http://youtu.be/C-5ndhmec7k A simple square of glass may hold the key to the vexing problem of storing data indefinitely. Developed by Hitachi, the technology prints a binary series of dots upon a sliver of quartz glass which can then be easily read with a common microscope. It sounds simple enough, and that is exactly the point... Continue Reading →
NASA’s Spitzer Telescope Brings 360˚ View of Galaxy to Our Fingertips
http://youtu.be/zAtnBzDZvsk Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA's new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thursday at the TEDActive 2014 Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The star-studded panorama of our galaxy is constructed from more than 2 million infrared snapshots taken over the past 10 years by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.... Continue Reading →
Augmented Reality Gaming : Sulon’s GVX console to project ‘Xtreme Reality’ game environments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZNYNHc_m1o&feature=youtu.be Sulon Technologies is working on an ambitious Android-based HMD console for virtual reality and augmented reality gaming. The company is creating a platform capable of generating dynamic game environments based on the player’s physical environment. The video above is of course just a concept video, but it shows what Sulon is aiming for with... Continue Reading →
Juice Rap News – The Energy Crisis
http://youtu.be/Q_xI_8aLjds Like others that preceded us, our "civilisation" faces an Energy Crisis, one that threatens to bring an end to our brief joyride since the industrial revolution. And yet, our dirty little secret is seldom mentioned in the news, let alone connected to economic instability or to environmental effects on our planet. It falls to... Continue Reading →
The Future Of How We Watch Television Is In The Hands Of The Supreme Court
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHOlt7ZH1DU Television — or, at least, the experience of watching broadcast shows on a television — is not the wave of the future. The television ratings company Nielsen classifies nearly 5 million households as “Zero-TV,” meaning that they either have no television or that they use it only for DVDs, games and other activities unlike... Continue Reading →
Apple launches ‘Better’ environmental campaign with Tim Cook-narrated video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdeVaT-zZt4 "Better. It's a powerful word, and a powerful ideal," Cook says to open the video. "It makes us look at the world and want more than anything to change it for the better. To innovate, improve, to reinvent. To make it better." Cook goes on to say that the Cupertino, Calif. company is looking... Continue Reading →
Protesters Sneak Into The Guggenheim & Make It Rain
http://youtu.be/LHphhnZhtNY The scene at Manhattan’s Guggenheim Museum on pay-as-you-wish evening this Saturday was soggy. Throngs of damp visitors, having been undeterred by the spring rainstorm and block-long line, mingled on the spiraling ramps for the museum’s exhibit of Italian Futurist art. Suddenly, a bell clanged, and a moment later, thousands of colorful slips of paper... Continue Reading →