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Hologram displays could be in our homes within a few years

Holy Crap! Might we finally be getting hologram displays? Seems so:

A material that can create rewritable holograms could bring 3D displays to the home, or provide dramatically high-capacity computer memory, US researchers say.

A layer of the material can record a holographic image, erase it, and replace it with another in a few minutes. While technological challenges remain, the researchers are confident they can advance the technology to refresh pictures at video frame rates of…

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Poesy sleeps, London, UK.JPG

polkadotsoph has posted a comment:

Lovely lovely lovely… is this the most blogged baby of all time?


Poesy sleeps, London, UK.JPG

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My (successful) US work visa application, London, UK — seriously!.JPG

punkwalrus has posted a comment:

I see you got the short version of the form. Well, the first part of it, at least.

[ducks]


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Dutch unveil robot to fill car gas tank

robot petrol pumper

“I was on a farm and I saw a robotic arm milking a cow. If a robot can do that then why can’t it fill a car tank, I thought,” said developer and petrol station operator Nico van Staveren. “Drivers needn’t get dirty hands or smell of petrol again.”

via /.

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Keepon – CMU’s rhythmically intelligent robots for research and entertainment.

Keepon, developed by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics department, is “a small creature-like robot designed to interact with children by directing attention and expressing emotion“.

It also makes groovy little YouTube videos:

This little cute’bot is no amateur. It was quickly picked up by WIRED and taken to Japan to conquer it’s people and robots:

Someone had the good sense to…

Keepon – CMU’s rhythmically intelligent robots for research and entertainment.

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Does Portal’s Success Presage Game Industry Shift? – GigaOM

yay!!! more Portal..
maybe the Cake wasn’t a lie after all?!

Does Portal’s Success Presage Game Industry Shift? – GigaOM

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