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#swing #creative
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Indoor Kids Swing
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#google #memory
#google #memory
Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap
Are search engines and the Internet hurting human memory? - Slate Magazine
What’s really happening is that we’ve begun to fit the machines into an age-old technique we evolved thousands of years ago—“transactive memory.” That’s the art of storing information in the people around us. We have begun to treat search engines, Evernote, and smartphones the way we’ve long treated our spouses, friends, and workmates. They’re the handy devices we use to compensate for our crappy ability to remember details.
[...]
If there’s a big danger in using machines for transactive memory, it’s not about making us stupider or less memorious. It’s in the inscrutability of their mechanics. Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work—where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines. They’re for-profit firms that guard their algorithms like crown jewels. And this makes them different from previous forms of transactive machine memory. A public library—or your notebook or sheaf of papers—keeps no intentional secrets about its mechanisms. A search engine keeps many. We need to develop literacy in these tools the way we teach kids how to spell and write; we need to be skeptical about search firms’ claims of being “impartial” referees of information.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/09/are_search_engines_and_the_internet_hurting_human_memory.single.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/09/are_search_engines_and_the_internet_hurting_human_memory.single.html
Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap
Are search engines and the Internet hurting human memory? - Slate Magazine
What’s really happening is that we’ve begun to fit the machines into an age-old technique we evolved thousands of years ago—“transactive memory.” That’s the art of storing information in the people around us. We have begun to treat search engines, Evernote, and smartphones the way we’ve long treated our spouses, friends, and workmates. They’re the handy devices we use to compensate for our crappy ability to remember details.
[...]
If there’s a big danger in using machines for transactive memory, it’s not about making us stupider or less memorious. It’s in the inscrutability of their mechanics. Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work—where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines. They’re for-profit firms that guard their algorithms like crown jewels. And this makes them different from previous forms of transactive machine memory. A public library—or your notebook or sheaf of papers—keeps no intentional secrets about its mechanisms. A search engine keeps many. We need to develop literacy in these tools the way we teach kids how to spell and write; we need to be skeptical about search firms’ claims of being “impartial” referees of information.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/09/are_search_engines_and_the_internet_hurting_human_memory.single.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/09/are_search_engines_and_the_internet_hurting_human_memory.single.html
#robotics #health #drones
#robotics #health #drones
Originally shared by Tyger AC
When someone is having a cardiac arrhythmia, getting an automatic external defibrillator (AED) to that person as quickly as possible can often be the difference between life and death. The problem is that AEDs are usually only readily available in high pedestrian traffic areas such as airports or sports stadiums, due to the cost of each device. In less populated areas, it can sometimes take hours for the necessary equipment to arrive. Imagine if there was a quick and easy way to get the lifesaving tools to someone in need, faster than any ambulance or EMT.
The Defikopter is a drone that can deliver a defibrillator to heart attack victims much quicker than emergency responders. Conceived by Germany-based nonprofit Definetz, the system can carry an AED to any location based on its GPS coordinates. Although the system is still in the early stages of development, the team are developing a smartphone app that those with heart problems, or their family, can download and have on hand in case of emergency.
http://www.psfk.com/2013/09/defibrillator-drone.html
Originally shared by Tyger AC
When someone is having a cardiac arrhythmia, getting an automatic external defibrillator (AED) to that person as quickly as possible can often be the difference between life and death. The problem is that AEDs are usually only readily available in high pedestrian traffic areas such as airports or sports stadiums, due to the cost of each device. In less populated areas, it can sometimes take hours for the necessary equipment to arrive. Imagine if there was a quick and easy way to get the lifesaving tools to someone in need, faster than any ambulance or EMT.
The Defikopter is a drone that can deliver a defibrillator to heart attack victims much quicker than emergency responders. Conceived by Germany-based nonprofit Definetz, the system can carry an AED to any location based on its GPS coordinates. Although the system is still in the early stages of development, the team are developing a smartphone app that those with heart problems, or their family, can download and have on hand in case of emergency.
http://www.psfk.com/2013/09/defibrillator-drone.html
#health #food #vegetarian #vegan
#health #food #vegetarian #vegan
http://juicytip.com/celebs/15-disgusting-ingredients-youre-eating-now
http://juicytip.com/celebs/15-disgusting-ingredients-youre-eating-now
#robotics
#robotics
Originally shared by Lacerant Plainer
Kinematics modular robotic building blocks : Fascinating toys for kids to learn about robotics and renewable energy. Highly recommended by a friend, this looks real fun as well!
Article Extract: kinematics is a building block construction kit that allows children with no computer skills build interactive robots introducing them to mechanics, sensors and renewable energy. the modular kinetic parts and adaptor blocks were invented by leonhard oschütz at bauhaus university weimar developed through 3D printing technologies, which allowed them to easily draft up prototypes of the individual components. the construction system is composed from kinetic modules and adapter blocks which can easily be connected to one another freely without the use of cables. the major feature of the kit is that the components use an integrated servo motor that allows a variety of movements--three different modules for rotational, tilt and shift functions.
The highly creative modular robotic system, Kinematics, allows a wide range of applications. It is possible to construct models based on bionics as well as autonomously moving vehicles – anything is possible. Only a few examples are available now but in the next couple months many new models will be added. All modules can be connected to each other by a 360° rotating-plug-connector. This feature enables the user to both create stable constructions and also guarantees integrated data and power transmission. Stability and wireless connectivity ensures the foolproof joining and separation of, the modules and allows many types of design and movement configurations.
Article Link: http://www.designboom.com/design/kinematics-modular-robotic-building-blocks/
Additional article source: http://www.kinematicblocks.com/en/
Must watch YouTube video: Kinematics - Robotik für Kinder
Additional link : http://robotland.blogspot.in/2013/04/kinematics-next-generation-robotic.html
The science behind Kinematics (Paper) : http://ijeit.com/vol%202/Issue%206/IJEIT1412201212_06.pdf
Link to MIT DRL wiki: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Read more about modular robots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reconfiguring_modular_robot
#science #scienceeveryday #toys #modular #robotics #kinematics
Originally shared by Lacerant Plainer
Kinematics modular robotic building blocks : Fascinating toys for kids to learn about robotics and renewable energy. Highly recommended by a friend, this looks real fun as well!
Article Extract: kinematics is a building block construction kit that allows children with no computer skills build interactive robots introducing them to mechanics, sensors and renewable energy. the modular kinetic parts and adaptor blocks were invented by leonhard oschütz at bauhaus university weimar developed through 3D printing technologies, which allowed them to easily draft up prototypes of the individual components. the construction system is composed from kinetic modules and adapter blocks which can easily be connected to one another freely without the use of cables. the major feature of the kit is that the components use an integrated servo motor that allows a variety of movements--three different modules for rotational, tilt and shift functions.
The highly creative modular robotic system, Kinematics, allows a wide range of applications. It is possible to construct models based on bionics as well as autonomously moving vehicles – anything is possible. Only a few examples are available now but in the next couple months many new models will be added. All modules can be connected to each other by a 360° rotating-plug-connector. This feature enables the user to both create stable constructions and also guarantees integrated data and power transmission. Stability and wireless connectivity ensures the foolproof joining and separation of, the modules and allows many types of design and movement configurations.
Article Link: http://www.designboom.com/design/kinematics-modular-robotic-building-blocks/
Additional article source: http://www.kinematicblocks.com/en/
Must watch YouTube video: Kinematics - Robotik für Kinder
Additional link : http://robotland.blogspot.in/2013/04/kinematics-next-generation-robotic.html
The science behind Kinematics (Paper) : http://ijeit.com/vol%202/Issue%206/IJEIT1412201212_06.pdf
Link to MIT DRL wiki: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Read more about modular robots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reconfiguring_modular_robot
#science #scienceeveryday #toys #modular #robotics #kinematics
#robotics #3dprinting #uavdrones #diy
#robotics #3dprinting #uavdrones #diy
Originally shared by Singularity 2045
#3DPrinting #drones #UAV
"Jasper van Loenen, an independent designer working in the field of interaction/information, design and art, has busted the technology wide open by creating a custom DIY kit that can transform any household object into an unmanned aerial vehicle."
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/07/05/3d-printable-drone-it-yourself-kit-turns-almost-anything-into-an-unmanned-aerial-vehicle/?utm_medium=share+button&utm_source=Twitter&utm_content=3D+printable+'Drone+It+Yourself'+kit+turns+almost+anything+into+an+unmanned+aerial+vehicle&awesm=tnw.to_b0ZW3&utm_campaign=social+media
Originally shared by Singularity 2045
#3DPrinting #drones #UAV
"Jasper van Loenen, an independent designer working in the field of interaction/information, design and art, has busted the technology wide open by creating a custom DIY kit that can transform any household object into an unmanned aerial vehicle."
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/07/05/3d-printable-drone-it-yourself-kit-turns-almost-anything-into-an-unmanned-aerial-vehicle/?utm_medium=share+button&utm_source=Twitter&utm_content=3D+printable+'Drone+It+Yourself'+kit+turns+almost+anything+into+an+unmanned+aerial+vehicle&awesm=tnw.to_b0ZW3&utm_campaign=social+media
iTray - flying robot delivers food to diners’ tables
iTray - flying robot delivers food to diners’ tables
In #UK, a restaurant placed meals on tray and loaded onto a wifi-enabled #quadrocopter to offer food to diner’s table. It is remotely control with an iPad through the on-board camera. #iTray travels up to 25 miles/hour with distance of 50 yards, delivering food faster than ordinary waiter.
Video: YO! Sushi: The world's first flying waiter - the 'iTray'
Source: www.yosushi.com
#robotics #health
#robotics #health
Originally shared by Lacerant Plainer
Robotic maggots proposed for destroying Brain Tumors : Even though this is at the concept stage, its quite evocative!
From Sources (in links): Robotic maggots might be making their way into people's brains. Inspired by a TV show where plastic surgeons use maggots to eat away dead tissue, neurosurgeon J. Marc Simard of the University of Maryland School of Medicine has been developing a prototype for a larvae-esque robot that could get eat away at a brain tumor from the inside.
The bendy bot can zap tumors with an electrocautery tool, then suction out the dead tissue. It can be controlled remotely, making it possible for the surgeon to monitor the tumor and direct the robot to certain tissue while the patient is undergoing an MRI.
Steve Krosnick, M.D., a program director at NIBIB, says real-time MRI guidance during brain tumor surgery would be a tremendous advantage. “Unlike pre-operative MRI or intermittent MRI, which requires interruption of the surgical procedure, real-time intra-operative MRI offers rapid delineation of normal tissue from tumor while accounting for brain shifts that occur during surgery.”
Designing a neurosurgical device that can be used inside an MRI magnet is no easy task. When you scan a person’s brain during an MRI, he’s deep inside the machine’s tunnel. The problem is, how do you get your hands on the brain while the patient’s in the scanner? The team’s solution was to give the surgeon robotic control of the device in order to circumvent the need to access the brain directly.
The most challenging aspect of the project has been designing a robot that can be controlled inside the magnetic field of an MRI. While robots are often controlled via electromagnetic motors, this was not an option because, besides being magnetic, these motors create significant image distortion, making it impossible for the surgeon to perform the task. Instead, Desai decided to use shape memory alloy (SMA)—a material that alters its shape in response to changes in temperature—to control the robot’s movement. In the most recent prototype—developed by Desai and his team at the Robotics, Automation, and Medical Systems (RAMS) laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park—a system of cables, pulleys and SMA springs are used. This cable and pulley system is an improvement from their previous prototype which caused some image distortion.
Main Article Link: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/robo-maggots-will-munch-through-brain-tumors
Additional Article source (NIH): http://www.nibib.nih.gov/news-events/newsroom/robots-could-one-day-help-surgeons-remove-hard-reach-brain-tumors
Maryland Robotics link (Really interesting) : http://robotics.umd.edu/research/projects/Desai_Intracranial_Robot.php
Additional News article: http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/maggot-like-robot-eats-brain-tumors-130910.htm
Video link: Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intracranial Robot
#science #scienceeveryday #robot #surgery #flexibility #MRI
Originally shared by Lacerant Plainer
Robotic maggots proposed for destroying Brain Tumors : Even though this is at the concept stage, its quite evocative!
From Sources (in links): Robotic maggots might be making their way into people's brains. Inspired by a TV show where plastic surgeons use maggots to eat away dead tissue, neurosurgeon J. Marc Simard of the University of Maryland School of Medicine has been developing a prototype for a larvae-esque robot that could get eat away at a brain tumor from the inside.
The bendy bot can zap tumors with an electrocautery tool, then suction out the dead tissue. It can be controlled remotely, making it possible for the surgeon to monitor the tumor and direct the robot to certain tissue while the patient is undergoing an MRI.
Steve Krosnick, M.D., a program director at NIBIB, says real-time MRI guidance during brain tumor surgery would be a tremendous advantage. “Unlike pre-operative MRI or intermittent MRI, which requires interruption of the surgical procedure, real-time intra-operative MRI offers rapid delineation of normal tissue from tumor while accounting for brain shifts that occur during surgery.”
Designing a neurosurgical device that can be used inside an MRI magnet is no easy task. When you scan a person’s brain during an MRI, he’s deep inside the machine’s tunnel. The problem is, how do you get your hands on the brain while the patient’s in the scanner? The team’s solution was to give the surgeon robotic control of the device in order to circumvent the need to access the brain directly.
The most challenging aspect of the project has been designing a robot that can be controlled inside the magnetic field of an MRI. While robots are often controlled via electromagnetic motors, this was not an option because, besides being magnetic, these motors create significant image distortion, making it impossible for the surgeon to perform the task. Instead, Desai decided to use shape memory alloy (SMA)—a material that alters its shape in response to changes in temperature—to control the robot’s movement. In the most recent prototype—developed by Desai and his team at the Robotics, Automation, and Medical Systems (RAMS) laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park—a system of cables, pulleys and SMA springs are used. This cable and pulley system is an improvement from their previous prototype which caused some image distortion.
Main Article Link: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/robo-maggots-will-munch-through-brain-tumors
Additional Article source (NIH): http://www.nibib.nih.gov/news-events/newsroom/robots-could-one-day-help-surgeons-remove-hard-reach-brain-tumors
Maryland Robotics link (Really interesting) : http://robotics.umd.edu/research/projects/Desai_Intracranial_Robot.php
Additional News article: http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/maggot-like-robot-eats-brain-tumors-130910.htm
Video link: Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intracranial Robot
#science #scienceeveryday #robot #surgery #flexibility #MRI
#3dprinting #makerbot #flexiblefilament
#3dprinting #makerbot #flexiblefilament
Originally shared by MakerBot
MakerBot Flexible Filament and Francis Bitonti's The Verlan Dress was featured on StyleCaster today!
http://mbot.co/17t8xyJ
#artificialintelligence
#artificialintelligence
Originally shared by 33rd Square
Ben Goertzel On Aspects of Artificial General Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Researcher and transhumanist Ben Goertzel recently sat down with Adam Ford at the AGI 13 Conference...
http://www.33rdsquare.com/2013/09/ben-goertzel-on-aspects-of-artificial.html
Originally shared by 33rd Square
Ben Goertzel On Aspects of Artificial General Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Researcher and transhumanist Ben Goertzel recently sat down with Adam Ford at the AGI 13 Conference...
http://www.33rdsquare.com/2013/09/ben-goertzel-on-aspects-of-artificial.html
#3dprinting #creative #halloween
#3dprinting #creative #halloween
Originally shared by 3D Prints of the World
Forms in Nature lamp cover
http://3dprintsoftheworld.com/object/forms-nature-lamp-cover
#3dprinting #lighting
#robotics #humor #robot #captcha
#robotics #humor #robot #captcha
http://robohub.org/nate-the-robot-rh-12-well-played-internet/
http://robohub.org/nate-the-robot-rh-12-well-played-internet/
Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems
Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems
ECAL 2013, the twelfth European Conference on Artificial Life, presents the current state of the art of a mature and autonomous discipline collocated at the intersection of a theoretical perspective (the scientific explanations of different levels of life organizations, e.g., molecules, compartments, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, societies, collective and social phenomena) and advanced technological applications (bio-inspired algorithms and techniques to building-up concrete solutions such as in robotics, data analysis, search engines, gaming).
This volume contains research by leading scientists in the field, from fifty different countries and five continents, and describes an impressive array of results, ideas, technologies and applications, including such new and exciting tracks as Adaptive Hardware & Systems and Bioelectronics, Adaptive Living Material Technologies & Biomimetic Microsystems, Artificial Immune, Neural and Endocrine Systems, Artificial Immune Systems–ICARIS, Bioinspired Learning and Optimization, Bioinspired Robotics, Biologically Inspired Engineering, Evolvable Hardware, Evolutionary Electronics & BioChips, Foundations of Complex Systems and Biological Complexity, Mathematical Models for the Living Systems and Life Sciences, Music and the Origins and Evolution of Language, Programmable Nanomaterials, and Synthetic and Systems Biochemistry and Biological Control. This edition also highlights a more profound integration of concepts and ideas from life sciences, artificial intelligence, mathematics, engineering and computer science than have past volumes, as well as a greater integration between dry and wet lab biological results.
#artificialintelligence #ecal2013 #artificiallife #robotics
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/advances-artificial-life-ecal-2013
ECAL 2013, the twelfth European Conference on Artificial Life, presents the current state of the art of a mature and autonomous discipline collocated at the intersection of a theoretical perspective (the scientific explanations of different levels of life organizations, e.g., molecules, compartments, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, societies, collective and social phenomena) and advanced technological applications (bio-inspired algorithms and techniques to building-up concrete solutions such as in robotics, data analysis, search engines, gaming).
This volume contains research by leading scientists in the field, from fifty different countries and five continents, and describes an impressive array of results, ideas, technologies and applications, including such new and exciting tracks as Adaptive Hardware & Systems and Bioelectronics, Adaptive Living Material Technologies & Biomimetic Microsystems, Artificial Immune, Neural and Endocrine Systems, Artificial Immune Systems–ICARIS, Bioinspired Learning and Optimization, Bioinspired Robotics, Biologically Inspired Engineering, Evolvable Hardware, Evolutionary Electronics & BioChips, Foundations of Complex Systems and Biological Complexity, Mathematical Models for the Living Systems and Life Sciences, Music and the Origins and Evolution of Language, Programmable Nanomaterials, and Synthetic and Systems Biochemistry and Biological Control. This edition also highlights a more profound integration of concepts and ideas from life sciences, artificial intelligence, mathematics, engineering and computer science than have past volumes, as well as a greater integration between dry and wet lab biological results.
#artificialintelligence #ecal2013 #artificiallife #robotics
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/advances-artificial-life-ecal-2013
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#ultrahd #lg #humor #fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynvKWYvyCqw&feature=share
#ultrahd #lg #humor #fun
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#artificialintelligence #consciousness
#artificialintelligence #consciousness
Originally shared by Singularity 2045
"Although the Turing test has been held as a benchmark for evaluating machine intelligence, there are many concerns regarding the type of intelligence likely to be identified by the Turing Test. One of the most frequently raised concerns argues that some artificial intelligences may simply convey the intelligence of their creators, and there is no way for the Turing Test to distinguish between a machine that is intelligent in this manner and one that is self-aware, conscious, and capable of reflexively thinking about itself."
#artificialintelligence #intelligence #machineconsciousness
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/chandler20130901
Originally shared by Singularity 2045
"Although the Turing test has been held as a benchmark for evaluating machine intelligence, there are many concerns regarding the type of intelligence likely to be identified by the Turing Test. One of the most frequently raised concerns argues that some artificial intelligences may simply convey the intelligence of their creators, and there is no way for the Turing Test to distinguish between a machine that is intelligent in this manner and one that is self-aware, conscious, and capable of reflexively thinking about itself."
#artificialintelligence #intelligence #machineconsciousness
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/chandler20130901