Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Box: Projection-Mapping Onto Moving Surfaces
October 2nd, 2013Via: Bot & Dolly on Vimeo: Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping onto moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera. Box from Bot & Dolly on Vimeo. Research Credit: alvinroasting
Japan: New Robot Picks Ripe Strawberries While Farmers Sleep
October 2nd, 2013Via: AFP: A robot that picks ripe strawberries while farmers sleep has been unveiled with claims it could cut workloads by two-thirds. The device, unveiled Wednesday, can pick a piece of fruit every eight seconds by using three cameras to determine which strawberries are ready to pick. A mechanized arm then darts out to snip […]
PCIe Flash Storage on Laptops
October 1st, 2013A friend of mine showed me his brand new Apple Macbook Air. That thing is very fast. There are many articles out there about how Apple used PCIe based flash storage to achieve that incredible throughput—but you sorta need to have the jarring experience of running applications on that machine for those numbers to hit […]
Navy Research Blimp Hovering Over Maryland
September 30th, 2013[???] Via: CBS: The U.S. Navy research laboratory says the blimp is a government research airship conducting aerial mapping, and that the MZ-3A lighter than air blimp began roaming above the D.C. area on Sept. 21 and can remain stationary for more than 12 hours. The blimp is mapping in the flight restriction zones around […]
DARPA’s Plan to Flood the Sea With Drones, Carrying More Drones
September 30th, 2013Via: Wired: DARPA, the Pentagon’s research agency, has recently revealed its plans to boost the Navy’s response to threats in international waters by developing submerged unmanned platforms that can be deployed at a moment’s notice. Hydra, named after the serpent-like creature with many heads in Greek mythology, would create an undersea network of unmanned payloads […]
NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
September 28th, 2013Via: New York Times: Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials. The spy […]
For the Lulz: LA Officials May Delay School iPad Rollout After Students Effortlessly Bypass Restrictions
September 26th, 2013“Runaway train scenario.” I love it. Via: Engadget: Just a week after it began the first phase of putting iPads in the hands of all 640,000 students in the region, the Los Angeles school district already has a fight on its hands. In a matter of days, 300 children at Theodore Roosevelt High School managed […]
15% in U.S. Shun Internet; Most Intend to Stay Offline
September 26th, 2013Via: AFP: Despite a seemingly unstoppable move to digital lifestyles, some 15 percent of Americans don’t use the Internet, and most are quite content to remain offline, a survey shows. The survey released Wednesday found that in addition to the 15 percent of adults who don’t use the Internet on any device, another nine percent […]
Man Fitted with Thought Controlled Bionic Leg
September 25th, 2013Via: CBS: For the first time ever, doctors have developed an artificial leg that is controlled by the person’s thoughts. And it happened here at the Rehabilitation Institute Of Chicago (RIC). “So I move my leg out, push the toes down and bring my toes back up,” said Zac Vawter, the first man in the […]
World Record Solar Cell with 44.7% Efficiency
September 24th, 2013Via: PhysOrg: German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin announced today that they have achieved a new world record for the conversion of sunlight into electricity using a new solar cell structure with four solar subcells. Surpassing competition after only over three years of research, and entering the […]
