Tag: technologies
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Interview with Roberta Buiani
Roberta Buiani is an interdisciplinary artist, media scholar and curator based in Toronto. She is the co-founder of the ArtSci Salon at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Toronto) and a co-organizer of LASER Toronto. Her work explores how scientific and technological mechanisms translate, encode and transform the natural and human world, and…
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Experts Predict When Artificial Intelligence Will Exceed Human Performance
Artificial intelligence is changing the world and doing it at breakneck speed. The promise is that intelligent machines will be able to do every task better and more cheaply than humans. Rightly or wrongly, one industry after another is falling under its spell, even though few have benefited significantly so far. And that raises an…
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Researchers develop stretchable transparent touchpad
Researchers have developed a highly stretchable touchpad that can be worn on the arm and be used to write words and play electronic games. Scientists from Seoul National University in South Korea published their findings in the latest issue of the journal Science. While various types of conductors such as carbon nanotubes and metal nanowires…
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Interview with Nina Czegledy
An independent media artist, curator and writer, Nina Czegledy divides her time between Canada and Europe, living in Budapest and Toronto. Czegledy is of Hungarian origin and spends a great deal of time in Budapest and within Eastern Europe facilitating exchange between media art organizations and artists in Canada and throughout the rest of Europe.…
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Interview with Stelarc
Stelarc is a performance artist who has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body. He has made three films of the inside of his body. Between 1976-1988 he completed 25 body suspension performances with hooks into the skin. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems, the Internet and biotechnology to explore alternate,…
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Interview with Derrick de Kerckhove
[ITA – English below] Derrick de Kerckhove è stato un associato del Centro per la Cultura e la Tecnologia dal 1972 al 1980 e ha lavorato con Marshall McLuhan per oltre 10 anni come traduttore, assistente e co-autore. È stato direttore del Programma McLuhan in Cultura e Tecnologia, autore de La pelle della…
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Bricks Grown From Bacteria
A unique start-up company have developed a method of growing bricks from nothing more than bacteria and naturally abundant materials. Having recently won first place in the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Challenge, has developed a method of growing materials by employing microorganisms. Arguing that the four traditional building materials – concrete, glass, steel and wood – both contain…
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Body odor as a biometric identifier
The research of the Group of Biometrics, Biosignals and Security (GB2S) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in collaboration with unveils that there are recognizable patterns of each person’s body odor that remain steady. Therefore, every person has his/hers own odor and this would allow his/her identification within a group of people at an accurate rate higher than 85%.…
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Ambient Backscatter
As computing devices become smaller and more numerous, powering them becomes more difficult; wires are often not feasible, and batteries add weight, bulk, cost, and require recharging/replacement that is impractical at large scales. Ambient backscatter communication solves this problem by leveraging existing TV and cellular transmissions, rather than generating their own radio waves. This novel…
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“Invisibility Cloak” Hides Cats and Fish
A fish swims into an enclosure and disappears, while the pondweed behind remains perfectly visible. A cat climbs into a glass box and vanishes, and again the scene behind the box remains visible through the glass. This latest addition to the science of invisibility cloaks is one of the simplest implementations so far, but there’s…
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Plug it on the window
The Window Socket offers a neat way to harness solar energy and use it as a plug socket. So far we have seen solutions that act as a solar battery backup, but none as a direct plug-in. Simple in design, the plug just attaches to any window and does its job intuitively. http://www.yankodesign.com/2013/04/26/plug-it-on-the-window/
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Augmented Reality
Augmented reality is a mix of technologies (software) built into a smartphone or laptop equipped with a webcam that allows you to observe and enrich surroundings with layers of informations, and virtual and multimedia elements. Creating new models of communication in real time, ranging from advertising to home automation, for different kind of markets: from tourism to consumer. Already used by military research or in academic or medical studies, augmented reality, since 2009, has reached people’s attention through adv campaigns, on newspapers or on the web. The fact that augmented reality applications are normally accessible by standard Internet browsers has boosted…
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CHAAC HA’, Water System Collector
“We addressed the issue of scarcity, over exploitation and pollution of water. It makes evident and urgent a rational and responsible water use, which allows its supply in quantity and quality over time through a dynamic and ecological balance. Therefore the effort to study the characteristics of our region such as the resources availability, population…
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Electricity through cycling
The Atom is a lightweight, highly efficient bicycle generator and rechargeable battery pack designed to power virtually any of your electronic or mobile devices via USB. Our generators easily mount on most standard bicycle frames and the battery packs detach easily to quickly extend your battery life. The Atom is for the modern commuter cyclist,…
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Fully Cellular 3D Bioprinted Liver Tissue
Organovo Holdings, Inc., a creator and manufacturer of functional, three-dimensional human tissues for medical research and therapeutic applications, presented at the 2013 Experimental Biology conference in Boston, Massachusettsdata on the company’s in vitro three-dimensional liver. “We have achieved excellent function in a fully cellular 3D human liver tissue. With Organovo’s 3D bioprinted liver tissues, we have demonstrated the…
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Innovation Cup 2013
InnovationCup2013 is much more than a contest: STMicroelectronics invites students, researchers & scholars to live a journey of innovation to discover & foresee the technological platform of the future that will deeply enhance human life! Unlike other apparently similar contests, ST is proposing to be part ofa real industrial project that, beginning with students’ ideas, arrives at…
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Tomorrow is our permanent address
[ITA – English below] Il futuro è un argomento banale perché noi tutti, consapevolmente o meno, abbiamo continuamentea che fare col futuro, le nostre azioni, attività, i nostri progetti e pensieri, sono rivolti al futuro. La mia ipotesi è che questa naturale inclinazione umana derivi dall’acquisizione della capacità simbolica, centinaia di migliaia di anni fa.…
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Scientists Create Recyclable Solar Cells From Trees
Last year in April 2012, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created the first plastic solar cell which they hope will help change requirements for manufacturing of organic printed electronics. That plastic solar cell was created through a special program at called the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), which studies the use and development of…
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David Deutsch on our place in the universe
[ITA] Il leggendario scienziato David Deutsch lascia per un attimo da parte la fisica teorica per discutere di un problema più urgente: la sopravvivenza della nostra specie. Il primo passo per risolvere il riscaldamento globale, dice, è ammettere che abbiamo un problema. [ENG] David Deutsch’s 1997 book “The Fabric of Reality” laid the groundwork for…
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Top 10 emerging technologies for 2013
New challenges need new technologies to tackle them. Here, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies identifies the top 10 most promising technology trends that can help to deliver sustainable growth in decades to come as global population and material demands on the environment continue to grow rapidly. These are technologies that the Council…
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Did you know? (v.3.0)
Globalization & The Information Age. 2013 The New 2012 HD version on the progression of information technology researched by Karl Fisch, and modified by Faisal Rahim. From the website: http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/home “Because we are educators in the United States, our experiences and perspectives are going to be somewhat America-centric. However, we believe that the themes of…