A full colour, animated 3D hologram of the human body is to go on public display for the first time. Viewed from different angles, the life-sized teaching device shows muscle structures, skeleton, internal organs, blood vessels and nerves. Visitors to the University’s Anatomy Museum will be able to study the new teaching tool, which is …
Taiwan has a breakthrough system that tracks hand movements to enable touch-activated interaction with a 3D virtual head-mounted display. The i-Air Touch glasses project a virtual 3D image about 30 centimeters (12 inches) in front of the user by supplying separate left and right images to the user’s eyes. Going one-step beyond Google Glass, the …
108 pages of new nanotechnology solutions from Eric Drexler and Dennis Pamlin written in May 2013. The key development for the 21st century is advanced, atomically precise manufacturing (APM). This report examines the potential for nanotechnology to enable deeply transformative production technologies that can be developed through a series of advances that build on current …
Nextbigfuture has covered contour crafting for cement jet printing of buildings for years. We have a contour crafting tag for all of articles on this topic. We have also had a lot of articles about Broad Group of China’s factory mass produced skyscrapers. Broad Group process is being used for several dozen skyscrapers while Contour …
The world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) to pass the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart — Captcha — debuts today from Vicarious FPC Inc. in San Francisco. Vicarious is a three-year old California Flexible Purpose Corporation (thus the FPC after its name), which instead of maximizing shareholder value, like a …
At this month’s IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems, Berthold Horn, a professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, presented a new algorithm for alleviating traffic flow instabilities, which he believes could be implemented by a variation of the adaptive cruise-control systems that are an option on many of today’s high-end cars. …
Golden rice contains enough vitamin A to meet children’s needs. A 2009 study concluded that golden rice is effectively converted into vitamin A in humans. A 2012 study that fed 68 children ages 6 to 8 concluded that golden rice was as good as vitamin A supplements and better than the natural beta-carotene in spinach. …
UK researchers say they have achieved data transmission speeds of 10Gbit/s via “li-fi” – wireless internet connectivity using light. The researchers used a micro-LED light bulb to transmit 3.5Gbit/s via each of the three primary colours – red, green, blue – that make up white light. Li-fi is an emerging technology that could see specialised …
Researchers have developed an optical information carrier that can store information for extremely long periods of time, with each bit being written using etching techniques. The chosen information carrier is a wafer consisting of tungsten encapsulated by silicon nitride. Tungsten was chosen because it can withstand extreme temperatures. A QR code is etched into the …
A physicist discusses Fukushima. There was no Fukushima nuclear disaster. Total number of people killed by nuclear radiation at Fukushima was zero. Total injured by radiation was zero. Total private property damaged by radiation….zero. There was no nuclear disaster. What there was, was a major media feeding frenzy fuelled by the rather remote possibility that …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 180 is up at Hiroshima Syndrome From The Hiroshima Syndrome’s Fukushima Commentary – Fukushima and the Inevitable Tritium Controversy Tritium is one of the weakest beta-emitting isotopes in the universe. 37,000,000 Becquerels per liter doesn’t hurt lab mice. Fukushima’s highest Tritium level is 630,000 Bq/liter. They should release the ALPS …