Sixth Sense is a mini-projector coupled with a camera and a cellphone—which acts as the computer and your connection to the Cloud, all the information stored on the web. Sixth Sense can also obey hand gestures. The SixthSense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system. The map application [...]
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Earth-Like Planet
It’s reported that NASA’s Kepler deep space probe has found a planet, similar to Earth. It’s close to the size of earth and about 352 light years away. The planet is called Kepler-22b. The planet orbits a bright star like the our sun. “We’re getting closer and closer to discovering the so-called ‘Goldilocks planet,’” Pete [...]
Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer
One of the newest TED talks in which Henry Markham, director of Blue Brain, a supercomputing project shows how he built a brain in a supercomputer.
Observe the stars in crystal clarity with telescope filters
Nobody can deny the pure beauty and brilliance of the stars. Impossible to number and impossible to describe their beauty, these little pinpricks of light in the sky have the power to stop us dead in our tracks. Whilst looking at the stars after dark, many people can drift away and forget about any worries. [...]
The Elegant Universe
In Einstein’s day, the strong and weak forces had not yet been discovered, but he found the existence of even two distinct forces—gravity and electromagnetism—deeply troubling. Einstein did not accept that nature is founded on such an extravagant design. This launched his 30-year voyage in search of the so-called unified field theory that he hoped [...]
Which math problem Dr Grigori Perelman Solved
The 44-year-old Russian, who solved the world’s toughest math problem, refused the $1 million prize for his lack of interest in money or fame. “He said he would let me know at some point,” stated Jim Carlson, president of the US-based Institute. “He did not give a sense of timing, but I do not expect [...]
Woman X
“It was a sequence that looked something like humans but really quite different.”, said Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, about Genetic material pulled from a pinky finger bone found in a Siberian that could belong to an entirely new species of hominid. The creature, nicknamed “Woman X” for [...]
The cause of the dinosaurs extinction
It’s reported that the new study, conducted by scientists from Europe, the United States, Mexico, Canada and Japan and published in the journal Science, found that a 15-kilometre (9 miles) wide asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub in what is now Mexico was the culprit. “We now have great confidence that an asteroid was the [...]
Tank gets cooler and cleaner
According to RSC.org scientists have improved the performance of ammonia borane as a hydrogen storage material – making it more practical for a fuel tank in hydrogen-powered vehicles. The material was enhanced by the addition of catalytic nanoparticles to the structure, allowing it to release hydrogen more cleanly and at lower temperatures. Finding ways to [...]
Future technology 2010 – 2025
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