New Scientist reports that Alexander Besher’s new multimedia sci-fi novel, Manga Man, is not only available to read online, you can have it published to your mobile phone by scanning a QR code on a promotional t-shirt. More unusually (at least by Western standards) is that the book is being published direct to mobile phones. […]
Google is aggregating their search data to estimate flu activity by state, they say up to two weeks faster than the CDC. We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Of course, not every person who searches for “flu” is actually […]
WF-4RIV the flute playing robot… via LoL. In 2007, we developed the anthropomorphic flutist robot WF-4RIV(Waseda Flutist No.4 Refined IV) with 41-DOFs which has enhanced its flute performance by producing more natural notes and smoother transitions between notes. In this year, the lips and tonguing mechanisms have been re-designed to reproduce more accuraterly the human […]
The Mcor Technologies 3D printer makes objects from regular paper… via Giz
Ok gang, CNN is doing hologram interviews – things were weird before, but now we’re about an hour past that.
Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time @ CNN… It’s called “The Internet of Things” — at least for now. It refers to an imminent world where physical objects and beings, as well as virtual data and environments, all live and interact with each other in the same space and time. In short, everything is […]
Nice round up of what 3D printers can do now… via BtB. The concept of custom manufacturing is exciting to nearly everyone, but it always seems to be something that will happen in the “futureâ€. Gibson was right and the following list of applications for 3D printers show the truth in the saying “The future […]
