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April 30, 2006
piSight
The piSight™ virtual reality (VR) system is the world's most immersive 3D virtual reality display, ideal for numerous applications including virtual prototyping, training, data mining and more.
The product of nearly a decade of research supported by NASA and a global car company, piSight uses a breakthrough patented optical design that provides for a 3D wrap-around visual sensation with 150° field of view, 2200x1200 pixels per eye in full color.
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April 22, 2006
Invention Machine
As a high-school student in the 1950s, John Koza yearned for a personal computer. That was a tall order back then, as mass-produced data processors such as the IBM 704 were mainframes several times the size of his bedroom. So the cocksure young man went rummaging for broken jukeboxes and pinball machines, repurposing relays and switches and lightbulbs to make a computer of his own design.
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April 18, 2006
Bioprinting
Gabor Forgacs, a biophysicist at the University of Missouri in Columbia, described his "bioprinting" technique last week at the Experimental Biology 2006 meeting in San Francisco. It relies on droplets of "bioink", clumps of cells a few hundred micrometres in diameter, which Forgacs has found behave just like a liquid.
This means that droplets placed next to one another will flow together and fuse, forming layers, rings or other shapes, depending on how they were deposited. To print 3D structures, Forgacs and his colleagues alternate layers of supporting gel, dubbed "biopaper", with the bioink droplets. To build tubes that could serve as blood vessels, for instance, they lay down successive rings containing muscle and endothelial cells, which line our arteries and veins. "We can print any desired structure, in principle," Forgacs told the meeting.
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April 13, 2006
100 years of animation
Animation started simply; a blackboard, a stick of chalk and the wrist of an artist. A whirring camera stood nearby while James Stuart Blackton sketched out a dubious-looking gent in a bowtie. Blackton's wrist soon disappears, but, onscreen the drawing keeps growing. A woman in a frilly dress with a bun atop her head appears. The man glances over at her, lifts his eyebrows and breaks out into a grin. The woman reciprocates, then Bad Man lights up a stogie and obscures Grimacing Ladyfriend in smoke.
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April 09, 2006
Nanopore Method
A team led by physicists at the University of California, San Diego has shown the feasibility of a fast, inexpensive technique to sequence DNA as it passes through tiny pores. The advance brings personalized, genome-based medicine closer to reality.
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April 06, 2006
mind-reading
Three researchers at the MIT Media Lab have developed a device that "reads minds" and alerts wearers to the emotional state of the person they're conversing with.
The device, called the Emotional Social Intelligence Prosthetic, or ESP, was presented by Rana El Kaliouby on Tuesday at the 2006 Body Sensor Network Conference at the MIT Media Lab. The research team hopes the device will help people with autism learn to better read the social cues of others.
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April 04, 2006
Single-molecule diode
Single-molecule diode may change Moore's 'law' of microchip memory.
Using the power of modern computing combined with innovative theoretical tools, an international team of researchers has determined how a one-way electrical valve, or diode, made of only a single molecule does its job. Diodes are critical components within computer, audio equipment and countless other electronic devices. If designers can swap existing diodes with the single-molecule one, the products could be shrunk to incredibly small sizes.
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