Futureseek Daily Link Review; 2 May 2012

* Volkswagen floating car concept rides the streets of China >>
* Why Star Trek’s Vision of the Future is Out of Date >>
* Video: NASA’s Pursuit of Light and Big Science >>

* Who Needs a Remote-Controlled Car? >>
* Head-Mounted 3-D Mapping Device, Developed for Robots, Helps Blind People Navigate >>
* Dial-a-Bullet Tech Could Make Chain Guns Even Scarier >>

* Bandages Made of Edible Starch Could Dissolve On Your Skin Once You’re Healed >>
* Boeing Engineers Just Came Up With a New Supersonic Airliner >>
* Viewing Alert: New Interview Series with Neil Armstrong >>

* Device Automatically Slices and Scans Brains, Then Puts Them Into A Google Map >>
* Astronomers have detected arsenic and selenium in ancient star for first time >>

* Physicists Crack Fusion Mystery >>
* Prometheus Screenwriter: Humans Will Never Reach Another Stars >>
* How to Spot the Future >>

* New surgical technique for removing inoperable tumors of the abdomen >>
* Google’s Sebastian Thrun: 3 Visions in the Age of Disruption >>
* Herb Learns to Microwave Frozen Dinners, Robot Research Can Stop Now >>

* Intel enters mini-computer fray with Core i5-powered NUC >>
* Chris Fenton 3D-printed electromechanical computer >>
* Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It >>

* The Robotic Moment >>
* First-of-its-kind ‘Menopause Map’ helps women navigate treatment >>
* SETI Telescope to Help US Air Force Track Space Junk >>

* NASA’s Next Mars Probe to Spy on Red Planet from Above >>
* Roboticist creates Hugvie – Huggable vibrating pillow smartphone accessory >>
* Open Space: Wired’s New Portal to the Commercial Space Race >>

* SU has lecture by Craig Venter and Ashton Kucher as a student >>
* Meet Silicene, Single-Atom-Thick Sheets of Silicon That Could Supersede Graphene >>
* Facebook adds organ donation to Timeline Life Events >>

* Hanging with the Kids at the First Robotics Global Championship >>
* Read/Write Daily: Creative Destruction >>
* Hacked Skype IP Address Search Shows Who’s Speaking From Where >>

* 3D Printing For CT Scan Analysis, Space Education >>
* Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft >>
* Samsung Is The New King Of Mobile >>

* Google’s Sebastian Thrun: 3 Visions in the ‘Age of Disruption’ >>
* Facebook Engineer Is Turning The Concept‘Presence’ Into A Standalone Company >>
* Honda test house features Smart Home System for controlling energy usage >>

* Windows XP Still Most Widely-Used OS so far in 2012 >>
* Venus To Transit the Sun In June, Not Again Until 2117 >>
* Students Build Robots at New Camp in Uganda >>

* Intergalactic speed demon stars bid Mikly Way farewell >>
* Organ Donation Is a Market Problem — And Facebook May Have Just Solved It >>

* Hugvie – the huggable communication medium with a heartbeat >>
* Jewel-like Nanowires Pretty As Well As Efficient >>
* Icy Alpine caves setting for Mars mission tests >>

* Spot a bot to stop a botnet >>
* New surgical technique for removing inoperable tumors of the abdomen >>
* Faster-ticking clock indicates early solar system evolved faster than we think >>

* US Army Wants Wireless Battery Charging Everywhere >>
* Sensor tests fruits’ ripeness >>
* New Supercomputer Giveaway for Top Science Ideas >>

* Harry Potter Inspires Blood Typing Device >>
* Do Gut Microbes Travel From Person to Person? >>
* Bionic Ear Could Replace Cochlear Implants >>

* When pricing your body parts, please consult this handy infographic >>
* Psilocybin Quiets Brain’s Control Centers >>
* Combating global disease with a cell phone and Google Maps >>

* New Blood Test Could Predict Breast Cancer Years in Advance >>
* Next-generation ‘epigenetic’ cancer pill shown to be safe in phase I trial >>
* 100-gigabit highway for science: Researchers take a ‘test drive’ >>

* The Jets of the Future >>
* Zyvex uses carbon nanotube composite for racing bike rims, lasts 180 times longer >>
* One in seven thinks end of world is coming >>
* Discovery Channel Crashes A Boeing 727 On Purpose >>

* Sega Begins Sales of Urine-Powered ‘Toylet’ Videogame >>
* New Developments for the Camera Category >>
* NASA’s STEREO Spots a New Nova >>

* Phi: a wireless re-routing card that puts you in control of the airwaves >>
* African Project Aims To Innovate in Educational Robotics >>
* Expanding an optical lattice to accelerate particles >>

* Would You Pay $3000 Extra for a Car that Drives Itself? >>
* Wearable devices track people via wireless network >>
* Technological breakthroughs to make us immortal >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 1 May 2012 >>