These little bots make cockroaches believe that they’re one of them, at least that’s what the roaches want us to believe – LEURRE will propose a modeling protocol to be applied to the calculus of emergence in mixed-societies and study its properties. Its goal is similar to research in collective intelligence or self-organization, namely to […]
Electronics Weekly on “printed electronics” – Nowadays, the term printed electronics is taken to include thin film electronics that will become printable. Most of the potential for printed electronics lies in what Toppan Forms calls Smart Media Products (SMP) which will be intelligent and mass producible yet often customisable as well. They will usually be […]
Todbot writes – Another technology sketch from my company ThingM. This time it’s Valentine’s Day-themed, with LoveM, a heart-shaped box of “memory chocolates”. LoveM is a Technology Sketch of an augmented box of chocolates that displays personal memories on an LCD screen as chocolates are removed from the box. It attempts to evoke joy and […]
Wired has an interesting story about the growing problem of fake holograms… Fake holograms also undermine anti-counterfeiting practices erected by memorabilia and coin collecting groups, in which valuable collectibles — like comic books, coins and baseball cards — are sealed in bags with numbered holograms that a potential buyer can verify with special hologram reading-gear. […]
Most of the time all you see are slick videos of the new bipedal robots flawlessly trotting about, but we like this one, when things go a little wrong… – Link. The action starts 58 seconds in.
Erica Ogg @ News.com has a great write up of last weekend’s SF Recycling & Disposal Artist in Residence program exhibit… I’m putting this in the “News from the Future” category, what a great program for artists and cities… There is so much stuff, it seems art is a natural fit… “It’s said that one […]
Sven sent in this video demonstrating Behrokh Khoshnevis’ Robo Building machine in action – Link. Related: Behrokh Khoshnevis – Link. Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT) – Link.
