imagine what good - and bad - things you can do with these.
found by @BLugger
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors
Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs
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Read all about it here: http://kevinkarsch.com/publications/sa11.html
via @petapixel, @_skive_ and @junkafarian
‘Artificial leaf’ developed at MIT makes fuel from sunlight
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via TC - read about it here: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/artificial-leaf-0930.html
AlphaDog Prototyp - another frightening robot by Boston Dynamics
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Remember BigDog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ&feature=relmfu)? Here's the update...
Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies
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"Observers viewed the movie at top left while fixating on a central dot. The averaged high posterior (AHP) reconstructions are shown at left (see main text and Figure S2) for all three subjects S1, S2, and S3. The movies at right are the seven clips with the highest posterior probability, shown in order from most (left) to least (right) probable. The leftmost clip in this group is the MAP reconstruction, the single clip from the sampled prior that had the highest posterior probability. Note that all clips in the reconstructions are updated at 1 Hz, the BOLD signal sampling rate. The AHP reconstructions recover both the structure of the scenes and smooth changes over time (for example, see the spreading of the inkblot and the elephants moving across the scene)."
the freaking future is now - again...
Bird flight deciphered by Festo SmartBird - genius and beautiful.
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I've watched the videos of SmartBird some time ago and simply loved it - but seeing it flying over my head yesterday in Edinburgh at TEDGlobal is something different. I admire the team and Festo for making this happen.
Building Electronics and Lasers Atom by Atom
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full story here: http://t.co/ROPnrC7 (via TC)
DIY robot is the brooding teenager you've always wanted to slap / Engadget
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