Futureseek: Weekly Review 9-15 May 2011

* PR2 Robot Can Scan And Bag Your Groceries >>
* ZeroTouch ‘optical multi-touch force field’ makes a touchscreen out of just about anything >>

* Drones fly in formation [Video] >>
* In-car projection for drive-by advertising >>
* Dwave four by four array of 8 qubit quantumness >>
* Learning to program the D-Wave One >>

* Have computers taken away our power? >>
* Secrets of the female orgasm revealed >>
* Talk with a dolphin via underwater translation machine >>

* WiFi-capable battery-powered external hard drive >>
* World’s First Wi-Fi Mouse Has 9-Month Battery Life [VIDEO] >>

* What Should We Unravel Next, After the Genome? Answer: The Teleome >>
* Xprize and Qualcomm will offer $10 million for the Tricorder Xprize >>
* Drugs ‘reduce’ HIV transmission >>
* Google Takes Street View One Step further with 360-Degree Interiors >>

* Successful first test drive of ‘sighted’ wheelchair >>
* Controlling robotic arms is child’s play >>
* Researchers find protein that might be key to cutting cancer cells’ blood supply >>

* Schizophrenic computer may help us understand similarly afflicted humans >>
* Google Lobbies Nevada To Allow Self-Driving Cars >>
* TED Distant time and the hint of a multiverse:Sean Carroll >>
* Mini black holes that look like atoms could pass through Earth daily >>

* Robots take centre stage in Shanghai >>
* Microsoft motion controller concept kicks sand in Kinect’s puny face >>
* Two Devices Treat Alzheimer’s >>

* Telepresence robots go airborne >>
* A $25 Computer The Size of Your Thumb! (video) >>
* Watch Willow Garage’s PR2 Robot Solve a Rubik’s Cube (video) >>
* Google Wants to Control Your Home >>

* Ford Demos a Car that Learns >>
* Ground-Effect Robot Could Be Key To Future High-Speed Trains >>
* New way to charge a phone’s battery: using your voice >>
* Toy Robots and Programmed Light Bulbs – Google Embraces the Internet of Things >>

* The Human Body, Searchable in 3-D >>
* Irresistibly cute mind-controlled ‘cat ears’ (w/ video) >>
* Microsoft Can Take Skype to The Next Level: Mobile & Living Room >>

Futureseek Daily Reviews
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 15 May 2011
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 13 May 2011
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 12 May 2011
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 11 May 2011
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 10 May 2011
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 9 May 2011
2011
Futureseek Weekly Papers
* http://paper.li/futureseek/paper
* http://paper.li/futureseek/paper/2011/05/15
* http://paper.li/futureseek/paper/2011/05/14
* http://paper.li/futureseek/paper/2011/05/13
* http://paper.li/futureseek/paper/2011/05/12
* http://paper.li/futureseek/paper/2011/05/11
* http://paper.li/futureseek/paper/2011/05/10
* http://paper.li/futureseek/paper/2011/05/09
* http://paper.li/futureseek/paper/2011/05/08
* http://paper.li/futureseek/paper/2011/05/07

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 15 May 2011

* Secrets of the female orgasm revealed >>
* Findings could lead to a blood test for lung cancer >>
* World wastes 30% of all food – CNN >>

* YouTube – Pendulum Waves >>
* YouTube – Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning >>
* Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman | Video on TED.com >>

* Live Humanity+ @Parsons: NYC >>
* FutureMed Day 1 – Ray Kurzweil, Gabor Forgacs, Eythor Bender, and More >>
* FutureMed Day 2 – Eric Schadt, Ester Dyson, a Tour of Kaiser’s Innovation Center >>
* FutureMed Day 3 – Robert Hariri, Mike West, a Visit to Autodesk, and More >>
* Google I/O 2011 keynotes now available on YouTube (video) >>
* TEDxBloomington: Individual talks from this morning already watchable >>

* Living organisms operate reliably and far more efficiently than man-made devices >>

* How the Antimatter-Hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Works >>
* Mini black holes that look like atoms could pass through Earth daily >>
* This Robot Needs a Hug >>
* Kinect hack enables psychedelic acupressure, far-out graphics >>

* Samsung Unveils New 10″ Retina Display >>
* Keeping a Cellphone System Going In a War >>
* Seagate GoFlex Satellite, a WiFi-capable battery-powered external hard drive >>

* R2-D2 replica using the Kinect and ROS for automation >>
* Dwave four by four array of 8 qubit quantumness >>
* Palm-Sized Tiny Quadrotor Flies With Style in Sweden (video) >>

* Celebrating 150 years of MIT >>
* What Should We Unravel Next, After the Genome? Answer: The Teleome >>
* Worm Regenerates a Whole New Body From a Single Cell >>
* Call Interception Demonstrated On New Cisco Phones >>

* Giant Neuron Regulates 50,000 Other Neurons >>
* Unzipped graphene reveals its secrets >>
* The beginnings of the brain >>

* Single molecule electronics and chemical soldering >>
* New laser is from the birds >>
* Solar plane makes maiden international flight >>
* On Being What You Want, and Bigotry >>

* US astronomers start looking for alien life >>
* Controlling robotic arms is child’s play >>
* Best-yet view of extreme Universe >>
* Graphene may reveal the grain of space-time >>

* A Beautiful Trifid >>
* Stem cell setback as mice reject own tissue >>
* Ground Effect Aero Trains >>

* Xixidu Links for 2011-05-14 >>

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