Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look “around†corners or see inside the body without X-rays.
Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Welcome to the Inter(pla)net?
Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Vinton G. Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. Cerf has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this TedTalk, Mr. Cerf talks about the growing interplanetary data communication network in […]
Resistive RAM Technology to Replace Flash?
IMAGINE storing your entire music collection, documents, pictures, even your HD movies on a flash memory chip the size of a postage stamp… Only it’s not flash technology, it’s a new competitor called “Resistive RAM”. This new venture by company Crossbar is touting that resistive RAM not only can hold much, much more stuff than […]
Touchable Holography
Like something out of science fiction, our amazing friends at Shinoda Lab (University of Tokyo) have created a sort of ‘tactile feedback’ that works along with animated 3D holography to give you the sense that these optical illusions are real. Amazing!
Quantum Data Teleportation – Not so Far Away?
Here is a very interesting read over at Nature.com that explains the ongoing race to build a “Quantum Internet”. Physicists Jian-Wei Pan and Anton Zeilinger were long time rivals (but still close researchers and good friends) have worked since the 1980’s in the field of quantum physics, making a lot of headway together and building […]
The most useless machine ever!
This was just too funny not to share. Enjoy!
Live web feed of Gulf oil leak online
Here’s a link to an Internet camera that is set up beside the blown out oil well, gushing hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. At the moment it seems that it is being hammered pretty well and isn’t available – hopefully it will be online very soon again […]
Cisco plans to build smart cities
Cisco, Inc. is planning on spearheading the idea of building “smart cities” from the ground up, centered around energy efficiency and high-tech citizen communication. With video phones built into walls in every building and home, traffic lights that talk universally to each other to help traffic flow, and smart water faucets, it will supposedly emit […]
New picture of the heart of the Milky Way – by NASA [pics]
On November 10th 2009, NASA and friends celebrate 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609. A extremely high quality picture derived from 3 different telescopes – the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory – will show the visible, infrared and x-ray panoramic views […]
4,500 year old Manhattan-size Arctic ice shelf breaks away
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/03/arctic.ice.shelf.ap/ – From the article: “A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada’s northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.” “These changes are irreversible under the present climate and indicate that the environmental conditions that […]