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Jan 11, 2016
Insertables: I’ve got IT under my skin
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: electronics, security, wearables
Insertables are here! They are a new class of devices that go literally under your skin! Heffernan, Vetere, and Chang from the University of Melbourne discuss what they are, what they could be used for, their risks and the challenges for the HCI community. Fascinating! @kaylajheffernan # insertables #hci # wearables
Jan 11, 2016
Intelligent Energy’s hydrogen-powered iPhone lasts a week #CES2016
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: energy, mobile phones
We met Loughborough-based Intelligent Energy at CES, where they showed us a hydrogen-powered iPhone 6 that lasts for a week without a charge.
Jan 11, 2016
Mercedes Changes Plans: 4 Electric Cars By 2017, Rather Than 1 By 2018
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Originally published on EV Obsession.
Mercedes-Benz is now aiming to bring 4 electric vehicles to market over just the next few years, rather than simply one, according to recent reports.
The reason for the speeding up of plans is apparently that competitors such as BMW and Audi (not to mention the rising competitor Tesla) have been making strong moves as of late — meaning that Mercedes needs to speed things up on the electric vehicles front or possibly get left behind.
Jan 11, 2016
We Are From the Future
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, media & arts, quantum physics, space
“Greetings. We are from the future. Everything is going to be alright. The future is a beautiful place. But you will need some training in order to get there…”
Jan 11, 2016
Bowie as Nikola Tesla in ‘The Prestige’
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: entertainment, materials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF76qlwWM8s
Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) commissions a machine from Nikola Tesla (David Bowie) during Tesla’s time in Colorado Springs. This video clip is taken from the motion picture ‘The Prestige’ (Touchstone Pictures **Copyright 2006 — All rights reserved*•. I own NO rights for this clip, which is intended to be used purely for your entertainment purposes. Do not copy, or in any way otherwise distribute this copyrighted material. Thank you! — JT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UApWUAIyOjM
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Meet the scientific prophets who claim we are on the verge of creating a new type of human — a human v2.0. At a certain moment in the future computer intelligence will equal the power of the human brain. Some believe this will revolutionise humanity — we would be able to download our minds to computers extending our lives indefinitely. Others fear this will lead to oblivion by giving rise to destructive ultra intelligent machines. One thing they all agree on is that the coming of this moment — and whatever it brings — is inevitable.
Originally published in 2006 by BBC Horizon.
Jan 10, 2016
Elon Musk: You’ll be able to summon your Tesla from anywhere in 2018
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, habitats, robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
Yesterday, Tesla Motors released software update 7.1 for the Model S and Model X, an update that allows the electric cars to park themselves while you stand by and watch in awe. Today, CEO Elon Musk made a bold prediction: In 2018, this feature will work anywhere that cars can drive.
Called Summon, the functionality is part of Tesla’s Autopilot self-driving technology. Autopilot was introduced with version 7.0 of Tesla’s software in October 2015, and lets drivers take their hands off the wheel in certain conditions.
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Jan 10, 2016
Scientists test a device that could produce, detect, control gravitational field
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: physics
At present, scientists study gravitational fields passively. They observe and try to understand existing gravitational fields produced by large inertial masses, such as stars or Earth, without being able to change them as is done, for example, with magnetic fields.
This led Andre Fuzfa from Namur University in Belgium to attempt a revolutionary approach — creating gravitational fields at will from well-controlled magnetic fields and observing how these magnetic fields could bend space-time.
In his study, Fuzfa has proposed, with supporting mathematical proof, a device with which to create detectable gravitational fields.
Jan 10, 2016
We’re already living in the cyborg future
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cyborgs, robotics/AI, transhumanism
This article does bring one interesting question up for the broader population to really ask themselves and that is at what point does an individual truly become a Cyborg v. not? And, how do we know for sure that some of us are not already there given the bionic implants, our daily interactions and addiction to technology. Definitely, something for each person to think about.
Roy Batty was born—sorry, “incepted”—Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. The Blade Runner replicant, played with aggressive melancholy by Rutger Hauer, went on to see attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion and watch C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate before delivering one of sci-fi’s most moving soliloquies on life, memory, and mortality. And then he was lost, like tears in the rain.
Quibble if you want: Batty was an android, a replicant—not a cyborg. But in Blade Runner he wasn’t one half of the man versus machine binary. He was the complication—the living, breathing proof that a mere assemblage of technology could be, in fact, more human than human. This refusal of a simple division—the belief that sometimes machines could show us humanity, even as humans could become like machines—was a hallmark of Philip K. Dick’s later work, and it’s distilled to its essence in Batty.
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