Oct 29, 2015
Speeding up the work of measurements
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
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Oct 29, 2015
Wifi Networks Can Now Identify Who You Are Through Walls
Posted by Phillipe Bojorquez in categories: computing, internet, robotics/AI
Who needs a peep hole when a wifi network will do? Researchers from MIT have developed technology that uses wireless signals to see your silhouette through a wall—and it can even tell you apart from other people, too.
The team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab are no strangers to using wireless signals to see what’s happening on the other side of a wall. In 2013, they showed off software that could use variations in wifi signal to detect the presence of human motion from the other side of a wall. But in the last two years they’ve been busy developing the technique, and now they’ve unveiled the obvious — if slightly alarming — natural progression: they can use the wireless reflections bouncing off a human body to see the silhouette of a person standing behind a wall.
Not only that, the team’s technique, known is RF-Capture, is accurate enough to track the hand of a human and, with some repeated measurements, the system can even be trained to recognise different people based just on their wifi silhouette. The research, which is to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia next month, was published this morning on the research group’s website.
Oct 29, 2015
Warp Factor 11 — ships powered by BLACK HOLES to “outpace Enterprise”, say scientists
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: cosmology, energy, food, space travel
The novel its a bit older, but it‘s an incredible vision!
When Star Trek’s Scotty warns the Captain that the engines can’t “take it”, he might just be best off switching fuel — a new book claims that humanity could reach the stars using vast spacecraft harnessing the energy of black holes with the power to “eat planets”.
Oct 28, 2015
Mystery bright spots could be first glimpse of another universe
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
Light given off by hydrogen shortly after the big bang has left some unexplained bright patches in space. Are they evidence of bumping into another universe?
Oct 28, 2015
Zola Jesus Wants To Change The World — By Sergio Kletnoy | Elle
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: media & arts
““I would be in school and that’s when I would socialize with kids, but it wasn’t a huge part of my life. I had a very rich imagination and a rich inner life. There are 100 acres of forest. So from a very young age, I just learned how to entertain myself.””
Oct 28, 2015
Google’s Project Loon internet balloons to circle Earth
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in category: internet
Google says it will soon have a string of 300 internet-beaming balloons circling the Earth, as three Indonesian firms agree to join its trials.
Oct 28, 2015
Bioprinting human body parts: Jemma Redmond and Ouro_botics
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
What is Ouro_botics?
Ouro_botics started life around four years ago on a kitchen table in Dublin.
Founder Jemma Redmond was working at the time on her masters thesis “An Investigation into Osteoblast Adhesion” and printed copies of finger bones (metacarpals, proximal & distal phalanges) which she then seeded with Osteoblasts and noticed growth was affected by structure.
Oct 28, 2015
‘Stellarator’ Reactor’s Strange Twisted Design Can Finally Make Fusion Power A Reality
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: nuclear energy, particle physics
Researchers are getting ready to turn on the world’s biggest ‘Stellarator’ fusion reactor. Called Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X), the reactor can uninterruptedly contain super-hot plasma for more than 30 minutes at a time. Scientists claim the rare design, which is contained in a giant lab in Greifswald, Germany, can finally help make fusion power a reality. Comprising super-hot plasma for long durations has been the Holy Grail for nuclear reactor designs, and can help researchers to deliver an inexhaustible source of power. Fusion reactors, for instance the W7-X, work by using two isotopes of hydrogen atoms — deuterium and tritium — and inserting that gas into a restraint vessel. Researcher then add energy that eliminates the electrons from their host atoms, creating what is described as an ion plasma, which discharges enormous amounts of energy.
Oct 28, 2015
The Altwork Station is an automated desk-and-chair rig that feels like working on a cloud
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Oct 28, 2015
Russia announces plans to send humans to the Moon in 2029
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: space travel
The Russian Federal Space Agency — commonly referred to as Roscosmos — just announced its plans to send humans to the Moon in 2029, RT News reported. It’s part of the agency’s ultimate goal of creating and maintaining a lunar station. Vladimir Solntsev, head of Roscomsos Energia, made the announcement Tuesday at a space and technology conference in Moscow; he noted that they are currently building the spacecraft for the mission now, with its first flight into space planned for 2021.
After its initial flight, the plan is to have the spacecraft dock with the International Space Station in 2023, according to Solntsev. Then in 2025, Roscosmos will send an uncrewed version of the spacecraft to the Moon, before finally sending astronauts in the vehicle in 2029.
It also looks like the European Space Agency may be along for the ride. Two weeks ago, BBC News reported that the ESA had been in talks with Roscosmos to collaborate on sending a lander to the Moon’s south pole. The mission, called Luna 27, would be the first in a series of missions that would eventually return humans to the lunar surface. “We have an ambition to have European astronauts on the Moon. There are currently discussions at international level going on for broad cooperation on how to go back to the Moon,” Bérengère Houdou, head of lunar exploration at ESA, told BBC News.
