Skip to main content

Home/ Future of Museums/ Group items tagged Technology

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Ruth Cuadra

First Lasing Nanofibres Open the Way for Cheap, Soft Laser Textiles - 0 views

  •  
    The work opens the way to the manufacture of laser textiles, entire sheets of material that emit light using the process of stimulated emission.
Ruth Cuadra

Compound Made from Plastic Bottles Kills Drug-Resistant Fungus - 0 views

  •  
    Converting solid waste (plastic bottles) to a cure for drug-resistant fungus -- is this not a win-win for the world??
Johanna Fassbender

Microvolunteers help blind people to 'see' | Springwise - 1 views

  •  
    This could also be helpful to blind museum visitors
Ruth Cuadra

Coming Next Year: World's First Floating Apartment Complex - 0 views

  •  
    Living in close proximity to ever-rising water can be a difficult prospect, and while the Dutch have come up with all sorts of ways to work with instead of against it, this is a new achievement: apartments that float.
Ruth Cuadra

Le Laboratoire's Ophone Is A Smartphone For The Nose That Knows - 0 views

  •  
    Ophone? Olfactory experiences to be delivered digitally like email or instant messages. Can you smell the sympohony?
Ruth Cuadra

The End Of The Library | TechCrunch - 0 views

  •  
    The internet has replaced the importance of libraries as a repository for knowledge. And digital distribution has replaced the role of a library as a central hub for obtaining the containers of such knowledge: books. Will this happen to museums too?
Ruth Cuadra

First 3D Movies From a Single Pixel Camera - 0 views

  •  
    Researchers can now track a moving object and create a 3D film of its motion
Garry Golden

MoMA | MoMA Teens Take Over Inside/Out: Overheard @ MoMA - 1 views

  •  
    'Overheard' models are a good youth (and adult) pop culture fit
Ruth Cuadra

Will the Internet of Things lead to passive oversharing? - 1 views

  •  
    Passive surveillance...an outgrowth of proliferation of web-enabled devices and the resulting IoT. What our devices emit can tell more than we might want to share.
Ruth Cuadra

Watch as swarms of micro-robots run around making stuff - 0 views

  •  
    Can be used for prototyping parts, electronics assembly, biotech lab-on-a-chip experiments, and assembling small mechanical systems in hostile environments -- like museums?  :-)
Karen Wade

3D printer donated to Walnut Valley middle school - 0 views

  •  
    3D printing has made it to our local middle school!
Ruth Cuadra

Reflective Concrete, Wooden Textiles And More: Five Materials You Never Knew Existed - 1 views

  •  
    BlingCrete -- functional properties of concreate with a reflective quality ArboSkin -- bio-plastic that can be worked like wood Mushroom materials -- biodegradable packing material made from fungus WoolAluminum -- wool with the structural stability of aluminum (obviously!) Wooden Textiles What will artists do with these? What will museums do?
Emily Holm

The British Library Big Data Experiment - Digital scholarship blog - 0 views

  •  
    "The British Library Big Data Experiment"
Megan Conn

A Vision of the Future From Those Likely to Invent It - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  •  
    Nice summary of future trends by some leaders in the tech industry
« First ‹ Previous 341 - 360 of 429 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page