3 TED talks that still blow my mind

How about taking a picture with your hands, then sending it by email from the nearest wall? Or turning a piece of paper into a laptop, like that scene on the train in the Caprica pilot? Or pinching a graph on a piece of paper to copy it to your computer? 

Tabletop Device that can Destroy Chemical Weapons

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Solid State Drives (SSD) are improving speeds and capacity on modern computing. They allow for marked improvements above oder models of Hard Drive Disks (HDD)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2048120/benchmarks-dont-lie-ssd-upgrades-deliver-huge-performance-gains.html

Cicada wings inspire new ideas for antibacterial products

Here’s another reason to love cicadas: A new study has found that tiny structures on cicada wings can kill bacteria through physical and not chemical means.

Ray Kurzweil on Technology

Exponential growth of technology.  It's interesting to see . how soon we will approach Singularity. The paradigm shift rate (i.e., the overall rate of technical progress) is currently doubling (approximately) every decade; that is, paradigm shift times are halving every decade (and the rate of acceleration is itself growing exponentially). So, the technological progress in the twenty-first century will be equivalent to what would require (in the linear view) on the order of 200 centuries. In contrast, the twentieth century saw only about 25 years of progress (again at today’s rate of progress) since we have been speeding up to current rates. So the twenty-first century will see almost a thousand times greater technological change than its predecessor. "

Ray Kurzweil inventor, futurist and technologist, has an idea about this called: "The Law of Accelerating Returns".  This essay promotes some wild ideas like this one: "Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity — technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history."  Kurzweil

Raspberry Pi Microwave

 

 

Because normal microwaves are too mainstream. Check out the Raspberry Picrowave here !



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Teen inventor uses 3D printing to revolutionize prosthetics

"I would never have imagined that something I made in my bedroom would be shaking hands with the President," says 17-year-old Easton LaChappelle. But that's exactly what happened when LaChappelle got to visit the White House Science Fair and present the robotic prosthetic arm that he 3D-printed and built in his bedroom lab. (Read more!)

Breakthrough: Robotic limbs moved by the mind

 

In a decade of war, more than 1,300 Americans have lost limbs on the battlefield. And that fact led the Department of Defense to start a crash program to help veterans and civilians by creating an artificial arm and hand that are amazingly human. But that's not the breakthrough. We don't use that word very often because it's overused. But when you see how they have connected this robotic limb to a human brain, you'll understand why we made an exception. (Read more!)

DARPA developing muscle-controlled prosthetic limbs that can feel (video)

DARPA's no stranger to bionic limb research, however two new projects under the agency's RE-NET program focus on improving amputees' link to their prosthetics. RE-NET aims to develop the technology that will connect artificial limbs to existing nerves and muscles. (Read more!)

Synth Skin for Robo-Limbs

It’s not enough to have thought-controlled, artificial limbs that can let wearers type, cook, and play the piano just as easily as they had organic hands. Pentagon-backed researchers want the prosthetics to feel like real limbs, too. So they’re creating patches of synthetic skin that’ll provide direct feedback to the brain. (Read more!)

3D Printed ‘Robohand’ Replaces Lost Fingers for Cheap

Laas now uses a relatively inexpensive, arguably unprecedented hand prosthesis custom-crafted by a 3D printer. ”It looks cool. It makes me look like Darth Vader,”

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/10/3d-printed-robohand-replaces-lost-fingers-for-cheap/#ixzz2gmD5D2X1

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A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics

 

Illustration by Andy Gilmore

Artist’s rendering of the amplituhedron, a newly discovered mathematical object resembling a multifaceted jewel in higher dimensions. Encoded in its volume are the most basic features of reality that can be calculated — the probabilities of outcomes of particle interactions.

By: Natalie Wolchover

September 17, 2013

Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality. (Read more about this!)

GuideIN Tube: The Self-Guided Intubation Robot

Robot can crawl to your lungs

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Omnidirectional Treadmill

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Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature

The new Split device promises a small and hands free alternative for music on the go. Using bites as commands the hearing aid sized ear-buds can change and shuffle your music. they currently have a limited capacity of 24 songs, however.
this is from a kick-starter project.
http://www.popsci.com/article/gadgets/mp3-player-lives-your-ear-controlled-your-teeth?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=2&con=mp3-player-lives-in-your-ear-controlled-with-your-teeth