Advanced Concepts Team

Crazy, crazy, craaaazyyyyy!!!

the "engineered ear" is awesome

How much more proof do we need.... and of course "It may be that those who have a tendency to wake up groggy are choosing not to siesta in the first place. Perhaps, though, as in so many things, it is practice that makes perfect."

Come on guys, be innovative and make at least an Ariadna...

A new paper related to our old Ariadna on microstructured radiators.

This is actually a very nice paper in my view .... José, have a look at it!! "This study demonstrates that appropriately designed metallo-dielectric systems can serve as compact, highly directive and ultra radiative antennas. Let us emphasize that contrary to fully metallic antennas, the high directivity of this antenna does not result from a plasmonic effect, and that it is efficient over a wide range of frequencies. In consequence, the high directivity does compromise the high radiative decay rate enhancement offered by two coupled metallic particles and it is possible to exploit whispering gallery modes to further enhance the radiative decay rates. This work paves the way towards the design of compact, simple and highly efficient optical antennas."

wow, looks pretty cool! I wonder what is "a ridiculous amount of memory on a chip"...? giga, tera, peta, exa, ... ?

Looks cool indeed, but as with all those technology "breakthroughs" my enthusiasm will be limited until this actually makes it to my laptop...

what a phrase: "this advance could increase the power and memory of computers to nearly unimaginable proportions within only a couple of years." ... sure ....

very nice movie !

but so far only an announcement ... they want to be ready in autumn only ... :-(

yes, but already 172000 dollars of donation (!!) and plenty of guys offered their service for the coding ! this is something a lot of people is waiting for !

Anything that can has a chance to save us from the Facebook abomination is welcome...

All the satellite-related systems (except for the rocket to launch it) are DIY programs -- designed so that regular people may also have the chance of developing and eventually launching their own.

I was saying that mainly because of some flaws - the piggy-pack installation, no dedicated stage, the limited control, ... It is so far very funny, but once he can fill all the gaps, it should be an excellent initiative - although careful about the debris if anyone has its own ;p

his quote: "when art becomes practical, we call it technology; when technology becomes useless, we call it art" ... this is probably the later one ....

whoa!!!

impressive (http://www-clmc.usc.edu/Research/LearningLocomotion for papers ...)

The only proper way to browse Ariadnet.

what would be in your best 10 list?

similar idea to ours.... but implemented

even being so used to italians that accent is hilarious

how comes that they did not apply to our Ariadna?

maybe we should have a second look at multiple roots as networks

nice indeed!

I think they are taking it a bit too far....

is my memory wrong or isn't this what you have already mentioned as theoretically possible a few years back when discussing this, Luzi?

Very well possible that I mentioned this. In fact I was one of the first who took spacetime transformations in transformation optics seriously. But first, my name is not Leonhardt and I don't work at Imperial, that's why nobody cites me and second I most probably found the idea too stupid to be published. You see the two reasons why I'm not successful in science...

And here's the same thing, but in dead-trees format: http://www.amazon.com/This-Will-Change-Everything-Future/dp/0061899674 Anyone else thinks that the ACT should buy us all a copy as a Christmas present? :)

you are the ACT!!!

does he also have to pay property tax?

so how does that state get his money from this type of economy? where is the VAT in there?

Last time I checked the "state" was still loosing money. But their main income is the sale of resources. Mostly new land, but I believe at some point they wanted to sell their initial planet too.

Nice initiative, isn't it?

some citizen science added to this would make it even better ... as it is it's rather, boh ...

Well, true - making data public is one thing, and making others to work through them for you is another... I love the new term "citizen science" though (and an explanation on the Wikipedia page why they had to invent a new one because "crowdsourcing" is soooooo - politically - wrong).