31 July 2006
MIT researchers watch brain in action
A newsclip from the MIT News office about their researchers being able to watch neurons interacting in the brain of a live animal in response to an expereince for the first time.
Make Your Own Coke!
Coca-Cola that is. This is an article from the Guardian which tells of the story of two people setting out to do just that, and the recipe that they end up with to do it. Neat, but in the end easier to go buy a can prolly.
The Segway Centaur
The new Centaur concept is a 4 wheeled concept vehicle from Segway. Be sure to check out the video link on the page to see it in action.
The Big Bang – 4 Common Misconceptions
This is an excellent article, The Big Bang – Common Misconceptions, from The Angry Astronomer's blog. A nice summary of the beginning of our universe.
28 July 2006
27 July 2006
materialise.MGX v 1.0
materialise.MGX v 1.0
combines art and technology by using Rapid Manufacturing to produce this series of exceptional Design goods. Our exclusive products are created through 3d printing, prototyping techniques - stereolithography and selective laser sintering - that offer almost unlimited freedom of design. Our aim is to unleash a new era of mass customised design . Our 15y experience with RP technology and software enables us to meet the customer's wildest dreams for mass-customised consumer products. With today's high-performance computed 3D softwares , systems and the increasing usage of unlimited e-communication we can undoubtedly fulfil our end user's design and manufacture requirements. .MGX operates both as a Service bureau and a Brand Collection, We provide solutions for other manufacturers, by producing individualized series of products for the design, art, fashion, interior, cosmetics and NSA architecture market.
Magics The Materialise software guides designers through their product development process. The CAD file of the design should first be transformed into a STL-file to make the use of rapid prototyping techniques accessible. Magics, our indoor developed software, turns the original file into an STL-file and offers a whole range of functions to correct any mistakes that may be created during the conversion. To assist with the preparation of files for the rapid prototyping process, Magics uses very advanced and automated functions. Magics is an indispensable software tool that helps to achieve high-quality rapid-prototyping objects.
combines art and technology by using Rapid Manufacturing to produce this series of exceptional Design goods. Our exclusive products are created through 3d printing, prototyping techniques - stereolithography and selective laser sintering - that offer almost unlimited freedom of design. Our aim is to unleash a new era of mass customised design . Our 15y experience with RP technology and software enables us to meet the customer's wildest dreams for mass-customised consumer products. With today's high-performance computed 3D softwares , systems and the increasing usage of unlimited e-communication we can undoubtedly fulfil our end user's design and manufacture requirements. .MGX operates both as a Service bureau and a Brand Collection, We provide solutions for other manufacturers, by producing individualized series of products for the design, art, fashion, interior, cosmetics and NSA architecture market.
Magics The Materialise software guides designers through their product development process. The CAD file of the design should first be transformed into a STL-file to make the use of rapid prototyping techniques accessible. Magics, our indoor developed software, turns the original file into an STL-file and offers a whole range of functions to correct any mistakes that may be created during the conversion. To assist with the preparation of files for the rapid prototyping process, Magics uses very advanced and automated functions. Magics is an indispensable software tool that helps to achieve high-quality rapid-prototyping objects.
26 July 2006
24 July 2006
Nifty display shelf
The "Illume" LED display shelf which lights up when you put something on it. There is a link to a video of it.
23 July 2006
Birds in Pictures
This is an extensive index of pictures of birds compiled by Mark Chappelle Professor & Vice Chair of Physiology, Evolutionary Biology at the University of California Riverside. Click on the name of a bird and get a large pic of it, such as this Mandarin Duck:
Tornado Illuminated by a Bolt of Lightning
This picture was taken by a Fred Smith several years ago in Melbourne Florida (vertified as real via National Weather Service Forecast Office).
Print A Plane
From NewScientistTech.com, comes an article about Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks project: a plane made from printed parts. While making an entire plane using this technology is new, the technology itself is not.
I was lucky enough to see a demonstration of this kind of tech way back in 2000 at the Specialty Equipment Manufacturer Association's (SEMA) show in Las Vegas with a company called Zcorp who had a printer there. They were there printing out parts using one of these printers, which is essentially an inkjet printer that instead of dispensing ink, dispenses a layer of material onto a platform that then lowers microscopically to allow the next layer to be built up until eventually you would get something like:
(A model of a Ford engine block with colored material used to illustrate stress or heat points)
At the time these models would then be made permanent with a resin bath. I am assuming that the Skunk Work one is using more advanced technology.
I was lucky enough to see a demonstration of this kind of tech way back in 2000 at the Specialty Equipment Manufacturer Association's (SEMA) show in Las Vegas with a company called Zcorp who had a printer there. They were there printing out parts using one of these printers, which is essentially an inkjet printer that instead of dispensing ink, dispenses a layer of material onto a platform that then lowers microscopically to allow the next layer to be built up until eventually you would get something like:
(A model of a Ford engine block with colored material used to illustrate stress or heat points)
At the time these models would then be made permanent with a resin bath. I am assuming that the Skunk Work one is using more advanced technology.
Meet Anna Konda
An article about Anna Konda, the robotic firefighter, a romobot that is powered by water from a firehose that imitates a snake, but has enough power to knock down walls to get into where it is needed, yet small and versatile enough to get to trapped miners to feed oxygen, etc.
12 July 2006
Neat Picture Composite
A neat interactive picture that is a composite of other pictures that themselves are composite of other pictures, in and endless loop. Rather neat!
10 July 2006
Robotany
If it looks like a tree, it must be a robot: Robotany is a collaborative whose focus is to combine nature and robotics. Breeze, the first installation of Robotany, is an ambient robot inhabiting the body of a japanese maple that can visually sense and react through 360 degrees, allowing her to reach out to you and others whenever you are near. This is not a dancing bush, the motion is subtle and artistic, and at the same time, surreal.
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