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The Future of Gaming: Your data, your wallet
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- The Future of Gaming: Your data, your wallet
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- 6 years ago
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- From Fortnite to Candy Crush, video games and mobile games are relying more and more on in-game, in-app purchases, and loot boxes to make money. This means gaming companies are finding new ways to keep players playing and spending.
Some digital games development uses old-school gambling mechanisms to keep people hooked, while others in the gaming industry are using data to learn more and in-depth behaviors about the people playing — ultimately customizing video games to individual players.
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- Robotics pioneer believes machines will make us happier
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- 6 years ago
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- Innovation in robotics and omnipresence of real robot technology is unstoppable. Robotics engineer Oh Jun-Ho is convinced this is a good thing.
Oh created a state-of-the-art humanoid robot, HUBO. That robot that was declared best humanoid in the DARPA robotics challenge. Oh's newest robot innovations are built to help people with everything from menial task to aiding disabilities. By improving and preserving the quality of life through robot engineering — we are more likely to be happier, better people.
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- Design's next frontier is outer space
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- 6 years ago
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- His viral moment may have come from racing Usain Bolt in zero gravity, but Octave de Gaulle is a designer, not an athlete. He's made a career out of reinventing products for outer space—like the champagne bottle he served Bolt on the zero-gravity flight in September. Quartz met up with de Gaulle in his Paris apartment to talk about the inspiration for his aerospace design work, physics, what it takes to design products for zero gravity, and what needs to change about spaceflight design and technology before the tourists get there.
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- Computing human bias with AI technology
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- 6 years ago
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- Humans are biased, and our machines are learning from us — ergo our artificial intelligence and computer programming algorithms are biased too.
Computer scientist Joanna Bryson thinks we can understand how human bias is learned by taking a closer look at how AI bias is learned.
Bryson’s computer science research is going beyond the understanding that our AI has a bias problem by questioning how bias is formed at all — not just in the technology in machine brains, but in our human brains too.
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- Singapore is building mega childcare centers
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- 6 years ago
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- Singapore has an ambitious plan for the quality of life for its youngest citizens and their parents: quality and affordable childcare. The goal is not only to offer early childhood education and support to parents — but also increase the birthrate.
In the next five years, the government's goal is to help create 200,000 spots for babies as young as two months to six years in large early childhood development (ECD) centers that dot the island. These mega childcare centers can hold anywhere from 300 to 1,000 children.
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- Real-life cyborg implant may rewire brain
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- 6 years ago
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- The North Sense is a small biotech chip that attaches to people's chests with piercings and vibrates whenever they face north — creating a sixth sense — a sense of direction. Around 300 people have this biotechnology implant - you could call these technologically enhanced people cyborgs. Body modification increasingly includes technology; using microchips magnets, or batteries - to enhance themselves, by embedding devices in their bodies.
But North Sense might be something more than a body enhancement.— adding an extra sense to the body could change how the brain works.
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- North Korea's Arirang Mass Games has a new message
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- 6 years ago
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- Grand Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance Arirang aka Arirang Mass Games aka Arirang Festival — Pyongyang, North Korea
North Korea's "Mass Games", a mass gymnastics and arts festival, has resumed after a five-year hiatus. Having once won the Guinness Book of Records for the biggest gymnastics performance in history, the Mass Games can provide unique insight into the world's most secretive nation - and this year's show brings some surprises.
Unlike previous years, this year' arirang performance had no mention of missiles, typically a point of pride for North Korea. Instead, North Korea chose to highlight technological advances using a drone display. Messaging in the parade referred to peaceful coexistence throughout the show.
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- Wearable technology that records memories
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- 6 years ago
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- What if you could store your memories in a digital bank? What could this do for the future of treating Alzheimer's disease? Neo Mohsenvand from MIT Media Lab is experimenting with the science behind memories and emotion — and aging — by using wearable tech. By studying the neuroscience and psychology behind memory he is closer to understanding cognitive decline.
He wears a camera on his chest, together with wearable technology that collects data on his physiological signals like heart rate and body temperature. He later pairs the footage with the data from the sensors to make videos that speed up and slow down when the sensors indicate a spike - he calls this an “emotion”.
He is doing this to develop technology that could help people with memory loss, like Alzheimer's or dementia. But by watching the footage he also learns a tremendous amount about himself and the things that make him happy.
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- Perfume made from human scent
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- 6 years ago
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- Lots of us secretly love our partner’s body odor — yep, especially after sex. Something about human nature is drawn to the scent of sweat and normal body smells. But in our increasingly digital world, in long distance relationships — we smell one another less.
Artist Ani Liu decided to capture the custom smells of the people she loves and bottles them in the most personalized perfumes possible. Through her project, Liu wants to highlight what we lose when we communicate through screens.
Ani's MIT science background informs all of her work, which explores what it means to be human in a technologically mediated age. Learn more at https://www.ani-liu.com.
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- Virtual pop stars may be the future of music
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- 6 years ago
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- Maya Kodes is a hologram. And while she may not be the world's first virtual pop star, she's the only one so far who moves, sings and talks to people in real time. This animation is the future of digital culture.
Kodes is the brainchild of animator Yves St-Gelais and his Montreal-based start-up, Neweb Labs. She has a prototype of sorts in Miku Hatsune, a Japanese virtual popstar with a huge back catalog and a large and breathless following. But unlike Hatsune, whose performances are pre-recorded and played like a DVD, Kodes delivers her pop routine live.
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- Machines with Brains: Season 2 Trailer
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Machines with Brains, season two, continues to explore the ever blurring boundary between human and machine. Artificial intelligence is taking on tasks that once seemed exclusively human: changing our brains, augmenting our memory, explaining our bias.
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- Mind control technology exists, but it needs work
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- 6 years ago
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- We are closer than ever to being able to control objects with our minds. While this mind control technology is definitely not The Force of Star Wars dreams, these new technologies hold surprising promise for mind control science innovation.
Emotiv Brain Visualizer demos the current wave of science meets brainwave visualization using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals.
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- Future of Cities: Medellin, Colombia solves city slums
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- 6 years ago
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- Medellin, Colombia offers a window into the future of cities. Once synonymous with the drug violence of Pablo Escobar's murderous cocaine cartel, Colombia's second largest city undergone a remarkable transformation. Medellín has done so largely by investing heavily in upgrading slums and connecting them to the city center. A centerpiece of this effort: innovative public transportation, such as a Metrocable gondola system that helps residents of informal communities get around town and enjoy all the benefits of a reinvented city.
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- Space champagne science ready for celebrating space travel
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- 6 years ago
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- Drinking champagne in outer space is now possible, thanks to a new kind of bottle created by Maison Mumm. The champagne company made the product specifically so that space tourists can share bubbly in zero gravity (astronauts aren't allowed to drink liquor on the job—sorry, NASA).
It's more than an achievement for champagne lovers; the technology also involves some clever science, because bubbles behave completely differently in space. But when you take away gravity, is champagne even recognizable?
We went with Mumm on a parabolic flight to find out how the science plays out in real life zero-g (aka vomit comet), and get an inside peek at what may be the future of luxury space tourism.
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- These sex dolls in China are family companions more than toys
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- This family in China lives with 11 sex dolls. The father and son are less interested in having sex with the dolls, than they are in taking the lifelike doll on real dates and modeling them for photo shoots.
In China, partly because of the one-child policy there are millions of more men than there are women — and more and more of those men are turning to dolls for companionship.
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- What Happens Next | Season 2 — Trailer
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- 6 years ago
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- Season 2 of What Happens Next explores the future of cities, gaming, water, college, and aging. We traveled to Colombia, Namibia, Japan, and across the US to discover changes coming to key aspects of our lives.
Join us next week for the first episode,
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- How to read a hurricane map to track a hurricane path
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- 6 years ago
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- What path will Hurricane Florence take? Will it hit North Carolina? A hurricane map will tell you if you're in the path, but reading it wrong can put you in danger. While hurricane maps are supposed to show the path of a hurricane, understanding what track the tropical storm will actually take isn't always easy. All hurricane maps use something called the "cone of uncertainty," and if you don't know how it works, you won't know how to predict a hurricane's path.
A cone of uncertainty doesn’t show all the areas that will be affected by a hurricane. And it doesn’t indicate its size. All the cone actually depicts is the range of possible areas where the center of the hurricane might go. Also, it’s only about 67% accurate.
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- Fire ants can teach robots about teamwork
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- 6 years ago
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- Fire ants are teaching robots how to slack at work. Scientists programmed robots to act like ants, and through machine learning, the tech observed a small number of ants actually do most of the work. And in confined, chaotic environments, that’s a good thing. The AI helps optimize work for all.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology studied how fire ants dig tunnels and found with less workers, the ants avoided traffic jams and improved their teamwork overall. Optimizing robots’ activity together through artificial intelligence could help with disaster recovery and even improving self-driving cars.
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- A 3D-printed bionic eye
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- 6 years ago
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- Bionic eyes are one step closer to reality, and in the future, they could replace human eyes and help blind people see. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have 3D-printed light receptors onto a prototype for a bionic eyeball.
It’s the first time that light receptors have been successfully printed onto a round surface. The entire 3D printing process only takes an hour.
The bionic "eye" would translate light into images, mimicking the function of a regular eye. UMN's McAlpine research group has already 3D-printed organs and ears. Next, the team wants to print receptors onto soft material, and work on making the eye more efficient.
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- Astrology isn’t science, but your horoscope is more real than you think
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- 6 years ago
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- Astrology isn't real science, but there's more to the zodiac than ancient superstition. Before horoscopes were popularly debunked, astrology drove scientific discoveries for thousands of years. And researchers say that astrology still has a lot to contribute today to modern science and medicine. So maybe your zodiac sign is not all nonsense. Does it matter if you are a Pisces or a Virgo?
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- The real-life jetpack that could save your life
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- 6 years ago
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- Martin Jetpack, a New Zealand-based company, has built a working jetpack that can fly longer than any previous personal flying machine. The new tech is closer to market than any previous jetpack.
The Martin jetpack was designed to conduct rescue missions in disasters and could be available as soon as 2023. It can fly for up to 30 minutes, a huge leap forward for jetpack technology. Sure, it may not be as handy as the Fortnite jetpack, but one day, it might save your life.
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- This backpack robot gives you an extra set of hands
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- 6 years ago
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- Did you ever want a robot friend? The Fusion robot is here to give you a hand (or two). A group of researchers in Japan made a backpack robot so two people can collaborate on work without being in the same place. The robot is equipped with cameras and has two pairs of hands controlled by joysticks that vibrate using “force feedback sensors” to make it easier for the person controlling it to grab things. You can also give your robot full control by attaching wristbands to your hands (but this definitely requires a level of trust). Researchers think Fusion could help with everything from learning an instrument to fixing posture in sports, or building something together.
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- The flying car future is closer than you think
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- 6 years ago
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- It's been a long wait for cars that fly, but that flying car future might finally be here. Thanks to a revolution in technologies like batteries and algorithms, companies like Uber and Airbus are getting into the flying car game and pushing it forward, fast.
Flying cars are actually a long-overdue disruption not to cars, but to planes. The design of the commercial airplane hasn’t changed much in the last 70 years. But technology advances like lithium ion batteries, carbon fiber materials, and advanced computer algorithms have allowed many companies to think about building a flying car differently, with designs borrowed from quadcopters and hybrid planes.
A lot of big questions still need to be answered before flying cars take to the skies, like safety, infrastructure, and cost. But flying car advocates say we’re on the cusp of a new era in personal transportation.
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- The plan to turn Hoover Dam into a giant battery
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- 6 years ago
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- To make the dream of a renewable future a reality, we need new solutions for energy storage. Hoover Dam might become a giant battery thanks to a plan from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power that uses pumped storage hydro technology. Hoover Dam will help California store its excess energy with a new water pipeline and pump station powered by solar and wind energy.
Pumped storage hydro technology isn’t a new idea, and has already been used in several projects by LADWP. The project involves many entities, including environmental agencies and local communities. If all goes to plan, construction will begin in 5 years time.
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- Why is this drone so squishy?
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- 6 years ago
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- This drone can smash into a wall and keep flying. Its secret? Extreme squishiness. Researchers in Switzerland wanted to make a more resilient drone and modeled its squishy arms after insects. The flexible quadcopter that squishes when it crashes, so it takes less damage.
The drone has a flexible elastic frame that attaches to a core with magnets. When the drone crashes, the force separates its core from the outer frame, which compresses to absorb the energy of the impact. Most drones break when they crash, but the squishy drone was dropped 50 times from six feet in the air, and suffered no permanent damage.
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- Storing energy in concrete blocks
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- 6 years ago
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- A concrete “battery” could be the future of energy storage. Energy Vault, a Swiss startup, has created a way to store electricity in concrete blocks. The technology helps use solar power when sun doesn't shine and wind power when the wind doesn't blow. It's a low-tech alternative to lithium-ion batteries.
There’s been a lot of progress in renewable energy with solar and wind power, but renewable energy storage remains a challenge. Energy Vault’s idea is similar to hydroelectric power, but instead of using water and dams, it uses concrete blocks and cranes. The low-cost, low-tech solution is proof that some of the answers to our energy-storage problems may be hiding in plain sight.
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- This desk knows when you’re stressed at work
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- 6 years ago
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- This desk changes with your mood. A new project from MIT Media Lab, Mediated Atmosphere, seeks to improve productivity and happiness at work through design, technology, and psychology. The desk reads over 30 biological signals like heart rate and body temperature to change lighting, images, and sound so hours spent at work are more pleasant. After testing in lab conditions, the team behind the mood desk wants to try it out in real offices to better understand how people's biology and mood change at work.
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- Electronic skin that lets prosthetic limbs "feel"
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- 6 years ago
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- The "e-dermis" was invented by Johns Hopkins University researchers. It's an electronic skin that fits over the fingers of a prosthetic hand, and allows amputees to feel pain and pressure.
No one likes pain, but it serves a purpose: it protects us from injury. Pain tells us when to drop sharp or hot objects that could hurt us. Prosthetic limbs don't have that protection because they can't transmit the sensation of pain, which makes prosthetics particularly susceptible to damage. That's where the e-dermis comes in.
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- NASA’s fastest spacecraft will spend 6 years slowing down
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- 6 years ago
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- NASA's new solar probe will touch the Sun, but getting there will be difficult. The Parker Solar Probe launches this week and will spend years flying through space. Eventually, the spacecraft will get within 4 million miles of the Sun, close enough to collect data from its corona. The solar probe is the fastest machine ever built, and requires an extremely sophisticated trajectory to reach the center of our solar system. The Parker Solar Probe will reach its final orbit in 2025.
An earlier version of this video incorrectly identified the Parker Solar Probe's mission design lead; we apologize for the error.
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- NASA wants to 3D print houses on Mars
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- 6 years ago
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- NASA already has a plan to house astronauts on Mars. NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge asked engineers to design houses that could be built on Mars by robots using 3D printing technology. NASA recently announced winners of phase three of the competition and each house has a futuristic design.
Each team was asked to consider using recycled plastic and "indigenous resources"—material found on Mars (like Martian rocks). The idea is to keep construction waste free and done by robots. This approach would also work on earth and NASA hopes this project can advance 3D printing technology in the construction sector.
The team working on NASA’s Mars challenge say the project could become a reality some time around late 2030.
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- The story of the first Latin American emoji
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- 6 years ago
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- Ever wondered how emojis get chosen, created, and end up on your iPhone? There are 3.3 billion internet users worldwide, and 92% of them use emoji. A group of five Argentinians is campaigning for the first ever Latin American emoji: maté. Earlier this year, the maté emoji was approved as a draft candidate by the Unicode Consortium, the official body that selects emojis.
Maté is a tea infusion popular in South America as well as Syria and Lebanon and traditionally sipped from a gourd through a metal straw called a “bombilla.” Maté is an icon of Latin American culture, so much so that even the Pope drinks it.
Flor Coelho leads the maté emoji team and was encouraged to propose the idea by Jennifer 8. Lee, an emoji activist who belongs to Unicode and works to balance the needs of underrepresented groups in emoji through her group, Emojination. Though the maté emoji was approved as a draft, it needs to go through another round of voting from Unicode befor...
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- The human cyborg collecting his memories on video
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- 6 years ago
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- Data could be the future of memory. A team of MIT researchers developed a machine that collects our most personal data: memories. Human “cyborg” Neo Mohsenvand uses an EEG cap, camera, and signal tracking wrist band to record his life on video. The data from those devices show moments from the day that make him feel something by tracking physiological indicators like heart rate and blood oxygen level.
This kind of memory collecting bank can be useful for mental disorders, by understanding the psychological ‘loop’ that a person is stuck in. It can also significantly help people with Alzheimer’s. The end goal is to apply machine learning and create a device that could find moments or trace patterns in a person’s day to day.
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- How do you make street art for the blind?
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- 6 years ago
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- A new project in Santiago, Chile is making the city's street art accessible to the blind for the first time ever. The city created tactile versions of outdoor artworks throughout so people with visual impairments can touch and feel the art.
The “Hands on the Wall” project has installed six miniature versions of murals on plaques throughout the city, which also include descriptions in Braille and audio guides.
Accessibility features are common in museums and galleries but rare for public art. The initiative is publicly funded and jointly organized by the Mu.Cho Association for Inclusive Culture and the Museum of Visual Arts in Santiago.
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- This centaur robot will rescue you from danger
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- 6 years ago
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- This robot centaur was designed to rescue people in disasters. Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology built a centaur robot with rolling "hooves" for search and rescue missions using lightweight metal and 3D printed plastic skin.
The robot's humanlike proportions and stable design could make it incredibly useful alongside emergency first responders. Each arm can lift nearly 25 pounds and break through wood.
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- A real life Iron Man jet suit
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- 6 years ago
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- A real-life Iron Man suit is now on sale. The Gravity Jet Suit can fly as high as 12,000 feet at top speeds of 32pm, though you’ll need Tony Stark money to buy it: the suit costs $443,000.
The Iron Man jet suit is powered by five micro-jet engines, two on each arm and one on its back, giving the wearer full control of the suit, just like a real-life superhero.
Inventor Richard Browning founded Gravity Industries to prove he could make human flight a reality. He says he wasn’t inspired by Iron Man, but the special effects team from the movie was so impressed with the jet suit, they reached out to Browning.
Next, Gravity wants to build a jet suit that runs on electricity, as well as start a racing competition.
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- Meet the Flyer, Larry Page's fun little flying car
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Meet the Flyer, the fun little flying car created by Kitty Hawk, a company started by Google's Larry Page. The Flyer flying car was designed so anyone can learn to fly it without needing a pilot's license, with a mission to "free the world from traffic."
The Flyer is 100% electric, energy efficient, and, crucially, it's quiet. Right now the Flyer can only fly 10 feet above water, and only at top speeds of 6mph. Currently it's just a prototype, so it'll be a while before you take a flying car to work.
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- The pineapple “wonder material” that helps you heal
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- 6 years ago
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- A pineapple a day keeps the doctor away. Pineapples aren’t just delicious fruits, they also help wounds heal faster, according to new research. Brazilian scientists created a wound dressing made from pineapple husks, the part of the fruit that normally gets thrown away.
The key ingredients are bromelain, a protein that breaks down other proteins; and nanocellulose, a byproduct of fruit-eating bacteria known as a ‘wonder material’ for its strength and flexibility.
Pineapple waste is an abundant resource, so the materials are renewable and cheap. Scientists say in the future, nanocellulose could be used to replace body parts.
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- This swarm of drones can think for itself
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- 6 years ago
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- These drones think for themselves as they fly across the sky together. The largest-ever group of drones flies without human control or programming, unlike the synchronized drones at the 2018 Olympics or the Super Bowl. To build the drones, a group of European scientists studied flocks of birds and schools of fish to understand how animals move as a group. The drones could help with rescue missions, environmental monitoring, precision farming, even fighting forest fires.
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- This origami Pokéball safely captures delicate sea creatures
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Researchers at Harvard University have created an origami-inspired robot, similar to a Pokéball in Pokémon, that can capture sea creatures like jellyfish without harming them, and then release them back in the ocean. In the future, they hope to add cameras and other technology inside the robot so it can 3D scan and take DNA samples of marine life without having to bring it to the surface.
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- A whale song class at a British museum
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- 6 years ago
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- Whale watcher and artist Marina Rees teaches whale sounds singing classes as part of a special exhibition at the Old Low Light Heritage Center in North Shields, England.
While many whales make sounds, male humpbacks are known for their song, which they produce by repeating long, complex patterns of sounds, sometimes for days on end.
In the 1970s, biologist Roger Payne recorded an album of humpback whale songs that inspired Greenpeace’s global ‘Save the Whales’ movement and ultimately led to an international ban on deep-sea whaling.
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- World Cup 2018: All the “psychic" animals predicting matches
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- 6 years ago
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- Around the world, "psychic" animals are predicting World Cup match winners by eating, rolling or swimming to a flag. Animal fortune tellers have become a tradition at the World Cup and sporting events all over the world. Several countries have their own sacred World Cup totem and even if their predictions are incorrect, they are adorable and loved by the media. Paul the Octopus became a global sensation after accurately predicting the winners of Germany's matches in the 2010 World Cup.
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- Hollywood tech helps tennis players improve their skills
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- 6 years ago
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- Elite tennis players like Serena Williams or Roger Federer may get help from Hollywood the next time they hit the court. New motion capture technology, similar to the kind used in Hollywood movies, could help tennis players improve technique and avoid injury.
Scientists at Coventry University developed a system that uses motion sensors to monitor tennis players’ movements and track stress on muscles, bones, and joints. The program, called Bob, creates a 3D avatar image to help doctors and coaches see what’s happening inside the body when a player swings at the ball.
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- A tiny shape-shifting robot might someday be in your body
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- A group of engineers at MIT have developed tiny magnetic robots that could one day be used as biomedical devices inside humans. The robots were designed to be flexible, yet strong and built with a 3D printer using special magnetic ink. The robot can crawl, roll, jump, and even hold things. Scientists hope to use the magnetic robots to help blood vessels pump blood or take tissue samples.
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- Christo's latest art project is made of 7,506 oil barrels
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- 6 years ago
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- For almost 50 years, the artist duo and couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude have collaborated on temporary, grand-scale art installations all over the world. Christo just unveiled their latest project, The London Mastaba, a floating sculpture made of 7,506 oil barrels in the middle of The Serpentine lake in Hyde Park. Though Jeanne-Claude passed away nine years ago, Christo continues to construct pieces they had planned together. Conceived in 1977 and completed in 2018, it is actually a test run for a larger, permanent mastaba planned in the United Arab Emirates.
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- A French pizza robot could replace human chefs
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Everyone say hi to the robot that makes pizza. Ekim is a French company whose goal is to create 24-hour fresh pizza vending machines. Their robot has three arms, makes 120 pizzas in an hour, and is supposed to replace pizzerias and the people who work in them.
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This video is part of Machines With Brains, a series about what it means to be human in a world that’s increasingly filled with robots.
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- A 20 cent tool could save lives and transform health care
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- 6 years ago
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- Scientists at Princeton University invented a low-cost medical device that could save lives and revolutionize health care. The paperfuge is centrifuge made of paper, string, and plastic that can separate blood cells with no electricity. And it only costs 20 cents. Researchers were inspired by whirligig toys and believe invention will help in diagnosing malaria, HIV, and other diseases around the world.
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- The world's most ambitious parenting program
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- 6 years ago
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- Criança Feliz (Happy Child) is an ambitious new parent coaching program in Brazil. It teaches parents the importance of early childhood learning and development with the goal of fighting inequality. If it works, it might lift millions in Latin America’s largest country out of poverty. The focus? Its youngest citizens: children between the ages of zero and three.
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- Why TV shows have better gay characters than movies
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Have you ever noticed that TV shows tend to feature more gay and lesbian characters than movies? Of the 109 films released by major Hollywood studios last year, just 14 had LGBTQ characters. And half of those characters got less than five minutes of screen time.
When gay characters do appear in movies, their sexuality is rarely clear. Members of the queer community call this “queerbaiting”– hinting at, but not actually depicting, a same-sex relationship onscreen.
In TV, the story is different. And that comes down to money.
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- NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is stuck in a huge dust storm
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- NASA has lost communication with its Opportunity Mars rover, which is stuck in a dust storm encircling the entire planet. NASA scientists hope that once the storm clears, it will be operational again, but many are prepared for the worst.
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- A robot uses live rat muscle tissue to mimic human fingers
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- 6 years ago
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- Researchers in Japan grew living tissue from rat muscle cells to create a new kind of robotic hand that mimics human movements. Scientists at the University of Tokyo attached the lab-grown muscle tissue to a 3D-printed bone-like structure to create functional “biohybrid” robotic fingers. The robots can mimic the movements of human fingers when stimulated by electric current. Researchers hope to use the technology to create more flexible robotic hands and arms.
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