Dattoos would be the ultimate user/machine interface
Posted by admin in Future on 05. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Dattoos would be printed onto the user’s skin, and would identify the user via their DNA Five years ago, Frog Design founder Hartmut Esslinger envisioned a technology that “could influence notions of community, identity, and connectivity with minimal impact on the physical environment.” Using an online design portal, users would select and try out a [...]
First truly synthetic organism created using four bottles of chemicals and a computer
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 21. May, 2010 | 0 Comments
Scientists call it ‘the first self-replicating species we’ve had on the planet whose parent is a computer If figuring out how to quickly sequence genomes was but the first small step for genetics, Craig Venter has gone ahead and made a giant leap for the discipline. The J. Craig Venter Institute announced today that [...]
Envisioning Your Future in 2020
Posted by admin in Future on 13. May, 2010 | 0 Comments
Our Second Brain or "ThingBook" In the future nearly every visible thing will be cataloged and indexed, ready to be instantly identified and described to us. Want to go shopping? In the future we won’t need big retail stores with aisles of objects on display. We’ll be able to shop out in the world (see [...]
Wonder why we don’t crash like computers?
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 12. May, 2010 | 4 Comments
The control network of bacterium E Coli, left, and the Linux operating system, right Whether right or for wrong, the human brain is often compared to a computer, and vice-versa. They both receive data, process it, store it, and output new data. Unlike computers, however, the human brain doesn’t crash. Yes, people have nervous breakdowns, [...]
Scientists create organic ‘molecular computer’
Posted by admin in Computers, Science on 11. May, 2010 | 0 Comments
Researchers have succeeded in building a molecular computer that can mimic the inner working mechanisms of the human brain Researchers from Japan and the Michigan Technological University have succeeded in building a molecular computer that, more than any previous project of its kind, can replicate the inner mechanisms of the human brain, repairing itself and [...]
