'5D' discs can store data until well after the sun burns out. Each file is comprised of three layers of nanoscale dots.
The dots' side and orientations, as well as their position within the three standard dimensions, constitute its five dimensions. These dots change the polarization of light travelling through the disc which is read using a microscope and polarizer. The Southampton team originally demonstrated the technology back in 2013 though, at that point, they could only fit a 300kb test file onto a disc. In the three years since their first demonstration, they've essentially perfected the recording technique and have since recorded the entirety of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Newton's Opticks, Magna Carta and Kings James Bible. "It is thrilling to think that we have created the technology to preserve documents and information and store it in space for future generations," Professor Peter Kazansky from the ORC said in a statement. How to Control Someone Else's Arm with Your Brain.
World's Fastest Rubik's Cube Solving Robot. A Working Light-Based Processor ~ Digital News Arena. A new type of processor has been developed by the researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, one that uses light in order to transmit data.
Together with other universities, UC Berkeley experts have created a revolutionary, world’s first processor that fully works with light. This cutting-edge processor is much more advanced than conventional electric chips, having the ability to process 300 Gbps per square millimeter. Compared to a standard processor, that’s 10 to 50 times more data. The new chip measures 3 by 6 millimeters, and it features 2 processor cores with 70 million transistors. In addition to that, we have 850 photonic components, which are used to receive and send light.
"This is a milestone. The advantages of chips that use light instead of electricity are multiple. The new processor is much more advanced than most electric processors that arecurrently available, but its potential has not beenfully realized yet. Oculus Rift Hack. Microsoft Project Oxford Emotion Demo. IQ Test Result: Advanced AI Machine Matches Four-Year-Old Child's Score. The rapid advances in information processing technology in recent years have created computing devices with formidable powers.
These machines have long been better than humans at arithmetic, certain games such as chess, and more recently at advanced pattern recognitions tasks such as face recognition. But an outstanding questions is: to what extent do these capabilities add up to the equivalent of human intelligence? Today, we get answer of sorts thanks to the work of Stellan Ohlsson at the University of Illinois and a few pals who have put one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence machines through its paces using a standard IQ test given to humans. The results show that even though computers have become far more powerful in recent years, they have some catching up to do to match human performance levels. First some background. This consists of two parts. IQ tests are also designed to test humans at different stages of their lives. How a Retractable Ballpoint Pen Works.
Study: Streaming Video Viewers Lose Patience After 2 Seconds. Amherst, Mass.
(CBS CONNECTICUT) – Streaming online viewers have no tolerance for videos that take longer than just a few seconds to load onto their screens. Video-streaming services – such as YouTube or NetFlix – win and lose millions of viewers and customers in just a matter of seconds. And according to a new study from the University of Massachusetts, about half of the people who use a high-speed, fiber-optic connection believe that five seconds is too long to wait, National Public Radio reports.
YouTube alone averages 4 billion hours of streaming video each month, and that is only a fraction of the overall online-streaming community. Young adults want news every day, survey shows - Houston Chronicle. CHICAGO (AP) — Young adults have a reputation for being connected to one another and disconnected from the news.
But a survey has found that mobile devices and social networking are keeping them more engaged with the broader world than previously thought. They want news, they say, though they don't always aggressively seek it out — perhaps simply happening upon it on a friend's online feed. And they want it daily. The survey of Americans ages 18 to 34, sometimes called the millennial generation, found that two-thirds of respondents said they consume news online regularly, often on a social networking site. Of those, 40 percent do so several times a day, according to the poll, conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute. IBM Selectric Typewriter & its digital to analogue converter. World's Fastest 2D Camera Records a Hundred Billion Frames a Second. The incredible frame rate of new high-speed camera will open up new visions in science, researchers say.
The Compressed Ultrafast Photography device can capture moving light, the fastest thing in the universe. (Photo : Wang | Washington University) "Lights, camera, action! " The Utopian UI Architect — re:form. New gigabit laser connection in space. Introducing Lantern: One Device = Free Data Forever. Flying the Birdly Virtual Reality Simulator. The $10k hoverboard. Flutter Wireless - Arduino with 1km+ range via Kickstarter. Fujitsu develops glove-style tech. 24 February 2014Last updated at 11:51 ET A prototype tablet from Fujitsu offers haptic technology - the ability for the screen to change texture for different purposes Fujitsu unveiled its new wearable technology The information picked up by the glove would be displayed on a headset Fujitsu has unveiled a wearable device in the form of a glove at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
D-Wave: Is $15m machine a glimpse of future computing? 19 May 2014Last updated at 19:37 ET By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website D-Wave is headquartered in the small tech hub of Burnaby, near Vancouver A Canadian firm has courted controversy with its claim to have built a practical quantum computer, a feat thought to be decades away.
Now, independent researchers are trying to understand whether it really can tap the strange world of quantum physics. Why Google Might Spend $3 Billion on a Fleet of Satellites. Google is reportedly sending a fleet of satellites into space and could spend up to $3 billion doing it.
This is not the first time the tech giant has tried to spread Internet access through the sky. Last year, Google unveiled Project Loon, its plan to provide remote areas with a broadband connection via balloon. Then in April, it bought drone-maker Titan Aerospace for the same purpose. Now it’s looking to launch 180 satellites into low orbit, according to “people familiar with the project” who talked to the Wall Street Journal.
Space, The Profitable Frontier. Computer passes Turing test. 9 June 2014Last updated at 08:36 ET Eugene Goostman simulates a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy A computer program called Eugene Goostman, which simulates a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, is said to have passed the Turing test at an event organised by the University of Reading.
This Cup Supposedly Tracks Everything You Pour Into It. You can track your food intake, your exercise, your sleep and now... your liquid consumption. There's a new "smartcup" (yes, you read that right) that can tell you exactly what you put inside of it. The cup, called Vessyl, recognizes the liquid you pour into it and records all of the water, soda, juice, beer and other potables you drink on your smartphone.
Broadcom offers $19.99 Internet of Things development kit. BROADCOM IS OFFERING developers who want to experiment with the Internet of Things (IoT) a low cost, generic device to play around with and explore. The Wiced Sense consists of a small Bluetooth Smart - also known as Bluetooth 4.0 or LE - powered device with five low powered micro electro-mechanical systems sensors (MEMS), such as those found in IoT devices. Bundled with it is an accompanying smartphone app that Broadcom claims can be connected and running development programs in minutes. The onboard sensors are a gyroscope for motion control, gaming and GPS; an accelerometer for impact and vibration recognition; an E-compass to enable position detection, motion activation and map rotation; a barometer for smartwatches and weather stations; and a humidity and temperature sensor for heating, ventilation and smart home devices.
Using the development kit, users are able to create firmware for products that don't exist yet, exponentially speeding up the process from concept to market. Air Hockey Robot Project (a 3D printer hack) Hands-On with Avegant's Glyph Virtual Retinal Display Prototype (CES 2014) OMOTE / REAL-TIME FACE TRACKING PROJECTION MAPPING. Stick-on screens open up a new vista for window projections. 21 January 2014Last updated at 18:12 GMT By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News The researchers demonstrate the plastic screen they say could turn any window into a movie screen Scientists have created a transparent screen that can turn any window into a display for moving images.
The screens, which are made by adding tiny nanoparticles that reflect blue light into a liquid polymer, can be stuck on to any window. The nanoparticles are invisible to humans, creating the transparency, but images projected in blue light show up. The team asserts in the journal Nature Communications that it is simpler to make than existing similar screens. It Is Now Possible To 3-D Print Your Unborn Fetus. So you dropped some cash and upgraded to a 4-D ultrasound, and now you’re thinking to yourself, "Well I’ve already had my unborn baby’s glamour shots captured in every dimension known to man.
Now how else can I prepare for my child's arrival? " We’re glad you asked. Have you ever considered baby-proofing eating better rekindling relationships with estranged family members saving for college 3-D printing the little angel? For $600, a company named 3D Babies will turn your ultrasound into a life-sized fetal sculpture, delivered in a satin-lined wood box that would be impolite to call a coffin. Let's break down a few of the selling points, as stated on the company Website: "Imagine holding your baby before he or she is born. " Just don’t drop it, because if you thought breaking a mirror was bad joojoo, just wait until you’re crawling around the kitchen floor, sorting the dismembered toes of your algorithmically printed offspring from dried pasta noodles.
Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram's utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm. In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer, and entrepreneur overturned conventional ideas on how to pursue knowledge. Earlier this month, he teased something with the capacity to create as much passion — and, likely, much more actual change — in the world of programming, computation, and applications. Today, Wolfram gave me a glimpse under the hood in an hour-long conversation. And I have to say, what I saw was amazing. Whether you think his 1,300-page tome on the future of scientific exploration is seminal or fanciful, you can’t question that the man is a genius.
A Look Beyond Amazon's Cloud. Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes eleventh-hour push for WebRTC’s future. CAPTCHA Busted? AI Company Claims Break of Internet's Favorite Protection System - Wired Science. Healthcare.gov: Code Developed by the People and for the People, Released Back to the People - Alex Howard. Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb. LED light bulb 'li-fi' closer, say Chinese scientists. TVC 2013 - Technology Showcase ft. Harald Hass Li-Fi. 'Li-fi' via LED light bulb data speed breakthrough. Underwater wi-fi given test run to create 'deep-sea internet' How to Build a Supercomputer on the Cheap. Power surges 'cripple NSA data centre' Humans Trump Robots at the Grocery Store. Cloud, Mobile, Software-Defined Networking Trends Prominent at Interop. New cloud competition, the meshing of consumer and network applications, the maturing of software-defined networks, network services to match compute and storage, and the continuing quest for mobile device management are five trends highlighted at this year’s Interop New York conference.
Review of Spin Video-Chatting Service. See Some Art While You Can — Google Will Eventually Replace Museums. The prints in the series Anonymous Paintings are enlarged reproductions of museum artworks that have been imaged by Google Street View technology and later blurred by Google on its Art Project website. They are inkjet prints stretched on cotton panels, but they are also emblematic of the fascination that has built around Google’s Street View glitches and blurrings.
Keeping Your Laptop Plugged in All the Time Will Kill Its Battery Faster. Disney develops 'magical' device to make fingertips sing. The wireless network with a mile-wide range that the “internet of things” could be built on. Fall asleep to the sound of Wikipedia. Listen to Wikipedia. IBM Developing Computer System That Thinks Like a Human. Full Color 3D Printed Replicas. Amaze project aims to take 3D printing 'into metal age' 3D Printing at Siemens. Stratasys launches multi-material colour 3D printer. 3D printers print ten houses in 24 hours. 3D printers print ten houses in 24 hours Amazing! Glasgow scientists create single-pixel camera for 3D images. iTunes users spending at the rate of $40/yr. Thermal invisibility cloak in first demonstration. What People Are Actually Doing On The Internet In 2013. Super-powered battery breakthrough claimed by US team. Touchscreen that reacts even without touching. Long-distance 3D laser camera unveiled by Edinburgh team.
A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning. (2011) Microsoft's house of the future. Touchscreens 'a small step' in innovation. Face of the future rears its head. Intel builds 'world's smallest' 3G modem. Google Fiber review: Nobody knows what to do with the world’s fastest Internet service. How the Humble Telephone Is About to Bring Internet to the Masses (Again) Apple’s Planned ‘IWatch’ Could Be More Profitable Than TV. Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines.
Windows Kernel architecture - Arun Kishan. Microsoft shares code for Kinect game gadget. 3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models: Full Length Video. I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates. Google Glass Explorer Edition: Explained! How It Feels through Glass - Google Glass Official Promo 20/02/2013. Drive SDK. How Google GLASS works [INFOGRAPHIC] Google Glass & Basketball Practice. The large hadron collider through google glass.
Facial Recognition Comes to Google Glass. The real plan for Google Glass may be to sell it to businesses, not consumers. Wearing Google Glass can hurt, doctor warns. MIT makes transparent solar panels. TED 2013: 4D printed objects 'make themselves' Scientists Uncover Invisible Motion in Video. GoodUI. Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved, Paving The Way For High-Quality Video On Low-Bandwidth Networks.
The first flexible, fiber-optic solar cell that can be woven into clothes. Wearable Gesture Control from Thalmic Labs. Leap Motion controllers to ship in mid-May for $80. TED 2013: SpaceTop 3D see-through computer revealed. 'Uncrackable' codes set for step up. Downstream and upstream quantum access network. : A quantum access network : Nature.