid and let it patrol your home.
Sep 12, 2015
Better Than ‘Blade Runner’: Re-Imagining Our Cities
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: electronics, engineering, entertainment
Drawn to the Future, a major exhibition on visualization technology featuring leading pioneers in architecture and engineering tech, highlights how our experience of our cities and buildings will rapidly change.
Images of the city have always wielded psychological, emotional and political power. Anyone brought up on a diet of Hollywood movies and US TV shows will have had that uncanny experience as a first-time visitor to a US city — a sense of déjà vu, the feeling of being on a movie set, in a story. I took the Blade Runner cityscape so seriously as a student in New York in 1983, that after a late-night showing of the film, I went into a phone box and rang the number dialed by Harrison Ford on the ‘video screen’ (555−7563 in case you’re interested). The decay of Ridley Scott’s dystopian future spilled over into the rodent-rich, un-gentrified, occasionally threatening Lower East Side of the time.
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Sep 12, 2015
Space Internet: Elon Musk’s New Dream
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, internet, space
Elon Musk has yet another dream to make this world a better place, namely Space Internet. And it’s feasible.
Sep 12, 2015
Humans Will Have Cloud-Connected Hybrid Brains
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, computing, engineering, nanotechnology, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI
So, you think you’ve seen it all? You haven’t seen anything yet. By the year 2030, advancements will excel anything we’ve seen before concerning human intelligence. In fact, predictions offer glimpses of something truly amazing – the development of a human hybrid, a mind that thinks in artificial intelligence.
Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, spoke openly about this idea at the Exponential Finance Conference in New York. He predicts that humans will have hybrid brains able to connect to the cloud, just as with computers. In this cloud, there will be thousands of computers which will update human intelligence. The larger the cloud, the more complicated the thinking. This will all be connected using DNA strands called Nanobots. Sounds like a Sci-Fi movie, doesn’t it?
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