Lifeboat Foundation

Solar powered yacht. 😃

Pierpaolo Lazzarini designs the ‘Pagurus’, a solar-powered amphibious catamaran. via: Myshify.

This robotic combat vehicle willl be supporting troops and tanks in the future. 😃

The Type-X Robotic Combat Vehicle acts as an “intelligent wingman” to ground troops. Explore it here.

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DALL-E brings AI one step closer to human-like creativity, and the images it generates could seed all kinds of new ideas.

Important here is at 38:13 where he says not only is his TAME trial paid for but an organization is going to pay a billion dollars per year on aging. He was not allowed to give details but it was going to start this month. I’ll be watching for the news.

Zoom Transcription: https://otter.ai/u/vTb6HEbcyTXBPgVrgRzB3I0CDC8

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“The results showed that rat cyborgs could be smoothly and successfully navigated by the human mind to complete a navigation task in a complex maze. Our experiments indicated that the cooperation through transmitting multidimensional information between two brains by computer-assisted BBI is promising.”

(2019)

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) provide a promising information channel between the biological brain and external devices and are applied in building brain-to-device control. Prior studies have explored the feasibility of establishing a brain-brain interface (BBI) across various brains via the combination of BMIs. However, using BBI to realize the efficient multidegree control of a living creature, such as a rat, to complete a navigation task in a complex environment has yet to be shown. In this study, we developed a BBI from the human brain to a rat implanted with microelectrodes (i.e., rat cyborg), which integrated electroencephalogram-based motor imagery and brain stimulation to realize human mind control of the rat’s continuous locomotion. Control instructions were transferred from continuous motor imagery decoding results with the proposed control models and were wirelessly sent to the rat cyborg through brain micro-electrical stimulation. The results showed that rat cyborgs could be smoothly and successfully navigated by the human mind to complete a navigation task in a complex maze. Our experiments indicated that the cooperation through transmitting multidimensional information between two brains by computer-assisted BBI is promising.

Exotic and vibrant colors naturally occur in nature because of pigmentations. But nature is also capable of displaying a whole spectrum of eye-catching colors through building nano-scale surface structures. Creatures with intricate physical aesthetics, like a peacock’s feathers or the rich patterns on a butterfly’s wings, achieve this kind of high color resolution due to the small-scale arrays of distinctly shaped objects on their surfaces. This naturally occurring color structure was exploited by a team of researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). They developed a laser printing technique that doesn’t require ink.

Laser printing without ink

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Crafting organic containers by shaping the gourd fruit.

Take a sip of coffee from a cup that’s literally GROWN in nature! The gourd fruit can fill any form, making them perfect for crafting containers to hold food and liquids, no plastic needed!

Will this enable people to make super strong concrete the future? 🙂

Scientists in Japan have found a rare mineral in concrete walls of a decommissioned power plant, which is as strong as concrete the Romans used.

Using ocean/sea waves for power. 😃

https://youtu.be/BrDua3j1U3M

This is the Eco Wave Power, an innovative and affordable technology that produces clean, renewable energy from ocean waves. (More info: https://youtu.be/BrDua3j1U3M)