The third industrial revolution begins
Posts tagged "videos"
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What Happens Inside the Large Hadron Collider?
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Curiosity : Can You Live Forever?
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After the Singularity, We’ll All Be Robots
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SpaceClimber - A free climbing robot for extraterrestrial missions
The robot “SpaceClimber” proves that legged systems present a very suitable solution to future extraterrestrial missions in unstructured, uneven terrain, in particular in crater and crevices in the rock. The robot system is able to safely control up to 80 % non-uniform grades. Local autonomous navigation is possible due to special sensor technology and new software algorithms for slope navigation.
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Lifebrowser
Machine learning is being applied in new ways to understand people and to assist them with daily work and activities. Presented at Microsoft TechForum 2012, Lifebrowser leverages machine learning and reasoning to help people to navigate through large personal stores of their own information, appointments, photos, and activities, including their history with searching and browsing on the Web over days, months, and years. The prototype learns about and infers “memory landmarks” — events and activities that people would find important and memorable. The system builds a timeline around inferred landmarks, and allows users to zoom in on details of the timeline around inferred landmarks with a “volume control.” The system also enables users to perform search and retrieval of content in the context of the landmarks.
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Essentient Wants To Feed The World Without Farmland →
It’s not easy to feed a rapidly growing planet, and our appetite for meat and biofuels that take up farmland doesn’t help. If only we could create nutrients at will without arable land, skipping all those intermediate steps of actually growing food and feeding animals.
Essentient, a stealth startup based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, thinks it can do just that. The company won’t say much in the way of details, but CEO David Berry has an impressive history. He is the founder of Joule Unlimited, a company that claims it can create renewable fuel out of CO2, sun, water, and microorganisms (though said renewable fuel is currently unavailable).
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The Most Astounding Fact
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked in an interview with TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer.
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The Turing Test
Artificial Intelligence Computer Algorithms compete with each other in a Game Show setting where they attempt to pass the ‘Turing Test’ and be accepted as human.The work represents a new paradigm in computer generated filmmaking. The realistic 3D human-like digital actors were recorded in real-time directly from the display of a standard PC. The characters’ dialogue was created from textwith a text to speech engine or automatically synchronized to real voice audio clips. The digital actors were ‘directed’ using a markup language to describe behaviours and expressions, with real-time interactive playback.
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Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government (TED 2012)
Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can — and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to connect citizens to their governments — and their neighbors.
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Song of the Machine
What if we could change our view of the world with the flick of a switch? ‘Song of the Machine’ explores the possibilities of a new, modified – even enhanced – vision, where users can tune into streams of information and electromagnetic vistas currently outside of human vision.
This film is a part of an ongoing collaboration between Superflux and neuroscientist Dr. Patrick Degenaar, whose pioneering work in optogenetic retinal prostheses aims to bring back sight to the blind.
Unlike the implants and electrodes used to achieve bionic vision, this science modifies the human body genetically from within. First, a virus is used to infect the degenerate eye with a light-sensitive protein, altering the biological capabilities of the subject. Then, the new biological capabilities are augmented with wearable (opto)electronics, which, by mimicking the eye’s neural song, establish a direct optical link to the brain. It’s as if the virus gives the body ears to hear the song of the machine, allowing it to sing the world into being.Related: Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by End of the Year
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Planet-sized video game gets its first release →
A video game capable of rendering an entire planet in 3D brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “open world”. Outerra lets players fly all the way from space down to ground level - zooming in on Cardiff in the UK, or simply soaring over forests and mountain ranges as in the video above.
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Meet Your New Robot Receptionist, the DARPA ARM 'Bot →
Bad news for long-term receptionists: DARPA’s ARM (Autonomous Robotic Manipulation) robot can perform a whopping 18 different reception-ready tasks, from stapling to answering the phone to…turning on a lamp? Grasping things? Also it can’t speak, or redirect calls, really, but it can drill a hole in a piece of wood, which I’m not entirely sure I can do, so it’s an easy shoo-in for our incredibly prestigious Robot of the Week award.
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Applied Sciences Group: Interactive Displays: Behind the Screen Overlay Interactions
Behind the Screen Overlay Interactions: Behind-the-screen interaction with a transparent OLED with view-dependent, depth-corrected gaze.
