Futureseek Week in Review Highlights: 6-13 December 2010

* Ariel outlines the past, present, and future of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) >>
* Kinect gets own set of wheels, drives a car, nothing can stop it now >>
* Kinect meets its maker with new air guitar hack >>

* Snakebot Takes On Obstacle Course >>
* Minority Report interface using Kinect, ROS, and PCL >>
* Autonomous Quadrotor Flight Indoors >>

* TEDWomen Summit Highlights How Females Are Reshaping the Future >>
* BitTorrent Client Offers P2P Without Central Tracking >>

* Augmented Reality: t-shirts with movies >>
* UVic biomedical engineer ‘outsmarts’ HIV >>
* Ants Lead Way to Speedier Computer Networks >>

* Theoretical breakthrough: Generating matter and antimatter from the vacuum >>
* Analyzing the Unborn Genome >>
* Scientists create mice from 2 fathers >>

* week after launch, Zyngas new game Cityville has 3m active users (now at 6m) >>
* OpenKinect Keyboard Anywhere >>
* Revolutionary 360 degrees camera that shot in 3D >>

* A Robot That Knows How To Read >>
* More Things Quadrotors Can Do That You Can’t: Juggling >>
* Chrome OS: Here’s What Google Thinks the Computer of the Future Looks Like >>

* Now Get Ready Trade Your Privacy For Cheaper Car Insurance >>
* Chinese restaurant gets robot waiters, soon serving droids as well (video) >>
* PrimeSense Opensource Drivers + Hardware Devkits >>

* Skin was the first organ to evolve >>
* Robotic Drone Flies Itself by Looking at Landscape Below >>
* Forests might be detectable on extrasolar planets >>

“Natural user interfaces Key trend: The ability to move and have the computer track you, that’s revolutionary!”

Futureseek Weekly Papers

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