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One solution to the head-mounted-computer user interface conundrum involves hand gestures. Enter a new Google patent that seems to be the search giant’s answer to controlling its Project Glass augmented reality system. Titled, “wearable marker for passive interaction,” the patented system, which just went public Tuesday, would use a reflective infrared identifier placed on a user’s hand to track and identify the user’s gestures. Via Gary Hayes 
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In the Star Wars movies, moisture farmers on dry planets like Tattoine use droids to help with the repetitive, back-breaking labor, but that's in a galaxy far, far away. There's no doubt that robots are cool, but are robots on farms far off in our future? Actually, the future is already here, with highly advanced milking machines on some dairy farms and a fully automated robot planting tractor set to hit the market this fall. Via Szabolcs Kósa
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The average episode of Top Gear runs around $1 million to produce. But those high-style, high-flying ? and incredibly expensive ? Via Kalani Kirk Hausman, Sakis Koukouvis
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True paradigm shifts are rare so the comparison of 3D printing in 2012 to printing texts with moveable type developed by Gutenberg in the 1440s suggests a big revolution. Neri Oxman (left), from MIT's Media Lab, constructs forms (right) using 3D printing technologies (along with colleagues Joe Hicklin and Craig Carter and the help of Objet and Connex). She believes the comparison of the importance of 3D printing to Gutenberg's printing press is justified. She says that impact 3d printing will have on making in the 21st century is comparable to the effect that the printing press had on reading and writing, beginning in the mid 15th century. Via Rex Brodie
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Brain Farm teams up with SnapRoll & Schiebel to create a new level of gyro-stabilized cinematography
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La réalité augmentée consiste à intégrer des images de synthèse dans un environnement réel. Jusqu'à présent, ses applications étaient principalement axées sur le monde des jeux-vidéo et dans le domaine militaire. Mais récemment, Prof. Marilyn Safir et Dr. Helene Wallach de l'université de Haïfa ont eu l'idée d'utiliser cette technologie comme support d'un traitement connu sous le nom de thérapie cognitivo-comportementale…
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Some of the values a Futurist has to offer: 1.) Altered Thinking 2.) Unique Perspective 3.) Evidence of Change 4.) Connecting the Dots 5.) Find Your Future Competitive Advantage 6.) Take Control of Change before the Changes Take Control of You 7.) The Future is Where Our Children Live 8.) Every Avalanche begins with the Movement of a Single Snowflake
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Microsoft Research vient de mettre en ligne une vidéo présentant un prototype de ce qu'ils appellent la MirageTable. Il s'agit en réalité d'un montage utilisant un Kinect, couplé à un projecteur 3D, qui permet de manipuler des objets 3D. Et si vous sortez les lunettes pour voir tout ça en relief, vous aurez un bon aperçu de ce que seront les séances de travail collaboratives et longues distances du futur. C'est en tout cas vers cet axe que Microsoft semble diriger ses travaux, même si pour tout ce qui est jeux vidéos, les interactions 3D (et vues en relief - 3D stéréoscopique)) présenteront forcement de l'intérêt.... Lire la suite http://j.mp/JfdLnt
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As opposed to traditional 'subtractive' methods of carving or sculpting, 3D printing is an 'additive' method of manufacturing that builds up solid objects one thin layer at a time.
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Robin Good: EPIC expands its line of wearable adventure video camcorders with the new EPIC 1080.
With the ability to record in stunning 1920x1080 high definition, the EPIC 1080 captures all the action of the hunt with sharp, high-resolution video and crisp, clear audio.
Key features: 1080, 960p 30 fps video recording 168º wide-angle lens H264 recording codec .MP4 recoding format Time-lapse recoding Still image camera 8mp External LCD screen display Multiple mounting devices Waterproof casing Uses 3 AAA portable batteries Accepts up to 32GB SD memory cardsPrice: aroud $200
Via Robin Good
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Avatars and robots can now be used to help people "visit" remote locations via the internet - but this raises a host of moral and legal questions.
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The DIWire Bender is a rapid prototype machine that bends metal wire to produce 2D or 3D shapes.
A partir de fil métallique plié en 2D ou 3D... Ingénieux
Via mrbbp
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Le laboratoire Disney Research a mis au point une technologie tactile, baptisée Touché, capable de détecter des mouvements sur n’importe quel type de surface, y compris liquide. Via Audrey Bardon
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Expanding on its existing SDK for mobile developers, metaio has unveiled the launch of a new, simple, augmented reality toolkit. Via callooh
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The world's most amazeballs digital photography company isn't Canon or Nikon. It's a tiny company in Tucson, Arizona: Spectral Instruments. They make the craziest digital cameras on the planet.
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... suppose the Economist is right – that digital manufacturing really does wipe out the low-level manufacturing jobs currently provided, here and overseas, by older technology. What then happens to the hundreds of millions of people who will have no employment (not everyone can become "designers, engineers, IT specialists, logistics experts", after all), and who, incidentally, will not have the disposable income to purchase the wonderful products created by digital manufacturing? 3D printing may indeed be indistinguishable from magic; but it could turn out to be of the blacker variety Via Rex Brodie
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A new study in Nature reports that two people with tetraplegia were able to reach for and grasp objects in three-dimensional space using robotic arms that they controlled directly with brain activity.
They used the BrainGate neural interface system, an investigational device currently being studied under an Investigational Device Exemption. One participant used the system to serve herself coffee for the first time since becoming paralyzed nearly 15 years ago.
Read more...
Via Gust MEES
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"Hopper" rover/spacecraft concept by Stanford University's Marco PavoneWith all there’s yet to learn about our solar system from the many smaller worlds that reside within it — asteroids, protoplanets and small moons — one researcher from Stanford... Via José Gonçalves, Sakis Koukouvis
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MIT’s Johnson Athletic Center took on the aura of an old-fashioned county fair on Thursday night, complete with popcorn, balloons, jugglers, cotton candy and pitchmen wearing brightly colored jackets and bowties. But rather than ring tosses and sheep-shearing, the central event was a series of one-on-one matchups between an amazing variety of robots that students have spent the whole semester designing, building and testing. Via Jason Epstein
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Pioneer propose le premier système de pare-brise intelligent, GPS + réalité augmentée intégrés dans votre pare-brise.
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Vous aimeriez pouvoir laisser des messages holographiques comme dans Star Wars ou iRobot ? Tenez-vous bien car cela sera bientôt possible grâce à la Kinect !
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'Prometheus' writer Jon Spaihts on science fiction worldbuilding. via img.gawkerassets.com. We've been eagerly following Prometheus, the Ridley Scott space epic, so we're glad to see io9 give us a chat with its writer, Jon Spaihts.Know All That!
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Robin Good: The aiRCam GP is an economic prototype and yet to be funded remote-controlled skycam/flycam system that can utilize small point and shoot video cameras like the GoPro.
Key features: Light-weight Incredible Value Easy to set-up Variable Speed Motor Pan and Tilt Head Designed around GoPro but accepts many point and shoot cameras. Rugged with replacement parts available
The project is up at Kickstarter trying to rig $75,000 to put this little monster under production.
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's comment May 12, 2012 9:17 AM
Thank you Robin, for picking this up.
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