Lockheed Martin set to make 1.5 inch long spy plane. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.7-million, 10-month contract to design a remotely controlled nano air vehicle (NAV) that is capable of collecting military intelligence both indoors and in urban outdoor environments. The team includes Lockheed Martin Advanced …
A discussion and review of Vernor Vinge’s new book Rainbows End. Vernor Vinge wrote the and spoke in the 1980s when he popularized the concept of the Technological singularity Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science …
Felix Dennis is a roughly 59 year old british magazine publisher who is rich. By his own estimate he has between $400 and 900 million.In the times online he has written an article about getting rich. He lists the key characteristics needed to become rich:– Confidence and an unshakeable belief it can be done and …
Mr. Perlman is now putting the finishing touches on Contour, a futuristic camera system that will add photorealistic three-dimensional effects to digital entertainment. Standard motion-capture systems are generally limited in resolution to several hundred points on a human face, while the Contour system can recreate facial images at a resolution of 200,000 pixels. The digital …
Sex would be “the killer app of space tourism … because every couple who goes up there, or threesome or whatever their personal choice is, is going to want to try this. However, there are difficulties to be overcome. Vanna Bonta’s concept for the “2suit” garment includes Velcro strips, zippers and diaphanous inner material that …
Canadian researchers have developed an inexpensive and highly sensitive infrared chip that could improve night-vision goggles and medical imaging. Made by spin-coating a glass slide or silicon chip with a solution of conducting nanoparticles called quantum dots, the detector is 10 times more sensitive than traditional infrared detectors. The team that designed the chip is …
To this advance: I say holy crap. A very creative piece of work. It is and will massively and rapidly increase detailed understanding of brain functions. Thanks to a new imaging system, researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have gotten an unprecedented look into how genes shape the brain in response to …
A thin magnetic ceramic film eliminates the need for circulators — heavy and expensive device integral to a lot of radar technology. Traditionally, circulator designs have relied on large and heavy magnets that add significant cost to the technology. Thousands of the magnets are required for the most advanced radar systems and, as a result, …
A projection of life with more advanced computers in 2030 is from Fortune Magazine. It claims to be projecting quantum computers but mixes in spintronics, brain-computer interfaces and other technology. Hatband computer is communication center and intelligent assistant, which scans and sorts the 500,000 e-mails at night and then sends results directly to the brain. …
From MIT Technology Review: Light sensing optical fibers can make transparent cameras, uniforms that detect laser sightings, put onto screens for laser pointer control of the computer. A system using these fibers could lead to transparent cameras that need no lenses. The fibers are made of a semiconducting glass core, lined along its full length …
The main center of the city of London is two-and-a-half-square kilometers. In 1998 a network of cameras was installed that provides comprehensive video coverage of a large part of the City. Every vehicle entering the area is photographed, its license plate checked against a national police database, and an image of its driver stored for …