Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 January 2013

* The World’s First 3D Printed Building Will Arrive In 2014 (And It Looks Awesome) >>
* Researchers turn one form of neuron into another in the brain >>
* Is It Possible To Clone A Neanderthal? >>

* Quadruple DNA helix discovered in human cells >>
* Mature T cells can switch function to better tackle infection >>
* Quantified Self Uplevels to Quality of Life >>

* Gym floor creates boundary lines with LED lights >>
* Astronomers measure nearby Universe’s ‘cosmic fog’ >>
* Dutch Architect Plans 3D Printed Building >>

* Technologies will make the world better >>
* Original Batmobile sells for $4.2 million, first time at auction >>
* Major step toward an Alzheimer’s vaccine >>
* Can We Reach the End of Knowledge? >>

* 10 Fascinating Facts About Earth >>
* Can an Algorithm Really Predict If a Movie Will Be a Hit? >>
* Barnard Stares at NGC 2170 >>

* How Mega’s Clever Encryption Will Protect You, But Mostly Kim Dotcom >>
* Earth may be crashing through dark matter walls >>
* Gene therapy for Douchenne muscular dystrophy shows success in Dogs >>

* Mathematical Model Predicts Whether a Movie Will be a “Hit” >>
* Why the Universe needs Dark Matter (and not MOND) in one graph >>
* Is Mega Working for You? >>

* Why Lasting Love is Such Hard Work >>
* Happiness is in the Wanting, Not the Getting, Says New Study >>
* Flu Vaccine: 62 Percent Effective This Season >>

* Q&A: Is Java safe to use? >>
* Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Soap Bubble Nebula >>
* Exclusive Interview With Doug Wolens, Director of “The Singularity” >>

* 5 Famous Scientists Who Started Their Work As Teens >>
* Facebook’s Real Challenge Is Sharing, Not Searching (FB) >>
* How 15 Tech Millionaires And Billionaires Spend Their Fortunes >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 19 January 2013 >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 19 January 2013

* Scans show what makes a brain ‘borderline’ >>
* Hands On Kim Dotcom’s New Mega: Service Could Dismantle Copyright Forever >>
* Belgium Plans Artificial Island To Store Wind Power >>

* Journalism, Human Enhancement & The Singularity >>
* Google wants to replace passwords with ‘smart rings’ and USB keys >>
* Google Handwrite Gets Faster And Smarter >>

* 3D Printable Guns: 150,000 Patterns Have Been Downloaded Since Obama’s Speech >>
* Japan to replace nuclear plant with world’s largest wind farm >>
* ‘Side-kick’ drugs could improve antibiotics >>

* Is the ‘quantum singularity’ near? >>
* Mona Lisa beamed to Moon probe in laser-link test >>

* Life in 2030: Discuss the Future With Those Who Are Creating It >>
* Artificial Intelligence – Psychology >>
* Week in Cybercrime: Hackers Build Better Mousetraps >>

* Micron readies hybrid memory cube for debut >>
* Plan Would Put a Bank in Every Browser >>
* Stanford Group Successfully Fabricates ‘Peel and Stick’ Solar Cells >>

* DIY Geoengineering: A Machine to Create Clouds above Your Head >>
* Molecular assembly line brings muscles into shape >>
* Megaballoon launches big bang telescope in Antarctica >>

* Thin Metamaterial Cloaking of static electric and magnetic fields >>
* Fermi telescope may change to dark matter hunting >>
* Light in womb ‘gives healthy eyes’ – in mice >>

* Lens-less camera emerges from metamaterials work >>
* Study Highlights the Risk of Handing Over Your Genome >>
* MSL Update: Curiosity Finds Calcium-Rich Deposits >>

* 2.57 Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes (MIT) >>
* Snake Venom Superman >>
* DARPA Wants to Remake Manufacturing >>

* Can clean tech ever clean up? >>
* Scientists Just Found The Missing Mid-Sized Black Holes >>
* FCC Wants One Gigabit Internet In All 50 States By 2015 >>

* Bill Gates interview: I have no use for money. This is God’s work >>
* Dark matter hints ‘to be chased’ >>
* Google’s Larry Page On Why Moon Shots Matter >>

* Research update: Multiple steps toward the ‘quantum singularity’ >>
* Gesture Controls and Supercars Reborn: The Best of the Detroit Auto Show >>
* Low-profile owner of NZ Web domain company tapped as Mega CEO >>

* Samsung Galaxy S IV Rumor: 8-Core Exynos 5 Chip, 5 440ppi Display, Wireless Charging >>
* Video Friday: One Moose, One Hundred Kilobots, and Robots Refueling Satellites >>
* SoundCloud: The You Tube for Sound >>

* Like It Or Not, 3D Printing Will Probably Be Legislated >>
* This Weekend, Check Out An Excellent Documentary On The Singularity >>
* Stampeding Dinosaurs Were Actually Swimming >>

* Japan Tsunami Left Behind Huge Underwater Dunes >>
* Leprosy Reprograms the Body >>
* A light switch inside the brain >>

* IEEE 802.11ad approval steps up marketplace WiGig >>
* Focus: Coffee Stains Test Universal Equation >>
* Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Dark Cloud Around Young Stars >>

* AR Goggles Restore Depth Perception To People Blind in One Eye >>
* Chipmaker Races to Save Stephen Hawkings Speech >>
* World’s First Flexible Li-Ion Battery Unveiled >>

* Stickney Crater >>
* Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate >>
* Cognitive impairment in premature babies not permanent >>

* Telepresence robot helps program brain and spine stimulators remotely >>
* New surfaces repel most known liquids >>
* New research supports the huge potential of tidal power >>

* Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing >>
* The Next Kinect Will Turn Everyone Into a Jedi—Everywhere! >>
* Nanowires fuel breakthrough for solar energy >>

* Normal, Non-Geeky People Are Running Rampant On A New Dating App, Tinder >>
* Super-Thin Invisibility Cloak Has ‘Wide’ Military Applications >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 18 January 2013 >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 18 January 2013

* Audi’s swarm tail lights OLED technology reacts to the movement of your car >>
* Intel Demos 100Gbps Optical Data Transfer For Servers >>
* Smartphones as Blood Analyzers and Allergen Testers >>

* China’s Nuclear Rover Will Sample the Moon >>
* Search of DNA Sequences Reveals Full Identities >>
* Coating of air makes liquid bounce off fabric >>

* UNC researchers use luminescent mice to track cancer and aging in real-time >>
* Connectify Dispatch Merges Your Available Internet Connections into One Fat, Super-Fast Pipe >>
* Filabot Turns Your Plastic Junk Into Material for 3-D Printers >>

* 10 Star Wars Technologies We Actually Want >>
* Becoming Your Own Doctor In The Brave New World Of Personalized Medicine >>
* The Mind Of Google: Why Larry Page Argues That Thinking About Competition Is Silly >>

* This App Deletes Your Personal Information From the Web >>
* Inflatable Earbuds Aim for Apple Debut >>
* Learning the alphabet of gene control >>

* Kamen and Coca-Cola Take On World’s Clean Water Shortage With Slingshot Purifier >>
* Patent Hints at Laser-Controlled Google Glasses >>
* A major step toward an Alzheimer’s treatment and vaccine >>

* Next generation US submarines will refuel once every 50 years and have quieter electric drive >>
* Quantum dots go on display >>
* A real-life ‘holodeck’ in 10 years? >>

* Polymer Gets Sticky When Hit With Light >>

* Curiosity Is Blazing A Trail Across Mars That Is Visible From Orbit >>
* Could DNA databases herald a new era of medicine? >>
* Kinect sensor poised to leap into everyday life >>

* New Look and New Animation for Orion’s 2017 Flight to the Moon and Back >>
* Glitch Stalls Robotic Refueling Experiment in Space >>
* First Known ‘Social Chromosome’ Found >>

* New Features of the iPhone 5 >>
* How Scientists Stalked a Lethal Superbug—With the Killer’s Own DNA >>
* Aerial platform supports development of lightweight sensors for UAVs >>

* Why Emerging Markets Are More Innovative Than America >>
* The software-enabled cars of the near-future (industrial Internet links) >>
* Who Can Compete With Silicon Valley? >>

* Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometer >>
* Feeling Threatened Makes Us Nicer >>
* Coating of air makes liquid bounce off fabric >>

* UNC researchers use luminescent mice to track cancer and aging in real-time >>
* Self-assembled “soft Legos” create complex crystal shapes >>
* A nano-gear in a nano-motor inside you >>

* Harvard Professor Finds Innovative Ideas Spread Like The Flu >>
* This interactive travel map of the Roman Empire is like Oregon Trail meets Civilization >>
* App Lets Activists Pass Around Information When The Government Is Watching >>

* NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Gets an Art Lesson with Lasers >>
* Pulsar Navigation: Beacons in the Darkness >>
* Stunning Timelapse of Earth and Sky — Volume 3 >>

* Hard Up: Nanomaterial Rivals Hardness of Diamond >>
* Is This Solar-Powered Half-Electric Bicycle with a Roof the Future of Transportation? >>
* The Most Amazing Microscopic Videos of 2012 >>

* Great, Researchers Give This Creepy Cyborg Fish the Ability To Swim Forever >>
* How To Prevent America’s Next Train Crash >>
* New Origami condom adds pleasure to safe sex >>

* Obama to scientists: Tell us how to calm gun violence >>
* How the human brain adapts to injury >>
* Hands-on with the next generation Kinect: PrimeSense Capri >>

* Milky Way’s Gravity Creates Stars from Its Satellite, the Large Magellanic Cloud >>
* Feeling Threatened Makes Us Nicer >>
* A Snapshot Of Human Migration Around The World [Infographic] >>

* Harvard Professor Finds That Innovative Ideas Spread Like The Flu >>
* Larry Page: ‘We’re Crazy, I Know It, and I Like It’ >>
* Drug targets hard-to-reach leukemia stem cells responsible for relapses >>

* European Space Agency ponders asteroid-smashing mission >>
* Experiment to reshape future of atmospheric science >>
* Temple Run sequel hits the App Store >>

* The Life Span of Empires: 250 Years? >>
* Nanoscale Flexible Circuits From IBM (w/video) >>
* Novel sensor provides bigger picture >>

* Disney’s MagicBand opens door to Hyper- and Predictive Personalization—and privacy fears >>
* Faster and Cheaper Process for Graphene in Li-ion Batteries >>
* ‘Totally unexpected’ switch may suppress tumors >>

* Cameras Capture Falling Snowflakes in 3D >>
* A brand new TED Book: Radical Openness >>
* Watch Liquid Bounce Off Amazing New Superomniphobic Material >>

* Searching Science: How the Brain Finds What You’re Looking for >>
* Skin-Cancer Spotting Apps Miss Their Marks >>
* 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms (MIT) >>

* Removal of ovaries may cause mental decline later >>
* Call Friends for Free With Facebook’s Messenger App >>
* When Technology Invents Problems, Moisturizing Jeans Edition >>

* RIM gets Visa approval for mobile payments via NFC >>
* A material that most liquids won’t wet >>
* MOBILE USAGE: How Consumers Are Using Their Phones, And What It Means >>
* Facebook Fires ‘Killing Blow’ Into A $55 Billion Market >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 17 January 2013 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 17 January 2013

* Space Station Gets a New Telescope >>
* Device Tests Drugs on a Tumor That’s Still in the Body >>
* Mouse Study Discovers DNA That Controls Behavior >>

* An Engine That Uses One-Third the Fuel >>
* Parrot Adds GPS and Partial Autonomy to AR Drone, Shows Off SenseFly UAV >>
* Welcome to the Age of Emotionally Relevant Robotics >>

* Facebook Shatters the Computer Server Into Tiny Pieces >>
* Low-power laser may keep blindness at bay >>
* The Algorithms That Automatically Date Medieval Manuscripts >>

* Sony’s New Triluminous TVs Will Be Powered by Quantum Physics >>
* Asteroid deflection mission seeks smashing ideas >>
* Brains of “Super Agers” Look Decades Younger >>

* Using an electron beam to manipulate nanoparticles >>
* Japan to build world’s largest offshore wind farm >>
* How Particle Physics Can Improve Your Netflix Recommendations >>

* Scientists Work To Unravel Mystery Behind Woman Who Doesn’t Grow >>
* Video: Japanese Eco-Friendly Building Demolition Method Harvests Energy As It Destroys >>
* Mathematical breakthrough sets out rules for more effective teleportation >>

* Google Glass to Hit Developers’ Hands This Month >>
* That time travel movie that started on Reddit is really getting made! >>
* Facebook Already Had Advanced Search Seven Years Ago >>

* Microsoft Patents Technology To Let Phone Silence Itself >>
* Trial Run Mission Will Make Sure Asteroid Deflection Method Really Works >>
* This Is What Competing Sperm Looks Like >>

* Disney Revealed A Very Ambitious New Video Game That Kids Are Going To Go Crazy For This Year >>
* Disney Infinity video game costs more than an iPad Mini – Infinity base and characters sold separately >>
* Apple Looks to Improve Siri’s Script >>

* Berries Linked to Better Heart Health >>
* Better Start Saving: Seniors Are Getting Healthier >>
* Sound-Sensing Ear Cells Are Regenerated in Deaf Mice >>

* A chip that turns your body into a battery >>
* Astrium: Spaceplane Planned for Space Tourism >>
* United Airlines First To Offer International Wi-Fi In the Sky >>

* Intel: Taking Another Swing At The Mobile Processor Market (VIDEO) >>
* Facebook Graph Search Is Boring: We Need A Unified Search AI >>
* No, Life Has Not Been Found In a Meteorite >>

* Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior >>
* Fake Snow Made From Sewage Comes Out Yellow >>
* Russia Will Launch Its First Moon Mission Since The 1970s >>

* Scientists seek out cancer cells hiding from treatment >>
* Why trees can’t grow taller than 100 metres >>

* Building electronics bottom-up >>
* Gravity is an Illusion (Today’s Most Popular) >>
* Quantum Computers will be faster and more powerful than Classical computers by 2025 >>

* New study shows that Soot is twice as bad for the Environment >>
* Dark Nebula Hides Star Birth >>
* A Pocket Radar For Tracking World Happiness >>

* Paleontologists Use 3-D Models to Rewrite Evolution >>
* Researchers develop integrated dual-mode active and passive infrared camera >>
* VIDEO: ‘Almighty battle’ for gun control >>

* First in the world – Singapore scientists discover genes responsible for cornea blindness >>
* Watch a Futuristic Robot Ship Track Enemy Submarines >>
* Reducing Amyloid Beta Levels in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s >>

* HP Wins Design Patent for a Next Generation Docking Station >>
* Leap Motion goes retail: motion controller to be sold exclusively at Best Buy >>
* Facebook Graph Search: Important But Boring >>

* 30 Under 30: Energy >>
* 100K signatures now needed before White House comments on Death Star plans >>
* Why Aren’t You Pruning Your IT? >>

* On The Verge of Change: A View of Our Future Energy World >>
* Researchers Develop Solid But Flexible Electrolyte For Bendable Batteries >>
* Tim O?Reilly?s Key to Creating the Next Big Thing >>

* We’ve Been Fighting Forest Fires Wrong For 100 Years >>
* 3D Printers Can Now Pump Out 30-Round Magazines >>
* 28 Top Executives Share What They Look For In Hires >>

* Inside NASA’s Deal for an Inflatable Space Station Room >>
* Researcher uses snail teeth to improve solar cells, batteries >>
* What range of functions should the future body provide? >>

* Brain Benefits Of Exercise Wear Off Quickly [Study] >>
* Small Factories Give Baxter the Robot a Cautious Once-Over >>
* Freaky feeling: Why androids make us uneasy >>

* Facebook’s Future Depends On Opening The Data Center >>
* The Worst Scientific Mistakes, Missteps and Misdeeds of 2012 >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 16 January 2013 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 16 January 2013

* Facebook’s Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: Inside Story >>
* Facebook ‘Graph Search’ personalized social search engine, beta today (video) >>
* Payments by text message service to launch in UK in Spring 2014 >>

* CES spotlights advent of Intelligent Objects >>
* Future Electronics: How Gadgets Will Change in 5 Years >>
* Tethercell lets you control any battery powered device wirelessly >>

* New Brain Cell Linked to High Blood Pressure >>
* Facebook Just Declared War on Google: Meet Your New Search Engine >>
* Fortunes of Facebook May Hinge on Searches >>

* Curiosity Rover Set to Drill to Reveal Clues to Mars’ Ancient Water Past >>
* Giant Glider Concept Launches Rockets Into Space | Video >>
* Gunsmiths 3D-Print High Capacity Ammo Clips To Thwart Proposed Gun Laws >>

* Russia plans robot mission to the Moon in 2015 >>
* Controlling heat like light >>
* Flexible nanocircuits that can go on almost anything >>

* Marine robots detect endangered whales >>
* Synthetic oscillating gel ‘acts alive’ >>
* Flexible, nanoscale ‘bed of nails’ created for possible drug delivery >>

* Adjustable Collar Stays Keep You Dapper No Matter the Shirt >>
* DARPA Wants “Upward Falling” Robots That Can Hide On The Seafloor For Years, Launch On Demand >>
* The Unsolved Mystery of Elliptical Galaxies (Today’s Most Popular) >>

* A Single Brain Cell Stores a Single Concept (preview) >>
* Particle Accelerator Reveals That First Land Animals Walked Like Seals >>
* Daniel Wolpert: the real reason for brains >>

* Here’s What People Expect From Facebook’s Huge Announcement Tomorrow (FB) >>
* End Near? Doomsday Clock Holds at 5 ‘Til Midnight >>
* Medicine-laden Solar Ship to float over Africa, delivering the goods >>

* 60 Minutes: Are robots hurting job growth? >>
* New Implant Replaces Impaired Middle Ear >>
* Tracking Lung Health With a Cell Phone >>

* Facebook Graph Search no Threat to Google…. Yet >>
* Video: Can Google Make a TV That Will Listen When I Talk to It? >>

* New Middle Ear Implant Overcomes Downsides of Bone Anchored Hearing Aids >>
* How Google and Facebook Will Make the Leap to Lightspeed >>
* Hands-On With the Next Generation Kinect: PrimeSense Capri >>

* Will Machines Ever Master Translation? >>
* How An Army Of MakerBot Replicators Will 3D-Print The Future [Video] >>
* New Delta App Puts a Virtual Glass Bottom on Your Plane, Shows You What’s Below >>

* A Facebook App To Tell You Which Of Your Friends Will Give You The Flu >>
* Google’s Ray Kurzweil revs up search focus with AI vision >>
* How to make metal pulse like a beating heart >>

* Mobile operators need to embrace open innovation and cloud computing >>
* Robofish needs almost no juice to glide >>
* Nanotube thread conducts heat like a metal wire >>

* Civilization survives if women have equal rights >>
* Without siblings, China’s kids may fear risk >>
* Scientists find “bipolar” marine bacteria, refuting biological theory >>

* Shot of contrast makes brain tumors glow >>
* Researchers demonstrate “intelligent molecule” concept >>
* New research gives insight into graphene grain boundaries >>

* Facebook Posts More Memorable Than Faces >>
* One-Fifth Of Women In Developing World Countries Think Internet Use Is Inappropriate For Them >>
* Facebook Graph Search hands-on (video) >>

* Born to lead? Leadership can be an inherited trait, study finds >>
* Misfit Shine – A Sleek, New Activity Tracker >>
* Watch A Virus Infect An E. Coli Cell >>

* Once You Hit 75, Eat All the Donuts You Want, Says Science >>
* Australia’s Now Hot Enough to Vaporize Petrol >>

* Poll shows that quantum physicists agree to disagree about the nature of reality >>
* Building electronics from the ground up >>
* Facebook Preps Radically Visual Redesign Of The Mobile News Feed >>

* Has Apple’s innovation engine stalled? >>
* 13.2bn-year-old star most ancient in the universe >>
* Drunk Rats Could Overturn Neurological Orthodoxy >>

* Pat Pilcher: Is Facebook dying? >>
* What will Facebook’s big news be? Some contenders >>
* Solar Flares 2013: Experts Warn The Threat Is Real >>

* Garmin announces new dog collars, talks up ‘Bark Odometer’ >>
* Study: We’re measuring productivity wrong >>
* Unborn Baby Smile From 3D Ultrasound Made Parents Rethink Abortion >>

* Concept nanocars – off to the races? >>
* Researchers demonstrate concept of ‘intelligent’ molecule >>
* 3D Printing: Make Your Own Products >>

* Controlling the direction of rotation of a 2 nm small molecular motor >>
* The End of Labor: How to Protect Workers From the Rise of Robots >>
* Everything You Think You Know, Just Ain’t So >>

* State of the Future 2013 >>
* The Pentagon’s New 30,000-lb MOP Bomb Is Ready To Go >>
* Radical Transparency Makes Employees Happier, More Productive And Loyal >>
* Facebook Says Its New Search Is Good For Recruiting, And LinkedIn’s Stock Is Dropping >>

* How A Leveraged Buyout Could Turn Dell Into The Tech Success Story Of The Decade >>
* Facebook Announces New Graph Search >>
* Graphene: Patent surge reveals global race >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 15 January 2013 >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 15 January 2013

* Chrome 25 beta folds in Web Speech recognition, security whitelists >>
* The Edge annual-Question: 2013: What *Should* we be Worried About? >>
* Intel’s Perceptual Computing marks neo-desktop era >>

* World’s First 4K TV Channel Goes Live >>
* An Engine That Uses Half the Fuel >>
* Robot Restaurant: Robots cook food and wait tables in Harbin >>

* Tiny Pill-Shaped Cameras Make Endoscopy Easy To Swallow >>
* Pill-sized device provides rapid, detailed imaging of esophageal lining >>
* Apple Predictions 2013: AppleTV, iTV And TV App Store >>

* Running hot and cold – but which will freeze first? >>
* Why you’ll never see a green star (but an alien might!) >>
* MIT Brain Scans Show That Entrepreneurs Really Do Think Different >>

* This Is The Future Of The Facebook ‘News Feed’ >>
* How Robots Could Change The World By 2023 >>
* Microsoft Drops A Major Hint That The Next Xbox Will Turn Your Entire Living Room Into A Video Game >>

* Blueseed Secures Initial Funding for Visa-Free Tech Center of the Sea >>
* What Happened During the Huygens Mission? >>
* What would hyperspace travel really look like? >>

* How Intel Will Build the Holodeck >>
* The hologenome: A new view of evolution >>
* Exploding microchip could make arms dumps safer >>

* Have astronomers found chemical precursor to life in gas clouds? >>
* How to convert connective tissue directly into neurons >>
* First Nanodiamond Arrays Created By Biological Molecules >>

* How Artificial Arms Could Connect to the Nervous System >>
* Black Holes Create their Host Galaxies –An Odd Quasar Provides the Clues >>
* Does Passing A Small Current Through Your Brain Really Make You Smarter? >>

* Crazy Nanotech Skin Can Make Bouncing Balloons of Liquid Metal >>
* NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life >>
* Slow Motion and Explosives Make Painting a Blast >>

* 2012 in 365 One-Second Video Clips >>
* First nanodiamond arrays created by biological molecules >>
* Largest spiral galaxy in known universe >>

* Pacific Bluefin Tuna Population Has Dropped By 96 Percent >>
* In the Coming Age of the Connected Home, Your Phone Will Be a Magic Wand >>
* CES 2013: The Break-Out Year For The Internet Of Things >>

* How Mobile Apps Can Customize Customer Service >>
* Who Wins, iOS or Android? Both, But Pity Everyone Else. >>
* Data Warehouse 2.0: The 10 Top Trends Driving the Revolution >>

* CES Summary: Evolution Of User-Centric Computing >>
* Death Star petition response is science communications done right >>
* Apple Falls Below $500, It’s The Gift That Keeps On Giving >>

* Interactive Designers Connect The Human Superorganism >>
* Have your cake and then squirt it out of your body with new stomach pump >>
* Twelephone Is A Telephone That Connects To Your Twitter Feed And Your Customers >>

* Russians announce retrieval of first clean ice sample from Lake Vostok >>
* Falling up: DARPA to launch just-in-time payloads from bottom of sea >>
* Reading Shakespeare and Wordsworth offer better therapy than self-help books >>

* Smartphones fueling smarter cars, safer drivers >>
* Enzyme chews hole in strep bacteria >>

* The Next Crews With The Right Stuff Will Work For Private Companies, Not NASA >>
* Despite Their Best Efforts, No One Has Fixed TV Yet >>
* Graphene plasmonics beats the drug cheats >>

* Google Gains From Creating Apps for the Opposition >>
* Now, boys’ voices are breaking at 11; ‘rich diet’ to blame >>
* What you eat key to your job performance >>

* New tech helps spot cancer spread >>
* Scientists reassemble the backbone of life with a particle acceleratorynchrotron X-rays >>
* Little Chinese Kid Shows Why We Can’t Compete With Chinese Labor! [Video] >>

* Cars Are The Next Playground For App Developers >>
* Build Your Own Custom iPhone Controlled Car With These Lego Wannabes >>
* World’s First Lumpy Tablet? Company Shows Off Bumpy Keyboard At CES 2013 [Video] >>

* Will Self-Driving Cars Change the Rules of the Road? >>
* Anti-Surveillance Clothing >>
* Self-Tracking Tools For Staying Healthy >>

* Grant Campany Chats About the Archon Genomics X PRIZE >>
* Scientific evidence that you probably don’t have free will >>
* Say Hi to The New Google Chrome Beta, It’s Listening >>

* Red October cyber-attack found by Russian researchers >>
* Solar ship aims to soar >>
* Fast-food ‘linked to childhood asthma and eczema’ >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 14 January 2013 >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 14 January 2013

* Fastest Wi-Fi ever is almost ready for real-world use >>
* Tweeting Cat Door Keeps Unauthorized Animals Out of Your Home >>
* UV Light Emitting Robot Disinfects Hospital Rooms In Minutes >>

* Britain’s New Stealth Bomber Is Unmanned And Fully Autonomous >>
* There Is A World Of Difference Between Management And Leadership >>
* Smart robots and murder by phone >>

* NGC 602 and Beyond >>
* How to be a Philosopher >>
* Find Your Child, Pet or Suitcase With ‘I’m Here’ GPS Tracker >>

* DARPA Wants To Seed the Ocean With Delayed-Action Robot Pods >>
* The Right-Hand Man Of Steve Jobs Has Broken His Silence >>
* Orlando Florida Patrolled By Surveillance Drones As Early As This Summer >>

* Why Microsoft Invested Heavily In The Desktop Search Business Even As Mobile Was Taking Off >>
* Nasa buys private inflatable room for space station >>
* Artificial muscles at MIT >>

* The Mythical Budget iPhone Mini Would Cost $2,000 >>
* Why Do Entrepreneurs Innovate Better Than Managers? >>
* To Predict Crimes, ‘Minority Report’ Precog-Like Software Tested >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 13 January 2013 >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 13 January 2013

* What the Baseball Hall of Fame decision could mean for the Singularity >>
* Can we ever do better than the toilet? >>
* The Nightmare That Keeps Microsoft Awake… Android On The Desktop >>

* Murder via Smartphone >>
* Could A Dopamine Gene Be the Answer to a Longer Life? >>
* Stem Cells Used To Bolster Body’s Cancer Fighting Cells >>

* The Mind s Compartments Create Conflicting Beliefs >>
* Matter clock links mass and time >>
* White House Responds To Death Star Petition: Obama “Does Not Support Blowing Up Planets” >>

* Spnkix motorized skates crash the final Engadget CES podcast (video) >>
* Bigelow Inflatable Module Will be Added to Space Station >>
* CES 2013: Perpetua Demos Watches Powered by Body Heat >>

* CES 2013: The First Practical Personal Fuel Cell >>
* Atomically Precise, No Interface, Devices >>
* Should we eliminate the human ability to feel pain? >>

* Reviewed.com: Are TVs surpassing human appreciation? >>
* Now, a breath test to detect TB in minutes >>
* North Korean EMP Attack Could Destroy USA >>

* Egg sharing cuts IVF waiting list >>
* 100 Years of Markov Chains >>
* Pinoccio Microcontroller to Crowdfund the Internet of Things >>

* US Bank kicks off ‘Go Mobile’ payment trials with NFC-equipped iPhone case >>
* Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz commits suicide aged 26 >>
* Soon everything will be smarter than us >>

* Ancient Pompeians Could Go Upstairs to Pee >>
* Poliovirus on Time >>
* First electric car-carrying ferry charges in ten minutes >>

* Hear-Raising: Compound Regenerates Auditory Hair Cells, Offering a Possible Treatment for Deafness >>
* Carbon Planets Turn Earth s Chemistry on its Head >>
* Ten Billion Earths >>

* World’s first genetically modified humans born >>
* 15 Bizarre Facts About The Human Body >>
* Trees and forests are repositories of time; to destroy them is to destroy an irreplaceable record of the Earth’s past. >>

* Could we speed up Earth’s rotation, so that we do not need Leap Seconds? >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 12 January 2013 >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 12 January 2013

* £7k 40mph Jetsurfboard can cross the Channel in 30 minutes >>
* The Reason Why Many Found The Hobbit At 48 FPS An Unexpectedly Painful Journey >>
* The Internet of Things Has Arrived — And So Have Massive Security Issues >>

* Breathtaking footage of the Moon’s surface revealed as Nasa releases final video from crash landing lunar probes >>
* Synthetic farm virus built in lab >>
* New York as you’ve never seen if before: Incredible interactive panorama lets you zoom >>

* Toshiba’s OLED Smart Watch Knows Who You Are By Your Pulse >>
* Defining the industrial Internet >>
* All New Homes In China Must Have Fiber Optic Internet Connections >>

* Origin of Life: Did a Simple Pump Drive Process? >>
* Why The Next Social Media Frontier Is The Past >>
* How Humans Will Evolve on Multigenerational Space Exploration Missions (preview) >>

* Dedifferentiation Turning Back the Cellular Clock >>
* Microsoft Researchers Developing Wrist-Worn Sensors That Track Finger Movements >>
* Physics not biology may be key to beating cancer >>

* Largest structure challenges Einstein’s smooth cosmos >>
* Virus caught in the act of infecting a cell >>
* Scientists design, control movements of molecular motor >>

* PC makers bet on gaze, gesture, voice, and touch >>
* NASA Turns Astronaut Trash Into Space Radiation Shield >>
* China Hits A Demographic Turning Point >>

* DNA ‘identichip’ gives a detailed picture of a suspect >>
* High Sensor Costs Won’t Stand in the Way of the Self-Driving Future >>
* Largest spiral galaxy found – it’s five times the size of Milky Way >>

* Hands-On With The Lockitron, The Easiest Way To Control Your House’s Locks With A Smartphone >>
* Personal assistant for your emails streamlines your life >>
* Is it time to move past the idea that our brain is like a computer? >>

* Minority Report gets real with Displair’s multitouch fogscreen >>
* Here’s What Happens In Your Brain When You Have ‘Déjà Vu’ >>
* Global Risks 2013 Report – Overview Film >>

* James Watson Says Antioxidants May Actually Be Causing Cancer >>
* Earth Bacteria Can Survive And Grow In Extremely Hostile, Mars-Like Conditions >>
* PC Makers Bet on Gaze, Gesture, Voice, and Touch >>

* Solving puzzles without a picture: New algorithm assembles chromosomes from next generation sequencing data >>
* Exclusive Interview With Ray Kurzweil On Future AI Project At Google >>
* The ‘Intelligent’ Rifle, Now With iPad App, Wi-Fi, Infallible Accuracy >>

* Straitjacket drug halts herpes virus’s escape stunt >>
* Life will find a way, even in the midst of a hurricane >>
* A comeback for virtual reality? Inside the Oculus Rift >>

* Is the US facing Flu-maggedon? >>
* The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies >>
* Biggest structure in universe: Large quasar group is 4 billion light years across >>

* 125 Years of National Geographic >>
* Assessing Exomoon Habitability >>
* Google Fiber-Inspired SightDeck Brings Hollywood Effects To VC Pitches And Telepresence Meetings >>

* Tell the Future About Your History! >>
* A $1 Billion Project To Remake The Disney World Experience, Using RFID >>
* iSleep: The headphones that you can wear in bed (without waking up your partner) >>

* ScienceShot: Light From Beyond the Universe’s Dark Side >>
* Protein hints at downside of pear-shape body >>
* Alien Life May Exist on Exoplanet Moons >>

* Biochip vortex spins to sort bacteria by size >>
* How to treat heat like light >>
* Are mind control toys set to be the next big thing for 2013? >>

* Quantum Dots Get Commercial Debut in More Colorful Sony TVs >>
* Smartphones Can Now Run Consumers’ Lives >>
* Domo CEO Josh James: Why I Pay For Twitter Followers >>

* U.S. Bank Rolls Out An NFC-Based Mobile Payments Service Called “Go Mobile” >>
* Forbes 400 Billionaires Who’ve Signed the Giving Pledge >>
* The future of programming >>

* 2013 Prediction: Crowdfunding Pays Off >>
* CES 2013: Wrap This Goop Around Your Fingers Then Smash Them With A Hammer >>
* Biomarkers May Signal Early Transplant Rejection >>

* Interaxon’s Muse Measures Your Brainwaves To Improve Mental Health (VIDEO) >>

* The Post-Productive Economy >>
* Could more than one singularity happen at the same time? >>

* New carbon nanotube fiber acts like textile thread, conducts electricity and heat like a metal wire >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 11 January 2013 >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 11 January 2013

* Potty-mouthed Watson supercomputer needed filth filter >>
* Nanomachine mimics nature’s protein factory >>
* Styku virtual fitting room body scan (video) >>

* The Improbable is the New Normal >>
* CES 2013: Share Battery Power Between Mobile Devices >>
* We Probably Wouldn’t Even See A Doomsday Asteroid Until It Was Too Late >>

* H.265 Is Coming, And Bringing With It Truly High-Def Video That Won’t Kill The Network >>
* New material harvests energy from water vapor >>
* TED2013 line-up announced! Vint Cerf, Elon Musk, Peter Theil, and more! >>

* A rock is a clock: Physicist uses matter to tell time >>
* Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell >>
* China’s One-Child Policy Creates ‘Little Emperors’ >>

* Artificial molecular machine could hold key to more efficient manufacturing (w/ video) >>
* Jet Engine Technology To Make Your Laptop Thinner And Quieter—And Last Longer >>
* Finding Another Earth: How Will Scientists Confirm It Exists? >>

* Einstein Was Right: Space-Time Is Smooth, Not Foamy >>
* Personality-Influencing Gene May be a Key to Long Life >>
* String Theory Helps to Explain Quantum Phases of Matter (preview) >>

* The Self-Assembling, Self-Healing Material Of The Future Is… Blood >>
* AXE offers suborbital space flight for 22 contestants >>
* Sperm dance to calcium’s tune en route to egg >>

* CES 2013: flying a helicopter with brain waves >>
* One-kilometer-long ‘electric sail’ tether constructed >>
* Drug enables deafened mice to hear again >>

* CES 2013: hands on with the Oculus VR Rift, virtual reality’s greatest hope >>
* Organovo partners with Autodesk research to develop 3D bioprinting software >>
* CES 2013: Atari Founder Plans to Make Education As Addictive As Video Games >>

* Researchers foresee new treatments for deadly fibrotic diseases of the lung, liver, and kidney >>
* All Our Gadgets Are Breaking the Internet >>
* CES 2013: Audi Demonstrates Its Self-Driving Car >>

* Next-generation adaptive optics brings remarkable details to light in stellar nursery >>
* Hints of new dark force seen in galactic smash-ups >>
* Apophis Asteroid May Destroy Some Satellites In 2029 >>

* You Started Life as a Girl >>
* At CES, more gadgets talk to each other >>
* UCSD introduces Diego-san, a baby robot with ‘tude >>

* Unborn sharks freeze to avoid predators >>
* Global banking rules won’t stop next meltdown >>
* New report: The reach and impact of mathematical sciences >>

* Deadliest Space Weather: New Series Premieres on The Weather Channel >>
* Netflix Now Streaming In 3-D >>
* 5 Clever Gadgets from CES 2013 >>

* Artificial molecular machine could hold key to more efficient manufacturing (w/ video) >>
* Robots Watch Whales and Warn Mariners >>
* First gas-powered passenger ferry handed over in Finland >>

* Atmosphere of Venus Has Strange Magnetic ‘Ropes’ >>
* Synopsis: Seeing into the Void >>
* Synopsis: Navigating with Cold Atoms >>

* Scientists develop strongest, lightest glass nanofibers >>
* Thomas Edison Hologram Hosts ‘Gadget Graveyard’ at CES >>
* When can a moon harbor life? Scientists get down to nitty-gritty >>

* Brown eyes appear more trustworthy than blue >>
* New Nanotube fibers have unmatched combination of strength, conductivity, flexibility >>
* The Game Is Changing In The Smartphone Market >>

* Oxygen to the core >>
* Study quantifies the size of holes antibacterials create in cell walls to kill bacteria >>
* Scientists design, control movements of molecular motor >>

* This Is the Future of Shopping >>
* Here It Is: The ‘Most Significant’ Photo Recently Taken From Space >>
* We Probably Wouldn’t Even See A Doomsday Asteroid Until It Was Too Late >>

* IBM’s Watson Memorized the Entire ‘Urban Dictionary,’ Then His Overlords Had to Delete It >>
* Five Things Facebook Could Announce Next Week >>
* CES 2013: CIOs Search for the Next Killer App >>

* Star Trek-Inspired ‘CommBadge’ Gives You Handsfree Access to iPhone, Android >>
* Apple #1, Google #2 – 50 Innovative Companies Ranked By 1,500 Execs >>
* Lynx Laboratories prepping Kickstarter for all-in-one Kinect-like camera system >>

* CES 2013: Flying a Helicopter With My Brain [Video] >>
* Nanoparticle Enables World Record for Energy Storage in Batteries >>
* Muse brain-sensing headband thoughts-on (video) >>

* Lumiode microdisplays are super efficient, eye-searingly bright >>
* $10 Million Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE is Now Open >>
* Amazing CCTV footage >>

* Virus caught in the act of infecting a cell (w/ video) >>
* Car functions now controlled by waving a hand >>
* App uses artificial intelligence to automatically edit videos >>

* Google puts $200 million in Texas wind farm >>
* VIDEO: Google boss visits North Korea >>
* Grown hearing-hairs ‘beat’ deafness >>

* More on the fork that monitors how you eat >>
* NASA’s robotic refueling demo set to jumpstart expanded capabilities in space >>
* 3-D biomimetic scaffolds support regeneration of complex tissues from stem cells >>

* Futureseek Daily Link Review; 10 January 2013 >>