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Jun 4, 2016
‘Fountain of Youth’ Pill Could Be a Reality Sooner Than You’d Think
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Jun 4, 2016
Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, education, Elon Musk, health, internet, space travel
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Legendary master filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) examines the past, present and constantly evolving future of the Internet in Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World. Herzog conducted original interviews with cyberspace pioneers and prophets such as PayPal and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk, Internet protocol inventor Bob Kahn, and famed hacker Kevin Mitnick. These provocative conversations reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works, from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct our personal relationships.
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Jun 4, 2016
Flat lens promises possible revolution in optics
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: nanotechnology
A flat lens made of paint whitener on a sliver of glass could revolutionise optics, according to its US inventors.
Just 2mm across and finer than a human hair, the tiny device can magnify nanoscale objects and gives a sharper focus than top-end microscope lenses.
It is the latest example of the power of metamaterials, whose novel properties emerge from their structure.
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Jun 4, 2016
Fly with your drone in VR thanks to the Exo360’s five 4K cameras
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, robotics/AI, virtual reality
Jun 4, 2016
Watch: New Trailer for Werner Herzog’s Internet Doc ‘Lo and Behold’
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: education, internet
” The explosion of information technology on the internet has lead to some of its greatest glories.” Magnolia has released an official US trailer for the new Werner Herzog documentary Lo and Behold: Reveries of The Connected World, in which Herzog profiles the internet and how it has changed the world, for better or worse. The doc premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year to mostly positive reviews. We featured the first two trailers a few months ago while waiting for release info to be revealed. The doc has 10 distinct chapters, from “The Early Days” to “The Future”, and explores both the good and bad of what the internet has provided. I’m still quite excited to see this doc, anything by Herzog is usually quite fascinating.
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Jun 4, 2016
Even cowboy jobs may not be safe from robots
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Jun 4, 2016
World’s First 3D Printed Motorcycle
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, transportation
Jun 4, 2016
A Camera Lens Breakthrough Could See Smartphones Outperforming DSLRs
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: electronics, mobile phones
If you’ve ever held a high-quality camera lens, the first thing you notice is the weight. Thanks to layers and layers of thick glass hunks inside, they end up being very heavy. However, thanks to research being done at Harvard on something called metalenses, one day those mgiant glass-filled lenses might be obsolete.
The curved surfaces on a glass lens focus incoming light onto a camera’s digital sensor. The more precise (and expensive) the lens is, the better the image it will produce.
Metalenses work in a similar way, but they’re not made of precision-ground glass. Instead, a layer of transparent quartz is completely covered in a layer of tiny towers made from titanium dioxide. When arranged in specific patterns, those complex tower arrays can focus light exactly like a glass lens does. Except that these tiny metalenses end up being thinner than a human hair, and weigh almost nothing.
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