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Higher Education Reimagined With Online Courseware

il pinolo — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:11:44 -0400

The Open University, the distance-learning behemoth based in England, has vastly increased its visibility with open courses, which frequently show up in the Top 5 downloads on Apple’s iTunes U, a portal to institutions’ free courseware as well as ...
Category: Education
Year: 2010
Tags: openuniversity, distancelearning, onlineuniversity

What will bathrooms look like in the future? - Holy Kaw!

Accel Rose — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:06:27 -0400

Some interesting visuals of bathroom designs for the future. The ones with the green shoots are weird.
Category: The Home
Year: 2012
Tags: bathroom, shower, poop

Prosthetic Fingers That Grab Gracefully

il pinolo — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:51:04 -0400

ProDigits can replace any or all fingers on a hand; each replacement digit has a tiny motor and gear box mounted at the base. Movement is controlled by a computer chip in the prosthesis. The individual, motorized fingers are a new and promising de...
Category: Biotechnology
Year: 2010
Tags: prodigits, prosthetics, artificialbodyparts

Robot-Human Marriages Inevitable by 2050 says Levy

Accel Rose — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:37:14 -0400

Levy, a British researcher who recently earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, believes that by 2050, robots and humans will be able to marry legally in the United States. He predicts that Massachusetts will lead the ...
Category: Culture
Year: Beyond
Tags: 2050, robot, robotics, robots

Future Human Evolution Art Gallery

evo4ata — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:49:16 -0400

Future Human Evolution Art Gallery
Category: Entertainment
Year: Beyond
Tags: future, human, evolution, art, gallery

Twitter Predicts Box-Office Sales Better Than HSX

Accel Rose — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:02:19 -0400

It's been reported that Twitter mining leads to better box office prediction results than HSX.com. This is a big deal for the evolution of online prediction markets. Expect more people to start mining Twitter for 1) predictions in other fields, ...
Category: Information
Year: 2010
Tags: twitter, predictions

Undersea volcano may collapse, cause devastating Italian tsunami

Accel Rose — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:54:41 -0400

A destructive, but not unrealistic wild-card.
Category: Environment
Year: General
Tags: tsunami, europe, italy

Does the Splinternet Signify End of Web Golden Age?

Jeff Hilford — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:30:59 -0400

The whole framework of the Web (and Web marketing) is based around the idea that everything is in a compatible format... Now with iPhones, Androids, Kindles, Tablets, and TVs connecting to the Web, that's not true.
Category: The Web
Year: General
Tags: splinternet, google, ipad, web

Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab

il pinolo — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:54:31 -0400

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to successful bone implants: how to grow new bones in the anatomical shape of the original.
Category: Biotechnology
Year: 2010
Tags: replacementbones, biomedicalengineering, tissueengineering

US Army meets with Apple, discusses tech for soldiers

Accel Rose — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:23:43 -0400

"Rather than continuing to invest heaps of money to research its own devices, Maj. Gen. Justice wants to take a different approach: leveraging the knowledge and research of the commercial sector into the Army's portable equipment. This approach ma...
Category: Gadgets
Year: 2010
Tags: apple, army, usarmy

Semantic Future

Jeff Hilford — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:05:26 -0400

The next phase of the Internet will be about creating value from masses of data; data on a scale that is almost unimaginable and almost all of it totally free.
Category: The Web
Year: General
Tags: semanticweb, data, b2b, open

The world's only immortal animal

Jeff Hilford — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:42:55 -0400

The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth. Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be ...
Category: Science
Year: General
Tags: turritopsisnutricula, jellyfish, immortality, regenerativemedicine

Microsoft Throws Its Weight Behind HTML5 and H.264

Jeff Hilford — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:58:52 -0400

Microsoft has taken a big step toward standards-based web video by announcing support for HTML5 and the H.264 encoding format in Internet Explorer 9, the next version of its web browser.
Category: The Web
Year: General
Tags: html5, microsoft, video, h264, internetexplorer9

The Future of Publishing

Jeff Hilford — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:54:42 -0400

Neat little quasi-palindrome video on the future of publishing.
Category: Communication
Year: General
Tags: publishing, futoreofpublishing, dorlingkindersleybooks, ereaders

Fake blood 2.0?

Bora — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:00:05 -0500

Newly created synthetic particles that mimic red blood cells may one day carry drug molecules and/or oxygen through bloodstreams, according to researchers writing in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Category: Biotechnology
Year: 2009
Tags: artificialredbloodcell, plga, oxygen

Joseph Nye on American Power in the 21st Century

DSMason — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:14:30 -0500

Harvard's Joseph Nye, author of the book "Soft Power" argues that American power in the 21st century will be different, but "not one of decline." But this formulation ignores the many elements of domestic and international decline facing the U.S....
Category: Government
Year: 2009
Tags: power, globalization, politics, decline

Cloud computing: Clash of the clouds

Jeff Hilford — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:32:40 -0500

The launch of Windows 7 marks the end of an era in computing—and the beginning of an epic battle between Microsoft, Google, Apple and others
Category: Business & Work
Year: General
Tags: cloudcomputing, cloud, google, apple, microsoft, windows, windows7

Social Media Video Viewing Up 98%

Jeff Hilford — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:27:23 -0500

Time spent viewing video on social networking sites increased 98% last month, from 503.8 million minutes in October 2008 to 999.4 million in October 2009, according to Nielsen.
Category: Social Media
Year: 2009
Tags: video, facebook, myspace, online, blogs, stickam, ning

Cognitive dysfunction reversed in mouse model of Down syndrome

Jeff Hilford — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:17:00 -0500

findings from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital shed light on the neural basis of memory defects in Down syndrome and suggest a new strategy for treating the defects with medication.
Category: Biotechnology
Year: 2009
Tags: cognitivedysfunction, downsyndrome, mice, cure, treatment

IBM's Blue Gene Models Cat's Entire Brain

Jeff Hilford — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:41:32 -0500

Using 144 terabytes of RAM, scientists simulate a cat's cerebral cortex based on 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses
Category: Technology
Year: 2009
Tags: ibm, catbrain, simulation, ai, bluegene, supercomputer, bluebrain, modeling, neuroscience