Arc’teryx’s exo-underpants and a bright future as I get old
I keep telling my wife that when we’re broken down oldies (coming soon) we’ll have self-driving cars and exoskeletons to help with our mobility issu...
Tag: future
Select quotes from the conversation on AI between Barak Obama, MIT’s Joi Ito, and WIRED’s Scott Dadich
I finally got around to reading this interview transcript. Dadich moderates an interesting discussion between Ito and Obama mostly around AI, but also touching ...
Research at Janelia: Life on the farm : Nature News & Comment
“But what happens next? Can Janelia Farm do ‘great science’ during the next 5 to 10 years? Will it pass Rubin’s deletion test? Can it re...
Retail biology – Trade Secrets Blog | Nature Publishing Group
“Just as fortunes were made by the designers and manufacturers of the humble mouse mat after the launch of the Apple Macintosh, we are likely to see consu...
Teach me: Does Hadoop signal the end of the database?
I am still a novice when it comes to the technical underpinnings of databases and Hadoop. So, I thought it might be useful if I just asked if my thought on the ...
Philips – Design Probes – Microbial Home
“The Microbial Home Probe consists of a domestic ecosystem that challenges conventional design solutions to energy, cleaning, food preservation, lighting,...
Philips unveils an elegant ‘Microbial Home’ concept | SmartPlanet
“Although these appliances won’t be manufactured any time soon, lifelike models of the concepts are currently on view at the Piet Hein Eek gallery during ...
Living to 100 and Beyond – WSJ.com
“In Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels,” Gulliver encounters a small group of immortals, the struldbrugs. “Those excellent...
Open access comes of age : Nature News
“A study of open-access publishing — published last week in the open-access journal PLoS ONE — has found that the number of papers in freely accessible jo...
DARPA to Offer $30 Million to Jump-Start Cellular Factories – ScienceInsider
“Approved barely a month ago, the $30 million Living Foundries program should be sending out a request for proposals in the next few weeks and making awar...