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- Tue May 03, 2016 11:18 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Computer generates all possible ideas to beat patent trolls
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Computer generates all possible ideas to beat patent trolls
d6gacn-1200x800[1].jpg By Aviva Rutkin Alex Reben came up with 2.5 million ideas in just three days. Nearly all of them are terrible – but he doesn’t mind. He thinks he has found a way to thwart patent trolls by putting their speculative ideas in the public domain before they can make a claim. In h...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 1:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Shape-shifting matter could let houses crumple themselves aw
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Shape-shifting matter could let houses crumple themselves aw
shape2[1].gif It’s the ultimate Transformer. Flick a switch and watch as your house packs itself into a backpack, or its walls open into a doorway. That’s the vision behind a material that can be programmed to change shape. Developed by Johannes Overvelde at Harvard University and his colleagues, t...
- Fri Dec 04, 2015 10:00 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Blood gushes from virtual leg injury to help train combat me
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Blood gushes from virtual leg injury to help train combat me
mg22830501.900-1_800[1].jpg OUCH! A detailed simulation of a human leg injured by flying shrapnel, gushing blood and all, could help train medics for real combat situations. The video simulation was created by Jeff Eldredge at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues. The main ...
- Sun Nov 01, 2015 9:35 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Self-driving cars involved in more crashes than normal vehic
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Self-driving cars involved in more crashes than normal vehic
dn28427-1_800[1].jpg “About 33,000 people die on America’s roads every year. That’s why so much of the enthusiasm for self-driving cars has focused on their potential to reduce accident rates,” says Chris Urmson, technical director of Google’s self-driving car programme. But a report suggests that ...
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 12:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Mental health apps let you access therapy from your smartpho
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Mental health apps let you access therapy from your smartpho
Apps that let users talk to human therapists or keep tabs on their own mental state are making therapy more accessible and affordable mg22730384.200-1_800[1].jpg LIE down anywhere that suits: the world is now your therapist’s couch. People with problems such as anxiety or mood swings are turning to...
- Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:14 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Robo-roach rolls its curved back to wriggle through cracks
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Robo-roach rolls its curved back to wriggle through cracks
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0CqRcFZHbc[/media] Being skinny isn't always the answer. By giving a robot cockroach a rounded back, it became much better at navigating narrow gaps, as shown in the video above. Although a streamlined shape is key to making a robot fly or swim, this isn't usu...
- Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:45 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: CO2 emissions stall thanks to China's passion for renewable
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- Views: 18796
CO2 emissions stall thanks to China's passion for renewable
dn27741-1_1200[1].jpg New energy policies in China are being heralded as the source of a potentially historic break in the link between global economic growth and rising carbon dioxide emissions. Last year, carbon emissions were unchanged even as the global economy grew by 3 per cent compared with ...
- Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:35 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Tiny origami robot self-folds, walks and recycles itself
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Tiny origami robot self-folds, walks and recycles itself
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awufipq9JnQ[/media] It self-folds, walks and even swims – then recycles itself when its job is done. Made by Shuhei Miyashita and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a 1.7-centimetre-long origami robot made of plastic and containing a magnet ca...
- Sat Jun 06, 2015 11:55 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Ready for a smellfie? Photo tags map the smellscape of a ci
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Ready for a smellfie? Photo tags map the smellscape of a ci
dn27629-1_300[1].jpg Are you ready for your smellfie? Photo captions on visual social networks like Flickr and Instagram can be used to create detailed smell maps of urban areas. A team led by Daniele Quercia at the University of Cambridge used data taken from the sites to plot maps of aroma distri...
- Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:50 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: First-person drone tourism will let you see the sights from
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First-person drone tourism will let you see the sights from
dn27631-1_300[1].jpg EVERY year, hundreds of thousands of tourists visit the Valley of the Temples, a large park of Greek ruins situated on the south-west coast of Sicily. But soon you could be able to get a drone's-eye view of the sights. Helmut Hlavacs at the University of Vienna has developed a ...