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A Glimpse Of How We’ll Use Our Land In 2051
It’s the year 2051. Welcome to a view of the American landscape. Urban areas have swollen with people. Range and pasturelands have shrunk. There’s a bit more forest than there was back in 2014, a result of economic incentives driving more timber production. These are a few of the predictions of a new study on…
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Train For Surgery Using Immersive 3D Holograms Of Corpses
Computer-generated models are starting to let researchers and students peer into the body without needing a real human stretched out before them. Virtual dissection tables have been built at places like Stanford and the University of Calgary. Now, http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/22078-students-virtually-dissect-hologram-like-3-d-cadaver computer scientists and biologists have taken the technology another step forward, using projectors, joysticks and 3-D…
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Reinventing The Printer With Rewriteable Paper And Water For Ink
For office workers concerned about cutting costs and environmental impacts, clicking the print button triggers an ongoing internal debate. Many people find reading words on a printed page to be a hard habit to break when the only alternative is reading them on glowing screen.
