Vernor Vinge’s article on Nature.com about virtual worlds – “2020 Computing: The creativity machine. What will emerge from using the Internet as a research tool? The answer, Vernor Vinge argues, will be limited only by our imaginations.” – Link. Pictured here, my avatar at a five-room simulated heart clinic – SLurl.
New Scientist’s Barry Fox digs up cool and interesting patents, like this one, a tiny remote controlled implant – “Remember Fantastic Voyage, the 1966 sci-fi movie in which a medical team is miniaturised and injected into the body of a dying man aboard a tiny submarine? No one has yet shrunk a surgeon, but Lawrence […]
When I was making my own VR system, I used a mannequin and joked how it would be better to just have robots wear clothes and walk runway… – “Veteran Japanese designer Hanae Mori hates what automation has done to the industry. But bringing back her classic Chrysanthemum Dress after 40 years, she has enlisted […]
Printing circuitry on self copying robots – “A self-replicating 3D printer that spawns new, improved versions of itself is in development at the University of Bath in the UK. The “self replicating rapid prototyper” or RepRap could vastly reduce the cost of 3D printers, paving the way for a future where broken objects and spare […]
Reminds of the old 80’s coin-op game “Time Traveler” – A central, powerfully inovative development project is the novel input device MRI – Mixed Reality Interface. The new input device MRI – developed by KOMMERZ – opens the use of interactive 3D applications to a broad audience.” – [via] Link. KOMMERZ – Link. Related: You […]
Doesn’t get more NEWS FROM THE FUTURE than this… – “The RI-MAN robot carries a life-sized doll at the Riken laboratory in Nagoya, central Japan. The RI-MAN is a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country’s growing number of elderly.” [via] Link. Related: […]
This robot hitches a ride on people to get around – “The Parasitic Humanoid (PH) is a wearable robot for modeling nonverbal human behavior. This anthropomorphic robot senses the behavior of the wearer and has the internal models to learn the process of human sensory motor integration continuously, thereafter it begins to predict the next […]
