luf's collection of tipbits & mindless musings: 2010

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Scientists report partial reversal of age-related degeneration in aged mice | KurzweilAI

Saturday 13 November 2010

Quantum 'weirdness' used by plants, animals

CBC News - Technology & Science - Quantum 'weirdness' used by plants, animals

Saturday 23 October 2010

Google and the Search for the Future

Holman W. Jenkins Jr.: Google and the Search for the Future - WSJ.com: "'I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone javascript:void(0)all the time,'"

Tuesday 12 October 2010

Research uncovers alternative fuel source for marine engines

Research uncovers alternative fuel source for marine engines | News | The Engineer

Saturday 9 October 2010

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

Using TypeWith.me for collaborative notetaking

Using TypeWith.me for collaborative notetaking | Megan Taylor

Friday 8 October 2010

Polywell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Entrepreneur Wins $625 Million Payout From Apple

Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really)

Wednesday 6 October 2010

Locaccino Shows How How Facebook Places Should Work

Technology Review: Blogs: Mims's Bits: Locaccino Shows How How Facebook Places Should Work

Tuesday 5 October 2010

Microsoft LightSpace 3D NUI Augmented Reality

Microsoft LightSpace 3D NUI Augmented Reality - Softpedia: "Microsoft LightSpace 3D NUI Augmented Reality"

Saturday 2 October 2010

Raytheon engineers develop 'Iron Man' suit

Raytheon engineers develop 'Iron Man' suit | News | The Engineer

Friday 1 October 2010

Spin soliton could make cell phone communication more secure

Spin soliton could make cell phone communication more secure | KurzweilAI

Thursday 30 September 2010

London engineer develops curved escalator

London engineer develops curved escalator | News | The Engineer

Skylon spaceplane gathers momentum

Skylon spaceplane gathers momentum | In-depth | The Engineer

First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet found | KurzweilAI

Tuesday 28 September 2010

Turning Waste Heat Into Power | UANews.org

Wednesday 22 September 2010

Scientists convert carbon-dioxide emissions to useful building materials, using genetically altered yeast

Wednesday 1 September 2010

The Extraordinary Tale of Red Rain, Comets and Extraterrestrials

Technology Review: Kerala's red rain proves alien life, well maybe!

Silicon oxide circuits break barrier

Nanocrystal conductors could lead to massive, robust 3-D storage: "miniaturization"

Monday 30 August 2010

Virus-Built Wearable Batteries Could Power Military : Discovery News

Sunday 25 July 2010

TED Blog: A headset that reads your brainwaves: Tan Le on TED.com

Tuesday 15 June 2010

US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles'

BBC News - US experiment hints at multiple versions of the elusive "God particle" - or Higgs boson particles

Monday 14 June 2010

Microsoft’s New Display

Microsoft has developed a new type of wedge-shaped lens that precisely controls the direction of light emitted from it

Friday 4 June 2010

Part-Human, Part-Machine Transistor Devised : Discovery News

Thursday 3 June 2010

Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers | Video on TED.com

The Recruiters Lounge » Seven Sure-Fire Ways to Lose Your Best Employees

Sunday 23 May 2010

Gesture-based computing on the cheap

Tuesday 18 May 2010

New evidence caffeine may slow Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, restore cognitive function

NCSU News :: NC State News and Information » Software Tool Helps Tap Into The Power Of Graphics Processing

Tuesday 20 April 2010

3D printer could build moon bases

Super secure data encryption gets faster

Viruses harnessed to split water

Monday 19 April 2010

Printed cells to treat burn victims

A medical device that works rather like an inkjet printer is being developed in the US to heal burns and other wounds by "printing" skin cells directly onto the wound
Printed cells to treat burn victims

Beaming Power to UAVs, Space Elevators, and Someday, Earth: The LaserMotive Plan

Beaming Power to UAVs, Space Elevators, and Someday, Earth: The LaserMotive Plan | Xconomy

Saturday 17 April 2010

Motivated Multitasking: How the Brain Keeps Tabs on Two Tasks at Once

Motivated Multitasking: How the Brain Keeps Tabs on Two Tasks at Once: Scientific American

Friday 16 April 2010

New Computer Interface Goes Beyond Just Touch

A new interface from Microsoft Research, called Manual Deskterity, attempts to combine the strengths of touch interaction with the precision of a pen.

Technology Review: New Computer Interface Goes Beyond Just Touch

Solar-Powered Plane "Solar Impulse" Has Successful Maiden Test Flight

Inspirational TED Talk from Bertrand Piccard on how anyone can achieve a dream and his dream of solar powered flight.

Bertrands dream becomes a reality:-

Solar-Powered Plane "Solar Impulse" Has Successful Maiden Test Flight - Technorati Technology:

H.P. Says New Device Could Transform Chip-Making

.Hewlett-Packard scientists on Thursday are to report advances in the design of a new class of diminutive switches capable of replacing transistors as computer chips shrink closer to the atomic scale. The devices, known as memristors, or memory resistors... - NYTimes.com

Diamond chips to make meaner, greener electronics - tech - 07 April 2010 - New Scientist

Augmented reality puts the squeeze into virtual hugs (w/ Video)

Augmented reality puts the squeeze into virtual hugs (w/ Video): "Augmented reality puts the squeeze into virtual hugs"

PeerIndex plans to build a DNA profile of your expertise

Thursday 15 April 2010

Doublethink – The Digital Economy Bill against the digital economy

Friday 2 April 2010

Researchers Take Promising Approach to Chemical Computing

Computing Now | News | March 2010 | Researchers Take Promising Approach to Chemical Computing

Robot creates art?: Life-drawing robot could teach us about art

CultureLab: Life-drawing robot could teach us about art: "Life-drawing robot could teach us about art"

Core Wars: The Battle to Change the Virtual World | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com

Core Wars: The Battle to Change the Virtual World | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com: "new world is coming"

Thursday 1 April 2010

Mobile Phone Mind Control

Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: Mobile Phone Mind Control: "Mobile Phone Mind Control"

Tuesday 30 March 2010

Moral judgments can be altered ... by magnets

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/moral-control-0330.html

A grand unified theory of AI

Monday 29 March 2010

Chaos, Simple Patterns & Software Prove Evolution

"Six Pixels of Separation" Mitch Joel on Human Interconnectedness - ClickZ

Mitch Joel on Human Interconnectedness - ClickZ: "Six Pixels of Separation'"

Friday 26 March 2010

The arrow of time: Entropy, the Universe & Before the Big Bang prt 1

Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 1) | Video on TED.com

The arrow of time: Entropy, the Universe & Before the Big Bang prt 2

Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 2) | Video on TED.com

Thursday 25 March 2010

Mind over matter? How your body does your thinking

Mind over matter? How your body does your thinking - life - 24 March 2010 - New Scientist

Wednesday 24 March 2010

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See

Arithmetic, Poulation & Energy: The Most Important Video You'll Ever See | The Smarter Earth Institute:

Tuesday 23 March 2010

Inventor of the Web Gets Backing to Build Web of Data

The universe is a quantum computer

CultureLab: The universe is a quantum computer

Monday 22 March 2010

Why all these emails from Barack Obama make me feel cheap

Why all these emails from Barack Obama make me feel cheap | Andrew Rawnsley |Comment is free |The Observer

Quantum film threatens to replace CMOS image chips

EETimes.com - Quantum film threatens to replace CMOS image chips

Caltech-led Team Provides Proof in Humans of RNA Interference Using Targeted Nanoparticles

Caltech-led Team Provides Proof in Humans of RNA Interference Using Targeted Nanoparticles - Caltech

Invisibility cloak created in 3-D

BBC News - Invisibility cloak created in 3-D

Svarga Back in Second Life

The Secondlife Newspaper: Svarga Back in Second Life

Sunday 21 March 2010

Why Behavioral Economists Love Online Games

Why Behavioral Economists Love Online Games - Daniel Lyons - Newsweek.com

Apple iPad? How about a little German innovation instead

Fear and Loathing in Farmville

DESIGNER NOTES � Blog Archive � “Fear and Loathing in Farmville”

Saturday 20 March 2010

Where does privacy fit in the online video revolution?

Where does privacy fit in the online video revolution? | Victor Keegan | Technology | guardian.co.uk: "Where does privacy fit in the online video revolution?"

Friday 19 March 2010

How the FCC's new national broadband plan is expected to affect consumers

How the FCC's new national broadband plan is expected to affect consumers - washingtonpost.com

Is There A Second Life For Trademarks In Second Life?

Is There A Second Life For Trademarks In Second Life�? | Fenwick & West LLP - JDSupra: "Is There A Second Life For Trademarks In Second Life"

Thursday 18 March 2010

Fed skewers Google over Tweetbookish Gmail mod • The Register

3D chips to take Moore's Law past 2020? | DVICE

Self-assembling computer chips

First quantum effects seen in visible object - physics-math - 17 March 2010 - New Scientist

First quantum effects seen in visible object - physics-math - 17 March 2010 - New Scientist: "first ever quantum superposition"

PayPal's Newest iPhone App Is Being Hyped As A Cash Killer

Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish | Video on TED.com

Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish | Video on TED.com: "How I fell in love with a fish"

Wednesday 17 March 2010

How Privacy Vanishes Online, a Bit at a Time - NYTimes.com

The Reality As You Know It Does Not Exist

Singularity’s Flaw � Caleb Booker

Singularity’s Flaw � Caleb Booker: "civilization"

Tuesday 16 March 2010

Facing up to Facebook

Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp | Video on TED.com

future facts blog

ongoing by Tim Bray � Now A No-Evil Zone

ongoing by Tim Bray � Now A No-Evil Zone: "It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger."