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SpaceX's Elon Musk wants to take astronauts to the International Space Station. He wants to take humanity to Mars. You'd think he would forget all about Earth by now, but here's one for us terrestrials: Musk calls it the Hyperloop, and it's a system that never crashes, ignores the weather and is twice as fast as your average plane.
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Rice University students worked on a system allowing the production of energy while simply walking.
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Lot has to be done to improve the whole concept and eventually power medical devices I guess, but it's a nice start. Delete the scoop?
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Et si vous pouviez brancher une batterie de smartphone complètement déchargée et la recharger entièrement en moins d’une seconde ?
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Scientists are working on micro batteries that can charge within seconds. Potentiallyv overcoming one of the main obstacles in the development of mobile devices ever growing use Delete the scoop?
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Designing objects 3D printing no longer requires complex CAD skills. Paul Harter's clever script for Minecraft makes it child's play...
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The perfect match to bring Minecraft AND 3D printing one step further. Letting child (and grownups) enjoy their digital creations in the real world.
Congrats to programmer & father Paul Harter for creating this. Delete the scoop?
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Cloud Shield: a sleek little slab of circuitry that hooks onto your Arduino and gives it (and anything it’s hooked up to) a way of talking to the Internet (and anything connected to it).
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Twine allows to connect physical objects to the Internet (enable my washing machine to send me a text message when the laundry is done for example).
Well, now you can plug it to your Arduino-powered creation thanks to Cloud Shield.
"Pairing Twine and Arduino [with Cloud Shield] gives users the ability and communal knowledge to measure and register things that we ourselves couldn’t conceive of,"John Kestner, co-inventor of Twine says. "Just as Arduino makes it easier to program bits of the physical world, Twine makes it easier to give those things a voice on the Internet." Sounds like a match made in hacker heaven. Delete the scoop?
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Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, researchers say.
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Having a temporary way to use such technologies (versus implants) definitely qualifies the tech for gaming applications. Exciting time ahead. Delete the scoop?
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A patent application discovered by AppleInsider on Thursday reveals Apple is indeed investigating a wearable accessory device that not only boasts a full-length flexible touchscreen display, but conforms to a user's body through the use of a "slap bracelet" mechanism.
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Looks like Apple follows the wearable device path initiated by Nike Plus bracelet or the Pebble Watch. Exciting time ahead.
Tablets could then be used as mobile telephones while staying in your bag. The "problem" is that it should probably have to be an Apple tablet.
Can't wait to see a decent one for Android devices as Pebble is quite limited from what I've seen. Delete the scoop?
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Recorder Pen by Xia Xiaoqian, Renming Jun, Han Ricoeur, Liu Peng, Meng Bao, Weicheng Jie & Yang Xiao
finally a pen for the 21st century.
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A new plastic that allows electronic products to be printed using standard 3D printers could "revolutionise the world around us". Via Artilect FabLab Toulouse
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Carbomorph is a material that widen potential use of 3D printers in the electronic field 
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December 19, 2012 12:10 AM
3D printing starts to become interesting! Delete the scoop?
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Helsinki based high tech firm Canatu started a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo today for their rollable keyboard for smartphones and tablets Qii (we certainly covered a lot of keyboards recently!).
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rollable electronic devices are going to be an interesting trend of the near future innovative gera susch as smartphones. Can't wait to get my hands on it! Delete the scoop?
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An overview of the 3D printers available in the Maker Shed. This grid compares their price, features, capabilities, and availability. Delete the scoop?
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The comic book industry’s built on “a mix of bad deals wrought by crooked publishers and an aging audience more likely to discuss ‘Would Hulk or Batman win a fight?’ during a funeral than at a party,” says Matt Pizzolo - co-founder of Occupy Comics publisher Black Mask Studios and founder of transmedia production house Halo-8.
“Now that the lion’s share of the 20th century’s pop-cultural capital has been consolidated into the intellectual-property libraries of two Hollywood studios, it’s time to wipe the slate clean and rebuild comics from scratch: new ideas, innovations, business models, blood and modes of storytelling.” Delete the scoop?
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Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements. The Leap manufacturer claims it can distinguish your individual fingers and track your movements down to a 1/100th of a millimeter. Delete the scoop?
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Robin Good: Web of Stories is a free web site service which collects and organizes great people recounting key memories in video. Web of Stories also provides an opportunity for anyone to record, upload and share their own story in a video clip.
Record your story here: http://www.webofstories.com/record
On the site, you can already find plenty of videos of famous scientists, authors, movie makers and artists telling their stories through video.
Thematic channels: http://www.webofstories.com/channels
Telling stories, to help others understand an idea or comprehend what your product / service is all about, is increasingly being recognized as one of the best approaches to convey information in a mode that can be easily followed and absorbed.
P.S.: Web of Stories has lots of interesting clips, but nonetheless the opportunity for viewers to vote and rate such videos, navigation and access to the collection best parts remains yet an area in which major imporvements can be done.
Try it now: http://www.webofstories.com/
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Arduino, the open-source rapid electronic prototyping project, announced a pair of new products at the Maker Faire San Mateo this weekend - including its answer to the popular Raspberry Pi single-board computer. Via jean lievens
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Looks like Arduino is ramping up. "robot kit" enough said! Delete the scoop?
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Giuseppe Acito's Toa Mata Band are all about the music, man.
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Sound designer & producer Giuseppe Acito constructed a Lego Bionicle band programmed to play a selection of different instruments, from synthesizers to drum machines, xylophones, handheld VG devices... Delete the scoop?
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Robbie Tilton has put together an amazing video demo showing a Leap Motion controlling a Three.js rendered 3d hologram of the earth. It is projected on a 4-sided prism, and while it’s not quite as good as what Tony Stark has in Iron Man, it’s still pretty darn cool. And it’s controlled by JavaScript!
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The Leap Motion is a smalldevice that you can put on your desk to control an ordinary computer using hand motions. It’s extremely accurate, allowing for very fine motor control using all of your fingers.
And when you see how Kinect and Wii motion control systems have been derived from their initial purpose, you can easily figure out the need for such a device. Leap Motion will clearly help define tomorrow's standard user interface. Delete the scoop?
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scientists at the Univeristy of Science and Technology of China have developed an environmentally friendly method of creating carbon nanotube aerogels. The ultra light, fire-resistant material is made from bacterial cellulose, and it could have a wide variety of applications in fields such as nanotechnology,
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The frosted-glass doors on the 11th floor of Google’s NYC headquarters part and a woman steps forward to greet me. This is an otherwise normal specimen of humanity. Normal height, slender build;...
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The article does a pretty good job tackling the issue of "disruptive" technology and how they get around BEFORE people actually feel a need for them. It concludes with the journalist admitting that after it tried it, he no longer asks himself "if" but "when" this product is going to make a splash.
I have to say that I am still not convinced about the whole thing - except for the First Person instant video recording I always dreamed of (and was scared of if others used it). The bottom line is that I would never wear that 24/7 just to be able to record a video once in a while. Delete the scoop?
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London-based studio Cohen Van Balen is creating devices for feeding pigeons with bacterias that make them poo soap.
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Finally! our city's winged rats are put to use. It's about time! Delete the scoop?
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Autodesk and Organovo have announced they will partner to develop software that can 3D print real human tissue.
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Autodesk might be taking a giant leap by moving in this new field - far away from industrial design & architecture softwares. Ethically, that will rise a LOT of questions - as scientific progress often does. Delete the scoop?
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GeekChumby developer building open source laptopThe HOpen hardware means that there are no licensing fees for circuit diagrams and specifications. Via frederique
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Open Source Hardware is still too rare. Here is a good initiative aiming at creating an open source laptop. Delete the scoop?
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Bringing us a step closer to a Terminator-style augmented-reality display, University of Washington engineers have constructed an experimental contact lens with a single-pixel embedded light-emitting diode (LED) and tested it in a rabbit. Delete the scoop?
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Rollerphone concept isn't merely a wrist band that projects time, but it’s actually a phone with a retractable transparent screen at the base.
It features perfect ergonomics and anthropometry in design thanks to customization – meaning the screen unfurls only to the tip of your fingers, so basically it give you a good fit between the ear and the mouth.
Besides the obvious features found in the latest cellphones, Rollerphone boasts of an enviable media centre. You can watch videos, chat online, play games, read books and listen to music.
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By sharing information "bits" in a creative commons, entrepreneurs are making new things (reshaping "atoms") more cheaply and quickly. The new manufacturing is a powerful economic force not because any one business becomes gigantic, but because technology makes it possible for tens of thousands of businesses to find their customers, to form their communities. A firm believer in the wisdom of crowds, Anderson doesn't take time to explore the dangers -- or the limits -- of wired dilettantism.
Hallelujah! Copyleft FTW! Delete the scoop?
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LapPi is a DIY Raspberry laptopTG DailyAre you a modder with a spare Raspberry Pi dev board? If so, you might want to check out the LapPi mod. Via frederique Delete the scoop?
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