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Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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On Wednesday, Google gave people a clearer picture of its secret initiative called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first venture into wearable computing.
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Luís F. Simões on 04 Apr 12

this will be big! check the video. according to one of the related posts, they'll be on sale already by the end of 2012! Surprising that it's Google and not Apple to come up with this

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">this will be big! check the video. according to one of the related posts, they'll be on sale already by the end of 2012! Surprising that it's Google and not Apple to come up with this</div>

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Ma Ru on 05 Apr 12

> Surprising that it's Google and not Apple to come up with this It's sort of hard to think when your brain's gone.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">> Surprising that it's Google and not Apple to come up with this It's sort of hard to think when your brain's gone.</div>

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Interesting New Products and Inventions: iPavement Keeps You Connected - 4 views

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Executable Paper Grand Challenge - 4 views

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Fast-starts in hunting fish: decision-making in small networks of identified neurons - 4 views

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Cubesat to run applications - 0 views

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Software Detects Motion that the Human Eye Can't See - 4 views

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Luke O'Connor on 24 Jul 12

The video technique could lead to remote diagnostic methods, like the ability to detect the heart rate of someone on a screen.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The video technique could lead to remote diagnostic methods, like the ability to detect the heart rate of someone on a screen.</div>

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Luke O'Connor on 24 Jul 12

Are there potential applications to earth observation etc..?

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Luke O'Connor on 24 Jul 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZcjs1Pjmk

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Bendable glass - 4 views

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Out of the Present (1999) - IMDb - 4 views

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The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes : Nature : Nature Publ... - 1 views

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First flat lens focuses light without distortion - physicsworld.com - 0 views

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santecarloni on 24 Sep 12

Physicists in the US have made the first ultrathin flat lens. Thanks to its flatness, the device eliminates optical aberrations that occur in conventional lenses with spherical surfaces. As a result, the focusing power of the lens also approaches the ultimate physical limit set by the laws of diffraction.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Physicists in the US have made the first ultrathin flat lens. Thanks to its flatness, the device eliminates optical aberrations that occur in conventional lenses with spherical surfaces. As a result, the focusing power of the lens also approaches the ultimate physical limit set by the laws of diffraction.</div>

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LeopoldS on 24 Sep 12

Really nice indeed! The new flat ultrathin lens is different in that it is a nanostructured "metasurface" made of optically thin beam-shaping elements called optical antennas, which are separated by distances shorter than the wavelength of the light they are designed to focus. These antennas are wavelength-scale metallic elements that introduce a slight phase delay in a light ray that scatters off them. The metasurface can be tuned for specific wavelengths of light by simply changing the size, angle and spacing between the nanoantennas. "The antenna is nothing more than a resonator that stores light and then releases it after a short time delay," Capasso says. "This delay changes the direction of the light in the same way that a thick glass lens would." The lens surface is patterned with antennas of different shapes and sizes that are oriented in different directions. This causes the phase delays to be radially distributed around the lens so that light rays are increasingly refracted further away from the centre, something that has the effect of focusing the incident light to a precise point.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Really nice indeed! The new flat ultrathin lens is different in that it is a nanostructured "metasurface" made of optically thin beam-shaping elements called optical antennas, which are separated by distances shorter than the wavelength of the light they are designed to focus. These antennas are wavelength-scale metallic elements that introduce a slight phase delay in a light ray that scatters off them. The metasurface can be tuned for specific wavelengths of light by simply changing the size, angle and spacing between the nanoantennas. "The antenna is nothing more than a resonator that stores light and then releases it after a short time delay," Capasso says. "This delay changes the direction of the light in the same way that a thick glass lens would." The lens surface is patterned with antennas of different shapes and sizes that are oriented in different directions. This causes the phase delays to be radially distributed around the lens so that light rays are increasingly refracted further away from the centre, something that has the effect of focusing the incident light to a precise point.</div>

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Met Office: catastrophic climate change could happen with 50 years - Telegraph - 3 views

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Antarctic glaciers 'melting faster than previously thought' - Telegraph - 1 views

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Lotus Plant-Inspired Dust-Busting Shield To Protect Space Gear - 3 views

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replicate to prevent dirt from accumulating on the surfaces of spacesuits, scientific instruments, robotic rovers, solar array panels and other hardware used to gather scientific data or carry out exploratory activities on other objects in the solar system
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The team also is trying to partner with Northrop Grumman to add a biocide to the coating, which would kill bacteria that thrive and produce foul odors wherever people are confined to a small space for long periods, like the space station.
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Tobias Seidl on 04 Oct 09

We had some discussion about the Lotus-effect roughly two years ago. Zoe said that NASA surely worked on it. Well, she was right.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">We had some discussion about the Lotus-effect roughly two years ago. Zoe said that NASA surely worked on it. Well, she was right.</div>

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The evolving face of networks |Technology |The Guardian - 3 views

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Home : HomePage - 3 views

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Forecasting Brain Science and its impact on technology - 3 views

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Eduardo Martin Moraud on 19 Oct 09

For those sceptics about the use of neuroscience: A 20min talk (by a computer scientist!) about brain science and its use to build intelligent technology

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">For those sceptics about the use of neuroscience: A 20min talk (by a computer scientist!) about brain science and its use to build intelligent technology</div>

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Christos Ampatzis on 20 Oct 09

so what does he sell? 22' without saying anything? Just "intelligence is prediction" - great but what are you gonna do mate?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">so what does he sell? 22' without saying anything? Just "intelligence is prediction" - great but what are you gonna do mate?</div>

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Eduardo Martin Moraud on 20 Oct 09

I do not think his intention is to sell anything... Just to make people (from a non neuroscience background) aware that brain science will have an impact on technology. Also: I am a firm believer in that "prediction"defines intelligence, as he states, and that making machines that behave in such a way is the way to go :) (the talk is from 2003 btw :p)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I do not think his intention is to sell anything... Just to make people (from a non neuroscience background) aware that brain science will have an impact on technology. Also: I am a firm believer in that "prediction"defines intelligence, as he states, and that making machines that behave in such a way is the way to go :) (the talk is from 2003 btw :p)</div>

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