November 2011
2 posts
WatchTechnoCalypse part I
I found it to be a very inspiring 50 minutes. Gets the blood pumping.
October 2011
4 posts
Endgame: Singularity →
I obtained apotheosis in 12 hours inside singularity, and on easy mode. Even then it wasn’t easy. Stayed up all night “on accident”. Was worth it.
http://emhsoft.com/singularity/
September 2011
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Playing ping pong with electrons - ever closer to... →
“Researchers from the University’s Cavendish Laboratory have moved an individual electron along a wire, batting it back and forth over sixty times, rather like the ball in a game of ping-pong. The research findings, published September 22 in the journal Nature, may have applications in quantum computing, transferring a quantum ‘bit’ between processor and memory, for...
25$ Linux ARM!!!! "Raspberry Pi" →
Look at these stats for such a cheap board:
700MHz Broadcom media processor featuring an ARM11 (ARM1176JZF-S) core, Broadcom GPU core, DSP core and support for Package-on-Package (PoP) RAM
128MiB (Model A) or 256MiB of SDRAM (Model B), stacked on top of the CPU as a PoP device
OpenGL ES 2.0
1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
Composite and HDMI video output
One USB 2.0...
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August 2011
7 posts
Parasite Uses the Power of Attraction to Trick... →
”’There are not many organisms that can get into the brain, stay there and specifically perturb your behavior,’ … Approximately one third of the world’s human population is infected with Toxoplasma. For most people, it appears to present no danger, although it can be fatal in people with compromised immune systems. It also can cross the placental barrier in a...
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“The Dewey Decimal System ain’t got nothin’ on an internet search...”
– myself, from a conversation that happened roughly 2 minutes ago
"Engineers Solve Longstanding Problem in Photonic... →
Isolinear optical chips were used in Star Trek to run the computer of the Enterprise in the 25th century. But we get them in the 21st, because of exponential returns and the coming singularity! Buahaha!
Whenever in doubt, just indulge in 80s music. Competence, good planning, and a positive attitude can carry us forward…with science! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o
July 2011
5 posts
Mind controlled robots, mechs, digital avatars,... →
“‘Brain cap’ technology being developed at the University of Maryland allows users to turn their thoughts into motion. Associate Professor of Kinesiology José ‘Pepe’ L. Contreras-Vidal and his team have created a non-invasive, sensor-lined cap with neural interface software that soon could be used to control computers, robotic prosthetic limbs, motorized ...
Researchers Identify Seventh and Eighth Bases of... →
“For decades, scientists have known that DNA consists of four basic units — adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine. Those four bases have been taught in science textbooks and have formed the basis of the growing knowledge regarding how genes code for life. Yet in recent history, scientists have expanded that list from four to six.”
How deep does the rabbit hole go?
"Modified Carbon Nanotubes can store the sun's... →
Research like this gets done on a shoestring budget with virtually no funding. And the cost of the US wars has been: $1222829886096. WE COULD HAVE A COLONY ON MARS AND THE MOON FOR THAT GODDAM MUCH. Have the last 10 years of domestic and foreign policy been a dream? How did these baffoons get away with this? I listen to NPR every morning and they just vomit stupid non-sense about how Dem/Rep...
May 2011
4 posts
How Can You Remember The Colors In the Rainbow?
fakescience:
April 2011
7 posts
Global Village Construction Set →
“The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is an open technological that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts.”
…I’m pretty much convinced at this point that 3D printing is destined to become the future cornerstone of society. Imagine a Rep-Rap project in every public...
Yelling fire in a digital theatre? →
“Paul Chambers had tweeted: ‘Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week… otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!’” as a joke, has since been retweeted many many times over. “Speaking generally about the internet and freedom of speech, Linehan told the audience: ‘We’ve got this incredible tool and we should fight any...
Terraforming of Venus →
“Terraforming of Venus is the hypothetical process of engineering the global environment of the planet Venus in such a way as to make it suitable for human habitation. Terraforming Venus was first seriously proposed by the astronomer Carl Sagan in 1961. The minimum adjustments to the existing environment of Venus to support human life would require three major changes to the planet:
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Detecting internal dialogue in the brain with... →
“The act of mind reading is something usually reserved for science-fiction movies but researchers in America have used a technique, usually associated with identifying epilepsy, for the first time to show that a computer can listen to our thoughts.”
March 2011
6 posts
Pattern Recognition, pp 58-59
“…we have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which ‘now’ was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so...
DYSTOPIAN TIMES: How Anonymous Will Avenge Bradley... →
dystopiantimes:
Last weekend the vigilante hacker gang Anonymous declared cyber-war on two government employees playing key roles in the detainment of Private Bradley Manning, the suspected source of the leaked documents published by Wikileaks.
The group called on its members to gather information on…
DHS for prospect of covert body scanner imaging →
Their brilliant idea is a van, driving down the street (with X-Rays, no matter how low-power, X-RAYS) scanning individuals for pockets of metal or plastic as an indication of weapons or threats.
To quote a user on slashdot: “What these guys clearly want is the right to search any and all persons without their knowledge and without anything remotely resembling probable cause. Right now,...
Blade Runner Sequel OR* Prequel to happen. →
WOULD IT KILL TO WRITE SOMETHING ORIGINAL? Must I see blade runner tainted by half-assed production instead of a new, inventive, original, unique proposition?
Edit:This interview from io9 to the producer(s) soothed my nerves a bit:
http://io9.com/#!5775760/what-can-we-expect-from-the-new-blade-runner-movie-we-asked-the-producers
A blind man can now see via implant →
The future is now.
"Stronger Than Steel, Novel Metals Are as Moldable... →
“ScienceDaily (Feb. 28, 2011) — Imagine a material that’s stronger than steel, but just as versatile as plastic, able to take on a seemingly endless variety of forms. For decades, materials scientists have been trying to come up with just such an ideal substance, one that could be molded into complex shapes with the same ease and low expense as plastic but without sacrificing...
February 2011
17 posts
Precise explosions leave behind graphical images:... →
Video Demonstration
"Darpa’s Cheetah-Bot Designed to Chase Human Prey" →
As I read this article, I was filled with a tumultuous joy of giddiness.
Lets review Boston Dynamics’s past work:
Big Dog, which you may be familiar with: BigDog Overview (Updated March 2010)
Petman, a bipedal walking torso, which can sustain being pushed and realign in the same creepy manner as Big Dog: Petman 4.4 mph (Updated April 2010)
Also introducted by the article are plans for...
Lots of pretty displays, easily sorted data... →
Why then does this video so profusely irritate me, almost to the point of unspeakable, yet comedic, rage?
OH LOOK SOME PRETTY SUBURBANITES CAN ENJOY THIS TECH! GOOD FOR THEM! Not one blemish on anyones skin, not one imperfection to be seen, not one frown in the room. Of course, its just a PR video, and that “PR” type of atmosphere is what really is the most irritating aspect. I can...
Highly elastic, solar powered, synthetic skin. →
“Sensitive enough to detect a landing fly”
For use in robots.
To quote the Tyrell Corporation: “More Human Than Human”