not that’s a living proof that the so-called chinese curse “may you live in interesting times” ain’t all bad.
wow

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Earlier we saw that functional 3D, Hologram displays could soon be available. Now comes the other part of the picture, with the development of technology that makes 3-D imaging quicker, easier:

The FINCH technology and the FINCHSCOPE uses microscope objectives with the highest resolving power, a spatial light modulator, a charge-coupled device camera and some simple filters to enable the acquisition of 3-D microscopic images without the need for scanning multiple planes.

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New technology makes 3-D imaging quicker, easier

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they’ve typed up the whole monologue from #5
(which saves me doing it, if required, at some future point)

The Nexus » Blog Archive » East of Gotham: Doktor Sleepless has Arrived

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Happy Birthday Warren!

Happy Birthday Warren!

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Swiss Channel Nouv are hosting lectures and interviews from the tech conference LIFT 08. Sadly there’s no direct links to individual vidoes, so you’ll have to have fun scrolling through the many items of futurosity.

Highlights include:

• Cyborg prototyper Kevin Warwick.
• Dutch designer Mieke Gerritzen speaks on “Nature as Culture and Culture as Nature” which Bruce Sterling says will “scramble your next-natural brain”.
• Aral Balkan talks about …

get your future on with the LIFT08 videos

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and squinty!

now I’m gonna sing the Doom Song!!!
😀

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Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrawk

Monkey Guardian

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its the_decapitator !!!
see www.flickr.com/photos/the_decapitator

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Sick of the short battery life of your gadgets? Constantly having to check that they’re powered up before you head out? Well, running out of juice whilst in the field could soon be a thing of the past. US scientists are getting close to generating functional power via the piezoelectric effect, by weaving nanofibres into our clothing:

The nano-generators, as the technology is known, consist of pairs of fibres that look similar to tiny, bendable bottle-brushes. At the core of each…

Gadgets powered by our clothing!

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Get down to the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MoMA in New York and you can check out a chair that let’s you see through your skin:

The Mind Chair describes a possible application of the sensory substitution technique developed by Dr Paul Bach-y-Rita in the late 1960s in which moving imagery is perceived in the mind via nerves in the skin rather than the eyes.

The obvious application for such a chair would be to let the blind ’see’. But I reckon it could also…

Beta Tank’s MindChair

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