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Dec 22, 2014
3D-Printed ROBOPuppet Translates Physical Action of User Onto Full-Size Robot
Posted by Seb in category: 3D printing
Published by Sandra Helsel — inside3dprinting.com
(3Ders.org) — Researchers at the Intelligent Motion Laboratory at Indiana University developed a method to create inexpensive, table-top-sized robot models called ROBOPuppets to provide teleoperate input control to full-sized robots. RoboPuppet is a 3D-printed miniature replica of the target robot, which uses encoders embedded in the joints to translate the user’s physical action with the puppet into the motion on the robot. The kinesthetic mode of operation is familiar to those who played with action figures and dolls as children. It lets users control complex motions in a cheap and more intuitive way than traditional joysticks or joint level control.
Dec 21, 2014
Over 800 Payment Terminals in Romania Now Sell Bitcoin
Posted by Seb in category: bitcoin
Joon Ian Wong — CoinDesk
Bitcoin is now available at 874 self-service payment terminals across Romania, thanks to a partnership between ATM operator Bitcoin Romania and terminal network operator ZebraPay.
The ZebraPay terminals will allow customers to buy bitcoin at a 4% commission on prices taken from the Cointrader exchange. The terminals are one-way, so customers can only trade their Romanian leu for bitcoin.
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Dec 21, 2014
The Lost Honor of a she-Professor and a Constant: A two-tiered Rehabilitation
Posted by Otto E. Rössler in category: philosophy
A whole nation found it fitting that a university professor with a lifetime call for endocrinology (hormonal diseases) was turned into a university professor of gastroenterology (diseases of the digestive tract) for which she had never specialized: by state decree. Her conscientious “no” stripped her of her honor, her title, her pension and her inherited house. The book she wrote while hoping for the courts to help, on the biological foundations of ageing with a prestigious publisher, did not prevent the raiding of her house in the presence of watchful police. State TV defamed her as “Germany’s laziest professor.”
The same resilience shown here by a human being I can attribute for once to a mere brainchild – Einstein’s most famous natural constant c. She, too, got degraded, stripped of her global validity to retain only her local validity. A bit like the non-removed M.D. of a degraded professor. Here, too, the whole profession decided to play it low and not come to the rescue of the honor of the unjustly defamed one.
There is a difference, of course. The honor of a person ranks much higher than the dignity of a constant. The scandal nonetheless is even bigger here: The physical survival of every person and the planet itself is tied to the rehabilitation of the poor constant.
The hatred displayed by a nation towards a person, paralleled by the hatred displayed by a globe-wide profession towards a constant? The poor Einsteinian constant c-global has been shown to make black holes unsafe. Therefore, the prestigious attempt to produce black holes down on earth, (#1) has become undetectable at first if successful and (#2) makes the planet with a probability in the percentage-range get shrunk to 2 cm after a few years’ delay.
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Dec 20, 2014
FUTURISM UPDATE (December 21, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn
Posted by Andres Agostini in category: futurism
FUTURISM UPDATE (December 21, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn
WHITE SWAN BOOK: NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration. Should crewed exploration of Venus come before we try to go to Mars? https://lnkd.in/eJs-Uj6
WHITE SWAN BOOK: Ibuprofen Could Add Years To Your Life, Study Finds https://lnkd.in/eGnjNgM
WHITE SWAN BOOK: Japan scientists develop micro-fine adhesive sensors https://lnkd.in/eF_ZiCj
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Andrew Barisser — Assembly Coins, Crytocoins News
Andrew Barisser of Assembly Coins makes strong arguments for building on top of the pure Bitcoin blockchain, rather than creating alternatives.
Recently he wrote an open letter to Reddit, where he argued that Reddit should stick to a pure Bitcoin blockchain approach to building their planned cryptocurrency initiative, rather than going sidewise with alternative approaches. Now, probably prompted from the recent news about the Medici stock exchange that is being developed with Counterparty technology, Barisser wrote a post to criticize Counterparty.
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Dec 19, 2014
FUTURISM UPDATE (December 20, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn
Posted by Andres Agostini in category: futurism
FUTURISM UPDATE (December 20, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn
WHITE SWAN BOOK: Deep neural network rivals primate brain in object recognition https://lnkd.in/edkzw33
WHITE SWAN BOOK: Could ibuprofen be an anti-aging medicine? https://lnkd.in/ekFDtZb
WHITE SWAN BOOK: New magnetoelectric memory promises low-power, instant-on computing devices https://lnkd.in/eyB_BgE
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Dec 19, 2014
Libra Raises $500k to Expand Bitcoin Tax Compliance Solutions
Posted by Seb in category: business
Pete Rizzo — Coindesk
Libra announced it has raised $500,000 in a new seed round led by New York-based, seed-stage investment fund Liberty City Ventures.
The round, which coincides with the formal launch of its IRS-compliant accounting software LibraTax, also included participation from Raptor Ventures managing director James Pallotta and former Facebook software engineer and current BitGo CPO Ben Davenport.
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