HP’s Audacious Idea for Reinventing Computers. There is a shrine inside Hewlett-Packard’s headquarters in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Touchscreen Landscapes. [Image: Screen grab via military.com].
This new, partly digital sand table interface developed for military planning would seem to have some pretty awesome uses in an architecture or landscape design studio. Qualcomm’s Neuromorphic Chips Could Make Robots and Phones More Astute About the World. Breakthrough An alternative design for computer chips that will enhance artificial intelligence.
Why It Matters Traditional chips are reaching fundamental performance limits. Key Players. A smart-object recognition algorithm that doesn’t need humans. The Aluminum Airship of the Future Has Finally Flown. The Aluminum Airship of the Future Has Finally Flown. Proposed Satellite Would Beam Solar Power to Earth. PASADENA, Calif. — An energy-hungry Earth is in need of transformational and sustainable energy solutions, experts say.
For decades, researchers have been appraising the use of power-beaming solar-power satellites. But the projected cost, complexity and energy economics of the notion seemingly short-circuited the idea. Now, a unique new approach has entered the scene, dubbed SPS-ALPHA, short for Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large PHased Array. Leader of the concept is John Mankins of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions of Santa Maria, Calif. Mankins provided a detailed overview of the power-beaming concept here during the 2012 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts meeting March 27-29. Is that you, HAL? No, it's NEIL: Google, US Navy pour money into 'associative' AI brain.
NEIL hasn't slept or eaten in four months, it's just browsed the internet and tried to figure out connections between aircraft and aircraft carriers, or hot dogs and buns.
The Never Ending Image Learner is a new approach to weak artificial intelligence systems that piggybacks on the immense tech fielded by companies like Google, and represents the bleeding edge of computer science research. The system takes in batches of classified images (cars parked outside, for instance), and then tries to find other classified elements within them (such as the surrounding road), then crunches the data and forms associations. So far it has sucked in three million images, and managed to identity 1,500 objects and 1,200 scenes in half a million pictures, then figured out some 2,500 associations from this.
"It's building upon a lot of work in computer vision using deformable part models," Carnegie Mellon University assistant research professor Abhinav Gupta, told The Reg on Monday. Non-invasive brain to brain communication to allow a human to mentally control movement of a rats tail. Harvard researchers have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human and a rat.
The interface allows the human to control the rat’s tail. This is computer mediated telepathy and remote control of another body from someone elses brain. Hype Builds Before Elon Musk’s August Alpha Plan for SF to LA Hyperloop. I liked going to the bank drive-through with my mom as a kid.
She’d send her checks to the teller inside by shooting a cylinder through a pneumatic tube. I always wanted a ride in that thing. And while there remains a woeful shortage of pneumatic tubes transporting people at the moment—that unhappy state of affairs may not last forever. Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul behind PayPal, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX and the entrepreneur who wants to colonize Mars with a vertically landing, reusable rocket—that guy—recently announced he’s been busy thinking about building a pneumatic tube to shuttle people from SF to LA at 600+ mph.
Hype Builds Before Elon Musk’s August Alpha Plan for SF to LA Hyperloop. Wearable Technology: Bend it, Wash it, Wear it. At the 2013 Wearable Technology Conference in San Francisco, Google Glass is already old news.
Evacuated Tube Transport By ET3: LA to NY in 45 Minutes. Evacuated Tube Transport also known as Hyperloop transportation uses airless vacuum tubes system with a magnetic levitation system similar to high-speed bullet trains. Each tube will carry individual capsules systems that will fit up to six people per capsule. Theoretically the system could travel at speeds up to 4000 miles per hour. Passengers could travel from LA to NY in an astonishing 45 minutes and NY to China in just under 2 hours. Random Rights Are Bad. Food truck and fast food meals can be pretty skimpy.
Metamaterials remove heat and control its flow and direction. Factal Antenna Systems has filed patent on better methods for removing heat, and controlling its flow and direction.
The technology uses tiny resonators made of self-scaled structures called fractals to form a virtual bridge to lead heat, or other electromagnetic radiation forms, controlling flow from one area to another. The Future of Gaming — It May All Be in Your Head. Gaming as a hobby evokes images of lethargic teenagers huddled over their controllers, submerged in their couch surrounded by candy bar wrappers.
This image should soon hit the reset button since a more exciting version of gaming is coming. Always Innovating: MeCam. When are we going to learn to trust robots? 4 March 2013Last updated at 19:19 ET By William Kremer BBC World Service. TED 2013: 4D printed objects 'make themselves' 28 February 2013Last updated at 05:39 ET By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter. Utility fog.