January 2012
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Watchvideo of the German grandmaster behind Megaupload, Kim Schmitz, there are a lot similar videos about him…
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Megaupload shut down by US FBI/Justice Dept., Anonymous retaliates! (trak.in)
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control a PC with your mind - without a headset
North Carolina– based Freer Logic’s new biofeedback device, the Bodywave, trains you to become aware of your brain function, so you are better able to regain focus when you drift off at work, lose your steam on the back nine, or nearly fall asleep at the wheel. It’s the first brain-wave scanner to be worn on an arm or leg, forgoing clunky headgear.
The Bodywave works by tracking your brain-wave...
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Vuzix augmented reality Smart Glasses prototype
Remember those wicked holographic augmented reality glasses that DARPA was so hot to build? They’re almost here. Hiding out at Vuzix’s CES booth we found a functional prototype for its Smart Glasses industrial class monocular display — a special lens attached to a proprietary display driver that produces a bright, 1.4mm...
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Smart grid may crush power companies at unexpected... →
The smart grid could go a long way in conserving energy and smoothing out load demand for the nation’s utilities. Researchers at MIT however, say there may be a law of unintended consequences at work with smart grid. If too many people set appliances to turn on, or devices to recharge, when the price of electricity crosses the same threshold, it could cause a huge spike in demand — and...
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WatchWolfgang Gartner - Illmerica
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Slow Mo Stuff →
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JWT: 100 Things to Watch in 2012
Via Scoop.it - Future Facial Recognition Fury, Fat Taxes, Remaking “Made in China”—just a few items from our annual list of 100 Things to Watch for the year ahead.
It’s a wide-ranging compilation that in part reflects broader economic, environmental, technological and social developments we’ve been tracking. As always, technology has a prominent presence: Among other things, the list spotlights...
Your Connected Vehicle Is Arriving
Via Scoop.it - Future As our cars become networked—to the Internet and to one another—new trends in technology and society will redefine transportation. What’s certain: tomorrow’s automobiles will provide experiences that go well beyond driving. Via technologyreview.com
NASA Studying Ways to Make 'Tractor Beams' a...
Via Scoop.it - Future A team of NASA scientists has won funding to study how this sci-fi technology (moving objects with laser light) could be brought into reality. Via nasa.gov
Controlling an avatar with your brain
Via Scoop.it - Future The Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL) at the Interdisciplinary Center Israel, is developing a system for controlling a virtual or physical body using only the mind, Israeli Innovation News reports. The VERE (Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-embodiment) project is one of the first to use an fMRI brain scanner to control a computer application interactively in real time. Via...
How to predict the future
Via Scoop.it - Future From watching Star Trek to morphological analysis, there is more than one way to work out what’s heading our way. Imagining the future, we naturally think of it as a different place to the one we live in now. It is populated with new technologies, advanced science and perhaps even a more evolved version of humanity. But who are the architects of this future, whose...