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life recording - 0 views

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Entropa installation - Brussels - 0 views

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    How has your country been envisaged ?
ESA ACT

Flying car - 0 views

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
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    amazing
ESA ACT

Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World (33MB) - 0 views

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    Interesting not for the US securtiy point of view but some forecasting on technologies and politics of the future
ESA ACT

Italian Job conundrum solved - 0 views

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
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    I like the 12-year-old boy solution better...
ESA ACT

"Blackest Body" Manifactured using Carbonanotubes - 0 views

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    SPS people take notice
ESA ACT

Google Sky added to Google Earth - 0 views

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
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    really amazing
Kevin de Groote

Galaxy Zoo Mergers - 0 views

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    Instead of classifying galaxies (image analysis), this new project asks the public to try to recreate collisions
Ma Ru

Peter Florjancic: Slovenian inventor extraordinaire - 3 views

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    We're all here about inventiveness and creativity, so here you go... Story of a guy who's life's motto has been "Gold lies on the streets and you just need to dig it up with ideas. Ideas are like the shovel" Add to it Monte Carlo, Marlene Dietrich and, say, King Farouk and you get quite an amazing story... And most of all, after reading this you'll know the value of knowing how to ski.
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    nice story indeed ...
Luís F. Simões

Is color vision defined by language? "The Himba tribe" - BBC Horizon - 2 views

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    Yeah that's interesting stuff... We have one prof in the lab who used to do some research related exactly to this (http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/socce/staff/tonybelpaeme/research.html). Similar question (i.e. if/how language is involved in the formation of a concept) is also valid for numbers, see for instance this recent story: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20095-without-language-numbers-make-no-sense.html
LeopoldS

Athena: Europe plans huge X-ray space telescope - 2 views

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    good news for x-ray astronomers
Ma Ru

Shop which knows your name - 6 views

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    I'm sure Leo will love it. Yet another argument not to have a facebook account or a smartphone.
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    absolutely ... so you ditched yours also already?
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    Ditched? I never had either! But then on the other hand a recent Dilbert summarised me pretty well...
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    so you also don't have a mobile phone? I thought I knew only one person of my age who does not have one yet ... congratulations
jcunha

Wireless 10 kW power transmission - 1 views

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    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said Friday that it has succeeded in transmitting 10 kW of power through 500 m. An announcement that comes just after JAXA scientists reported one more breakthrough in the quest for Space Solar Power Systems (http://phys.org/news/2015-03-japan-space-scientists-wireless-energy.html). One step closer to Power Generation from Space/
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    from the press release (https://www.mhi-global.com/news/story/1503121879.html) "10 kilowatts (kW) of power was sent from a transmitting unit by microwave. The reception of power was confirmed at a receiver unit located at a distance of 500 meters (m) away by the illumination of LED lights, using part of power transmitted". So 10kW of transmission to light a few efficient LED lights??? In a 2011 report (https://www.mhi-global.com/company/technology/review/pdf/e484/e484017.pdf), MHI estimated this would generate the same electricity output as a 400-megawatt thermal plant - or enough to serve more than 150,000 homes during peak hours. The price? The same as publicly supplied power, according to its calculations. There are no results to boost these claims however. The main work they do now is focused on beam steering control. I guess the real application in mind is more targeted to terrestrial applications, eg wireless highway charging (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120312-wireless-highway-to-charge-cars). With the distances so much shorter, leading to much smaller antenna's and rectenna's this makes much more sense to me to develop.
jcunha

Oculus Rift users to see Moon live through robot - 2 views

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    A group from Carnegie Mellon wants to send a robot to the Moon to beam live pictures of the Moon to Oculus Rift headset users, reported technology reporter Jane Wakefield of the BBC. Andy the robot is intended to swing into action as a robot on a mission to transform education about space.
LeopoldS

agnotology - 3 views

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    revealing ....
LeopoldS

Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness? - 3 views

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    Nice easy to read article
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    Cool stuff! This guy is also interesting: http://cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/HoffmanTime.pdf. Saw him in a conference one, blew my mind :O
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