Jessica Meyer

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Samsung predicts the world 100 years from now

'A new study commissioned by Samsung paints a vivid picture of our future lives; suggesting the way we live, work and play will change beyond recognition over the course of the next century. The SmartThings Future Living Report was authored by a team of leading academics – including TV presenter and space scientist, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, award-winning futurist architects and lecturers at the University of Westminster, Arthur Mamou-Mani and Toby Burgess, as well as pioneering urbanists Linda Aitken and Els Leclerq.

The report was released to promote SmartThings, a system which allows people to make their home smarter, meaning that at any time and from anywhere it is possible to switch on lights, turn up the thermostat or unlock the back door, all via a simple app or automatically through daily routines – something that might have seemed like science fiction as little as 10 years ago, but today is a reality.'

http://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2016/02/24.htm#.VtFk8ELR0_s

Samsung SmartThings | Smart Home Automation Systems & Products http://www.samsung.com/us/smart-home/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtR7poDwb9s

This should only take a few moments, right?

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This should only take a few moments, right?

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What do you think, agree or disagree?

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Being creative is always a good thing!

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Being creative is always a good thing!

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Well, that is one way to learn how to do something new...

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A tried and true method...

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Inception at the mobile phone level...

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http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/26/future-of-work-remote-controlled-vehicle-operators-in-demand-in...

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http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/26/future-of-work-remote-controlled-vehicle-operators-in-demand-in-2035
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/26/future-of-work-remote-controlled-vehicle-operators-in-demand-in-2035

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Conspiracy Theories 1 - NASA 0, your move reality!

Conspiracy Theories 1 - NASA 0, your move reality!

Video Friday: Support Group for Bots, Russian Humanoid, and ANYmal Quadruped

Originally shared by Automaton, IEEE Spectrum's Robotics Blog
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/video-friday-watson-support-group-for-robots-russian-humanoid-anymal-quadruped

"All work can be divided into four types: routine and nonroutine, cognitive and manual." "Routine work started to...

Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky

"All work can be divided into four types: routine and nonroutine, cognitive and manual." "Routine work started to stagnate in 1990, because some of that work can be best handled by machines."

"Of course, routine work once formed the basis of the American middle class. It's routine, manual work that Henry Ford paid people middle-class wages to perform, and it's routine cognitive work that once filled American office buildings. That world is dwindling, leaving only two kinds of jobs with rosy outlooks: jobs that require so little thought that they pay next to nothing, and jobs that require so much thought that the salaries are exorbitant."

"Advances in technology are now so exponential that milestones we once thought far away will start arriving rapidly. What’s more, humans are entirely unprepared." But what are humans supposed to do to "prepare"? The writer argues for a universal basic income, but is that even possible?
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/02/24/robots-will-take-your-job/5lXtKomQ7uQBEzTJOXT7YO/story.html

Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots : Nature...

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Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots : Nature Materials : Nature Publishing Group

'... AbstractMicroorganisms move in challenging environments by periodic changes in body shape. In contrast, current artificial microrobots cannot actively deform, exhibiting at best passive bending under external fields. Here, by taking advantage of the wireless, scalable and spatiotemporally selective capabilities that light allows, we show that soft microrobots consisting of photoactive liquid-crystal elastomers can be driven by structured monochromatic light to perform sophisticated biomimetic motions. We realize continuum yet selectively addressable artificial microswimmers that generate travelling-wave motions to self-propel without external forces or torques, as well as microrobots capable of versatile locomotion behaviours on demand. Both theoretical predictions and experimental results confirm that multiple gaits, mimicking either symplectic or antiplectic metachrony of ciliate protozoa, can be achieved with single microswimmers. The principle of using structured light can be extended to other applications that require microscale actuation with sophisticated spatiotemporal coordination for advanced microrobotic technologies.
...'

http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4569.html

A swimming microrobot is driven by a light-induced peristaltic motion

' ... Light-driven microswimmers: the material of the swimming body, which measures just under one millimetre in length, is chosen so that it changes shape when exposed to green light. This causes wave-shaped protrusions to form along the swimmer and drive it in the opposite direction when light patterns move over its surface. ... '

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-microrobot-driven-light-induced-peristaltic-motion.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-microrobot-driven-light-induced-peristaltic-motion.html

Vigorous Exercise Boosts Neurotransmitters and May Help Restore Mental Health

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Vigorous Exercise Boosts Neurotransmitters and May Help Restore Mental Health

People who exercise have better mental fitness, and a new imaging study from UC Davis Health System shows why. Intense exercise increases levels of two common neurotransmitters — glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA — that are responsible for chemical messaging within the brain.

The research is in Journal of Neuroscience. (full access paywall)

#depression #exercise
http://neurosciencenews.com/exercise-depression-gaba-glutamate-3730

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Robo Atlas - Next generation

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Robo Atlas - Next generation
Atlas is a high mobility, humanoid robot designed to negotiate outdoor, rough terrain. Atlas can walk bipedally leaving the upper limbs free to lift, carry, and manipulate the environment. In extremely challenging terrain, Atlas is strong and coordinated enough to climb using hands and feet, to pick its way through congested spaces.

Boston Dynamics unveiled a massively upgraded version of its ATLAS humanoid that is smaller, lighter, and more agile.
The new ATLAS can do things we’ve never seen other robots doing before, making it one of the most advanced humanoids in existence.

Watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

Know more:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/next-generation-of-boston-dynamics-atlas-robot

#robos #innovation #ATLAS #science

Like magic. Coca-Cola folds their packaging into Cardboard viewers. https://youtu.be/eamKy74n-vM

Like magic. Coca-Cola folds their packaging into Cardboard viewers. https://youtu.be/eamKy74n-vM

Sony Announces PlayStation VR Press Event For March 15

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

Sony Announces PlayStation VR Press Event For March 15

With just weeks to go before the first orders of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive find their way into buyers’ living rooms, Sony is sending out press invitations for a special event highlighting the PlayStation VR to be held on March 15 in San Francisco
http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/23/sony-announces-playstation-vr-press-event-for-march-15/?ncid=rss

Another week, another decent update for Android users.

Another week, another decent update for Android users.

#googleplusupdate

Ron Garan wants you to see Earth from space, too.

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Ron Garan wants you to see Earth from space, too.
http://oak.ctx.ly/r/4bsr6

Condé Nast Virtual Reality Series 'Invisible' Coming Soon | Digital Trends

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Condé Nast Virtual Reality Series 'Invisible' Coming Soon | Digital Trends

'Watching TV is the past; being TV is the future.

In a collaboration with 30 Ninjas production company, Condé Nast Entertainment and virtual reality company Jaunt will produce Invisible — an episodic action-adventure series in virtual reality and the first of its kind, the companies say.'

http://www.digitaltrends.com/virtual-reality/conde-nast-jaunt-vr-samsung-invisible/
http://www.digitaltrends.com/virtual-reality/conde-nast-jaunt-vr-samsung-invisible/

VIDEO: Geoengineering ramps up with autonomous drone building clouds aka "cloud seeding"

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VIDEO: Geoengineering ramps up with autonomous drone building clouds aka "cloud seeding"

https://futuristech.info/posts/video-geoengineering-ramps-up-with-autonomous-drone-building-clouds-aka-cloud-seeding

Photos of China's 'bizarre architecture' - Business Insider

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Photos of China's 'bizarre architecture' - Business Insider

'... Over the last few years, the country has built a reputation as home to some of the boldest architecture of the 21st century. Its landmarks include a teapot-shaped tourist center, a phallic-looking media headquarters, and a replica of a centuries-old Austrian village.

Here are the kinds of strange architectural gems the Chinese people may soon be missing out on.
...'

http://uk.businessinsider.com/weird-buildings-ban-china-2016-2?r=US&IR=T

Image: 'The infamous doughnut-shaped Guangzhou Circle sits on the Pearl River, so that when reflected in the water, it looks like a figure eight — a lucky number in Chinese culture.'
http://uk.businessinsider.com/weird-buildings-ban-china-2016-2?r=US&IR=T

New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function - ScienceAlert

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New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function - ScienceAlert

'Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques - structures that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzheimer’s patients.'

http://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function/

Scanning ultrasound removes amyloid-β and restores memory in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model | Science Translational Medicine

'...Abstract Amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We present a nonpharmacological approach for removing Aβ and restoring memory function in a mouse model of AD in which Aβ is deposited in the brain. We used repeated scanning ultrasound (SUS) treatments of the mouse brain to remove Aβ, without the need for any additional therapeutic agent such as anti-Aβ antibody. Spinning disk confocal microscopy and high-resolution three-dimensional reconstruction revealed extensive internalization of Aβ into the lysosomes of activated microglia in mouse brains subjected to SUS, with no concomitant increase observed in the number of microglia. Plaque burden was reduced in SUS-treated AD mice compared to sham-treated animals, and cleared plaques were observed in 75% of SUS-treated mice. Treated AD mice also displayed improved performance on three memory tasks: the Y-maze, the novel object recognition test, and the active place avoidance task. Our findings suggest that repeated SUS is useful for removing Aβ in the mouse brain without causing overt damage, and should be explored further as a noninvasive method with therapeutic potential in AD.
...'
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/278/278ra33
http://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function/

Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image

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Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image

'...Weyand and co used 91 million of these images to teach a powerful neural network to work out the grid location using only the image itself. Their idea is to input an image into this neural net and get as the output a particular grid location or a set of likely candidates. They then validated the neural network using the remaining 34 million images in the data set. Finally they tested the network—which they call PlaNet—in a number of different ways to see how well it works.
...'
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600889/google-unveils-neural-network-with-superhuman-ability-to-determine-the-location-of-almost/
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600889/google-unveils-neural-network-with-superhuman-ability-to-determine-the-location-of-almost/

#health #gmo #gmofree #gmofarming #healthtip #organic #organicfood #food #fitness #weightloss #run #yoga #exercise...

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#health #gmo #gmofree #gmofarming #healthtip #organic #organicfood #food #fitness #weightloss #run #yoga #exercise #gym #vegetarian #vegetables #organicfarming #herbalremedy #fruit #motivation #digestion #foodporn #eat #diet #vegan #herbs #gut #guthealth #probiotics #quote #biogenicsmd #facts

"In a study published in Molecular Psychiatry, baseline data from over a thousand people with major depressive...

Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky

"In a study published in Molecular Psychiatry, baseline data from over a thousand people with major depressive disorder was analyzed. The aim was to predict the severity and chronicity of their depression. The authors compared the use of traditional analytics and machine learning approach. They not only found that machine learning could help predict the characteristics of a person's depression, but also that it could do this more effectively, and with less information, than traditional approaches."

"In one depression study, machine learning tools were used in addition to traditional statistics to analyze the relationship between 67 biomarkers in 5,227 research subjects. This hybrid technique was able to identify 3 biomarkers for depression, namely red cell distribution of width, serum glucose, and total bilirubin."

"By using machine learning to evaluate clinical data, the researchers were able to produce three different machine learning algorithms that could distinguish between people that had attempted suicide, and those that had not, based on the patient's prior clinical data. The prediction accuracy varied between 65-72%."

"One study looking at 4041 patients with depression, found that by using a machine learning approach, they could predict response to the antidepressant citalopram with a highly statistically significant accuracy of 64.6%."

There’s a new approach to fighting cancer: keeping cancer cells alive - ScienceAlert

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There’s a new approach to fighting cancer: keeping cancer cells alive - ScienceAlert

'Researchers in the US have developed a new approach to fighting cancerous cells called adaptive therapy. Rather than trying to do as much damage to cancer cells as possible, the idea is to combat tumours with lower doses, keeping chemo-resistant cells in check by maintaining a living population of cells that remain sensitive to cancer-killing drugs.'

http://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-new-approach-to-fighting-cancer-keeping-cancer-cells-alive

Exploiting evolutionary principles to prolong tumor control in preclinical models of breast cancer | Science Translational Medicine
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/8/327/327ra24.full.pdf+html
http://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-new-approach-to-fighting-cancer-keeping-cancer-cells-alive

Ever Wondered How Formula E Cars Work? Here's an In-Depth Explanation - Industry Tap

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Ever Wondered How Formula E Cars Work? Here's an In-Depth Explanation - Industry Tap

'... During last weekend’s race in Buenos Aires, a short and simple explainer video aired explaining how Formula E cars work, which was very well received.

As a result, the video has now found its way to YouTube and provides an awesome point of reference for new Formula E fans looking to obtain a little more information about the battery, inverter, motor, and transmission for Formula E cars.
...'

http://www.industrytap.com/ever-wondered-formula-e-cars-work-heres-depth-explanation/34745
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XMVJ3fjOGg

Third Arm: Smart Wearable Robot for Musicians

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Third Arm: Smart Wearable Robot for Musicians
http://www.gadgetify.com/robotic-third-arm/

And they were Funded with $1.73 Billion to Hack #TOR Users...

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And they were Funded with $1.73 Billion to Hack #TOR Users...
http://thehackernews.com/2016/02/tor-hack.html

Don’t Laugh: Yahoo’s Open Source AI Has a Secret Weapon

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Don’t Laugh: Yahoo’s Open Source AI Has a Secret Weapon

CaffeOnSpark, as the name suggests, combines two existing technologies: the popular deep learning framework Caffe and the up-and-coming data-crunching system Spark that can run on top of the even more popular big data platform Hadoop. What Yahoo did was simply create a way to run Caffee atop Spark clusters. It can be run either on Spark alone or atop Hadoop. Besides making it easy for AI developers to use familiar tools and avoid moving data around, Feng says CaffeOnSpark also makes it relatively easy to distribute deep learning processes across multiple servers, something that the open source version of Google’s TensorFlow can’t yet do.
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/dont-laugh-yahoos-open-source-ai-secret-weapon/

Use your voice to type, edit and format in Docs—no keyboard needed! goo.gl/aD6nWH #GoogleDocs

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Use your voice to type, edit and format in Docs—no keyboard needed! goo.gl/aD6nWH #GoogleDocs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0rPu_pl0D8

VIDEO: Our robot overlords are rising - Atlas robot eerily stands up after being knocked down

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VIDEO: Our robot overlords are rising - Atlas robot eerily stands up after being knocked down

'A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain, help with navigation and manipulate objects. This version of Atlas is about 5' 9" tall (about a head shorter than the DRC Atlas) and weighs 180 lbs.'

https://futuristech.info/posts/video-our-robot-overlords-are-rising-atlas-robot-eerily-stands-up-after-being-knocked-down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

Our planet Earth is a rarity - New study on terrestrial exoplanets shows imperfect conditions for life outside of...

Originally shared by Futuristech Info

Our planet Earth is a rarity - New study on terrestrial exoplanets shows imperfect conditions for life outside of Earth

https://futuristech.info/posts/our-planet-earth-is-a-rarity-new-study-on-terrestrial-exoplanets-shows-imperfect-conditions-for-life-outside-of-earth

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VIDEO: Our robot overlords are rising - Atlas robot eerily stands up after being knocked down

Originally shared by Futuristech Info

VIDEO: Our robot overlords are rising - Atlas robot eerily stands up after being knocked down

https://futuristech.info/posts/video-our-robot-overlords-are-rising-atlas-robot-eerily-stands-up-after-being-knocked-down

Aurora imaged from Space

Originally shared by Pierre Markuse

Aurora imaged from Space

In this image you can see an aurora, taken by ESA astronaut Tim Peake (https://goo.gl/4HAAIV) from aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In his tweet Peake described flying through the aurora as "eerie but very beautiful".

What is an Aurora?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora

Tim Peake is aboard the ISS at the moment (Expedition 46, https://goo.gl/qG4Sza) and is posting pictures from space on his Twitter, follow him here: https://twitter.com/astro_timpeake

Read more about his Principia mission aboard the ISS here:
https://principia.org.uk/

Image credit: Aurora from Space ESA/NASA/Tim Peake https://goo.gl/LdsT19 / Edited by Pierre Markuse

#science #aurora #iss #principia #space #spacetechnology #internationalspacestation #timpeake #photography

A projector + a Kinect

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A projector + a Kinect
http://www.psfk.com/2016/02/augmented-reality-book-kinect-projection.html

The First up close with the HTC Vive consumer edition

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

The First up close with the HTC Vive consumer edition

It costs $799 and it can be preordered next Monday for delivery in April. It's the Oculus Rift's closest and sternest competitor, and today at MWC, it makes its public debut.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/23/11098726/htc-vive-consumer-edition-photos-mwc-2016

DeepMind and Demis Hassabis: The Theory of Everything

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

DeepMind and Demis Hassabis: The Theory of Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbsqaJwpu6A

Sea levels are rising at their fastest rate in 2000 years | Science | AAAS

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Sea levels are rising at their fastest rate in 2000 years | Science | AAAS

'Global sea levels appear exquisitely sensitive to changes in temperature and greenhouse gas levels, according to a set of new studies that examines up to 6 million years of climate change data. The four papers, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), illustrate the growing power of computers to simulate complex interactions between climate, polar ice, and the planet’s oceans. They also underscore the effects that rising greenhouse gases and global temperatures could have on future sea level.

“The big takeaway is that the modern rate of sea level rise in the 20th century is faster than anything we’ve seen in the previous two millennia,” says Benjamin Horton, a Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jersey geologist who helped direct one of the studies. “This isn’t a model. This is data.”

Some of the studies provide a detailed account of changes in sea level and the Antarctic ice sheet, a story embedded in fossils and rocks at the ocean’s edge. They also add to a growing body of research that suggests sea level can change more dramatically over a short time than previously suspected, says Andrea Dutton, a University of Florida in Gainesville geologist and a leading expert on reconstructing ancient sea levels.'

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/sea-levels-are-rising-their-fastest-rate-2000-years
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/sea-levels-are-rising-their-fastest-rate-2000-years

Quick, easy, and secure. Leave your wallet at home. For good. #GalaxyS7 #GalaxyS7edge

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Quick, easy, and secure. Leave your wallet at home. For good. #GalaxyS7 #GalaxyS7edge

Computers Can Tell If You're Bored

Originally shared by Neuroscience News

Computers Can Tell If You're Bored

Technology could lead to ‘empathetic’ robots and reactive on-line learning programmes.

The research is in Frontiers in Psychology. (full open access)

#psychology #robotics #technology
http://neurosciencenews.com/bored-computer-robot-empathy-3715/

Yep :D

Originally shared by Emilie Smith

Yep :D

Thirty Meter Telescope Project Is Stalled, but the Robot Needed to Build It Is Ready

Originally shared by Automaton, IEEE Spectrum's Robotics Blog
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/aerospace/astrophysics/thirty-meter-telescope-stalled-robot-needed-to-build-ready

Drug discovery and development is a long and complicated process, with costly approvals requiring many steps before...

Originally shared by 33rd Square

Drug discovery and development is a long and complicated process, with costly approvals requiring many steps before introduction to the marketplace. These barriers may fall away as technology progresses, but for now here is how new medicines come to market. http://www.33rdsquare.com/2016/02/drugs-in-development-key-things-to-know.html
http://www.33rdsquare.com/2016/02/drugs-in-development-key-things-to-know.html

Camera boost, virtual reality in new Samsung, LG gadgets

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

Camera boost, virtual reality in new Samsung, LG gadgets

'... Samsung, which unveiled a virtual-reality device for consumers last fall, will now make a 360-degree camera for everyday folks to capture and share VR images. The company will also make smartphone cases with a hole to screw in special lenses, such as wide angle and fisheye views.

LG will have its own VR headset—a lighter version of Samsung's Gear VR—as well as a smartphone attachment that functions as a camera grip with physical buttons to take shots and control video recording.
...'

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-camera-boost-virtual-reality-samsung.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-camera-boost-virtual-reality-samsung.html

FlexEnable's Flexible OLEDs for Smart Wearables

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FlexEnable's Flexible OLEDs for Smart Wearables
http://www.gadgetify.com/flexenables-flexible-smartwatch/

Hamburg becomes the first city to ban coffee pods

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

Hamburg becomes the first city to ban coffee pods

'They may not look like much, but coffee pods are a big problem. According to Science Alert, if you collected all the single-use coffee pods sold by market leader Keurig in a year and lined them up end-to-end, you’d have enough to circle the globe 12 times over. That’s a lot of waste, and to make matters even worse, these pods are extremely difficult to recycle because they are built from a mixture of plastic and aluminium – which most recycling plants can’t deal with. The city of Hamburg has taken a strong stance against coffee pods, banning them in all state-run buildings.'

http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/coffee-pod-recycle-22022016/
http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/coffee-pod-recycle-22022016/

The surprising secret of skinny people

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

The surprising secret of skinny people

'... New research by Cornell looks at the habits of those who have stayed slim their whole lives, and whose weight has only ever fluctuated by up to five kilos.

As well as their predilection for predictably healthy things, they revealed something else, a little more unexpected: 74 per cent reported that they never or rarely dieted.

Instead of imposing restrictions on themselves, 92 per cent said they were simply conscious of what they ate and kept their weight in check by listening to their bodies inner cues and focussed on enjoying eating high-quality, non-processed foods and cooking at home.
...'

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/the-surprising-secret-of-skinny-people-20160222-gn059g.html
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/the-surprising-secret-of-skinny-people-20160222-gn059g.html

AI Helps Facebook’s Internet Drones Find Where the People Are

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

AI Helps Facebook’s Internet Drones Find Where the People Are

In total, the system analyzed 15.6 billion images representing 21.6 million square kilometers of Earth. Using that sample of binary information—8,000 photos labeled as either containing a human artifact or not—the neural net could accurately identify other human settlements in other locations. “Just based on that information, the algorithm can then go out and find all sorts of human artifacts,” Maguire says. The error rate, he says, is less than 10 percent.
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/facebook-ai-shows-internet-drones-where-all-the-people-are/

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Originally shared by Equi Qui

17 inherited heart conditions, including structural heart disease, long and short QT syndrome, aortic valve disease,...

Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky

17 inherited heart conditions, including structural heart disease, long and short QT syndrome, aortic valve disease, familial atrial fibrillation, cardiomyopathies, and Noonan syndrome, can be detected in a single genetic blood test.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/135086/20160220/new-genetic-blood-test-detects-inherited-heart-conditions-uk.htm

I Controlled A RC Car With My Mind And It Was Amazing

Originally shared by Betsy McCall
http://gizmodo.com/i-controlled-an-rc-car-with-my-mind-and-it-was-amazing-1760576927

An AI for mastering music has been developed.

Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky

An AI for mastering music has been developed. "Landr deploys big data analytics and machine learning to analyze a track and determine how to adjust parameters such as compression and equalization to make the song sound as pleasing and dynamic as possible to the ear. Musicians can sign up for a subscription with Landr, drag-and-drop their song files into the service, and receive what the company calls a 'professional' sounding mastered version within minutes."
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/innovation/startups-to-watch-montreal-landr/

Google's trippy drawing robot makes amazing art of your face

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

Google's trippy drawing robot makes amazing art of your face

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/02/22/googles-trippy-drawing-robot-makes-amazing-art-of-your-face/
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/02/22/googles-trippy-drawing-robot-makes-amazing-art-of-your-face/

ROBOT climbs up rope more than 60 feet before coming back down safely | Daily Mail Online

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ROBOT climbs up rope more than 60 feet before coming back down safely | Daily Mail Online

'There are not many tasks that require shinning up and down a vertical hanging rope, but should there ever be need, there is now a robot capable of achieving the feat.

A team of amateur robot builders has created a humanoid machine called Skeletron, or Skelly for short, that can clamber up to the top of a length of hanging rope and then climb back down.

The robot has just taken first prize in a contest in Moscow ahead of Russia’s Bronebot contest, which pitches armed robots against each other much like in the popular Robot Wars TV series.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3458878/Now-reaching-new-heights-Rope-climbing-ROBOT-shins-way-60-feet-coming-safely.html#v-1469421965738949898
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3458878/Now-reaching-new-heights-Rope-climbing-ROBOT-shins-way-60-feet-coming-safely.html#v-1469421965738949898

Dehydration Increases Pain Perception and Reduces Blood Flow in the Brain

Originally shared by Neuroscience News

Dehydration Increases Pain Perception and Reduces Blood Flow in the Brain

New research from the College of Health has shed light on the impact dehydration has on our perception of pain, and our blood pressure and brain blood flow response.

The research is in Psychophysiology and Experimental Physiology.

#pain #neurology
http://neurosciencenews.com/pain-blood-flow-dehydration-3706

Breakthrough in fight against drug-resistant superbugs | Daily Mail Online

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

Breakthrough in fight against drug-resistant superbugs | Daily Mail Online

'Doctors have long warned of the dangers of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

These increasingly common bacteria can kill – and so far, drugs cannot stop them.

However, a new discovery has brought the medical community one step closer to wiping out these deadly superbugs.

Scientists from University of East Anglia have uncovered the mechanism by which antibiotic-resistant bacterial cells maintain a defensive barrier.

This finding could lead to new drugs that kill the superbugs by bringing down their defensive walls.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3458573/Breakthrough-fight-against-drug-resistant-superbugs-Attacking-bacteria-s-defensive-walls-makes-possible-kill-infection.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3458573/Breakthrough-fight-against-drug-resistant-superbugs-Attacking-bacteria-s-defensive-walls-makes-possible-kill-infection.html

News | Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

News | Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)

'A new harbour or windmill park at sea will continuously undergo the forces of breaking water waves. Those waves have, on their way from the deepest ocean to more shallow coastal waters, undergone lots of changes. PhD student Ruddy Kurnia of the University of Twente developed mathematical models for very fast calculation of the wave behavior, for each water depth and taking into account slopes, quay walls or ships. His HAWASSI software is already available for e.g. harbour designers. '

https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/structure/faculties/eemcs/news/!/2016/2/2558/powerful-tool-predicts-wave-behaviour
https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/structure/faculties/eemcs/news/!/2016/2/2558/powerful-tool-predicts-wave-behaviour

IBM is Bringing Watson to VR

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

IBM is Bringing Watson to VR

If you’ve ever played an RPG, you have likely interacted with your fair share of non-player characters who are there to help advance the story, fill in bits of lore, or even just make you laugh. Usually these interactions take place by selecting from a set of predetermined text options, but what if you had the ability to interact more naturally with those characters, what if you could use your voice?

That is exactly what Rectangular Studios is attempting to discover. Working with IBM’s Watson platform, Rectangular Studios is creating a virtual reality experience that will allow you to speak in natural language to avatars in the virtual world and have them reply in kind.
http://uploadvr.com/ibm-is-bringing-watson-to-vr/

AI reads doctors’ notes to find hidden links in cancer cases

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

AI reads doctors’ notes to find hidden links in cancer cases

Rätsch’s team built a machine learning algorithm to crunch through anonymised clinical notes from 200,000 people with cancer. Their program sorted millions of sentences – including patients’ symptoms, medical histories and doctors’ observations – into 10,000 related clusters.

Each cluster represented a common observation found across several medical records. For example, a doctor’s note recommending a particular course of treatment, or picking up on a noteworthy symptom. Connections between clusters were then mapped, showing the relationships between different comments or courses of treatment.

In a second study building on Rätsch’s work, the clusters are now being compared against the records of about 2000 people with different types of cancer. The researchers are looking for hidden associations between written notes and patients’ gene and blood sequencing. For example, patients with similar genetic results might have the same kind of note in their files. These connections can reveal similarities doctors might not have noticed before.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2078159-ai-reads-doctors-notes-to-find-hidden-links-in-cancer-cases/

VIDEO: Implantable artificial kidney could get patients off dialysis machines

Originally shared by Futuristech Info

VIDEO: Implantable artificial kidney could get patients off dialysis machines

https://futuristech.info/posts/video-implantable-artificial-kidney-could-get-patients-off-dialysis-machines

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

Leap Motion’s Orion Release Brings Massive Finger Tracking Improvements

FINGER TRACKING IS COMING AS AN EMBEDDED FEATURE IN SOME HEADSETS THIS YEAR

But Orion isn’t completely about the software, just about 99%. Leap Motion has new hardware coming down the pipeline alongside Orion but it won’t be shipping as a standalone dev kit. Instead Leap Motion is currently working with multiple OEM manufacturers to directly integrate their hardware and software into future headsets. According to Michael Buckwald, Leap’s co-founder and CEO, “99% of the changes [with Orion] are in the software stack” and there will only be minor differences (such as an increased IPD) with the new hardware.
http://uploadvr.com/leap-motion-orion-vr/

A predictive model for movie success, deviating from past studies by predicting profit (as opposed to revenue) at...

Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky

A predictive model for movie success, deviating from past studies by predicting profit (as opposed to revenue) at early stages of production (as opposed to just prior to release) to increase investor certainty, has been built by University of Iowa researchers.

"The predictive model takes into account many factors, including the movie's stars and director, their box-office track records, the movie's genre and plot, and when it will be released. The model's creators 'ran the numbers from every film released in the US between 2000 and 2010 through their 'who, what and when' formula to fine-tune which elements played a greater role.'"
http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/02/breakthrough_algorithm_predict.html

This Company May Have Solved Mobile VR’s Positional Tracking Problem

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

This Company May Have Solved Mobile VR’s Positional Tracking Problem

Univrses, who we first covered a year ago to the day, has been developing a mobile VR positional tracking solution that uses only the regular camera on a phone. Since we covered them originally the company has been fairly quiet, outside of announcing they are developing a magic casting game for VR called Wands. But a year’s worth of heads down development on a single issue can yield results, and now they are finally ready to reveal their solution to the world at this year’s Mobile World Conference.
http://uploadvr.com/univrses-mobile-vr-positional-tracking/

The Tesla Suit is a haptic VR suit that gives you tactile sensations in your body.

Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky

The Tesla Suit is a haptic VR suit that gives you tactile sensations in your body. It uses electrical stimulation to make your musles contract. Different types of touch are transmitted by different types of electric pulses with different power and different frequencies. So you can feel something crawling on you, hot and cold, and and force, so you can feel the weight of a virtual blast. Can be used for tele-hugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9PjcgqKAfw

Habilidades sociais são extremamente importantes para o desenvolvimento de robôs que interagem com seres humanos.

Originally shared by Peixe Babel

Habilidades sociais são extremamente importantes para o desenvolvimento de robôs que interagem com seres humanos. Vamos tentar entender uma pequena parte de como isso é feito?
http://peixebabel.com.br/2016/02/17/robotica-social-e-expressoes-faciais/

Caught in the act: UW astronomers find a rare supernova ‘impostor’ in a nearby galaxy

Originally shared by Pierre Markuse

Caught in the act: UW astronomers find a rare supernova ‘impostor’ in a nearby galaxy

Breanna Binder, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astronomy and lecturer in the School of STEM at UW Bothell, spends her days pondering X-rays. As she and her colleagues report in a new paper published February 12 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, they recently solved a mystery involving X-rays — a case of X-rays present when they shouldn’t have been. This mystery’s unusual main character — a star that is pretending to be a supernova — illustrates the importance of being in the right place at the right time. Such was the case in May 2010 when an amateur South African astronomer pointed his telescope toward NGC300 (https://goo.gl/qKILrM), a nearby galaxy. He discovered what appeared to be a supernova (SN 2010da) — a massive star ending its life in a blaze of glory.

Full story here:
http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/02/12/caught-in-the-act-uw-astronomers-find-a-rare-supernova-imposter-in-a-nearby-galaxy/

More on supernova impostors here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_impostor
https://plus.google.com/+PierreMarkuse/posts/C6vkSXFbdp5
https://plus.google.com/+PierreMarkuse/posts/4Ri8KhPGtLo

Image credit: The galaxy NGC 300, home to the unusual system Binder and her colleagues studied. The spiral galaxy is over 6 million light years away. NASA/JPL-Caltech/OCIW

My Astronomy/Astrophysics collection recently surpassed 90,000 followers, I would have never expected that much interest, thanks to all of you! If you haven't already, maybe also try my Space/Space Technology collection here https://goo.gl/5KP0wx , or circle me Pierre Markuse to get all of my posts which usually are science-related.

#science #astronomy #ngc300 #supernovaimpostor #xray #space #binarystar #neutronstar

Sabia que existe um filme que conta como começou o Greenpeace?

Originally shared by Greenpeace Brasil

Sabia que existe um filme que conta como começou o Greenpeace? "Como Mudar o Mundo"(How to Change the World) já tá lá no Netflix. Assista e conheça mais sobre os ativistas que uniram o ambientalismo e o pacifismo em um movimento só: http://nflx.it/1oK9eB7

Meet the World's First Truly Universal Cable - Scientific American

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

Meet the World's First Truly Universal Cable - Scientific American

'... The new cable, called USB Type-C (or USB-C), is the same on both ends, so you never have to fiddle with it. The connector is also identical on both sides—there's no upside down.

USB-C can replace four different jacks on your gadget: data, video, power and, soon, audio. That's right: A single connector can handle flash drives, hard drives, screens, projectors, charging and headphones (simultaneously, if you have a splitter). Yet the connector is tiny enough for phones and tablets and sturdy enough for laptops and PCs.

Every device from every brand can use the same cable. You can use the charger from my Google phone to charge your Apple laptop or someone else's Microsoft tablet. No more drawers full of mismatched power bricks.

In other words, USB-C represents the dawning of the universal cable.
...'

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-the-world-s-first-truly-universal-cable/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-the-world-s-first-truly-universal-cable/

First Detection of Super-Earth Atmosphere

Originally shared by Pierre Markuse

First Detection of Super-Earth Atmosphere

For the first time astronomers were able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the class known as super-Earths (https://goo.gl/GgciDp). Using data gathered with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and new analysis techniques, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e is revealed to have a dry atmosphere without any indications of water vapour. The results, to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, indicate that the atmosphere consists mainly of hydrogen and helium. The international team, led by scientists from University College London (UCL) in the UK, took observations of the nearby exoplanet 55 Cancri e (https://goo.gl/0eGhSW), a super-Earth with a mass of eight Earth-masses. It is located in the planetary system of 55 Cancri (https://goo.gl/iSkLVq), a star about 40 light-years from Earth.

Full story here:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1603/

What is an exoplanet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet

How do we detect exoplanets?

If you have seven minutes and would like an easy and interesting explanation of different techniques (Doppler Technique, Direct Imaging, Light Curves, Transit Timing Variations, Microlensing) to detect planets in other star systems take a look at this video:
https://youtu.be/zFPnOUSdMdc

Image credit: This artist’s impression shows the exoplanet 55 Cancri e as close-up. Due to its proximity to its parent star, the temperatures on the surface of the planet are thought to reach about 2000 degrees Celsius. ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser http://goo.gl/MbCm1U

#science #astronomy #hubble #55Cancrie #55Cancri #space #exoplanet #atmosphere #superearth

Hot, skinny people are ditching salads for ‘power bowls’ | New York Post

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

Hot, skinny people are ditching salads for ‘power bowls’ | New York Post

'... Bowls make “healthy eating taste really good,” says Kunin, a health coach who lives in Chelsea. “You can combine so many different flavors and textures that it just creates this really satisfying meal. It’s almost like a hug, as corny as that sounds.”

“Even if I had the option to eat off a plate, I would eat out of a bowl,” adds Parker, who works in marketing at Elle magazine, lives in Greenwich Village and says she only ever eats out of bowls.
...'

http://nypost.com/2016/02/17/hot-skinny-people-are-ditching-salads-for-power-bowls/
http://nypost.com/2016/02/17/hot-skinny-people-are-ditching-salads-for-power-bowls/

The Best AI Still Flunks 8th Grade Science

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

The Best AI Still Flunks 8th Grade Science

But I think at a normal real life situation AI can't even function as a 6 year old yet.

the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the AI think-tank funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Etzioni and the non-for-profit Allen Institute recently ran a contest, inviting nearly 800 teams of researchers to build AI systems that could take an eighth grade science test, and today, the Institute released the results: The top performers successfully answered about 60 percent of the questions. In other words, they flunked.
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-best-ai-still-flunks-8th-grade-science/

Low Dose Exposure to Organochlorine Pesticides Linked to Cognitive Impairment

Originally shared by Neuroscience News

Low Dose Exposure to Organochlorine Pesticides Linked to Cognitive Impairment

Individuals subjected to chronic low-dose exposure to organochlorine pesticides show an increased risk of cognitive impairment in later life.

The research is in Environmental International. (full access paywall)

#psychology #ddt
http://neurosciencenews.com/ocp-ddt-cognitive-impairment-3678/

Be careful everyone..

Be careful everyone..

Originally shared by What's Hot Online

There is a safe way down and a quick way down whoa

This I want! The solution for incremental backups..

This I want! The solution for incremental backups..

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

This small quartz disc can store 360TB of data forever

'Southampton University researchers fired femtosecond laser pulses onto a structure of quartz at the nanoscale to write data. They made three layers of nano dots, each layer separate by only five microns. Another laser pulse fired on the structure measures the polarisation of the light. Changes in polarization can be use to read data.'

http://www.zmescience.com/research/technology/quartz-disk-5d-storage-52543/

Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind | University of Southampton

'Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.

Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (5D) digital data by femtosecond laser writing.

The storage allows unprecedented properties including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000°C and virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190°C ) opening a new era of eternal data archiving. As a very stable and safe form of portable memory, the technology could be highly useful for organisations with big archives, such as national archives, museums and libraries, to preserve their information and records.'

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-update.page
http://www.zmescience.com/research/technology/quartz-disk-5d-storage-52543/

Global warming in overdrive: We just had the hottest January ever recorded

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

Global warming in overdrive: We just had the hottest January ever recorded

'... January was also the warmest such month on record, NASA found, in preliminary data released this weekend by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

The data, which is subject to adjustment as scientists refine their analysis, shows that the combination of accelerated manmade global warming from the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, is combining with a record strong El Niño to bump up temperatures to never-before-seen levels since at least 1880.
...'

http://mashable.com/2016/02/16/january-sets-record-for-the-warmest-month-ever-recorded/#8.y9of3GiPqY
http://mashable.com/2016/02/16/january-sets-record-for-the-warmest-month-ever-recorded/#8.y9of3GiPqY

Novel sensor can sniff out explosives as good as a dog - One molecule of an explosive in a billion molecules of air

Originally shared by Futuristech Info

Novel sensor can sniff out explosives as good as a dog - One molecule of an explosive in a billion molecules of air

https://futuristech.info/posts/novel-sensor-can-sniff-out-explosives-as-good-as-a-dog-one-molecule-of-an-explosive-in-a-billion-molecules-of-air

Excellent PR-Puff piece for *Elysium ..

- February 16, 2016

Originally shared by Adam Black

Excellent PR-Puff piece for *Elysium ..
( supplement company ~~marketing~~ suckering #Transhumanists )
...with no small amount of passive-aggressive slander for the entire supplement industry, and Life-Extension crowd.

<*Sorry for the stub. My cut and paste isnt working . Click through its still worth reading http://www.fastcoexist.com/3041800/one-of-the-worlds-top-aging-researchers-has-a-pill-to-keep-you-feeling-young *>

Elysium has a pill based off Resveratrol , ( but not ) thats supposed to help mimic lowcalorie diets, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloric_restriction_mimetic

and turn on the Sirt2 gene;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction#Sirtuin-mediated_mechanism

which is supposed to boost communication between between the 2 genomes ( Mitochondria and Nucleus ) .

Im sharing this , because Elysium Health and this article are strongly aiming at a target market of #Transhumans .

Two major relevant discoveries absent from this article ( PR Puff-piece ) are (1) PQQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrroloquinoline_quinone
which has been shown to increase # of mitochondria ( woo-hoo! ) and mitigate cognitive decline from a number of disease processes.

( From Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, dementia to traumatic brain Injury )
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3303106/

and (2) the recent major New discovery concerning
Beta-Hydroxy Butyrate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-Hydroxybutyric_acid )
which I reported here...
>>> seriously, Go Here>>>
https://plus.google.com/+AdamBlack/posts/6PrbSXG48a8

Its relevant as BHB is produced during low-carlorie diets and new research suggests may be responsible for many of the positive health benefits

Edit I am not suggesting Elysium is peddling radically overpriced snake oil --- which if you had half a brain you would buy at 1/3 price elsewhere .

Nor am I insinuating that they are unethically using the allure of scientific research, to illegally make lots of claims, without any solid benefits for their products. All the while slandering companies selling better products with decades of solid research ( like PQQ ) . I'm not saying this.

Just like Elysium cant actually legally say their products can help you, or their ridiculous buzzwordy claims ( ZOMG: "longevity""healthspan" "machine learning"? "cellular health" ) are backed up with any human evidence.

#extropian #HumanPlus #Elysium

related links
Pterostilbene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterostilbene
A Resveratrol analogue
Pterostilbene and Resveratrol on Brain and Behavior
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019701861530019X

Its in Grapeleaves, but not grapes.

( someone Please jailbreak this>> ) Examines role in #Cognitive decline

http://hms.harvard.edu/news/genetics/new-reversible-cause-aging-12-19-13 ( they claim its NAD. I'm skeptical )

NAD>> ( its a B3 based co-enzyme nucleotide )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinamide_adenine_dinucleotide

But from this article you would never know NADH has been a major supplement for decades. ( Hint, Krebs Cycle for those who misremember any Biology )

#ScienceOnGooglePlus
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3041800/one-of-the-worlds-top-aging-researchers-has-a-pill-to-keep-you-feeling-young

A Kayak Made from Recycled Bottles Floats Down Argentina's Parana River | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation,...

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

A Kayak Made from Recycled Bottles Floats Down Argentina's Parana River | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

'Industrial engineer Federico Blanc had a dream to float down Argentina’s gorgeous Parana River on a recycled kayak, and his vision recently came to fruition! Blanc collected dozens of plastic soda bottles and glued them together to create his fantastic blue kayak. Simple, strong and eco-friendly, this boat can carry up to 2 people plus a cooler for when the rafters get hungry.'

http://inhabitat.com/a-kayak-made-from-recycled-bottles-navigates-argentinas-parana-river/
http://inhabitat.com/a-kayak-made-from-recycled-bottles-navigates-argentinas-parana-river/

Computational Tools Could Change the Way Sleep Apnea is Treated

Originally shared by Neuroscience News

Computational Tools Could Change the Way Sleep Apnea is Treated

UCLA scientists develop a 3-D model of a human airway.

#sleepapnea #neurology
http://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-apnea-human-airway-3658/

High-cholesterol diet, eating eggs do not increase risk of heart attack, not even in persons genetically...

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

High-cholesterol diet, eating eggs do not increase risk of heart attack, not even in persons genetically predisposed, study finds -- ScienceDaily

'A new study shows that a relatively high intake of dietary cholesterol, or eating one egg every day, are not associated with an elevated risk of incident coronary heart disease. Furthermore, no association was found among those with the APOE4 phenotype, which affects cholesterol metabolism and is common among the Finnish population. In the majority of population, dietary cholesterol affects serum cholesterol levels only a little, and few studies have linked the intake of dietary cholesterol to an elevated risk of cardiovascular diseases. Globally, many nutrition recommendations no longer set limitations to the intake of dietary cholesterol.'

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160211083044.htm

Associations of egg and cholesterol intakes with carotid intima-media thickness and risk of incident coronary artery disease according to apolipoprotein E phenotype in men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2016/02/10/ajcn.115.122317
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160211083044.htm

This is amazing marketing!

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

This is amazing marketing!
Mattel toymaker is making a cheap 3D printer for kids.
So what are they calling it? A ThingMaker
Any baby-boomer who had one of the original ThingMakers to make Creepy Crawlers will immediately want to buy one. The name evokes pleasant memories of playing with the original toy, and modernizing it with cutting edge future tech will make it irresistible.
More details here
http://3dprint.com/119630/mattel-thingmaker-3d-printer/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2016/02/12/mattel-resurrects-thingmaker-3d-printer/80236104/

Both new and old Thingmakers use that time honored technique: give the customer the razor and make money selling them the blades. Old Thingmakers require bottles of Plastigoop for the molds, the new will require spools of filament. I remember Mattel selling expansion packs for the Thingmaker, usually a blister pack with one new mold and a bottle of Plastigoop in a strange color.
http://fortune.com/2016/02/12/mattel-3d-printing-toys/

The New Face Of Behavior Change

Originally shared by TechCrunch

The New Face Of Behavior Change
http://tcrn.ch/1RDmMtJ

INTENTIONAL POISONING, VERY LIKELY

Originally shared by Aaron Gardner

INTENTIONAL POISONING, VERY LIKELY
http://www.naturalnews.com/052943_Zika_virus_hoax_larvacide_chemical_GM_mosquitoes.html

12 great reasons to lace up your workout shoes today.

Originally shared by MyFitnessPal

12 great reasons to lace up your workout shoes today.
http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/12-amazing-exercise-benefits/?utm_source=mfp&utm_medium=GooglePlus

Polar Vortex over Eastern U.S. | International Space Station

Originally shared by Friends of NASA

Polar Vortex over Eastern U.S. | International Space Station
Scott: "That polar vortex even looks cold from here! Burr!"

Credit: NASA/JSC, U.S. Astronaut Scott Kelly
Release Date: February 14, 2016

Scott Kelly
NASA Johnson Space Center
NOAA Weather
NASA Goddard
NASA's Earth Observatory

#NASA #Space #ISS #Earth #Atmosphere #PolarVortex #Winter #Arctic #Temperature #Weather #NorthAmerica #Canada #Planet #Spacecraft #Science #Technology #Astronaut #ScottKelly #Photography #UnitedStates #USA #Expedition46 #YearInSpace #OrbitalPerspective #OverviewEffect #STEM #Education

Moshe Vardi is getting some press it seems.

Originally shared by Mark Lewis

Moshe Vardi is getting some press it seems. This article is MUCH better than the one I saw in CNET. It is definitely less misleading, indicating that Moshe is saying the participation rate will drop to 50%, not the unemployment rate going up to that. Given the aging population, many 1st world nations are going to move in that direction even without automation. The problem is how to maintain social stability in a world without labor income. The future does not involve much, if any, human labor. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply unwilling to admit that they (and everyone else) can be outperformed by machines.
http://www.geekwire.com/2016/ai-prophets-say-robots-could-spark-unemployment-and-revolution/

Robots in Health Care Could Lead to a Doctorless Hospital - Singularity HUB

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

Robots in Health Care Could Lead to a Doctorless Hospital - Singularity HUB

'... Of course, machines will not always get it right. But like autopilots in aircraft, and the driverless cars that are just around the corner, medical robots do not need to be perfect, they just have to be better than humans.

So how long before robots are shown to perform better than humans at surgery and other patient care? It may be sooner, or it may be later, but it will happen one day.

But what does this mean for our hospitals? Are the new hospitals being built now ready for a robotic future? Are we planning for large-scale role changes for the humans in our future robotic factory-like hospitals?
...'

http://singularityhub.com/2016/02/10/robots-in-health-care-could-lead-to-a-doctorless-hospital/
http://singularityhub.com/2016/02/10/robots-in-health-care-could-lead-to-a-doctorless-hospital/

Vote for your favourite AI video – AAAI Video Competition People’s Choice Award | Robohub

Originally shared by Sabine Hauert
http://robohub.org/vote-for-your-favourite-ai-video-aaai-video-competition-peoples-choice-award-2/

#robotics

#robotics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Opjs272g2c&feature=share

A new technique makes GPS accurate to an inch.

Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky

A new technique makes GPS accurate to an inch. It's a technique that augments the regular GPS data with on-board inertial measurements from a sensor. "Actually, that’s been tried before, but in the past it’s required large computers to combine the two data streams, rendering it ineffective for use in cars or mobile devices. Instead what the University of California team has done is create a set of new algorithms which, it claims, reduce the complexity of the calculation by several order of magnitude."
http://gizmodo.com/a-new-technique-makes-gps-accurate-to-an-inch-1758457807

Professor Boyle on the Zika Virus

https://youtu.be/LOAmRYGFMp4

Reduce your use of PVC in plastics and other household products

http://www.healthychild.org/easy-steps/reduce-your-use-of-pvc-in-plastics-and-other-household-products/

Maybe there's still time if you hurry..

- February 11, 2016

Maybe there's still time if you hurry..

#google #googledrive
http://petapixel.com/2016/02/10/you-can-get-2gb-of-free-google-drive-storage-today/

Exoskeleton Makes Robotic Roach Flexibly Squishy

- February 11, 2016

Originally shared by Automaton, IEEE Spectrum's Robotics Blog
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/exoskeleton-makes-robotic-roach-flexibly-squishy

This robot just wants to help

- February 11, 2016

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

This robot just wants to help

'... asking people what they really wanted in a home robot, virtual everyone talked about it handling household tasks like the dishes and folding laundry. Robit can do neither of those things, but those wishes helped inform the kind of robot they ultimately built. “We made [a robot] that is very functional, that can actually help you,” Shlomo Schwarcz said.

Robit’s task-driven, Android interface runs on apps, apps that define a largely discrete set of actions that can be daisy chained together. ...'

http://mashable.com/2016/02/10/robit-robot/#bchAsGYfTSqd
http://mashable.com/2016/02/10/robit-robot/#bchAsGYfTSqd

Drone registration has surpassed manned aircraft registration, according to the FAA

- February 10, 2016

Originally shared by Robotics Trends

Drone registration has surpassed manned aircraft registration, according to the FAA
http://bit.ly/1Xe1u6a

Title

- February 10, 2016

Originally shared by What's Hot Online

The journey to the Earth's center starts here

Earthbound Robots Today Need to Take Flight

- February 10, 2016

Originally shared by Automaton, IEEE Spectrum's Robotics Blog
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/earthbound-robots-today-need-to-take-flight

Thinking about cancelling my Google Drive storage.

Thinking about cancelling my Google Drive storage. No sense in having it only to backup the photos if you can't really share them properly. Plus still no client for Linux. Dropbox is showing itself much better option. It's so sad to see technology take steps back.

Google Google Drive Google Photos Google+
http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/10/9873520/google-photos-shared-albums-vs-apple

A path to alleviating hunger: French supermarkets banned from throwing away and spoiling unsold food | Europe |...

Originally shared by Moe R

A path to alleviating hunger: French supermarkets banned from throwing away and spoiling unsold food | Europe | News | The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-law-bans-supermarkets-throwing-away-and-spoiling-unsold-food-giving-them-to-food-banks-and-a6855371.html

#Great #Evolution

Originally shared by Anil Sawariya

#Great #Evolution

Now You Can Become a Tree :)

Originally shared by Interesting Things

Now You Can Become a Tree :)

Follow: Interesting Things

#robotics #biomimicry

#robotics #biomimicry
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/cockroaches-squish-their-way-into-rescue-robotics/

Meet the NASA scientists who track dangerous asteroids in Earth's orbit.

Originally shared by WIRED

Meet the NASA scientists who track dangerous asteroids in Earth's orbit.
http://bit.ly/20jN987

Sustained aerobic exercise increases adult neurogenesis in brain

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

Sustained aerobic exercise increases adult neurogenesis in brain

It may be possible to increase the neuron reserve of the hippocampus – and thus improve preconditions for learning – by promoting neurogenesis via sustained aerobic exercise such as running, say researchers.

The results indicate that the highest number of new hippocampal neurons was observed in rats that ran long distances and that also had a genetic predisposition to benefit from aerobic exercise: Compared to sedentary animals, HRT rats that ran voluntarily on a running wheel had 2-3 times more new hippocampal neurons at the end of the experiment. Resistance training had no such effect. Also the effects of HIT (high intensity training) were minor. To conclude, only sustained aerobic exercise improved hippocampal neurogenesis in adult animals.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160208083606.htm

The future of military camouflage may be a cute chameleon robot http://engt.co/1RiHq25

Originally shared by Engadget

The future of military camouflage may be a cute chameleon robot http://engt.co/1RiHq25
http://engt.co/1RiHq25

Harvard genetics professor David Sinclair takes his research personally.

Originally shared by 33rd Square

Harvard genetics professor David Sinclair takes his research personally. Through the lens of his own mother's battle with cancer, Dr. Sinclair shares the endless potential of his age-reversing discoveries and the potential future for us all. http://www.33rdsquare.com/2016/02/david-sinclair-looks-at-how-close-are.html
http://www.33rdsquare.com/2016/02/david-sinclair-looks-at-how-close-are.html

Smart strap brings payments to your Pebble smartwatch http://engt.co/1Rj3lpD

Originally shared by Engadget

Smart strap brings payments to your Pebble smartwatch http://engt.co/1Rj3lpD
http://engt.co/1Rj3lpD

Google Is Testing Wireless Charging for Its Self-Driving Cars