[new lyrics for old songs] US teen invents advanced cancer test using Google. Forensic psychologist says mass killing is about culture, not mental illness. Send Postcards That Smell Like Favorite Foods. Ever wanted to sniff your foodie friends’ photos?
Well one student in China has a concept to capture the aroma of food on a postcard. The ‘food printer’ would use a camera to take the picture and a smell extractor to collect the aroma simultaneously, then prints a postcard with aroma ink. Zhu Jingxuan, an industrial design student at the Fashion & Art Design Institute of Donghua University, drew the sketch and made the model device with the help of Sony’s Student Design Workshop. Jingxuan’s food printer concept won the “most-fun” award during the workshop. Jingxuan was one of six students to win awards and the winners worked with designers in Sony China Creative Center in Shanghai to turn their ideas into reality.
P&P Office Waste Paper Processor – Turning Paper To Pencil by Chengzhu Ruan, Yuanyuan Liu, Xinwei Yuan & Chao Chen. Paper To Pencil, Just Like That!
P&P Office Waste Paper Processor is one of those things that you wish you knew how it works, but dang! NOTCOT.ORG. 'Severe abnormalities' found in Fukushima butterflies. 13 August 2012Last updated at 11:17 ET By Nick Crumpton BBC News The study found that mutation rates were much higher among butterfly collected near Fukushima Exposure to radioactive material released into the environment has caused mutations in butterflies found in Japan, a study suggests.
Scientists found an increase in leg, antennae and wing shape mutations among butterflies collected following the 2011 Fukushima accident. The link between the mutations and the radioactive material was shown by laboratory experiments, they report. The work has been published in the journal Scientific Reports. Death - Page 01. Paper Bag Trees by Yuken Teruya. As part of a new group exhibition at David B.
Smith Gallery in Denver, artist Yuken Teruya created these two wonderfully intricate trees cut from the humble paper of a McDonald’s carryout bag. Teruya has frequently demonstrated that even the most mundane paper materials can be used to create extraordinary art including his work with toilet paper rolls, newspapers, and currency. You can stop by David B. Botanicus Interacticus by Disney Research. Just back, and the project definitely worth seeing in person at Siggraph 2012 comes from Disney Research - Botanicus Interacticus turns plants into human-computer interfaces… caress, grab, approach the plant to change the visualizations!
Plants as interfaces seems to be a growing trend. This reminded me of Mathieu Lehanneur’s 2010 Once Upon A Dream bed that we saw in Milan, where you barely touch the plant hanging overhead to activate the light dimmer. Also, NOTCOT.org just highlighted Viktor Kölbig’s Aura, which turns a plant in a glass of water into a light, and you touch the plant to change colors. However, Botanicus Interacticus, using Disney Research’s Touché technology takes those concepts even further, being able to sense various gestures, such as sliding of fingers on the stem, touching, grabbing, and even proximity to the plant as well as the amount of touch and more!
In fact, they created an amazing tactile feedback (accidentally!) Lapka — Personal Environment Monitor. Many human 'prototypes' coexisted in Africa. 8 August 2012Last updated at 13:06 ET By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News A new species of human: One of several co-existing in Africa two million years ago Researchers studying fossils from northern Kenya have identified a new species of human that lived two million years ago.
The discoveries suggests that at least three distinct species of humans co-existed in Africa. The research adds to a growing body of evidence that runs counter to the popular perception that there was a linear evolution from early primates to modern humans. The research has been published in the journal Nature. Totally not 'shopped pics from Mars. Rise in Weather Extremes Threatens Infrastructure. In mid-'60s LSD research study, dosed scientists achieved creative breakthroughs. NOTCOT.ORG. DX London. First shown in Italy earlier this year and most recently in London, the Magnum Infinity Pleasure Pod sees jellymongers Bompas and Parr explore how our reaction to pleasure has the power to shape our environment.
The Machine. Must build: Casa eco sustentable. Sleeperhold Publications. Intro → Sleeperhold is a publication platform.
Andrew lewicki. Japanese company converts foetus scan into 3D-printed sculpture. A Japanese engineering company called Fasotec will convert an MRI scan of your unborn child into a 3D-printed replica that you can use to adorn your mantelpiece.
Fer1972: Liquid Rainbow by Edwin Deen. Playground at CityWalk@Akard. Website Overview of Outdoor Idea Our project will raise funds for a playground at a mixed-use building, managed by a nonprofit, in downtown Dallas.
The building's affordable housing includes 50 units for formerly homeless individuals and families. LeisureArts. Ice-cream ads: words fail me. In a good way. New Nike ad features overweight 12-year-old boy. Adski_kafeteri: Jarek Puczel, Lovers. US stonewalling treaty that would help disabled people access copyrighted works. The World Intellectual Property Organization has been working on a treaty to protect the rights of disabled people with regard to copyright since 1985.
Most of the world's rich countries and developing nations support this work. However, two key entities are stonewalling and holding up the treaty: the European Commission (despite strong support from the European Parliament); and the USA, whose trade negotiators are listening to big business lobby groups like the Association of American Publishers, who oppose any treaty that creates rights for information users instead of corporations.
The idea of the treaty is to harmonize the rights of disabled people in different countries. For example, in the USA, it's legal to make assistive editions of books -- audiobooks, ebooks, Braille and large type books -- without permission from the copyright holder. The same right exists in Canada. How to: Build a living sea creature from spare parts. A couple of days ago, Rob told you about scientists who had built a "jellyfish" in the lab, using rat cells. Which is awesome. Naturally, it's not quite as awesome as it sounds, though. The scientists haven't created life. This is your face on drugs: Artist’s self-portraits done on various narcotics. Morphine (IV) Performance artist, painter and poet Bryan Lewis Saunders wasn’t joking around when he announced he was going to draw self-portraits of himself while on various types of drugs.
Saunders didn’t just sample the low-key stuff, he tried meth, cocaine, bottles of cough syrup, Adderall, computer dusters and many, many more. These self-portraits are the results. Lives on the Line. Big Head Squirrel Feeder. Aurora shooting: Colorado gun sales up after cinema killings. 25 July 2012Last updated at 10:12 GMT Gun customer: "The incident opened up my eyes to what's going on out there" The number of people seeking to buy guns in Colorado has soared since last week's mass shooting in the US state's town of Aurora, say law officials. In the three days after the shooting, applications for the background checks needed to buy a gun legally were up 43% on the previous week.
The shooting at a cinema showing the new Batman movie left 12 people dead and 58 injured - 20 remain in hospital. The suspected gunman appeared in court for the first time on Monday. James Holmes, 24, is accused of throwing two canisters of gas into a busy midnight showing of the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, before firing at random into the crowd. Intermission: Meet the Superhumans - News. Former McDonald's Honchos Take On Sustainable Cuisine. Photo: James Wojcik. £13tn hoard hidden from taxman by global elite. MAN OF STEEL Teasers Are Here! UCLA creates transparent solar cell, dreams of current generating windows. UCLA researchers create highly transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside.
Their study appears in the journal ACS Nano. Bibliothèque Design. The wonder of small things. Stephen Colbert Skewers Texas GOP's Attack on Critical Thinking - Education. Stephen Colbert is back from vacation and he's taking on "the large Hadron Collider of denying science": Texas. Earlier this month the state's Republican party caused a dust-up when they stated in the education section of their 2012 platform that they "oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills," as well as "critical thinking skills" because they "focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
" Electricity pumps artificial jellyfish through water. Gesundheit Radio. Farmhopping Brings the Power of Crowdfunding to the Countryside - Technology. Pedal Pushers: Denmark Unveils a Bike Commuter's Dreamland - Cities. ReadySet Solar Kit for iPad, iPhone, Android & more by Mike & Brian at Fenix International. The Solar Charging Kit for Africa You Want for Your Own Home - Business. An 'Iconathon' is Design-Centric Advocacy That's More Than Symbolic - Design. The Future of Manufacturing Is in America, Not China - By Vivek Wadhwa.
NYCV SECOND PRIZE /// E. Pieraccioli – C. Granato. Greg Ousley Is Sorry for Killing His Parents. Is That Enough? Judging a Book by Its Cover. Gene therapy nears approval in Europe. First web image band play final gig. In the in-between - Jackson Patterson. Bipedalism, birth and brain evolution. Can You Learn To Be Synaesthetic?
NYC adds free WiFi hotspots to 10 payphones, with more to come. Visually-Impaired Teen Starts Clever Braille Menu Business. NOTCOT.ORG. 7 Reasons Why I Can't Do "Free" Tessa Farmer. Free Produce and A Peace Orchard for Flint Michigan - GOOD Projects. Mind bending: Why our memories are not always our own - Features - Health & Families. Vandalog: Robert Montgomery for the Brandalism project. NOTCOT.ORG. Chicago Tribune Suspends Journatic as Editorial Director Quits (Updated) A World Without Coral Reefs. In Rooftop Farming, New York City Emerges as a Leader.
10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America. Companies See Benefit of Time Away From Mobile Devices. Destroying Nature Unleashes Infectious Diseases. NOTCOT.ORG. Stretch Out – Home Wear. At the Imagine Cup: Flash Food, a Hunger Fighting App - Education. Build This Tiny DIY House and Transform Your City - Cities. Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com. Strategies for a Changing Planet: Farming. A guide to electronic music. Maker Station in Library Parking Lot = All Kinds of Awesome.
Ideas for Cities: Uniting Cultural Institutions - Cities. A Sentimental Companion. Remedy Store. Choreography for Plastic Army Men. iPhone app makes a game of monitoring pain for young cancer patients. How to look your best the morning after. Crossword Bookstores, Audio books: Lips. Brian Cox: bank bailout costlier than UK science 'since Jesus' LibraryCamp: crowdfunded UK unconference for libraries. Ana Albero. Mad Food Camp 2012: A look at Mad Food 2012, the social story. Protista Imperialis: Bio sculpture seeks human presence for growth. 3D printing blood vessel networks. 3D-printed sugar network to help grow artificial liver.