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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28-29 November 2011

November 29, 2011 Leave a comment

* Researcher creates neurons that light up as they fire >>
* Digital Narcotics May Be the Future of Drugs >>
* Educational robots to introduce children to robotics, physics, programming >>
* Across the Center of Centaurus A >>

* To self-diagnose, spit on an iPhone >>
* Computer Model Spots Image Fraud >>
* 3D virtual skull makes face transplants more accurate >>
* Gene Therapy cures deafness in Mammals >>

* Watch Siri Start A Car With A Crazy New Hack >>
* Blu-ray video encryption cracked using $260 kit >>
* 25% of Women Take Mental Health Drugs >>
* True Or False? Automatic Fact-Checking Coming To The Web – Complications Follow >>

* Comet Curiosity? MSL Looks Like a Comet as it Heads Toward Mars >>
* Rumor: Next-gen Kinect is so accurate it can read your lips >>
* Phone App For Distracted Pedestrians Detects When You’re About to Get Hit By a Car >>
* Cyborg Insects Could Be First Responders in Rescue Situations >>

* Toilet technology targets boredom >>
* Robot can squeeze under obstacles >>
* Pingtan Experimental Development Zone >>
* High Speed Trains that make no Stops >>

* Vibrations and Electrons Team Up in New Quantum Entity >>
* Compound dissolves HIV on contact >>
* Neutrinos and multiverses: a new cosmology beckons >>
* ‘Twine’ foreshadows a future where all objects talk to the Internet >>

* Turing Church online workshop 2 explores religion and future science >>
* Pigeons are more living helicopters than flying rats >>
* Microsoft Exec: We’ve Had Siri-Like Technology In Windows Phones For Over A Year >>
* Robots aid whisky barrel coopers >>

* Magnetic Nanoparticles Could Clear Diseases from the Blood >>
* Stuart Armstrong on AI Boxing >>
* Electrodes ‘reverse’ Alzheimer’s >>
* Big data quantitative analysis toolkit >>

* South Korea plans trial run of robot prison guards >>
* We’re watching: malls track shopper’s cell phone signals to gather marketing data >>
* iTV – the television that will respond when you shout at it >>
* Neurons Grown from Skin Cells May Hold Clues to Autism >>

* Weekend Diversion: Neutrinos on your radio computer! >>
* Charge your electric car on the move >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23-27 November 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23-27 November 2011

November 27, 2011 Leave a comment

* Blast off for Nasa Mars rover mission >>
* Can Scientists Make a Battery That Will Survive 40,000 Charges? >>

* The wireless pacemaker as small as a grain of rice >>
* Why Does Progress in DNA Sequencing Matter, Anyway? >>
* Wireless transmission of 30 Gbps in 3-4 years >>

* Spectrum clash builds around bionic implants >>
* World’s First Proof of Single Atomic Layer Material with Zero Electrical Resistance >>
* Food We Eat Might Control Our Genes >>

* SiriProxy enables voice control of third-party apps (video) >>
* VIDEO: This Amazing Spray Makes Any Gadget Waterproof >>
* Futureseek Daily Paper is out! >> ? Top stories today via @nextbigfuture
* Microsoft in talks with TV makers to include built-in Kinect >>

* Meditation Can ‘Turn Off’ Regions of the Brain >>
* Neuron transplant in damaged brain fixes obesity >>
* Stem cells join muscle, spinal cord cells in ‘human-on-a-chip’ simulation >>
* Move over Kinect — Displair from Russia is a gesture interface in thin air >>

* 10 New Ways to Peer Inside The Human Mind (preview) >>
* World Fastest Internet connection will be 120 gigabits per second at Dreamhack conference >>
* First Implementation of 100 and 40Gbps Ultra-High-Speed Plug-and-Play Optical Communications >>
* Raphael Bousso: Thinking About the #Universe on the Larger Scales >>

* Video_lectures: Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics by Stanford >> >>
* The View from Your Window Globe >>
* Shortage of genes implicated in short height >>

* Beating “Heart-on-a-Chip” May Revolutionize In Vitro Cardiac Studies >>
* Researchers create spinal cord connectors from human stem cells, heralding breakthrough >>
* New Drone Sensor Could Instantly Spot Any Shooter >>
* Q&A: How to Rate the Habitability of Other Planets >>

* The insanely weird quantum wave function might be “real” after all >>
* Alzheimer’s damage reversed by deep brain stimulation >>
* Most liveable alien worlds ranked >>
* Nanoparticle electrode for batteries could make grid-scale power storage feasible >>

* Stable liquid stores hydrogen >>
* Evidence of ‘great lake’ on Jupiter’s moon >>
* Quantum Optics Moves into the Nucleus >>
* The View from Chajnantor >>

* Synchronized Implantable Heart Pump Could Be Disruptive Technology >>
* Computerworld 25 years: Possible futures >>
* Terahertz wireless chip could deliver 30Gbps of bandwidth, stream uncompressed 4K video >>
* Wes Whaley’s photostream >>

* Remotely Operated Via Kinect, Handy Robot Cleans Your House >>
* New bioengineering prof uncovers cancer metabolism insights >>
* The impending revolution of low-power quantum computers >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21-22 November 2011 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21-22 November 2011

November 22, 2011 Leave a comment

* Getting health data from inside your body >>
* How neurons make sense of our senses >>
* Carbon nanotube forest camouflages 3-D objects >>
* Search for alien life should include exotic possibilities >>

* Physicists Dive into Oscillation Frequency of Coffee >>
* Obese Monkeys Given Miracle Weight Loss Pill (video) >>
* Stephen Hawking: We’ve Been Overlooked by Advanced ET Civilizations >>

* Comprehensive List of All Singularity Summit Talks and Video Links >>
* Meet the New World’s Fastest Micromouse Robot >>
* Universal Motion Simulator: real enough to evoke panic (video) >>

* Yaskawa Electric’s SmartPal VII lets you clean up grandma’s house using Kinect (video) >>
* Laser heating electrons heated to several billion degrees >>
* Implanted neurons, grown in the lab, take charge of brain circuitry >>

* Siri Hacked to Control Your Thermostat or Almost Anything Else [Video] >>
* How to defend Earth from asteroids: Phil Plait >> >>

* This Is What the Desk of the Future Looks Like [VIDEO] >>
* A computer system allows a machine to recognize a person’s emotional state >>
* Microscope probes living cells at the nanoscale to diagnose cancers >>

* Folding@home’s biological research now on supercomputers >>
* Creating photons from a vacuum >>
* Quantum theorem shakes foundations >>
* Ultra-rare “back-to-back eclipses” coming your way! >>

* Freescale Home Health Hub wants to usher in the era of connected medical devices >>
* Pulsars Are Giant Permanent Magnets, Say Physicists >>

* Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robot design >>
* The Way Cool Clouds Of The Carina Nebula >>
* Astronomy Without A Telescope – Mass Is Energy >>

* Parasitic augmented reality lets you control workers from afar >>
* Nerve cells key to making sense of our senses >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 17-20 November 2011

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* First Teeth Grew on Outside of Body >>
* Dwave Systems announces 512 Qubit Adiabatic Quantum Computer before end of 2012 >>
* This Week In Bots: Some Pop, Some Lock, Some Move Robotic >>
* The Sleek Sailrocket 2 Looks To Set a New World Speed Sailing Record [Video] >>

* New mouthwash may render cavities a thing of the past >>
* “Big Bang” machine to get huge upgrade in 2020 >>
* Micro-Cavity Arrays: Lighting the Way to the Future >>

* Philips launches personal app to measure heart rate and breathing rate >>
* How Many Neutrinos Does It Take to Screw Up Einstein? >>
* Biosensor can monitor your heartbeat from a distance >>

* Videos from Singularity Summit 2011 Now Online >>
* World’s lightest material is a metal 100 times lighter than styrofoam >>
* Another attempt to make the case for Project Orion nuclear pulse propulsion >>

* Electron tweezers reveal their pluck >>
* 4800 mph hypersonic weapon has successful test >>
* Recipe Networks Reveal Human Taste Preferences >>

* World’s lightest material is 100 times lighter than Styrofoam >>
* Spot cancer before it starts with nanoscale microscopy >>
* Light created from a vacuum >>

* The New OPERA faster-than-light Neutrino Test: Results! >>
* Neutrino Experiment Replicates Faster-Than-Light Finding >>
* Language Gene Speeds Learning >>

* How gene transcription gone awry creates cancer, other diseases >>
* New way to target — and kill — proliferating tumors >>
* FYI: Can Humans Trigger Earthquakes? >>

* 3-D Projection Tech Makes Images Hover in Mid-Air, No Screen Necessary >>
* Scientists ‘Talk’ to Yeast >>
* Video: Robot Manipulates Humans’ Arms With Electric Stimulation >>

* Researchers Turn Hydrogen Gas Into Metal >>
* Revealed! Every Evil Atom of the H1N1 Flu Virus [Science] >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 15-16 November 2011

November 15, 2011 Leave a comment

* Sensor-laden dragonfly may help future robots soar >>
* DARPA’s Robotic Ostrich will over 50 miles per hour and vastly outrun humans >>
* New computer chip models neuron communication at the synapse level >>

* Surgeon Uses 3D Printer To Make Models Of Bone – And Saves Hospital Bookoo Bucks >>
* Ultrathin, flexible brain implant offers better monitoring of seizures >>
* An AI tool for for understanding and indexing sound >>

* Disruptions: the 3-D printing free-for-all >>
* Tweaking a gene makes muscles twice as strong >>
* Transforming Health Care Through Data >>

* Siri Protocol Cracked >>
* Subatomic particle simulation tool makes cancer therapy safer >>
* Video: Adorable Robot Rides Fixed-Gear Bicycle >>

* Driving At 462 mph >>
* Nokia HumanForm is flexible concept phone >>
* A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021 – Boing Boing >>

* Found: The First Atoms In The Universe!!! >>
* Video: One of the Most Slippery Materials Ever >>
* AMD Now Selling 16-Core Processors >>

* Stem cell test is ‘biggest breakthrough in treating heart attacks for a generation’ >>
* Science channels explode onto YouTube >>
* Brain’s Visual ‘Dictionary’ Allows Speedy Reading >>

* Proof Found for Unifying Quantum Principle >>
* World’s first stem cell bandage in human clinical trials >>
* Scientists defeat hurdle to eradicating inactive multiple myeloma cells >>

* The Delta robot: Swiss-made and fastest in the world >>
* Robot speeds up glass development >>
* Single gene can make you appear kinder >>

* World Energy Outlook 2011 >>
* One-Minute Physics: Why past and future are the same >>
* 23 incredible new technologies you’ll see by 2021 >>

* An ‘Operating System’ That Runs on Cells Could Create Whole New Life Forms >>
* Ultrathin flexible brain implant offers unique look at seizures >>
* Shaw plants 100Gbps fibers in Canada, watches them grow >>

* ‘Space Tourists’ Documentary Shows Reality of Space Fantasy >>
* Japanese Company Develops A Robot Guide Dog >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 4-14 November 2011

November 13, 2011 Leave a comment

* X-ray facility to study conditions at Earth’s core >>
* The Odds of Your Existence [Infographic] >>
* Researchers Create an Obesity Drug That ‘Kills’ Fat Cells >>
* Doctors talk to people in coma using brain waves >>

* The line between life and not-life : Martin Hanczyc >>
* HRP-4C female robot has a new walk (w/ video) >>
* Aliens don’t need a moon like ours >>

* The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble >>
* How unfathomable were your odds of coming into being? [Statistics] >>
* Stanford’s Building the World’s Largest Digital Camera With a 3.2 Gigapixel Sensor [Cameras] >>

* A Genetic Tweak Could Hulk Out Your Muscles [Science] >>
* Would You Fuel Your Home With Pee? [Science] >>
* Patient Gets First Lab-Grown Blood Transfusion Ever [Medicine] >>
* First in Vitro Meat Hamburger will cost $345,000 >>

* Henry Markram: Simulating the Brain — The Next Decisive Years >>
* Woman’s stare reveals secret to hypnosis >>
* Video simulation puts a new twist on fusion plasma research >>

* Whiskers’ key role in reptile-mammal split >>
* Future wars may be fought by synapses >>
* ‘Sound of Football’ project allows blind to play football (w/ video) >>
* Diseased hearts to heal themselves in future >>

* Memristor memory could be used in wearable electronics >>
* New Particle Born Inside Helium White Dwarf Stars, Say Physicists >>
* Pentagon regrowing soldiers’ muscles from pig cells >>
* Virtual robot links body to numbers just like humans >>

* Can Memories Be Counted? >>
* Telerobotics and Telepresence from Earth-Moon Lagrange Points >>
* Revolutionary ultrasonic nozzle can reduce water and energy used for cleaning by ten times >>
* A First Look At The Slimmer And Smarter Asimo Humanoid Robot (video) >>

* EEG finds consciousness in people in vegetative state >>
* Quantum mechanics difficult to grasp? Too bad >>
* See-through 3D head-mounted display announced >>
* Light targets and destroys cancer cells >>

* Tiny ‘car’ made from one molecule >>
* Biologists slow the aging process in fruit flies: Study has implications for humans >>
* Algorithm finds 300 crystals to store methane >>
* Researchers train computer to evaluate breast cancer >>

* Physicists chip away at mystery of antimatter imbalance >>
* First proof of principle for treating rare bone disease >>
* First nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System today >>
* Telexistence robot avatar transmits sight, hearing and touch >>

* Lab-grown hormone factory put to work >>
* Single molecule nanocar takes its first spin >>
* DARPA funding Airborne Launch Assist Space Access to reduce costs by three times >>

* Artificial intelligence finds fossil sites >>
* Metamaterials pave way for superlens >>
* What the brain sees after the eye stops looking >>
* New Algorithms Harness Gamers’ Protein-Unfolding Power >>

* Berkeley Lab researchers ink nanostructures with tiny ‘soldering iron’ >>
* US, Russian plans for exploring Mars >>
* High-tech spider for hazardous missions >>

* Artificial intelligence joins the fossil hunt >>
* How does our brain learn new information? >>
* Light-based anticancer therapy shows promise >>

* Earth’s Inner Core Off-Centre By Tens of Kilometres, Say Geophysicists >>
* Military robots can leave operators at home >>
* Star Forming Region S106 >>

* Fermi telescope detects youngest millisecond pulsar ever >>
* Heart cells created in the lab >>
* Artificial lighting in space could indicate alien life >>

* An artificial molecular clock to control artificial molecular machines >>
* The Heavy Metal Universe! >>
* Russia 2045 project aims to eliminate death and disease >>
* Lasers power Pentagon’s next-gen artificial limbs >>

* Video: The Air Force’s ‘Micro-Aviary’ Gives Tiny Flying Robots a Place to Call Home >>
* Lasers Power Pentagon’s Next-Gen Artificial Limbs >>
* One weird theory could make anti-gravity and faster-than-light travel possible >>

// Sorry been a little busy in last 10 days, to operate as normal…

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 3 November 2011

November 3, 2011 Leave a comment

* Alternate ending — living on without telomerase >>
* First Simulation Of The Supernova That Fathered Our Solar System >>
* How to prevent or slow down age-related disorders >>

* IBM open-sources ‘Internet of Things’ protocol >>
* Screen-spy program can read texts and emails >>

* Removing Old Cells Could Extend Human Life >>
* Will Japan build a backup Tokyo? >>
* Chinese spacecraft dock in orbit >>

* Mind the flying robots with cameras and arms >>
* Company decodes cancers to target treatment >>
* Could we detect extra terrestrials from their nighttime lights? >>

* A plane you can drive: Anna Mracek Dietrich on >> >>
* Futureseek Daily Paper is out! >> ? Top stories today via @nextbigfuture @willowgarage
* The Invisible Radiation of the Universe >>

* Is that a robot in your suitcase? >>
* New tool for the study of spatial patterns in living cells >>
* 50 companies team to create open source EV >>

* How to fly a helicopter with your brain waves >>
* Can Science Halt Hurricanes? >>
* NGC 7380: The Wizard Nebula >>

* Trio of Microsoft projectors lets you get quasi-physical with AR interaction (video) >>
* Google Street View walks through parks, so you don’t have to >>
* Monkey brainwaves control avatar >>

* Blood protein made from rice >>
* Cancer Found in 2,000-Year-Old Mummy >>
* Pantech’s Gesture Recognizing Vega LTE Will Do More Than Smile When You Wave At It [Video] >>

* Wind Turbine 2.0 Works Harder Without Making You Hear All About It [Wind Power] >>
* Age no longer a barrier to stem cell transplantation for older patients >>
* NASA studying ways to make ‘tractor beams’ a reality >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 1 November 2011

November 2, 2011 Leave a comment

* Lasers used to detect counterfeit whisky >>
* Free software models how humans move >>

* Urine could be the answer to cheaper electricity >>
* Researchers find molecule that prevents Type 1 diabetes in mice >>
* Babies understand thought process of others at 10 months old, research finds >>

* Why near-death events are tricks of mind >>
* Google Reader Backlash: 10,000 Users Sign Petition to Save Old Version >>
* Computer Simulated Nurse >>

* Four Quadcopters fly a man – first manned multicopter flight >>
* Controlling an avatar with your brain >>
* NASA examine three laser-based approaches to tractor beam for particles >>

* AcuFocus KAMRA Inlay to correct near sightedness without bifocals >>
* Cruise Control Farming – Robotic Tractor Drives Itself (video) >>
* Plasmon metamaterials promise powerful quantum information systems >>

* Operational quantum computing center established at USC >>
* Cloud Shredder protects your data by ripping it up >>
* MIT researchers develop self-programming AI video game >>

* Stunning New Stunning Study of 300 Galaxies Shows Some Regions of Universe Not Fine-Tuned for Life >>
* Video: Robot Dresses Dummy >>
* Evolutionary Timeline for Machine Intelligence (Today’s Most Popular) >>

* Doctors can learn empathy through a computer-based tutorial >>
* Multi-target radar system makes highway speeding near impossible >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 31 October 2011 >>

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