By Joseph Flaherty - "If 3-D printers are ever going to live up to their promise as the factories of the future, they’ll need to do more than just pop out plastic doodads. MakerBots can churn out plastic Yoda heads all day long, but even relatively simple electromechanical constructions are still far beyond the capabilities of even the most advanced 3-D printers.
It turns out the challenge isn’t so much the machines, but rather what’s put into them. Professor Jennifer Lewis is the head of the Lewis Lab at Harvard and has spent the last couple decades working on a series of smart “inks” that allow designers to create bespoke batteries and electrical contacts using entry-level 3-D printers. “We’re focusing on expanding 3-D printing from form into function,” she says. With enough time and a little luck, designers will be able to 3-D print a robot and watch it walk itself out of the printer."... For full post, visit: http://www.wired.com/design/2013/12/3-d-printing-batteries/?cid=co16232064
"inFORM is a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way. inFORM can also interact with the physical world around it, for example moving objects on the table's surface. Remote participants in a video conference can be displayed physically, allowing for a strong sense of presence and the ability to interact physically at a distance. inFORM is a step toward our vision of Radical Atoms: tangible.media.mit.edu/vision/tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/"
"The advent of 3-D printing brought on a number of innovations worthy of news coverage. Printers have created prosthetic hands, action figures, food, even blood vessels, simply by depositing layer after layer of different kinds of ink. Now a handful of engineers around the world are trying to push the boundaries one step further — by printing objects that can build themselves.
"Hillary Sadlon spent six months preparing for her most recent birthday.
The Seton Hall University senior was not planning a massive party. Instead, Sadlon was getting set to donate blood, deliver supplies to an animal shelter, load an elderly couple's car with groceries and help drivers pay their expressway tolls. These good deeds represented only a fraction of what she dubbed 'Hillary's 22 Random Acts of Kindness.'
This past July, to coincide with her 22nd birthday, the nursing student embarked — with her boyfriend Evan Reed and best friend Meghan Cox — on a two-state, five-city, 10-hour goodwill tour. Sadlon's aim with her "Random Acts of Kindness" adventure: bringing joy to others on a day we typically reserve for ourselves." http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/24/seton-hall-student-22-acts-of-kindness/2859527/ ;
"Why does music make us feel? On the one hand, music is a purely abstract art form, devoid of language or explicit ideas. The stories it tells are all subtlety and subtext. And yet, even though music says little, it still manages to touch us deep, to tickle some universal nerves. When listening to our favorite songs, our body betrays all the symptoms of emotional arousal. The pupils in our eyes dilate, our pulse and blood pressure rise, the electrical conductance of our skin is lowered, and the cerebellum, a brain region associated with bodily movement, becomes strangely active. Blood is even re-directed to the muscles in our legs. (Some speculate that this is why we begin tapping our feet.) In other words, sound stirs us at our biological roots. As Schopenhauer wrote, 'It is we ourselves who are tortured by the strings.'" http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/the-neuroscience-of-music/
"Multiple studies link music study to academic achievement. But what is it about serious music training that seems to correlate with outsize success in other fields? The connection isn’t a coincidence. I know because I asked. I put the question to top-flight professionals in industries from tech to finance to media, all of whom had serious (if often little-known) past lives as musicians. Almost all made a connection between their music training and their professional achievements...."
"...strikingly, many high achievers told me music opened up the pathways to creative thinking. And their experiences suggest that music training sharpens other qualities: Collaboration. The ability to listen. A way of thinking that weaves together disparate ideas. The power to focus on the present and the future simultaneously." - JoAnne Lipman Full story at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/opinion/sunday/is-music-the-key-to-success.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 ;
In a jaw-dropping feat of engineering, electronics turn a person's thoughts into commands for a robot. Using a brain-computer interface technology pioneered ...
"The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science." http://dp.la
"These wonderful photographs by Elena Shumilova plunge the viewer into a beautiful world that revolves around two boys and their adorable dog, cat, duckling and rabbit friends."
"Ormond Gigli, longtime photographer for TIME, LIFE, Paris Match and others, snapped everything from farmers to movie stars in his decades long career. But his most famous image, “Girls in the Windows” — taken on New York’s East 58th Street in 1960 – was made on a whim.
Widely considered one of the most famous fashion shots of the 1960s, it captures a slice of long-gone New York (the brownstones pictured were demolished the next day), and the picture’s influence stretches beyond photography. TIME caught up with Gigli before the mid-November release of a new book looking back at his life’s work."... Read more: "Girls in the Windows": The Real Story Behind an Iconic Photo | TIME.com http://entertainment.time.com/2013/11/14/girls-in-the-windows-the-real-story-behind-an-iconic-new-york-photo/#ixzz2khAQPSWK
MARIO BASANOV & VIDIS feat JAZZU - I'll be gone | Music video Producers: Martynas Mickenas, Arunas Matacius| Directing and Motion Graphics: KORB| Produced in...
"Team Need 4 Speed are back in this extended length video documentary.
The first in a series of videos to be produced in 2012 featuring the members of the BASE proximity flying team - Need 4 Speed - this video focuses on Robert Pecnik, wingsuit designer and owner of Phoenix Fly."
"The colorful secret of a 1,600-year-old Roman chalice at the British Museum is the key to a supersensitive new technology that might help diagnose human disease or pinpoint biohazards at security checkpoints."
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