Watch your video on paper

Promise of low-cost paper-based EW devices for video rate flexible e-paper on paper.

Electrowetting on Paper for Electronic Paper Display - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (ACS Publications)

The use of paper as a material for various device applications (such as microfluidics and energy storage) is very attractive given its flexibility, versatility, and low cost. Here we demonstrate that electrowetting (EW) devices can be readily fabricated on paper substrates.

Results indicate the promise of low-cost paper-based EW devices for video rate flexible e-paper on paper.

BBC News - Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang'

BBC News - Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang'

The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a "mini-Big Bang" by smashing together lead ions instead of protons.
The scientists working at the enormous machine on Franco-Swiss border achieved the unique conditions on 7 November.
The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun.

BBC News - Hologram messaging coming of age

BBC News - Hologram messaging coming of age

STREAMING HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGES IN NEAR-REALTIME

A University of Arizona team says it has devised a system that can make a holographic display appear in another place and update it in near real-time.

It's a good start now let's see how long it takes before (if ever) it becomes mainstream.

Related link: Magazine Nature

BBC News - Miniature livers 'grown in lab'

BBC News - Miniature livers 'grown in lab'

Scientists have managed to produce a small-scale version of a human liver in the laboratory using stem cells.

The success increases hope that new transplant livers could be manufactured, although experts say that this is still many years away.

The team from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center presented its findings at a conference in Boston.

MIT's new paper chase: Cheap solar cells | Green Tech - CNET News

MIT's new paper chase: Cheap solar cells | Green Tech - CNET News

MIT showed prototypes of paper solar cells able to generate enough current to light a small LED display. A commercial solar paper device could be available in five years, said chemical engineering professor Karen Gleason, whose lab is doing the work.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20019885-54.html#ixzz12oep383v

World's first pedal-powered ornithopter takes flight in Canada • The Register

World's first pedal-powered ornithopter takes flight in Canada • The Register

Canadian enthusiasts have finally achieved a feat that has eluded humanity's finest engineers since the time of Leonardo da Vinci - to build a machine, powered by a human pilot's muscles, which flies by flapping its wings: an ornithopter.

The ornithopter is the culmination of decades of effort at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) which has long studied flapping-wing flight and encouraged many of its students to work towards a human-powered example. The Institute's Professor James DeLaurier won an FAI “Diplôme d’Honneur” as long ago as 1991 for developing the world's first remotely-piloted, engined ornithopter.

Links: http://hpo.ornithopter.net/

New Supercomputer 'Sees' Well Enough to Drive a Car Someday

Navigating our way down the street is something most of us take for granted; we seem to recognize cars, other people, trees and lampposts instantaneously and without much thought. In fact, visually interpreting our environment as quickly as we do is an astonishing feat requiring an enormous number of computations -- which is just one reason that coming up with a computer-driven system that can mimic the human brain in visually recognizing objects has proven so difficult.

Link: Eugenio Culurciello's e-Lab
Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100915171544.htm

Cisco wil realtime-vertaling tijdens videobellen mogelijk maken | Electronics | Tweakers.net Nieuws

Cisco werkt aan technologie die het mogelijk moet maken om gesproken woord tijdens een videoconferentie in realtime te vertalen. In het lab zijn de eerste proeven geslaagd. De fabrikant probeert nu het achterliggende systeem te verfijnen.

Cisco wil realtime-vertaling tijdens videobellen mogelijk maken | Electronics | Tweakers.net Nieuws

Fibers That Can Hear and Sing: Fibers Created That Detect and Produce Sound

ScienceDaily (July 12, 2010) — For centuries, "man-made fibers" meant the raw stuff of clothes and ropes; in the information age, it's come to mean the filaments of glass that carry data in communications networks. But to Yoel Fink, an Associate professor of Materials Science and principal investigator at MIT's Research Lab of Electronics, the threads used in textiles and even optical fibers are much too passive. For the past decade, his lab has been working to develop fibers with ever more sophisticated properties, to enable fabrics that can interact with their environment.

Source: SienceDaily http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100712115106.htm