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10:30AM Chris Oaten | What’s that movie where they worked out a way to grab an image from your brain or your retina or somesuch and thus possibly determine the last person you saw, who was probably your murderer? Well, scientists have actually figured out how to do this. Kinda. More »
What’s On Your Mind? Give Us A Peek
10:30AM Chris Oaten | What’s that movie where they worked out a way to grab an image from your brain or your retina or somesuch and thus possibly determine the last person you saw, who was probably your murderer? Well, scientists have actually figured out how to do this. Kinda. More »
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A Pack Of Canadians Claim They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion, Cheap
10:00AM Adrian Covert | Vancouver-based startup General Fusion has been running around claiming they can build a nuclear fusion reactor in the next 10 years for under a billion dollars. And some anonymous futurists just gave them 9 million dollars for their troubles. More »
Robots
In The Future, Robots Will Tell You How To Do Stuff, Silently Judge
11:30AM Adrian Covert | Pop Sci has a neat video of the Teamworkbot, a robot who can watch you attempt to carry out a task, then offer help when you’re doing it wrong. But I won’t lie…when you fail, Teamworkbot seems pretty intimidating. More »
Cameras
Researchers Cram A Camera Into A Sheet Of Fiber
11:30AM Adrian Covert | Another day, another innovation from MIT researchers. This time, it’s a camera built in the middle of a 25mm fibre sheet, which might be the coolest invention we will never use (save for an appearance in Splinter Cell 10). More »
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RF Cochlea Is A Super-Powered Signal Processor Modeled After The Inner Ear
2:30PM Adrian Covert | RF signal processors are pretty commonplace in consumer electronics. Which is exactly why it’s exciting that two MIT researchers have created a super-radio based around the function of the human ear that’s substantially faster and 100x more power efficient than today’s signal processors. More »
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