Futureseek Daily Link Review; 19 May 2011

* Bionic hand for ‘elective amputation’ patient >>
* 400 Billion wandering planets in the Milky Way >>
* Bill Gates strongly backed Microsoft deal to buy Skype >>

* Watch Robots Retrieve Books in the World’s Third-Largest Library >>
* Black Hole Driven Starships Might Ply the Galaxy >>
* Storybook Time With the PR2 – This Robot Can Read Anything It Sees >>

* Robots Rise With Phone Sensors, Android and the Cloud >>
* The variational principle in quantum mechanics, lecture 6 >>
* Does Milky Way’s Extraterrestrial Environment Effect Earth’s Biology? >>

* Video: Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo Makes Its First ‘Feathering’ Flight >>
* The Future of the Smartphone: Holograms & Folding Screens >>
* Researchers create nanopatch for the heart >>

* Sony SmartAR delivers high-speed markerless augmented reality, blows minds (video) >>
* Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates >>
* KurzweilAI | Chat with Ramona 4.1 >>

* Summary of the Human Brain Project and using multi-level simulation to reduce the computing challenges >>
* New Switches for Lawrenceville Plasma Physics appear to work as designed >>
* Creativity and computers in math: Q&A with Conrad Wolfram >>

* Video: Groundbreaking Giant Human-Pedal-Powered Helicopter Sets World Record >>
* Researcher Develops Automatic Software Testing >>
* More Trouble for Sony Playstation Network: Password Reset Compromised >>

* Carrier: Legacy — Can Apple, Google, Or Microsoft Really Change Anything? >>
* Local Atmosphere Heated Rapidly Before Japan Quake >>
* Scientists discover switch to speed up stem cell production >>

* Imaging technology reveals intricate details of 49 million-year-old spider >>
* Researchers determine region of the brain necessary for making decisions about economic value >>

* Bees ‘read sky’ to find home >>
* World’s Smallest 3-D Printer Is a Factory in the Home >>
* Humanity+ @ Parsons recap: Beyond enhancement >>

* The Fun of Going Faster-Than-Light [Starts With A Bang] >>
* Concrete Canvas >>
* Can science fiction still predict the future? >>

* Space party: First beer brewed for off-planet drinking >>
* Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake >>
* More Information on Quantum Entanglement >>

* Living in a Quantum World (preview) >>
* 2020 vision: Don’t invent, evolve >>
* Lonely planets may outnumber star-hosted worlds >>

* Henry Markram Human Brain Project in talks with EU for $1.61 billion 2024 >>
* Earth’s core is melting … and freezing >>
* Genetic ‘wiring’ of seeds revealed >>

* Xixidu Links for 2011-05-18 >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 18 May 2011 >>

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