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Fully autonomous ASV Roboat to make world record attempt May 16, 2012 Fully autonomous ASV Roboat to make world record attempt Posted by innovation at 11:59 pm No Responses Automation Job Loss, Cutting-edge, gizmag, Innovation, Promising, Robotics, Shape of Things to Come? Tagged with: ASV Roboat, autonomous boat, boat, communication system, current robotic world, direct methanol fuel, direct methanol fuel cell, fully autonomous asv roboat to make world record attempt, global positioning system, innovative computer sciences, iridium, Iridium Communications, methanol fuel cell, onboard linux pc, robot boat, robotic boat, solar panel, stage communication, three-stage communication, world record attempt Sights set on the current robotic world sailing record The ASV Roboat was adapted from a 3.75 m (12 ft) Laerling keelboat, which was originally designed as a learner boat for children. For this reason, it [...] Go to the Story . . .	The Cleanweb: Green Energy Meets Moore’s Law May 16, 2012 The Cleanweb: Green Energy Meets Moore’s Law Posted by innovation at 9:33 pm No Responses Big Challenge, Big Think, Cutting-edge, economics, Energy, environment, Innovation, Innovation Needed, Project Energy, Promising, Shape of Things to Come? Tagged with: Cleanweb, green energy, Moore's Law, solar power, sustainable energy Starting to attract the attention of investors and entrepreneurs By embracing new Web and mobile technologies, green energy companies are creating a new Cleanweb movement in which formerly expensive alternative energy sources – such as solar [...] Go to the Story . . .	Dwarf plants could reduce demands for water, fertilizer, nutrients and pesticides May 16, 2012 Dwarf plants could reduce demands for water, fertilizer, nutrients and pesticides Posted by innovation at 6:20 pm No Responses Biotech, Climate Change, Cutting-edge, food, FYI, gizmag, Innovation, Innovation Needed, Promising, Shape of Things to Come?, The Food Challenge Tagged with: arable land, crop, demands for water, Dwarf plants, fertilizer, nutrients, pesticides, Plant, Propiconazole, purdue university Could produce the same amount of grain using less water, fertilizer and nutrients Aside from arable land, most farm crops require significant amounts of water, fertilizer, nutrients and pesticides to grow. While specialized breeding is often [...] Go to the Story . . .
Come the Revolution May 16, 2012 Come the Revolution Posted by innovation at 3:26 pm No Responses Big Challenge, Civilization, Consider This, Cool Stuff, Cutting-edge, Disruptive Innovation, Innovation, Innovation in Society, Innovation Needed, Job Changes, learning, Need to Know, New York Times, Open Source, Promising for so many reasons, Shape of Things to Come?, Think About This, Worth Repeating Tagged with: andrew ng, E-learning, Higher education, John Markoff, Online Education Revolution, revolution, stanford university Last semester he taught 100,000 in an online course on machine learning Andrew Ng is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and he has a rather charming way of explaining how the new interactive [...] Go to the Story . . .	VIDEO TEDxLausanne – Jürgen Schmidhuber – When creative machines overtake man May 16, 2012 VIDEO TEDxLausanne – Jürgen Schmidhuber – When creative machines overtake man Posted by innovation at 12:50 pm No Responses TED Tagged with: artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence expert, creative machines, creativity, English, expert jurgen schmidhuber, Global Issues, homo sapiensdominated history, jurgen schmidhuber, machine, machine intelligence, omega, science, singularity, Switzerland, Tech, Technology, tedxlausanne, video tedxlausanne, video tedxlausanne jurgen schmidhuber when creative machines overtake man Machine intelligence is improving rapidly, to the point that the scientist of the future may not even be human! In fact, in more and more fields, learning machines are already outperforming humans. Artificial intelligence expert Jürgen [...] Go to the Story . . .	A Computer Interface that Takes a Load Off Your Mind May 16, 2012 A Computer Interface that Takes a Load Off Your Mind Posted by innovation at 12:24 pm No Responses AI, Computers & Humans, Communications, Cutting-edge, FYI, Innovation, MIT, Promising, Shape of Things to Come?, Technology Review Tagged with: a computer interface that takes a load off your mind, brain activity, brain computer interface, brain monitoring technology, brain scan, Brainput, computer, computer human interaction, computer interface, computer vision, computing system, erin treacy solovey, History of neuroimaging, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mental workload, MIT, monitoring technology, near-infrared spectroscopy, postdoctoral researcher, productive interaction, tufts university A wearable brain scanner could give computers insight into how hard you’re thinking. Conversations between people include a lot more than just words. All sorts of visual and aural cues indicate each party’s state of mind [...] Go to the Story . . .
New Drug Trial Seeks to Stop Alzheimer’s Before It Starts May 16, 2012 New Drug Trial Seeks to Stop Alzheimer’s Before It Starts Posted by innovation at 9:03 am No Responses Biotech, Cutting-edge, Disruptive Innovation, Health, Innovation, Medicine, New York Times, Promising, Shape of Things to Come? Tagged with: alzheimer, Alzheimer's disease, amyloid plaques, Clinical trial, cognitive impairment, Crenezumab, disease, drug trial, federal officials, Francis Collins, genetic mutation, Medellín, memories fade, mountain villages, Mutation, National Institutes of Health, New Drug Trial, new drug trial seeks to stop alzheimers before it starts, new york times, photo credit The drug, Crenezumab, attacks amyloid plaques in the brain. In a clinical trial that could lead to treatments that prevent Alzheimer’s, people who are genetically guaranteed to develop the disease — but who do not yet [...] Go to the Story . . .	Portable diagnostics designed to be shaken, not stirred May 15, 2012 Portable diagnostics designed to be shaken, not stirred Posted by innovation at 9:14 pm No Responses Biotech, Cutting-edge, Disruptive Innovation, Innovation, Medicine, Promising, Shape of Things to Come?, University of Washington Tagged with: advanced materials, Böhringer, certain paths, drops of water, Electrical engineering, environmental tests, hannah hickey, Lotus effect, lotus leaf, medical research, Medical Researchers, Portable diagnostics, portable diagnostics designed to be shaken not stirred, rough surface, simple technology, Surface roughness, Technology, textured surface, university of washington, washington researchers “We envision a device that you plug into your phone” As medical researchers and engineers try to shrink diagnostics to fit in a person’s pocket, one question is how to easily move and mix small samples [...] Go to the Story . . .	First Gene Therapy Successful Against Aging-Associated Decline May 15, 2012 First Gene Therapy Successful Against Aging-Associated Decline Posted by innovation at 5:56 pm No Responses Biotech, Consider This, Cutting-edge, Health, Innovation, Promising, Science Digest / Science Daily, Shape of Things to Come?, Think About This Tagged with: adult life, Aging-Associated Decline, average life, Blasco, cancer research centre, CNIO, embryonic stage, first gene therapy successful against agingassociated decline, gene therapy, mouse lifespan, national cancer, national cancer research, science daily, single treatment, spanish national cancer, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, specific genes, Telomerase, therapy Mouse Lifespan Extended Up to 24% With a Single Treatment A new study consisting of inducing cells to express telomerase, the enzyme which — metaphorically — slows down the biological clock — was successful. The research [...] Go to the Story . . .
Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years May 15, 2012 Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years Posted by innovation at 3:15 pm No Responses Consider This, Cool Stuff, Cutting-edge, Disruptive Innovation, Innovation, Invention, Process of Innovation / Invention, Promising, Shape of Things to Come?, Think About This, Transportation, Universe Today, Worth Repeating Tagged with: additional nuclear reactors, adventurous visitors, bte dan, constant acceleration, engineer thinks we could build a real starship enterprise in 20 years, enterprise, enterprise-class ship, ion propulsion engine, Ion thruster, magnetically-suspended gravity wheel, nuclear reactor, nuclear reactors, planet to planet, real starship, Real Starship Enterprise, ship, ship configuration, star trek, starship enterprise, USS Enterprise He proposes not just one Enterprise-class ship, but multiple ships In Star Trek lore, the first Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today, an engineer has proposed — and outlined in meticulous [...] Go to the Story . . .	Insect-inspired smartphone projector focuses images onto uneven surfaces May 15, 2012 Insect-inspired smartphone projector focuses images onto uneven surfaces Posted by innovation at 12:34 pm No Responses Communications, Cool Stuff, Cutting-edge, FYI, Gadgets, gizmag, Innovation, Promising, Shape of Things to Come? Tagged with: applied optics, commercially-available phones, complete image, distortion-free visuals, fraunhofer institute, Fraunhofer Society, Handheld projector, Image projector, insect-inspired smartphone projector, insectinspired smartphone projector focuses images onto uneven surfaces, non-perpendicular angles, perpendicular angles, position sensor, precision engineering, projection surface, projector, smartphone, smartphone projector, uneven surface, uneven surfaces It may be a few years before it makes its way into commercially-available phones If you were using a smartphone projector to shine an image onto an uneven surface, or onto a flat surface but at [...] Go to the Story . . .	Energy Storage For More Than Renewables May 15, 2012 Energy Storage For More Than Renewables Posted by innovation at 10:52 am No Responses Big Challenge, Consider This, Cutting-edge, Disruptive Innovation, Energy, Innovation, Innovation Needed, Project Energy, Promising, Scientific American, Shape of Things to Come? Tagged with: electrical grid, electricity, energy, Energy Information Administration, energy storage, energy storage for more than renewables, energy storage technologies, Grid energy storage, grid-scale energy storage, intermittent renewable energy, large-scale energy storage, more than renewables, new infrastructure, potential energy, potential energy storage, power quality, renewable energy, renewable energy resources, than renewables, types of energy Deferring the Need for New Infrastructure for instance . . . Large-scale energy storage technologies are often hailed as a key to enabling increased use of intermittent renewable energy resources – like solar and wind – [...] Go to the Story . . .