Craig Venter: 'This isn't a fantasy look at the future. We are doing the future' | Science Craig Venter reclines in his chair, puts his feet up on his desk and – gently stroking his milk chocolate-coloured miniature poodle, Darwin, asleep in his arms – shares his vision of the household appliance of the future. It is a box attached to a computer that would receive DNA sequences over the internet to synthesise proteins, viruses and even living cells. It could, for example, fill a prescription for insulin, provide flu vaccine during a pandemic or even produce phage viruses targeted to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It could help future Martian colonists by giving them access to the vaccines, antibiotics or personalised drugs they needed on the red planet. And should DNA-based life ever be found there, a digital version could be transmitted back to Earth, where scientists could recreate the extraterrestrial organism using their own life-printing box. "We call it a Digital Biological Converter. "Some of those people still hate me today," says Venter.
onE Puck зарежда мобилни устройства чрез чаша топла вода, HiTech | HiComm Компанията Epiphany Labs представи много полезно устройство на име onE Puck. То позволява зареждането на мобилни устройства, без да се прибягва до стандартната електрическа мрежа. Устройството представлява кръгла поставка за чаши, като едната й страна е предназначена за чаши с топли питиета, а другата - за студени. И в двата случая поставянето на пълна с течност чаша предизвиква стартирането на процес на зареждане. Моделът използва т.нар. двигател на Стирлинг, който извлича енергия от тела, периодично нагрявани и охлаждани. onE Puck може да работи с всяко устройство, което се зарежда чрез USB при напрежение до 1000 милиампера.
Plastic film is future of 3-D on-the-go Ditch the 3D glasses. Thanks to a simple plastic filter, mobile device users can now view unprecedented, distortion-free, brilliant 3D content with the naked eye. This latest innovation from Temasek Polytechnic and A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering is the first ever glasses-free 3D accessory that can display content in both portrait and landscape mode, and measures less than 0.1 mm in thickness. "The filter is essentially a piece of plastic film with about half a million perfectly shaped lenses engineered onto its surface using IMRE's proprietary nanoimprinting technology," said Dr Jaslyn Law, the IMRE scientist who worked with TP on the nanoimprinting R&D since 2010 to enhance the film's smoothness, clarity and transparency compared to other films in the market. "Our breakthrough is a game-changing piece of plastic that simply fits onto current smartphones or tablets to give users breathtaking 3D graphics on their smart devices.
One Radio Network / New Form of GMO Sneaking Into Food Supply This Year - One Radio Network By Daniel Taylor “Within 50 years we could have more life forms invented in a lab than we have ever identified in nature.” – Fidelity Investments “This year [Evolva] will release a product that has been created by genetically modified yeast that converts sugars to vanillin. It will be the first major synthetic-biology food additive to hit supermarkets.” – Nature.com A Switzerland based company called Evolva has developed a synthetic vanilla that is set to be released in 2014. The vanilla is created using a process of genetic engineering called synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, according to a 2005 European Commission paper is “…the engineering of biology… the synthesis of complex, biologically based (or inspired) systems which display functions that do not exist in nature.” Evolva’s synthetic vanilla is created by inserting computer coded DNA into yeast. Environmental organizations like Friends of the Earth have recognized the potential danger posed by synthetic biology. The Big Picture
Машина на Тюринг Художествено представяне на машината на Тюринг Машина на Тюринг е абстрактно изчислително устройство, описано от английския математик Алън Тюринг през 1936 г. Тюринг използва тази абстракция, за да даде първото точно определение на понятието алгоритъм (наричано още механична, формална или ефективна процедура). Машината се използва при доказването на основни резултати в компютърните науки, най-вече в областите изчислимост и сложност на алгоритмите, както и в математическата логика. Определение[редактиране | edit source] По-точно машината на Тюринг се състои от четири компонента: Памет — безкрайна лента, състояща се от клетки, във всяка от които е записан символ от някаква крайна азбука. Пример[редактиране | edit source] Ще разгледаме машина, работеща с двубуквена азбука — буквите са 0 и 1. A 0:(0,s,R) 1:(0,B,R) B 0:(1,C,L) 1:(1,B,R) C 0:(1,A,L) 1:(1,C,L) Имената на инструкциите са големите латински букви A, B и C. Всяка инструкция съдържа 2 указания — какво да прави при прочетена 0 или 1.
3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production | Autopia Engineer Jim Kor and his design for the Urbee 2. Photo: Sara Payne Picture an assembly line not that isn’t made up of robotic arms spewing sparks to weld heavy steel, but a warehouse of plastic-spraying printers producing light, cheap and highly efficient automobiles. If Jim Kor’s dream is realized, that’s exactly how the next generation of urban runabouts will be produced. His creation is called the Urbee 2 and it could revolutionize parts manufacturing while creating a cottage industry of small-batch automakers intent on challenging the status quo. Urbee’s approach to maximum miles per gallon starts with lightweight construction – something that 3-D printing is particularly well suited for. Jim Kor is the engineering brains behind the Urbee. “We thought long and hard about doing a second one,” he says of the Urbee. Kor and his team built the three-wheel, two-passenger vehicle at RedEye, an on-demand 3-D printing facility. Photo: Sara Payne “We’re calling it race car safety,” Kor says.
Army of Nanobots is Successfully Operating Inside Live Cockroaches -- The Implications Are HUGE! It's a computer - inside a cockroach. Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as a si... It's a computer - inside a cockroach. Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as a silicon-based computer have been introduced into a living animal. The DNA computers - known as origami robots because they work by folding and unfolding strands of DNA - travel around the insect's body and interact with each other, as well as the insect's cells. "DNA nanorobots could potentially carry out complex programs that could one day be used to diagnose or treat diseases with unprecedented sophistication," says Daniel Levner, a bioengineer at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Levner and his colleagues at Bar Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, made the nanobots by exploiting the binding properties of DNA. The team has now injected various kinds of nanobots into cockroaches. Reference: New Scientist
Хилбертови проблеми По време на втория математически конгрес, проведен в Париж през 1900 г., Давид Хилберт представя 23 нерешени от математиците проблема. Според него те ще определят целите на математиците през ХХ век. Първият Хилбертов проблем се отнася до хипотезата за континуума на Кантор. През 1940 г. Курт Гьодел доказва, че хипотезата не може да бъде опровергана в рамките на теорията на множествата на Цермело-Френкел, дори ако се приеме аксиомата за избора. В таблицата са представени проблемите и тяхното състояние за момента - решеност, нерешеност, полу- или частична решеност. 23-те проблема на Хилберт са: Литература[редактиране | edit source] Александров П.С. Бележки[редактиране | edit source] Jump up ↑ виж.
How 3D Printing Actually Works Now that 3D printing — the process of making three-dimensional solid objects from digital designs — is available and affordable to individual consumers, it's piqued a lot of interest across the tech space in the past few years. From scale models, gifts and clothing to prosthetic limbs, hearing aids and the prospect of 3D-printed homes, the possibilities seem endless. The concept of 3D printing is by no means new, however. Chuck Hull invented and patented stereolithography (also known as solid imaging) in the mid-1980s, when he founded 3D Systems, Inc. Since then, advances in the technology have been (and continue to be) made, including the size of the printers themselves, the materials they can use and more. But how do 3D printers actually work? Designing an Idea It all starts with a concept. Whichever program you choose, you're able to create a virtual blueprint of the object you want to print. The 3D Printing Process Now for the fun part. Pushing Innovation
GenSix Productions | Take the red pill Imagine you just woke up and the NWO agenda had begun while you were sleeping. You go to make some coffee as you ponder why your alarm clock failed to wake you on time only to discover that you have no electricity. As you peer through your curtains, you can see soldiers on the streets herding people into vehicles and then you hear the bull horn announcement echoing through the neighborhood telling you to “shelter in place” until the authorities come to your house to “process” you and your family. So the end “begins”… OK so it has been a while since my last article post, and that is because I ran into some new research and it took quite a bit of my time to study and process it. There is so much to talk about in this article that I literally spent hours (whole 8 hour days) going over it all because there is just so much to cover. Where to begin, where to begin indeed… I guess we can start off with CERN. Mr. the Southern Pole of Saturn. Mr. Why Saturn right? Anyway moving on. Cell culture