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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 31 January 2012

January 30, 2012 1 comment

* MicroOLED viewfinder delivers 5.4 megapixels in 0.61-inch monochrome display >>
* Zapping Testicles With Ultrasonic Pulses Shown To Be Effective Contraceptive >>
* WiGig SD card gets demoed on tablets, makes DVDs gone in 60 seconds (video) >>

* Video: A New ‘Smart Bullet’ Deploys Fins and Guides Itself to a Laser-Designated Target >>
* Video: Skin Augmented With Spider-Silk Stops a Speeding Bullet >>
* The swap meet of the future: vending machine exchanges goods for free >>
* Military Masks Could ‘Give Injured Soldiers Their Faces Back’ >>

* Students Discover Millisecond Pulsar; Help in the Search for Gravitational Waves >>
* Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing >>
* Ant-like robots create complex glowing patterns >>
* An earth based civilization with all clean energy would still warm planet by 3 degrees >>

* Smart paint could revolutionize structural safety >>
* Can’t find your keys? Your brain’s out of sync >>
* Electronic Tattoo Monitors Brain, Heart and Muscles >>
* Search for aliens is on again, but next quest is finding money >>

* Oxygen molecule survives to enormously high pressures >>
* Defending Physics Against >> >>
* Phase-change materials can fix machine memory crunch >>
* Jamais Cascio The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be >>

* 3D printer and living “ink” create cartilage >>
* Physicists have simulated two universes colliding inside a metamaterial >>
* Do We Need a Ministry of Truth for the Internet? >>

* Future Male Birth Control May Zap Sperm with Sound Waves >>
* Wireless Sensors Monitor Your Thoughts on the Fly >>
* Craigslist 2.0: task outsourcing to local crowd labor >>
* ‘Panic button’ could help cancer defy drugs >>

* Davos wowed by device that reads ‘code of life’ in hours >>
* Need a New Assistant? Evi Makes a Bid to Replace Siri on iPhone and Android >>
* Some Windows 8 Laptops May Come With Built-In Kinect Sensors >>
* Apple Buy Hollywood? That’s A Terrible Idea >>

* This incredible RC plane isn’t a plane at all [Video] >>
* “Bad Boy” Sunspot Unleashes Powerful X-Class Flare >>
* First quantum jiggles detected in solid object >>

* Space technologies that would help enable a more affordable Permanent Moon Base >>
* What are the near and long term advantages of a Permanent Moon Base >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 January 2012

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* Why 3D Printing Isn’t Like Virtual Reality >>
* DARPA-Funded Hacker’s Tiny $50 Spy Computer Hides In Offices, Drops From Drones >>
* Navy’s Robot Warplane Tests Its ‘Brains’ for Midair Refueling >>
* Medical sensor powered by rap music? >>

* How next-generation consoles may eliminate the used gaming market >>
* Galaxy Formation On a Benchtop >>
* Gossip lowers stress, keeps cheats in check >>

* Biologists discover rotational motion of breast cells, required to avoid malignancy >>
* And Scrabble Proved PSPACE-Complete >>
* First 3D image of cancer-prevention molecule >>
* SkyLight Adapter Connects Microscopes To Smartphones >>

* Virtual trees sway in wind just like the real thing >>
* Microsoft patents secure pairing of devices wirelessly and 3D rangefinder camera >>
* In the Developing World, Solar Is Cheaper than Fossil Fuels >>
* What Apple Should Do With Its $100 Billion In Cash: Buy Hollywood >>

* Newt plans for moon base and using ten percent of NASA budget >>
* How Disposable, Networked Satellites Will Democratize Space >>
* Here are 185 reasons a permanent Moon base is a great idea >>

* Foot Recognition Is the New Face Recognition [Video] >>
* Asteroid Threat to Earth Sparks Global ‘NEOShield’ Project >>
* Weekly Space Hangout – Jan. 26, 2012 >>

* Neil deGrasse Tyson DESTROYS intelligent design >>
* A computer program “painted” this artwork from its own imagination >>
* Synopsis: Floating Gates >>

* Synopsis: Tipping the Balance >>
* UK Signs ACTA As Activists Urge Resistance >>
* UK judge: Social network sites differ from press >>

* Monkey-brained robot ‘sees’ with whiskers >>
* First for accelerator-driven nuclear reactor >>
* Pac Man Video Game is NP Hard >>
* 3-D Microscopy Casts Blood Vessel’s Structure in New Light >>

* Red lights newest “precrime” technique >>
* Google Earth 6.2: It’s a beautiful world >>
* Watch a luminous mouse embryo grow from cell to creature in one minute >>

* New Quantum Dot Tech Could Boost Current Optical Fiber Band Tenfold >>
* Does antimatter weigh more than matter? Lab experiment to find out the answer >>
* Viruses con bacteria into working for them >>
* How neutrons might escape into another universe >>

* Superbugs spied off the Antarctic coast >>
* Newt to NASA: Stop Talking about Space Exploration-Just Do It >>
* Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time >>

* Pac-Man Proved NP-Hard By Computational Complexity Theory >>
* AI will eventually drive healthcare, but not anytime soon >>
* Chemists create artificial cell membrane >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 January 2012

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* Scientists create first free-standing 3-D cloak >>
* Replica of Trojan asteroids fits in single atom >>
* World’s most powerful X-ray laser creates 2-million-degree matter >>

* Could the Next ‘Toy Story’ Be Rendered in the Cloud? [VIDEO] >>
* Kinect and Windows Phone combine to create holographic game engine (video) >>

* The TIME at Davos Debate: Is Capitalism Working in the 21st Century? >>
* Gingrich promises US moon colony by 2020 >>
* A quantum speed limit: how fast does quantum information flow through a lattice? >>

* Robots go head to head, 250 miles above Earth >>
* Why 3-D Printing Will Go the Way of Virtual Reality >>
* Hello, Earth! Satellite Snaps Amazing ‘Blue Marble’ Photo >>
* Bill Gates reveals final Steve Jobs conversation >>

* High-Powered Plasma Turns Garbage Into Gas >>
* FBI releases plans to monitor social networks >>
* 2012 Annual Letter from Bill Gates >>
* Hyperactive sun clears space junk – for now >>

* Police Are Making A Scanner To Detect Concealed Weapons 80 Feet Away (video) >>
* Seawater Greenhouses >>
* First diagnosis of disease by DNA sequencing >>

* Sensor Networks Could End Parking Rage >>
* Serious Flaw Emerges In Quantum Cryptography >>
* Weaving electronics into the fabric of our physical world >>

* ‘Still Alive’ played on 3D printed record, takes music piracy to complicated new levels >>
* Bill Gates’ Next Target: Revolutionize Farming >>
* Too Bright for JWST: Some Exoplanets are Overwhelming >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 January 2012 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 January 2012

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* DARPA Has a Simple Solution to Authentication: Reading Users’ Minds >>
* Google’s Autonomous Vehicles Draw Skepticism at Legal Symposium >>
* Beloved, not Beliked’: Why TV’s Live and Streaming Audiences Are Diverging >>
* Was Megaupload takedown in response to Kim Dotcom’s upcoming iTunes competitor? >>

* Solar powered house saves energy with Kinect >>
* Car Platooning successfully demonstrated for four vehicles >>
* Astronomy Cast Ep. 249: Schrödinger’s Cat >>

* Bionic leg makes amputee faster on his feet >>
* First complete 3D visualization of vitamin D receptor >>

* T cells help immune system remember invaders >>
* Electron Holography Produces First Image of a Single Protein >>
* Sebastian Thrun resigns from Stanford to launch Udacity >>

* Virtual projection lets you share your phone’s screen >>
* Erectile function restored with stem cells >>
* MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car >>

* Thousands of Industrial Systems Unwittingly Hooked Up to Internet >>
* Physicists Hope to Catch Neutrons in the Act of Jumping from Our Universe to Another >>
* Andrea Ghez: the hunt for a supermassive black hole >>

* Q&BA full video chat session online >>
* Here’s How Google Search Is Destroying Our Memory >>
* Not Quite Smart Enough >>
* Secret ACTA fights over iPod border-searches >>

* “Are We Alone?” How astronomers hope to find life in the Universe >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 January 2012 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 January 2012

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* Researchers turn your smartphone into a virtual projector >>
* MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip >>
* YouTube sucks up one hour of video every second >>

* Laser used to cool semiconductor >>
* Sony’s new cameraphone CMOS jams bigger gear into the same space (video) >>
* Technology Is “Almost Human,” Children Say >>

* MegaUpload Loses Top Lawyer After ‘Outside’ Pressure >>
* Supreme Court Rules Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring >>
* The future of piracy is physical objects >>

* Project Bifrost is a new study of nuclear thermal propulsion rockets >>
* Human stem cell therapy works in blind patients in first trial >>

* fMRI brain imaging illuminates magic mushrooms’ psychedelic effects >>
* Stem Cells Build a Better Rat Penis >>
* Nanoparticles developed to boost immunity >>

* World’s first magnetic soap produced >>
* 5 Questions: Rando on resetting the ‘aging clock,’ cell by cell >>
* Genes and timing of menopause >>

* Supergravity to the rescue? >>
* Supercomputer ‘Titans’ Face Huge Energy Costs >>
* Crowdsourcing earthquake activity >>
* Victory for crowdsourced biomolecule design >>

* Prof Jamie Davies – Synthetic Biology: the potential and the problems of re-engineering life >>
* Neural network learns to identify group sizes without knowledge of numbers >>
* Impossible reactions: Five chemistry rules broken >>

* On the Internet of Things IBM Tracks Your Pork From Farm to Fork. Starting with China >>
* How Neutrons Might Escape Into Another Universe >>
* White House Petition To Investigate Dodd For Bribery >>

* Tabletop Computer Knows You by Your Shoes >>
* Startup Makes ‘Wireless Router for the Brain’ >>

* #scio12 videos on YouTube >>
* DNA motor programmed to navigate a network of tracks >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 January 2012 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 January 2012

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* Michelle Borkin: Astronomical Medicine >>
* T-rays technology could help develop Star Trek-style hand-held medical scanners >>
* Crowdsourced ‘Star Wars Uncut: The Director’s Cut’ Debuts on YouTube [VIRAL VIDEO] >>

* New mathematical study reveals that our Galaxy should have been colonized by now >>
* Could IBM’s Watson be your next personal shopping assistant? >>
* Researchers Say Children With DNA From Three Parents Only Three Years Away >>

* Self-Adjusting Headlamp Knows If You Want To See Near Or Far [Video] >>
* WATCH: Mind blowing day/night time-lapses of Yosemite >>
* A History of Science Fiction >>

* When Robotic Warfare Goes Wrong – Do We Need New Rules of Combat? >>
* Patrick Tucker Solar Power from the Moon >>
* Uploaded.to Blocks US Visitors After MegaUpload Shutdown >>

* Researchers engineer a switch to tame aggressive cancers >>
* Car Seat To Act Like A Touchscreen Thanks To New ‘Smart Fabric’ >>
* It Only Takes a Click to Be Part of an Anonymous Attack [VIDEO] >>

* Megaupload Saga Drives Painful Lesson of Cloud Storage Permanence >>
* Y Combinator To Startups: Kill Hollywood >>
* Does Math Really Exist? >>

* Wireless add-on lets you stream video from anywhere without a PC >>
* Understanding PIPA / SOPA & Why You Should Be Concerned >>
* Scientists design solar cells that exceed the conventional light-trapping limit >>

* Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload! >>
* 6 Scientific Discoveries That Laugh in the Face of Physics >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 January 2012 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 January 2012

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* Terahertz-Rays Technology Could Help Develop Star Trek-Style Hand-Held Medical Scanners >>
* US Election 2012 v Google: can search data predict the Republican primary winner? >>
* Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions? >>
* For Lightning-Fast Drones, Add a Bird’s Intuition >>
* Incremental driver automation until the big leap to full automation >>

* Using ion beams to detect art forgery >>
* Could the Internet Ever Be Destroyed? >>
* Neural network gets an idea of number without counting >>
* Airport laser interrogator gives you back your bottle >>

* Type III Dyson Sphere of Highly Advanced Civilizations Around a Super Massive Black Hole >>
* A Tiny Transistor Hooks Up To Individual Proteins In Human Tears >>
* Weekly Space Hangout for Jan. 19th, 2012 >>
* UN approves blazingly fast mobile technology >>

* Fruitfly Genome Mapped in 3-D >>
* Air Lubricated Ships being Commercialized >>
* Feds Kill Megaupload >>
* Spanish fold-up car to be unveiled at EU >>

* A conclusive test for ‘spooky action at distance’ >>
* After exercise, muscles have more stem cells >>
* Quantum mechanics enables perfectly secure cloud computing >>
* ICube unifies CPU and GPU into one core with four threads per core >>

* Apple iBooks 2 textbook hands-on (video) >>
* Apple iTunes U hands-on (video) >>
* Apple’s iBooks Author hands-on >>
* Wiring the brain, literally, to treat stubborn disorders >>
* Art-ificial: The virtual virtuosos redefining creativity >>

* Solar cells in smartphone screens >>
* Controlling nuclear fusion instabilities >>
* The algorithms alive and kicking all around us >>
* Why should we stop online piracy? >>
* Better mathematics boosts image-processing algorithm >>

* New Technology Focuses the Sun to Cut Solar’s Cost >>
* Could a ‘Death Star’ Really Destroy a Planet? >>
* Smart Pill Contains Microchip to Monitor Patients’ Medication >>
* Valencell’s V-LINC Sensor Technology Monitors Your Health Using Your Music Player’s Buds >>
* Genetic healthy ageing test predicts chances of reaching 100 >>

* Plan For A ‘Sea Tree’ Park Could Allow Wildlife To Thrive In Cities >>
* Google Collected 4.5 Million Anti-SOPA Signatures Today >>
* Forget Space Beer, Order Meteorite Wine Instead >>
* ISS Soars Over Stormy Africa >>

* Reconstruction sphere makes a flawless digital copy of anything >>
* BitTorrent’s New P2P Protocol Could Fix the Internet’s Shoddy Streaming Video Quality [Streaming] >>
* How drugs get those tongue-twisting generic names: >>
* Chip for Cardiac biomarker analysis from fingerprick blood with results in 45 minutes and 100 times more sensitivity >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 19 January 2012

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* Microsoft introduces new robust “Resilient File System” for Windows Server 8 >>
* Apple patents clothes that track how you wear them, tell you when it’s time to update your wardrobe >>
* NASA Joins MIT and DARPA for Out-Of-This-World Student Robotic Competition >>
* Improvement On Age-Old Mathematical Principle Could Yield Improved Images, Video >>

* Role of Genes in Life-Long Intelligence Pinned Down a Bit >>
* Commanding Robots Using Natural Language >>
* Rescue Dog Deploys Robot Snake by Barking >>

* Army’s Virtual Reality Plan: A Digital Doppelganger for Every Soldier >>
* Microrockets Can Zip Around the Human Stomach, Powered by Hydrogen Bubbles >>
* How Robots Will Do the Heavy Lifting in the Sahara and Antarctica >>

* Fruit Flies Use Sunlight to Stay on Course >>
* Hitler reacts to SOPA. >>
* Dropbox founder Drew Houston wants to Sync files on all devices >>
* Interview with Aubrey De Grey on Progress in Therapies for Rejuvenation and Delivery >>

* Unveiling malaria’s ‘cloak of invisibility’ >>
* Therapy protects liver from drug damage >>
* Blogs About the Future >>

* Artificial Testicle Could Treat Male Infertility >>
* New automated tomography imaging process speeds up whole-brain mapping >>
* Metamaterials generate gecko-like adhesive force >>
* Software could spot face-changing criminals >>

* How the brain routes traffic for maximum alertness >>
* Costa Concordia cruise ship pictured from space >>
* Death-defying time crystal could outlast the universe >>
* The rarest things on Earth >>

* How salvage of the Costa Concordia might work >>
* What if every electron in the universe was all the same exact particle? [Mad Science] >>
* Brain scientists make cyborg rats >>
* New ‘Chaos” Sensing System May Enable Viewing of Nanoparticles >>

* Boas Time Their Big Squeeze to Prey’s Heartbeat >>
* SENS5 Video: Neuron Replacement in the Neocortex >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 18 January 2012 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 18 January 2012

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* Every Day, Army’s Drone Will Collect 80 Years’ Worth of HD Video >>
* Samsung shows transparent 46-inch LCD panel ; Transparent Fridge Doors & Windows >>
* Incredible New View of Eagle Nebula’s ‘Pillars of Creation’ >>

* EDGE 2012 : WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION? >>
* PrimeSense Demos A Gesture-Based Next-Gen TV Interface >>
* The End of Planned Obsolescence >>

* Apple to announce tools, platform to “digitally destroy” textbook publishing >>
* 100 Years in 10 Minutes: A Quick Video History of the Past Century >>
* CES 2012: two audio technologies replace conventional headphones >>

* Arm in plaster changes brain in 16 days >>
* Cracking open the scientific process >>
* At CES, a preview of tomorrow’s wearable computers >>

* A first: Brain support cells from umbilical cord stem cells >>
* Mapping the Earth in 3D >>
* Is Space Digital? (preview) >>
* Metamaterials Generate Gecko-Like Adhesive Force >>

* The rich will get richer in a world of emulated brains >>
* Daniel Kraft Gives You a Peak of the Future of Medicine at TEDMED >>

* Astronomy Cast – Episode 248: Carina Constellation >>
* Researchers identify path to treat Parkinson’s disease at its inception >>
* Arm in a Sling? Your Brain Knows & Compensates >>
* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 17 January 2012 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 17 January 2012

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* Gesture controlled car; because we don’t have enough distractions >>
* Samsung Turns Any Window into an Amazing Computer [Video] >>
* Sun Innovations show off Transplay Animated Laser Display (video) >>

* List of books, music, videos by speakers and performers at TED2012 conference >>

* CES 2012: 10 things we learned about the gadgets of the future >>
* Blood test for human form of mad cow disease developed >>
* Gut bacteria ‘biome’ differs in obese people >>

* Seen for first time: T-cells knock out insulin >>
* Take a tour of the virtual future at Stanford >>

* ‘Biohackers’ get their own space to create >>
* Volunteers wanted for planet hunt >>
* At CES, the only Law that Matters is Moore’s Law >>

* Your top 10 predictions for 2112 >>
* Alien hunters: What if ET ever phones our home? >>
* More Than 1,000 Man-Years Have Gone Into Developing Google Search >>

* Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology https://t.co/JUQ4y1y9
* Why Do Americans and Brits Have Different Accents? >>
* Ultra short telomeres linked to osteoarthritis >>

* Can Technology Transform Education Before It’s Too Late? >>
* Audi combines HUD with gesture controls, leaves us wanting >>
* Charles Stross predicts the state of technology, prejudice, and sex in the year 2032 >>

* Will our popular culture survive into the future? >>
* Project to pour water into volcano to make power >>
* New automated imaging to greatly speed whole-brain mapping efforts >>

* Loud-mouthed Wi-Fi devices could use sound to connect >>
* XM25 smart gun removes the benefit of seeking cover >>

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