Link Favourites archive – 09 October 2009

* IBM finds path to mobile and voice browsers http://ff.im/-bba6d
* Gene Therapy Stalls Development Of Huntington’s Disease In Mice http://ff.im/-bb5iR
* Graphic: Evolution: life on Earth is one big extended family http://ff.im/-baHlQ
* Slashdot: Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid http://ff.im/-baH3r
* mindhackz: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix http://ow.ly/160j1H http://ff.im/-baCNC

* Broader Perspective: Ubiquitous information technology fields http://ff.im/-ba7oh
* How an Engineer Turned a Cellphone Into a Microscope http://ff.im/-b8VNw
* Pure Design Awesomeness by Niark | Webdesigner Depot http://ff.im/-b8Uia
* AGI-09 Conference on Vimeo http://ff.im/-b8NrW
* Cartoon.. [pic] http://ff.im/-b7a15

* Microsoft to show off new visualization language at PDC http://ff.im/-b6UwY
* Martian landscapes – The Big Picture – Boston.com http://ff.im/-b6UdN
* IEEE Spectrum: Video AWE Robotic Wall Reconfigures Itself Into Workspace, Lounge http://ff.im/-b6Tos
* FiatLux Visualize Free Is Now Free for All http://ff.im/-b6Ok4

* Signature of Antimatter Detected in Lightning http://ff.im/-b6N00
* Video: Microsoft Demonstrates Next-Gen Interface, with Motion Sensing and Eye Tracking | Popular Science http://ff.im/-b6Jy7
* How Much Power Does The Human Brain Require To Operate? | Popular Science http://ff.im/-b6JhQ

* Microsoft : Craig Mundie : demo of a Natural User Interface. With things like itracking…. http://ff.im/-b6HCh
* Robot With Digital Neurons Explores How Brains Adapt To Change | BotJunkie http://ff.im/-b4K6s

* Michio Kaku: Physics of the Impossible (1st December Science Channel 10pm) http://ff.im/-bbkgS

Link Favourites archive – 06 November 2009

* AT&T On-The-Go Coupons – YouTube http://ff.im/-b40zT
* The Robots Are Coming! Oh, They’re Here. – NYTimes.com http://ff.im/-b3Kyh
* Applause For The SmartHand: Human-machine Interface Is Essential Link In Groundbreaking Prosthetic Hand http://ff.im/-b3Jrg
* Youthmobile 2030: 6 Crazy Cars for the Next Generation | Sustainability | Fast Company http://ff.im/-b3Jga

* How Superman Might Read the NY Times – Infractor http://ff.im/-b3J7F
* LaserMotive is First Ever Prize Winner in Space Elevator Games http://ff.im/-b3IKL
* Sony demos game controller to track motion and emotion – NS http://ff.im/-b3zGC

* Responsible Nanotechnology: CAD Robots For the Masses http://ff.im/-b3zrL
* Video: Robot Robovie Rescues Little Wooden Doll From Obstacle Course http://ff.im/-b3ye3
* Essay: Steve Jobs’ Legacy Is Missing Clue to Apple Tablet http://ff.im/-b3xDA

* Does Technology Reduce Social Isolation? http://ff.im/-b3×4E
* The mind and brain in 2010 http://ff.im/-b3wLo
* Gregory Benford On Artificial Biological Selection for Longevity http://ff.im/-b3wkj

* Video: Robots Taught Human Communication Secrets: http://ff.im/-b3w8A
* Company sequences whole human genome for $1,700 http://ff.im/-b3s9L

* Book: The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe http://ff.im/-b3rtj
* Wired’s Map of the Future http://ff.im/-b3q9k

* New Laser Cure for Cataracts | BreakThrough Digest Medical News http://ff.im/-b3obp

* No joke: Large Hadron Collider shut down by speck of bread | DVICE http://ff.im/-b3k6M
* New Digital ‘Electronics’ Concept May Continue Moore’s Law http://ff.im/-b3iLo

* Technology Review: A Battery-Free Implantable Neural Sensor http://ff.im/-b11Y8
* Are we Entering a Robotics Era of Evolution? http://ff.im/-b10CK
* Chris Seidel’s 2008 talk at The Last HOPE – GREAT VIDEO ABOUT THE BIOLOGY FIELD AND WHERE ITS GOING http://ff.im/-b0VNR
* Genes show when a woman’s biological clock will stop – New Scientist http://ff.im/-aZBRZ
* Nanotechnology devices: Molecular machines shift into gear http://ff.im/-aXMrU

* Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age – Part One – O’Reilly Radar http://ff.im/-aXM6q
* Shareable Ink Turns Paper Forms Into Digital Entry System http://ff.im/-aXHI5
* Top Twitter Lists – http://www.vobios.com/twitter-lists/ http://ff.im/-aXDLn
* Interview: Space Station’s IT guys http://ff.im/-aXDop
* IEEE Spectrum: Capturing Sound with Smoke and Lasers http://ff.im/-aXCgs

* European Space Agency launches flood-predicting, earth monitoring satellite http://ff.im/-aXB6z
* Scientists Build a Smarter Rat http://ff.im/-aX2HJ
* Military Links Drones into Unmanned Squadrons http://ff.im/-aX2×2

Link Favourites archive – 03 November 2009

* Adept Quattro Is Fastest Ever Pickup and place robot http://ff.im/-aUDkn
* Tiny laser-scanning microscope images brain cells in freely moving animals http://ff.im/-aUAwZ
* Digital ‘plaster’ for monitoring vital signs undergoes first clinical trials http://ff.im/-aUwwg

* Internet Age means egalitarian ‘hunter-gatherer’ society • The Register http://ff.im/-aUnqG
* Scientists Decode DNA Of Domestic Pig http://ff.im/-aUm6R
* The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren’t Disease-Free  http://ff.im/-aTQAB
* Autonomous Audi TTS Will Ascend Pike’s Peak Course at High-Speed  http://ff.im/-aTN4Q

* Singularity Summit 2009 Videos Now Available http://ff.im/-aTMaC
* 3-D system based on optical fiber could provide new options for photovoltaics http://ff.im/-aTLzr

* Motion Capture Helps Robots Wiggle Hips http://ff.im/-aTCGG
* Translator glasses lets you see what other people are saying http://ff.im/-aTgcT
* Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing http://ff.im/-aT9qo

Link Favourites archive – 01-02 October 2009

* Kissing was developed ‘to spread germs’ – Telegraph http://ff.im/-aRp06
* Molecular Manufacturing and the Origin of Life http://ff.im/-aRnXu
* OWLE Hacks The iPhone to Make A Serious, Zooming Video Camera http://ff.im/-aRjzz
* Giving America a Vision Implant- Crayfish, Neurochemicals and the Future of Your Civilization http://ff.im/-aRh5D
* NASA Shuttle-derived Sidemount Heavy Launch Vehicle Concept http://ff.im/-aQLl2
* Secret To Spider-Glue Discovered http://ff.im/-aQGRX

* Mini HoverDrone Goes Up, Down and Into the Junk Drawer http://ff.im/-aQFDa
* Synthetic biology enables green petroleum http://ff.im/-aQhCB
* Microsoft’s Lost Decade http://ff.im/-aOt49
* World’s Largest Cruise Ship Sets Sail http://ff.im/-aO7WH

* Cell Size and Scale http://ff.im/-aNUt7
* Observations TEDMED: The Power of the Mind over the Body http://ff.im/-aNPe4

* Deflating the Air Car http://ff.im/-aMKYQ
* Flexible Microsystems Deliver Drugs through the Ear http://ff.im/-aMKRE

* Air Board Personal Hovercraft Offers Opportunities for Embarrassment http://ff.im/-aMJX7
* 26 Eye-Catching Long Exposure Photographs – http://bit.ly/2fD6Ks http://ff.im/-aLH1g
* Total Immersion’s Augmented Reality 3D Puzzle http://ff.im/-aLGvz
* TEDMED 2009 – Day 3 http://ff.im/-aLG4U

* Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years http://ff.im/-aLzwz
* Augmented Reality Ghosts Coming to Nintendo DSi (video) http://ff.im/-aLozK
* Slim, warm superconductors promise faster electronics n http://ff.im/-aLnhF
* Brain Cells Chat, Even Without a Synapse http://ff.im/-aINCv
* Speech-to-Speech Translator Developed For IPhone http://ff.im/-aHWtY

* What Does a Smart Brain Look Like?: Inner Views Show How We Think http://ff.im/-aHWtX
* Brain surgery through the nose http://j.mp/4D0kgF http://ff.im/-aHR8C
* The Muralizer Draws Art on Your Wall Automatically [Robots] http://ff.im/-aHR8A
* Privacy is dead, social media hold smoking gun http://ff.im/-aHR8y

* Study uncovers key to how ‘triggering event’ in why cancer occurs http://ff.im/-aHPcx
* New Hitachi TV Controlled By Gestures (Video) http://ff.im/-aHOG1

Link Favourites archive – 29 October 2009

* Artificial heart breakthrough http://ff.im/-aGpPZ
* Super slow-motion camera can follow firing neurons http://ff.im/-aGeXG
* Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine http://ff.im/-aG9jk

* Living wallpaper that devices can relate to http://ff.im/-aFjEV
* Scientists make cells that form eggs and sperm in lab http://ff.im/-aFivg
* Genes drive behaviour, but culture can select genes: study (AFP) http://ff.im/-aFhQO

* Brain responds to human voice in one fifth of a second http://ff.im/-aFe8G
* Intel touts NAND-killer breakthrough http://ff.im/-aFdvM
* Toyota Creates Its Own Flower Species to Gobble Harmful Gases http://ff.im/-aF84o

* Gene therapy repairs injured human donor lungs for the first time http://ff.im/-aGrQt
* Fermi Telescope Caps First Year With Glimpse of Space-Time (w/ Video) http://ff.im/-aGrMZ

* Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way http://ff.im/-aGrra
* Liquavista’s E-Paper Plays Full-Color Movies http://ff.im/-aGqhr

* Animated stereoviews of old Japan = http://bit.ly/guAix
* Brain scanners can tell what you’re thinking about- http://bit.ly/K3Lif

* Technorati index of science blogs – http://bit.ly/t4fSC



Link Favourites archive – 28 October 2009

* ROPID can supposedly walk, run, jump faster than many other similarity constructed robots he can respond to voice… http://ff.im/-aDrU2
* Architecture that repairs itself: Rachel Armstrong on TED.com http://ff.im/-aDr83

* Video – Muscle-Computer Interface Meets Microsoft’s Surface http://ff.im/-aDt6b
* Technology Review: Muscle-Bound Computer Interface http://ff.im/-aDqd0

* Check out this new YouTube feature: http://bit.ly/NzpmP http://ff.im/-aCUO l
* Time Travel with Augmented Reality http://ff.im/-aCQ4F

* Photoelastic Touch takes the multi touch experience to a whole new level -… http://ff.im/-aCN4A
* With Robot-Performed Virtual Autopsies, Your Corpse Gets a Stunt Double [Robots] http://ff.im/-aCKVp
* Electrodes in Brain Give Insight Into How We Use Language http://ff.im/-aCDLH
* Magnifye Makes Powerful 17 Tesla Superconducting Magnets That Take up 2 Million times Less Space and Are Cheaper to… http://ff.im/-aCDIR

* Augmented Teddy Bear You Can Touch http://ff.im/-aCDFk
* Self-powered smart window http://ff.im/-aCDEG
* A Virtual Voyage Through the Brain of a Mouse http://ff.im/-aCjk3

* Xerox Develops Ink To Print Circuits On Nearly Anything http://ff.im/-aC3mk
* Robotis Demonstrates New Balance Sensor Module http://ff.im/-aAvfw



Link Favourites archive – 27 October 2009

* Ibn Sina Is First Robot To Chat In Arabic http://ff.im/-azAQO
* Brother, NEC look to invade your retinas next year -… http://ff.im/-azAg9
* h+ Darwin’s Robots: Robot Swarms evolve effective communication -… http://ff.im/-azypj
* Robot Bricklayer Flawlessly Builds 7000 Brick “Infinite Loop” Without Mortar [Robots] http://ff.im/-azi2Q
* Petman Walking/Balancing Robot Is Like BigDog’s “Human” Master [Robots] http://ff.im/-azi2J

* Interactive Multitouch Sphere Will Make you Feel Like Gandalf [Multitouch] http://ff.im/-azi2L
* Robotic perception, on purpose http://ff.im/-az5RG
* Journey to the Edge of the Universe (Feature VIDEO) http://ff.im/-awECq
* Seven questions that keep physicists up at night http://ff.im/-awzZE
* First Hyperlens For Sound Waves Created http://ff.im/-awyhJ

* ProFORMA Rapid Model Acquisition – http://bit.ly/Scxso http://ff.im/-awbfj
* Genome: The future is now : Documentary — http://bit.ly/3b05JQ
* ISMAR09 Demos http://ff.im/-awal3
* Top 10 Thinking Traps Exposed — How to Foolproof Your Mind, Part I – http://litemind.com/thinking-traps/ http://ff.im/-avItA

* psaffo: Sunday Times: What’s your place in the brave new future? http://bit.ly/1kSMv5 http://ff.im/-avHwe
* How The iPhone Is Blowing Everyone Else Away (In Charts) http://ff.im/-avGyY

* Rethinking What Leads the Way – Science, or New Technology? – NYTimes.com http://ff.im/-avGyA
* Stacking Up the World’s Tallest Rockets (SPACE.com) http://ff.im/-asSZN
* Martine Rothblatt What is Techno-Immortality? http://ff.im/-asSpN
* Doctors Work Towards Womb Transplants–But Are They Ethical? http://ff.im/-aoVkA
* High-Tech Glasses Beam Info Directly Onto Your Retinas http://ff.im/-aoVaB

* Does Economics Violate the Laws of Physics? http://ff.im/-aoUQy
* I Want To Be Titan The Robot For Halloween http://ff.im/-alWIN
* Holy Grail Of Cancer Therapy: Researchers Find Way To Protect Healthy Cells From Radiation Damage http://ff.im/-akYWq
* You Are Not Tripping: This Car Is Real [Image Cache] http://ff.im/-akYlp
* Virtual Autopsy Table Makes a Dirty Business Clean http://ff.im/-akY9q
* Engineers create fingernail-size chip that holds 1TB of data -… http://ff.im/-ak0bv
* GaitAid Augmented Reality System Might Help with Walking, Gait http://ff.im/-ak058
* bebe le strange | poortaste:(via sparo) http://ff.im/-ai0jm

Link Favourites archive – 21,22 October 2009

* University Of Maryland Demonstrates Mini Monocopter http://ff.im/-ahJP9
* Robot Gets Swine Flu, Cries About It http://ff.im/-ahJtE
* Reduced genome works fine with 2000 chunks missing – http://ff.im/-ahtVX
* What’s Next In Augmented Reality? http://ff.im/-agqd9

* Collective intelligence – a large bunch of humans connected using suitable software and social networks http://ff.im/-agn0C

* Rene Daalder: Tinkering till the end of time http://ff.im/-agkYe
* How Engineers Think and How People Think http://bit.ly/2ijob http://ff.im/-agecT
* Augmented Reality VIDEOS: MIT shares technologies showcased at #ISMAR-.. http://ff.im/-afUk1

* Toyota shows a couple of concept vehicles with joystick control systems – http://bit.ly/dczEq http://ff.im/-afSNY

* Anders Sandberg: Cloud Superintelligence http://ff.im/-afCBx
* The GE Vscan Is Like a Having Ultrasound on a Cellphone – http://ff.im/-afA31
* The Dancing Robot at GITEX! http://ff.im/-affH0
* Industrial Robots Make Giant Custom Mosaics http://ff.im/-afeg2

* Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension http://ff.im/-afdVF
* Robot Controlled By Human Brain Cells http://ff.im/-adgC4
* Video – Redirecting Motion in Augmented Reality http://ff.im/-adaz6

* Total recall achieved http://ff.im/-ad6de
* Get Out: Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Overnight (SPACE.com) http://ff.im/-acYEZ
* Roppie The Home Service Robot Can’t Dance http://ff.im/-aaGFz

* Artificial Robotic Hand Transmits Feeling To Nerves http://ff.im/-aaChK

Link Favourites archive – 17-20 October 2009

* Ultracapacitor Bus Recharges At Each Stop http://ff.im/-a9BiX
* Robotic Sperm Injection Into Egg Developed! http://ff.im/-a9APX
* Researcher honored for experimental work in nanotechnology -… http://ff.im/-a9zLT
* Inhabiting a robot hand http://ff.im/-a9rAc
* Infants able to identify humans as source of speech, monkeys as source of monkey calls http://ff.im/-a8I2j
* For the First Time, Geneticists Diagnose Disease Through Whole-Genome Analysis http://ff.im/-a8G8U

* Self-Propelling Bacteria Harnessed to Turn Gears http://ff.im/-a8run
* Livescribe Pulse smartpen hits 4GB, launching app store (video) http://ff.im/-a8rup
* How to easily create AI chat bots from transcripts… http://ff.im/-a8ruq
* Fwd: Chaoscope – a 3D strange attractors rendering software – http://www.chaoscope.org/
* Smallest Electronic Component: Researchers Create Molecular Diode http://ff.im/-a6wXu
* To spot an alien, follow the pollution trail http://ff.im/-a6wCZ
* Henry Markram Builds a Brain in a Supercomputer http://ff.im/-a5YN3
* Five Technologies That Could Change Everything http://ff.im/-a5YKe

* Fold-up plane fits in the gauage. -… http://ff.im/-a4MOg
* Evolution details revealed through 21-year E. coli experiment http://ff.im/-a4BQ9
* Hacked iPhone API takes AR to the next level http://ff.im/-a36wm
* 45 Beautiful Dual-Screen Wallpapers http://ff.im/-a36wo

* ViaMoi’s Photostream — Another interesting Flickr Set http://ff.im/-a1TRx
* MIT’s Autonomous Helicopter: What if Big Dog Could Fly? [Robots] http://ff.im/-9YWIe
* IdeaPaint: Turn Your Entire Office Into a Whiteboard http://ff.im/-9YGOz
* Friday video: Car Configurator with MS Surface http://ff.im/-9YGq2
* The Eye-Popping Moment When Human Life Begins [Mad Microscopy] http://ff.im/-9YBIj
* Skiing Robot Races Down Slope http://ff.im/-9YB6C
* YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the New Net http://ff.im/-9YAwe

* Placebo Effect’s Neural Activity Photographed for First Time http://ff.im/-9Ys68
* New camera promises to capture your whole life http://ff.im/-9YoH4
* Wellcome Awards: The Most Stunning Medical Images of 2009 http://ff.im/-9YoeK
* Wires Inserted Into Human Brain Reveal Speech Surprise http://ff.im/-9VYNB
* Physicists Calculate Number of Universes in the Multiverse http://ff.im/-9VYNz
* Speed of Thought-to-Speech Traced in Brain (LiveScience.com) http://ff.im/-9Uk8W
* Laser creates false memories in fly brains http://ff.im/-9Uk77

Link Favourites archive – 15 October 2009

* Spherical Robot Can Climb Over Obstacles http://ff.im/-9RuN3
* David Calkins Interview by Sander Olson http://ff.im/-9RoTy
* Master List of 500+ TED Videos With Summaries http://ff.im/-9RoEg
* The “//” in URLs was a Mistake, Says Sir Berners-Lee http://ff.im/-9PTen
* The Future of Money http://ff.im/-9PT2Q
* Artificial Black Hole Created in Chinese Lab http://ff.im/-9PK6S

* Body Computing Is a Glimmer of Hope in the Health-Care Chasm http://ff.im/-9PF6V
* 3D CMOS camera for your cell phone? http://ff.im/-9Mgu6
* Facial width-to-height ratio predicts aggression http://ff.im/-9Mf5q
* Mass Spectrometer Smells Out Tumor Cells During Surgery http://ff.im/-9MdtY
* Is This The World’s Smallest Astromech Droid? http://ff.im/-9Mdpn
* Hydrogen-Powered Navy UAV Shatters Flight Endurance Record http://ff.im/-9MdkP

* Stanford Magnetic Biosensor 1000 times more Sensitive to Cancer Biomarker Proteins http://ff.im/-9Mcz6
* Internet coalescing into lump of Google http://ff.im/-9MbZv
* BMW Simple Handles Itself Like a Real-Life Tron Lightcycle [Concept] http://ff.im/-9LJTa
* iRobot Makes First Version of T-1000 or Number Six—We Will All Die Anyway [Robots] http://ff.im/-9LJbB
* ‘Spider pill’ used for scans http://ff.im/-9J7GI
* ‘Naked’ scanner in airport trial – http://bit.ly/tDrVt http://ff.im/-9J7Ek