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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 Aug 2012

* Computer program recognises any language >>
* How a Mars Sample Return Mission Can Go Electric >>
* Pair of Probes to Visit Van Allen Belts >>

* How to Entangle Humans (contd) >>
* One-molecule-thick material has big advantages >>
* Cambridge Consultants Develop Concept Eco-friendly Blood Glucose Meter >>

* New Glucometer from Purdue Measures Glucose in Tears, Saliva >>
* New Technology Helps Combine Positron Emission Tomography with Magnetic Resonance Imaging >>
* Visi Mobile System for Real Time Wireless In-Hospital Vital Signs Monitoring (video) >>
* Wireless Sensor Tags alert you to movement and temperature changes, fit on your keyring >>

* Antibiotics Might Be Fueling Obesity Epidemic >>
* ‘Electronic nose’ could detect small quantities of harmful airborne substances >>
* Darpa Has Seen The Future of Computing … And It’s Analog >>

* Future Robotic Hands To Detect Everything From Abnormal Breast Lumps To Enlarged Lymph Nodes >>
* Hi-tech $315 shoes measures your vertical jump >>
* Martian Curiosity: How Do You Drive a $2.5 Billion Mars Rover? >>

* Robot learns to recognise itself in the mirror >>
* Teaching a microbe to make fuel >>
* Algae molecular transporter could advance biofuels, pharmaceuticals >>

* A 3,000-vehicle test of wireless crash-avoidance system >>
* Botanists building ontologies to cope with information overload >>
* Galactic ‘axis of asymmetry’ threatens cosmic order >>

* 3D Printed Homes? Here’s The Scoop >>
* iRobot’s Inflatable Arm Could Be the Future of Grappling [Video] >>
* Location of the mind remains a mystery >>

* Curiosity Mars rover takes first drive >>
* Curiosity rover flaunts its battle scar, wind sensor is bruised (but not broken) >>
* Curiosity’s Descent Video in Amazing, Incredible HD Quality >>

* Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Double Black Hole >>
* Can You Time Travel? | Video >>
* Astronomers get a preview of the Earth’s destruction 5 billion years early >>

* Batteries made from world’s thinnest material could power tomorrow’s electric cars >>
* Star Ratings >>
* ‘CSI’ technology holds potential in everyday medicine >>

* IBM taking two paths toward making solar power cheaper than fossil fuels >>
* Why Innovative People Fail >>
* Spinoff to Market Metamaterials Antennas >>

* Inside the Science That Plays Your Brain Like a Videotape >>
* From Tiny to Tinier: One GIF Zooms in on Bacterial Life >>
* Would you give the government remote control over your router? >>

* Sennheiser boasts anti-counterfeit efforts, unveils new authentication technologies >>
* Needle-free sensor tests for diabetes >>
* First instant hyperspectral camera for live samples >>

* Real-life “Contagion” uses DNA to halt outbreak >>
* Video: The High-Resolution Life of a Neuron >>

* Mass cellphone spamming sparks huge exodus in India >>
* Patterning defect-free nanocrystal films with nanometer resolution >>
* ‘Mind-Control’ gaming devices leak users’ secrets >>

* ‘Electronic nose’ could detect small quantities of harmful airborne substances >>
* Special Relativity And The Curious Physics of Chronology >>
* Big Bang theory challenged by big chill theory of Quantum Graphity >>

* Video: DARPA’s New Amphibious Tank Prototype Drives On Water >>
* FYI: Is There Any Way to Prevent Toe Cramps? >>
* Christof Koch on The Nature of Consciousness: How the Internet Could Learn to Feel >>

* Video shows the traffic inside a brain cell: New imaging technique reveals the brain’s continuous renovation >>
* Does Self-Awareness Require a Complex Brain? >>
* Cheap Four-fingered Robot Hand Edges Closer To Human Dexterity >>

* What Facebook Deals with Everyday: 2.7 Billion Likes, 300 Million Photos Uploaded and 500 Terabytes >>
* When the Homemade Noodles Are Made by Robots >>
* The New High-Tech Dating Technology? Meet in a Bar >>

* Do You Want To Live Forever? (feature length) >>
* Middle-aged not miserable, just too busy to answer surveys >>
* Facebook Has 44% Fake Followers; Twitter Has 33% – >>
* CERN: The next big antimatter machine: ALPHA 2 >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 Aug 2012 >>

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