Honey Badger-The Most Fearless Animal on Earth (video)

clipped from en.wikipedia.org Honey Badger Found in the Kalahari desert, honey badgers are fierce carnivores with an extremely keen sense of smell. They are well known for their snake killing abilities, by which they will grab a snake behind the head in its jaws and kill it. Honey badgers can devour an entire snake (150 cm/5ft or less) in 15 minutes. The honey badger is among the fiercest hunters of the desert, with prey including earthworms, termites, scorpions, porcupines, hares, and even larger prey such as tortoises, crocodiles up to one metre in size, and snakes (including pythons and venomous species).[2] Its ferocious reputation extends to attacks on animals much larger than itself. clipped from www.badgers.org.uk Honey badger home page clipped from www.youtube.com MUST WATCH: Honey Badger-The Most Fearless Animal on Earth

Elephant Art (video)

Watch this elephant, rescued from abusive treatment in Burma, now paint an amazing self portrait.

clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from paintings.novica.com For centuries, Asian elephants earned their keep by hauling trees for the logging industry. Deforestation and logging restrictions led to massive unemployment for the elephants; many, dependent on keepers who could no longer afford to care for them, simply died of neglect. Several conservation centers have emerged in Asia. The elephants there, it turns out, love to paint. By making the elephants' beautiful art widely accessible, Novica is helping raise funds to support the elephant centers. clipped from www.elephantartgallery.com Browse The Gallery View all our paintings Learn What is Elephant Art? Find out more Meet The Elephant Artists That love to paint Support An Endangered Species That needs your help

Asus Eee PC family -- Low-cost Linux based computers and gadgets

After the success of the Eee PC Asus is extending the idea of low-cost Linux based computers and gadgets to desktop PCs, TVs, and Monitors:

On January 30th, 2008 in eeeuser.com we read:

ASUS is planning on expanding the Eee PC family.

Today, three new devices were announced: the E-DT, E-Monitor, and the E-TV.

• E-DT: Desktop PC, No Monitor, Launching April or May. Will use Celeron and will cost between $200-300.
• E-Monitor: 19-21″ screen all in one desktop computer. Based on Intel Shelton, Launching in September. $499.
• E-TV: 42″ Plasma, will feature Linux based functionality. Will launch in September.

And now the first pictures of the E-DT Desktop PC appear:

The upcoming ASUS E-DT will be based on Intel platform. Initial reports suggest that first E-DTs will be powered by Celeron processors whereas the later shipments will ultimately feature Intel's Diamondville CPUs and 945GC chipset.
News: Desktop Eee PC Spotted in the Wild? - LaptopLogic.com

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Travel Websites

A list of travel sites and sites with useful traveling information including ATM locator, Taxi fare estimator, public-transport maps and more, clipped from reviews in MakeUseOf.com.

clipped from www.makeuseof.com 3 Must-check Traveller Websites before your Next Trip Insufficient information for your trip? Try WikiTravel Lonely on your trip? Try Dopplr Delays on your trip? Try FlightStats clipped from www.makeuseof.com 10 Travel Websites that should be Bookmarked TripIt - Travel Itinerary planner ATMLocator - Global ATM locator Yapta - Flight-ticket price tracker AirlineMeals - Huge directory of airline meals from around the world SleepingInAirports - Guide for camping overnight or a few hours in an airport SeatGuru - Extensive guide on airplane seating, in-flight amenities etc. TheBathroomDiaries- “Search the globe for a clean bathroom”

MEDIVista -- Entertainment, Information and Education in the Hospital

Enjoy yourself in the hospital with the MEDIVista device providing: IPTV, VoIP, internet, email, games, radio, music and more.

clipped from www.gizmowatch.com

clipped from www.lincor.com

Lincor has developed and patented MEDIVista^TM
– a solution for the provision of bedside entertainment services and to enable secure, point of care access to clinical applications for medical professionals.

MEDIVista^TM Brochure: http://www.lincor.com/uploads/MEDIVistaBrochure.pdf

Entertainment, Information and Education Services:

• TV over IP
  


• Radio over IP
  


• Telephone over IP
  


• Internet and e-mail
  


• Video-on-Demand
  


• Information Services
  


• Patient Education through video and surveys
  


• Dietary Management
  


• Interactive online surveys
  


• Web-based and network games
  


• Audio Books

A typical hospital installation would look like this.

Firefox 4 Features

With the release of Firefox 3 imminent, the Firefox team is developing already some innovative ideas for Firefox 4, including a new feature called "Prism," that would allow users to run Web-based content offline and "Weave.", an option that would create a set of online preferences and settings for each user instead of each computer.

clipped from www.tfot.info Firefox 4 Features Details Although Firefox 3 is still in research and development, Mozilla is already working on new features for the fourth version of its increasingly popular Web browser. clipped from www.tomshardware.com One of the new features is called "Prism" a next-gen software technology that would allow users to run Web-based content offline. For example, users would be able to visit websites and still access non-dynamic content even when they don't have an active Internet connection. clipped from labs.mozilla.com Major Update to Prism, First Prototype of Browser Integration Prism is an open source cross-platform prototype of functionality that lets users split web applications out of the browser and run them directly on the desktop. clipped from www.tomshardware.com The other big feature already unveiled for Firefox 4 is called "Weave" This is an option that would basically create a set of online preferences and settings that is stored for each user instead of each computer. clipped from labs.mozilla.com Overview of the Idea

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Intel develops Long-Range Wi-Fi with RCP Platform

clipped from www.technologyreview.com Long-Distance Wi-Fi Intel has found a way to stretch a Wi-Fi signal from one antenna to another located more than 60 miles away. Intel has announced plans to sell a specialized Wi-Fi platform later this year that can send data from a city to outlying rural areas tens of miles away, connecting sparsely populated villages to the Internet. The wireless technology, called the rural connectivity platform (RCP), will be helpful to computer-equipped students in poor countries, says Jeff Galinovsky, a senior platform manager at Intel. And the data rates are high enough--up to about 6.5 megabits per second--that the connection could be used for video conferencing and telemedicine, he says. clipped from www.dailywireless.org Intel’s Rural Connectivity Platform Cooper says Intel’s Rural Connectivity Platform is a low-cost way of providing roughly 10 megabits-per-second connectivity to remote areas. Without obstructions, Intel says the wireless long-distance nodes can connect every 60 miles.

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Foldable and stretchable circuits

About a new type of ultra-thin integrated circuits that can operate during deformations without a reduction in electrical performance.

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Circuit boards that bend and stretch created Scientists have created ultra-thin electronic circuit boards that can be bent, stretched and folded. The new component boards could prove useful in wearable health monitors, surgical gloves and other applications in which they can be wrapped into unusual shapes such as body parts, aircraft wings or fuselages. clipped from www.physorg.com Foldable and stretchable, silicon circuits conform to many shapes Circuit diagram (top frame) and optical images of a stretchable, "wavy" silicon ring oscillator circuit on a rubber substrate, in the "as fabricated" flat state (top micrograph) and in moderate and high states of biaxial compression (middle and bottom micrographs, respectively). Photo courtesy John Rogers clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.news.uiuc.edu Mechanically stretchable, "wavy" silicon integrated circuit on a rubber substrate. Photo courtesy John Rogers clipped from www.mse.uiuc.edu John Rogers

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Printable OLED Breakthrough

GE Global Research demonstrated the possibility of printing a light-emitting organic film in a newspaper-printing like roll-to-roll process.

clipped from www.businesswire.com GE Demonstrates World's First ''Roll-to-Roll'' Manufactured Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) NISKAYUNA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of General Electric (NYSE: GE), and GE Consumer & Industrial, today announced the successful demonstration of the world’s first roll-to-roll manufactured organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting devices. This demonstration is a key step toward making OLEDs and other high performance organic electronics products at dramatically lower costs than what is possible today. clipped from www.ecogeek.org why is this important? Because the OLED (organic light emitting diode) film is extremely efficient. Because printing roll to roll makes OLEDs far easier to mass produce, and thus cheaper. Because OLEDs can be used in a huge variety of lighting applications, moving the world beyond lightbulbs and into a whole new paradigm of lighting.

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Adobe Photoshop Express Beta

A free online light version of Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop Express - Made You Look.

clipped from www.photoshopexpresstechniques.com Start playing with Photoshop Express now. clipped from www.photoshopexpresstechniques.com Frequently Asked Questions What is Adobe Photoshop Express Beta? It's an online photo library, editing and sharing website. Think of it this way. You shot it - not it's time to do something with it. You can crop, rotate, change colors, enhance, remove red eye, and even some crazy special effects like twirling and distorting. When you're done, you can share the photos using galleries and even give people a link to go see them. Is it free? Yep. Free to use and you get 2 gigabytes of storage for your photos. clipped from www.monuments.nu

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XCOR Aerospace Unveils Vehicle For Space Tourism

clipped from ap.google.com LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California aerospace company plans to enter the space tourism industry with a two-seat rocket ship capable of suborbital flights to altitudes more than 37 miles above the Earth. The Lynx, about the size of a small private plane, is expected to begin flying in 2010, according to developer Xcor Aerospace, which planned to release details of the design at a news conference Wednesday. clipped from www.popsci.com The Lynx suborbital space vehicle: Photo by Mike Massee/XCOR The Lynx, in development by XCOR Aerospace, is envisioned as a two-seat vehicle that will allow a paying passenger to ride up front with the pilot to experience weightlessness and see the Earth from space. clipped from www.nytimes.com Company Plans Vehicle for Trips to Cusp of Space clipped from online.wsj.com Economy Fare ( $100,000) Lifts Space-Tourism Race clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Rocket planes seek market share

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The Echoes of Flowers

To detect plants, bats emit ultrasonic pulses and decipher the various echoes that return. A research group in Tübingen, Germany has developed a computer model to imitate this process of plant identification.

clipped from www.sciencedaily.com Computers Show How Bats Classify Plants According To Their Echoes ScienceDaily (Mar. 24, 2008) — Researchers have developed a computer algorithm that can imitate the bat's ability to classify plants using echolocation. The study represents a collaboration between machine learning scientists and biologists studying bat orientation. Fruit bat in flight. To detect plants, bats emit ultrasonic pulses and decipher the various echoes that return. (Credit: iStockphoto/Gijs Bekenkamp) clipped from sciencenow.sciencemag.org Homing in. As bats can hear their way to favorite plants, so can a computer program produce distinct patterns of different plant species (top panels) purely from sonar reflections. clipped from www.medicalnewstoday.com clipped from www.ios.htwg-konstanz.de Yovel, Y., Franz, M. O,, Stilz, P. and H.-U. Schnitzler: The statistics of plant echoes as perceived by echolocating bats. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (Cosyne 2008), 249 (2008) [pdf].

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Brain regions involved in language identified

A language feature unique to the human brain

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have identified a language feature unique to the human brain that is shedding light on how human language evolved. The study marks the first use of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a non-invasive imaging technique, to compare human brain structures to those of chimpanzees, our closest living relative. The study will be published in the online version of Nature Neuroscience.
[...]
We know from previous functional imaging studies that the middle temporal lobe is involved with analyzing the meanings of words. In humans, it seems the brain not only evolved larger language regions but also a network of fibers to connect those regions, which supports humans superior language capabilities.

Yerkes researchers identify language feature unique to human brain

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5 Desktop Operating Systems

clipped from itbusinessedge.newsvine.com 5 of the best desktop operating systems you never used Blogger John Sheesley discusses five lesser-used operating systems that provide nice alternatives to Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Sheesley says OS/2, NeXT, BeOS, DESQview and GEOS are overlooked, underrated and have been crushed by the big guys. clipped from blogs.techrepublic.com.com OS/2 NeXT BeOS DESQview GEOS / GeoWorks So there you have 5 of the best operating systems you probably never used. Each introduced innovations that we still use today, as well as some we’re still trying to catch up with even though the programs debuted in the 20th century. In each case, they were overlooked, underrated, and ultimately crushed by the Microsoft steamroller. There are plenty of OSes I left off the list: CP/M, TRS-DOS, LDOS, DR-DOS and others (which I encourage you to remind me of.) We’ll try to cover those in the future as well.

Sex began in South Australia

THE history of sex began in South Australia, around 570 million years ago.
According to recent archaeological discoveries this took place 540 million years ago between 30cm- long knobby tubular animals which lived on the sea floor.

clipped from www.news.com.au THE history of sex began in South Australia, around 570 million years ago. Beating the previous record by 30 million years, the earliest known animals to have sex are now Funisia Dorothea, their exploits revealed this week in the international magazine Science. clipped from www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Synchronous aggregate growth in an abundant new Ediacaran tubular organism. Droser ML, Gehling JG. clipped from www.newsroom.ucr.edu Funisia dorothea fossil in South Australia." Mary Droser, a professor of Earth sciences, on a field trip in the South Australian outback. Video shows Mary Droser and James Gehling excavating a Funisia dorothea fossil in South Australia. View Movie Funisia dorothea, showing how it may have looked. Credit: Daniel Garson, Droser lab, UC Riverside."> Photo Caption: Artist’s reconstruction of Funisia dorothea, showing how it may have looked. Credit: Daniel Garson, Droser lab, UC Riverside. Funisia dorothea's larval attachment structures. Image credit: Droser lab, UC Riverside."> Photo Caption: Fossil excavated in South Australia shows Funisia dorothea's larval attachment structures. Image credit: Droser lab, UC Riverside. Funisia dorothea seen branching in a fossil excavated in South Australia. Image credit: Droser lab, UC Riverside."> Photo Caption: Funisia dorothea seen branching in a fossil excavated in South Australia. Image credit: Droser lab, UC Riverside.

New insight in the human brain

Nine examples of recent insight in the human brain clipped from a special edition of the series Better All The Time of the weblog The Speculist.

clipped from www.blog.speculist.com Better All the Time #33 Item 1 The Adult brain cells stop growing myth Item 2 New findings about the brain lead to treatment for eating disturbances Item 3 Hack your brain Item 4 Virus Infection Battles Brain Cancer Item 5 Single brain cell's power shown Item 6 Tiny Brain-Like Computer Created Item 7 Meditation Found To Increase Brain Size Item 8 Brain Scanner Can Tell What You're Looking At Item 9 Brain-Computer Interfaces for Manipulating Dreams

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RFID chips used for clandestine surveillance

Radio Frequency Identification of objects is possible not only by the well known RDIF tags:
but also by minuscule chips as shown below.

Digital Journal - World's smallest and thinnest RFID tag is powder made by Hitachi

Among the many applications of this technology there is also clandestine surveillance by tracking of property and people:

Nox Defense has released an invisible perimeter defense technology, which combines high-resolution video pictures and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, sometimes referred to as "spy chips", to track assets and people in real time. The system tracks people without their knowledge and allows security officers to see a theft as it happens, even if concealed inside a briefcase, under a jacket, or stuffed inside a sock. The FBI is among early adopters of the Nox Intelligent Perimeter Defense system, though has not released details how it will use the system.
www.rfidwizards.com - Spy Dust Catches Thieves: FBI Says "No Comment"

• The RFID readers can be hidden in an office building or warehouse, and the RFID tags can be placed on company products or property -- even on employee name tags or ID badges.
• They can be scattered on a floor, so when someone walks through a room, entryway or warehouse, the tags will stick to their shoes or pants cuffs. When they walk past an RFID reader, it will be able to tell where they've been.
• [...] someone from airport security could drop a tiny RFID tag into someone's bag or attach it to the bag. "I can't carry around something really obvious to mark the bag, but I can drop a tiny tag into the bag and then we'll be able to see where it goes,"
  

RFID tech turned into spy chips for clandestine surveillance

A system with a combination of RFID and High Resolution Video Surveillance Cameras is described Industrywizards.com:

The system uses video surveillance cameras mounted in obvious locations and others that are hidden. [...] A tag read in a particular location automatically triggers video recording and sends an instant alert to the security personnel’s mobile devices. [...] a single screen shot of the NOX Operations Center (below).

www.rfidwizards.com - New RFID Technology Allows You to be Tracked WITHOUT Your Knowledge

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Growing New Body Parts

Regeneration of a finger tip (video)

(CBS)Imagine re-growing a severed fingertip, or creating an organ in the lab that can be transplanted into a patient without risk of rejection. It sounds like science fiction, but it's not. It's the burgeoning field of regenerative medicine, in which scientists are learning to harness the body's own power to regenerate itself, with astonishing results.

Medicine's Cutting Edge: Re-Growing Organs, The Future Is Here: Regenerative Powder, Ink Jet Heart Cells And Custom-Made Body Parts - CBS News

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Comcast's cable box is watching you

The cable company Comcast is experimenting with different camera technologies built into its devices so it can know who's in the living room.

clipped from killfile.newsvine.com Orwellian Channel Surfing: Comcast Wants To Put Face Recognizing Cameras In Your Cable Box The idea being that if you turn on your cable box, it recognizes you and pulls up shows already in your profile or makes recommendations. If parents are watching TV with their children, for example, parental controls could appear to block certain content from appearing on the screen. Kunkel also said this type of monitoring is the “holy grail” because it could help serve up specifically tailored ads. Yikes. clipped from newteevee.com GigaOM WebWorkerDaily NewTeeVee Earth2Tech FoundRead OStatic Kunkel said the system wouldn’t be based on facial recognition, so there wouldn’t be a picture of you on file (we hope). Instead, it would distinguish between different members of your household by recognizing body forms. He stressed that the system is still in the experimental phase, that there hasn’t been consumer testing, and that any rollout “must add value” to the viewing experience beyond serving ads.

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SpaceTime -- 3D Web Browsing

Spacetime.com has come up with a technology which allows web browsing in 3D, finding and collecting things easily and accurately.

clipped from techdigest.tv CES 2008: SpaceTime swizzy 3D web browser SpaceTime has officially launched its SpaceTime 1.0 3D web browser, which turns internet searches, YouTube videos, eBay listings and all manner of other web content into 3D elements that swoosh around the screen. clipped from www.spacetime.com Search Google, YouTube, RSS, eBay, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr and Images all in one 3D space. Introducing 3D eBay Search Introducing 3D Image Search Introducing 3D Web Search Introducing 3D Tabbed Browsing clipped from www.youtube.com

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HTC Plans to Release Google Android Phone

Taiwan's HTC is considering manufacturing a commercial version of a mobile phone called "Dream". This might be the first mobile phone, developed to run on to run on Google's Android platform.

clipped from www.infoworld.com HTC names Google phone 'Dream' The mobile phone High Tech Computer (HTC) has been developing to run on the Android software from Google will be called "Dream," and it will have a large touchscreen and full QWERTY keypad, a person close to the situation said Thursday. clipped from www.intomobile.com Details on Google "Dream" Phone - could it be the HTC Omni? "thin, about 3 inches wide and 5 inches long, and features a touch-sensitive, rectangular screen. Unlike the iPhone, the screen is also time-sensitive: Hold down your finger longer, and the area you're controlling expands. The bottom end of the handset, near the navigational controls, is slightly beveled so it nestles in the palm. The screen also swivels to one side, revealing a full keyboard beneath." clipped from www.intomobile.com The HTC Omni could still materialize as the HTC Dream. The specs seem to line up nicely with the expected HTC Dream. And, it remains to be seen if HTC will indeed ship 1 million of these Android handsets in 2008. Note: Image doesn't necessarily represent the HTC Dream.

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Diigo a Web Research and Social Networking Tool

Diigo is a Social bookmarking website which allows users to bookmark and tag web-pages. It allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. The just launched version 3.0 has a completely new user interface and code base, hundreds of new features and tightly integrated social networking and knowledge-sharing.

clipped from www.diigo.com Highlight and Share the Web! Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community clipped from www.diigo.com Press Release Diigo Launches V3: A Marriage between Rich Web Research Tools and Social Networking Reno, Nevada, March 20, 2008 -- Diigo, http://www.diigo.com, today announced the launch of Diigo 3.0, a next generation social bookmarking and annotation service that enables users to increase research productivity, readily exchange information, and connect with others who share their interests and concerns. This launch includes a completely new UI and code base, and over 100 new features. In addition to substantial improvements in its usability and power as a research tool, the new Diigo tightly integrates social networking with knowledge-sharing, making Diigo a pioneer in what may be called "social information networking."

clipped from www.diigo.com

About Diigo

If you browse or read a lot on the web, we believe you will find Diigo indispensable. Diigo is two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other.

A Personal Research Tool

Diigo provides a browser add-on that can really improve your research productivity.

A Collaborative Research Platform

Diigo enables effective collaborative research. You can easily share your findings, complete with your highlights and sticky notes, with friends and colleagues.

A Social Content Site

With every Diigo user tagging and annotating pages online, the Diigo community has collectively created a wonderful repository of quality content, filtered and annotated by the community, on almost any subject you may be interested in.

A Knowledge-Sharing Community

Since you are what you annotate - bookmarks, tags, annotations are a great expression of one's interests and expertise - Diigo provides new ways to connect and keep in touch with friends, and to learn both from your friends and about your friends with little extra effort.

clipped from www.youtube.com

Mefeedia Multimedia Search

About Mefeedia: a media search engine indexing more than 15,000 sources of video, TV, music and podcasts.

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com Mefeedia Launches Extensive Multimedia Search Online video community Mefeedia has officially launched its media search engine indexing more than 15,000 sources of video, TV, music and podcasts. It's even indexing SlideShare presentations. It's a good place to find media on almost any topic and a good excuse to check out some of the truly innovative community features Mefeedia offers. clipped from www.mefeedia.com Discover the Video Web™ how it works Discover search, browse, and discover videos across 15,000 online sources Collect your queue automatically keeps you up to date on your favorite shows Watch anytime, anywhere, online or off, at home or on the go Share the more meeps you have, the more relevant videos you will discover clipped from mefeedia.com A Quality Index, Searching 15,000+ Video Websites Viewer Experience Vertical Video Search: TV, Music, Podcasts Music - Search across popular Music sites such as Imeem.com - find music playlists, music videos, and songs from your favorite artists. Podcasts - Find audio podcasts

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Project Free TV

Project Free TV, and easy to use and up to date video site. Watch movies and TV shows from many different sources.

clipped from www.free-tv-video-online.info Movies | Tv-Shows | All Movies and Tv Shows video will now have a "click to continue" page before you can watch the video. The click to continue page will point out that Project Free TV does not host any videos. Thus, helping Project Free TV stay alive.

The Blue Brain project

A project in which using the huge computational capacity IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer a detailed model of the human brain is created.

clipped from bluebrain.epfl.ch The Blue Brain project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations. clipped from bluebrain.epfl.ch Simulating the microcircuit Once the microcircuit is built, the exciting work of making the circuit function can begin. All the 8192 processors of the Blue Gene are pressed into service, in a massively parallel computation solving the complex mathematical equations that govern the electrical activity in each neuron when a stimulus is applied. clipped from bluebrain.epfl.ch A few benefits of the Blue Brain Project Gathering and Testing 100 Years of Data Cracking the Neural Code Understanding Neocortical Information Processing A Novel Tool for Drug Discovery for Brain Disorders A Global Facility A Foundation for Whole Brain Simulations A Foundation for Molecular Modeling of Brain Function clipped from mediatheque.epfl.ch clipped from www.youtube.com Blue Brain Project - Flying through the column

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Google Spreadsheets Adds Gadgets

Google Spreadsheets as part of the Google Docs suite added several new features including a Google spreadsheet gadgets directory.

clipped from googlesystem.blogspot.com Google Operating System clipped from googlesystem.blogspot.com Google Spreadsheets Adds Gadgets, a Directory of Features To add a gadget, click on the "Insert" dropdown and select "Gadget". Each gadget can be embedded into web pages or added to iGoogle, which is extremely cool because the data is updated automatically. clipped from blogoscoped.com Currently available gadgets include: Motion chart: A Flash-based gadget animates certain numbers over time Gauges: Adds gauges (as pictured below) with dials visually indicating the cell values Table: Adds grouping and filtering features Heatmap: A world map is connected to your cells containing an ISO country code, and then add color of different intensities to the countries Web search and image search: Displays a result from Google by searching for your cell value Organization chart: Draws a hierarchy based on cells containing names (pictured) clipped from googlesystem.blogspot.com clipped from www.google.com clipped from www.google.com

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SHOGO – Touch Screen Digital Picture Frame

The new Shogo SG 080 digital photo frame features a 8-inch touch-screen, Wi-Fi connectivity and allows users to transfer photos from popular online image portals.

clipped from www.tfot.info SHOGO – Touch Screen Digital Picture Fidelity Electronics, provider of personal electronics and consumer products, has introduced SHOGO – a touch screen, WiFi, digital picture frame. SHOGO SG 080 has a 1Giga internal memory that allows one to store as many as 25,000 digital photographs. Receiving, viewing, and broadcasting photos can be easily done via a built-in wireless Internet/WiFi connection. This also makes the SHOGO a truly user-friendly device, as it enables accessing Internet based digital content, such as the weather forecast, Internet radio stations, and more. myshogo.com clipped from www.myshogo.com World’s first touch-screen WiFi integrated Digital Picture Frame Easy to use : touch-screen and simple user interface Mobile : no wires, integrated battery and WiFi More than a photo frame : plays live internet radios, MP3 Music, displays weather forecasts and other RSS feeds Largest memory size : store up to 25,000 pictures High resolution digital panels : great picture quality Frame to Frame sharing

America's Robot Army

clipped from www.popularmechanics.com America's Robot Army: Are Unmanned Fighters Ready for Combat? Unmanned fighters now come armed to the threads. But are they really ready for combat in the Iraq war? Customer: U.S. Army ordered more than 1700 for 15 brigades, a potential human-to-robot ratio of 29:1 | Deployment: Ready for combat as early as 2014 | Models: Half will be armed; the rest will clear minefields and haul gear | Cargo capability: 1800 to 2000 pounds | Weapons: Four antitank Javelin missiles and a turret-mounted M240 machine gun. (Photograph by Chad Hunt) clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.popularmechanics.com This prototype of the Gladiator, built by Carnegie Mellon, is equipped with smoke generators and grenade launchers. Marine Corps officials say they will field-test the latest, 1-ton version this year. (Photograph by Craig Cameron Olsen) clipped from www.popularmechanics.com clipped from www.youtube.com Crusher - 1 clipped from www.youtube.com Military Autogun prototype clipped from www.popularmechanics.com RELATED STORIES • PODCAST: Inside Pentagon's Armed Robot Pullout in Iraq • PLUS: Top 5 Military Bots the U.S. Military Doesn't Have • TIME MACHINE: Before Bots, Military Weapons in Classic PM

DropBox -- Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy

Put a file into your DropBox folder, and within seconds, it is synced across your PCs, and available if you go offline.

clipped from venturebeat.com DropBox makes online file storage and sharing more simple DropBox, a Silicon Valley company that is trying to make online file storage and sharing more simple, has come of out of secret testing and is sending out invites for people to use it. clipped from getdropbox.com What makes Dropbox different? Super fast We're obsessed with performance every step of the way. Effortless sync Changes to your files are instantly synced across your computers. Works like you do No complicated interface to learn. It's seamlessly integrated into your desktop. Always accessible All of your stuff is available via the web, so you can get it no matter where you are. Share the love Invite friends and family to a shared folder for easy collaboration around files. Don't worry about it Make a mistake? You can undelete files or restore old versions in a snap.

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Yahoo Moves To Semantic Search

Yahoo is starting to use key elements of next generation net technology known as the "semantic web".

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Yahoo makes semantic search shift Yahoo has announced its adoption of some of the key standards of the "semantic web". clipped from www.newkerala.com Currently, most search engines, especially Google, use the interconnections between sites to identify relevance for a particular topic. The semantic web promises to change this because it helps to capture the meaning of data on a page and so give machines classifying or searching the web the capability to work out its relevance to a particular topic. clipped from www.ysearchblog.com For example, by marking up its profile pages with microformats, LinkedIn can allow Yahoo! Search and others to understand the semantic content and the relationships of the many components of its site. With a richer understanding of LinkedIn's structured data included in our index, we will be able to present users with more compelling and useful search results for their site. clipped from www.ysearchblog.com By sharing its database of restaurant reviews, location information and photos with Yahoo!, Yelp can develop a far more visually compelling and useful search result than was previously presented to users. Before After

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Why Flu Season Is During Winter

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Scientists have uncovered the reason why flu viruses tend to strike in cold weather.

clipped from www.nih.gov NIH Scientists Offer Explanation for Winter Flu Season Stability of Virus' Membrane at Cold Temperatures May Ease Winter Spread clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Why flu strikes in cold weather Scientists believe they have uncovered a key reason why flu viruses tend to strike in cold weather. Flu's protective coat must melt to infect a cell They found the viruses coat themselves in fatty material that hardens to a gel, protecting them in the cold. This coating melts in the higher temperatures of the respiratory tract, allowing the virus to infect cells. clipped from www.bestsyndication.com Virus Shell The research gives scientists a new target to prevent the spread of viruses. One idea is a special chemical that would dissolve the lipid shell. This could be added to detergents and hand soap. Staying indoors where it is warm may also help prevent the spread of viruses.

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LittleDog and BigDog -- Legged Learning Robots

Boston Dynamics keeps working on their Legged robots: LittleDog a quadruped robot for research on learning purposes locomotion and BigDog a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads.

clipped from blogs.spectrum.ieee.org Automaton Scoop: New video of BDI's Big Dog robot Boston Dynamics has just released a brand new video of their DARPA-funded Big Dog robot. Big Dog, the older brother of the Little Dog robot we covered a while back, is meant to be a "pack mule" for soldiers some day. Behind Big Dog is some pretty cool force-controlled technology. With its quadruped gait it can regain balance if it's kicked, handle rough terrain like rocks, and climb inclines up to 35 deg. clipped from www.bostondynamics.com The Legged Learning Robot LittleDog is a quadruped robot for research on learning locomotion. Scientists at leading institutions use LittleDog to probe the fundamental relationships among motor learning, dynamic control, perception of the environment, and rough terrain locomotion. clipped from blogs.spectrum.ieee.org clipped from www.bostondynamics.com The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. clipped from blogs.spectrum.ieee.org

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Pupil reflects emotional state and marks decision making

Neurobiologists of the California Institute of Technology found that changes in pupil diameter correspond to the moment when a simple decision is made.

clipped from www.tfot.info Pupil Dilation Marks Decision Making Neurobiologist Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology and his colleagues, have found that changes in pupil diameter correspond to the moment when a simple decision is made. He discovered the phenomenon in volunteers viewing ambiguous stimuli. These stimuli, or percepts, consist of images or sounds that can be correctly interpreted in either of two forms, such as the famous optical illusion of a young girl wearing a feathered hat. The image morphs into a picture of an old crone. clipped from mr.caltech.edu "The pupil is not only there to regulate light, but is linked to our emotional state. This may have evolved for us to monitor the emotional state of others, and may offer a very simple way to track decision-making in general," says Koch. The paper, "Pupil dilation reflects perceptual selection and predicts subsequent stability in perceptual rivalry," was published in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Swarm robotics (videos)

Some videos, with an introduction to and examples of swarm robotics, a field of study based on the supposition that simple, individual robots can interact and collaborate to form a single artificial organism with more advanced group intelligence.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org Swarm robotics Swarm robotics is a new approach to the coordination of multirobot systems which consist of large numbers of mostly simple physical robots. It is supposed that a desired collective behavior emerges from the interactions between the robots and interactions of robots with the environment. This approach emerged on the field of artificial swarm intelligence, as well as the biological studies of insects, ants and other fields in nature, where swarm behavior occurs. clipped from www.youtube.com Morphogenesis: Shaping Swarms of Intelligent Robots An introduction to swarm intelligence, swarm robotics and morphogenesis. clipped from www.youtube.com Robot Swarm clipped from www.youtube.com Micro-Robot Swarm clipped from www.youtube.com Robot swarms 'evolve' effective communication clipped from www.youtube.com Shape-shifting robot forms from magnetic swarm clipped from www.youtube.com Swarm tag game clipped from www.youtube.com Swarm-bots finding a path clipped from ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Open-source micro-robotic project (currently the largest artificial swarm in the world) clipped from ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de SYMBRION Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms funded by European Commissions

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