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TUTORIAL FUMEFX PLUGINS ESPAÑOL CASTELLANO
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Friday, February 5, 2010
Try, Catch, Repeat / Sukio
::sukio::gallery
'Here I created data transfer tools, a C++ custom ICE node to read flow information and advect particles and also animated the bubble centerpiece. This started as a personal project with an early beta of ICE and was later adapted for the Psst!PassItOn piece. For the second shot I created the simulation software." Andreas Felix Gebhardt
Sukio http://www.sukio.de/gallery.htm
Creating the Bionic arm
Watch on You Tube:
CBS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rloSSqiUCM
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The DEKA Arm
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The DEKA Arm
Affectionately dubbed “Luke” (after Luke Skywalker),
the robotic arm is a DARPA funded project intended to restore functionality for individuals
with upper extremity amputations. The project is still in development..
"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is." -Dean Kamen
Time
read more:
ReWalk Bionic Legs
February 04, 2010 Ground-breaking robotic legs help paraplegics walk again.
Watch on You Tube
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Imaging Imagine
Might be called Minimal Brain Activity yet a great discovery allowing communication beyond what was known.
The first scan at the CBU, 2005
read more:
Dr Adrian Owen
Think tennis for yes, home for no: how doctors helped man in vegetative state
BBC News Vegetative state
Vegetative state patients can respond to questions by Fergus Walsh
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
AIR SWIMMING
Air Swimming
Heckpartie mit 3D Fin Ray® Struktur
When they are not, it is just a "yet" as a day comes which reveals Nature had done it before.
But sadly, the main characteristics attached to human's inventivity are force, colossal amounts of energy and, mutatis mutandis, poor results.
What we have here is beautiful not (only) in terms of aesthetics but mainly in terms of grace, fluidity, smoothness...
A truely amazing invention in its proper sense: taking us out of the maze, freeing minds and, probably enriching the brain with non-violent neuronal connections.
Will these air penguins be one day manned?
Let us dream they will...
So smooth it could be named human fin.
3D Wallpapers a Gogo
Research Google 3D Desktop Wallpapers (1600 x 1200)
BLACK and WHITE 3d desktop wallpapers
GREEN 3d desktop wallpapers
PURPLE 3d desktop wallpapers
BLOGS / SITES
Smashing Apps
Nerd Business Blog
Collection of Wallpapers
Desktop - 3d Wallpapers
Hongkiat.com
Blog.Exxcorpio
Acris Design
40 - 3D wallpapers to spice your desktop
Free Desktop Walpapers
http://www.freedesktopwallpapers.net/3d-wallpapers.shtml
Digital Blasphemy
http://digitalblasphemy.com/
Nasa / Images Gallery
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/oco/multimedia/wallpaper.html
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/wallpaper/index.cfm
Wallpapers Jootix
Space: New Desktop Wallpapers
Free Desktop Walpapers
http://www.freedesktopwallpapers.net/3d-wallpapers.shtml
Digital Blasphemy
http://digitalblasphemy.com/
Nasa / Images Gallery
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/oco/multimedia/wallpaper.html
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/wallpaper/index.cfm
Wallpapers Jootix
Space: New Desktop Wallpapers
and yours?
Monday, February 1, 2010
Tricking your Brain at will
Tricking your Brain at will
We had seen this rotating figure some time a go. In fact she was perceived moving clockwise and/ or counter clockwise according to... what? the angle, your mood? This time the side color figures induce an immediate changement... Is you brain tricked or tricking?
Dancing Robots
Silly dance on silly music but the robots are amazing
A robot dance demonstration of the wondergirls' hit "nobody", made by my colleague Yongchul Lee, KAIST,South Korea. jcbazin youtube.com
Saturday, January 30, 2010
A TRUELY AMAZING FIND
A truely amazing find
The truely amazing part of this astonishing object is indeed the fork.
In Europe, the fork, originally bi-spiked, was invented in the XVI th century answering the necessity of sparing the wide ruffs from food stains.
There was no way to spare the immaculate collars eating with fingers.
The fork was born...
This three spiked roman fork is not only an important discovery but shows the evidence of very elaborated, refined, modern culture.
DAILY MAIL
The Roman Army Knife: Or how the ingenuity of the Swiss was beaten by 1,800 years.
"The world's first Swiss Army knife' has been revealed - made 1,800 years before its modern counterpart.An intricately designed Roman implement, which dates back to 200AD, it is made from silver but has an iron blade. It features a spoon, fork as well as a retractable spike, spatula and small tooth-pick.Experts believe the spike may have been used by the Romans to extract meat from snails."Read more:
The Roman Army Knife: Or how the ingenuity of the Swiss was beaten by 1,800 years.
"The world's first Swiss Army knife' has been revealed - made 1,800 years before its modern counterpart.An intricately designed Roman implement, which dates back to 200AD, it is made from silver but has an iron blade. It features a spoon, fork as well as a retractable spike, spatula and small tooth-pick.Experts believe the spike may have been used by the Romans to extract meat from snails."Read more:
Friday, January 29, 2010
Reaching for the Moon / Robert Richards
Reaching for the Moon
"Odyssey Moon CEO Robert Richards talks about the new wave of space exploration and his pursuit of the Google Lunar X PRIZE. Courtesy CNN." Giomexx
Image Credit: NASA
CNN (Biography): Robert Richards
Bob Richards: B-LOG
Twitter Bob_Richards
You Tube Giomexx
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Organic Ballet
"The Inner Life of a Cell, an three-minute animation created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects for Harvard biology students, wont draw the kind of box office crowds that more ferocious˜and furrier˜digital creations did last Christmas. But it will share a place along side them in SIGGRAPH's Electronic Theatre show, which will run for three days during the 33rd annual exhibition and conference in Boston next month. Created by XVIVO, a scientific animation company near Hartford, CT, the animation illustrates unseen molecular mechanisms and the ones they trigger, specifically how white blood cells sense and respond to their surroundings and external stimuli." kovahk
Youtube:Kovahk BioVisions The Inner Life of the Cell
Dinosaur's colour discovered for first time...
A reconstruction of two Sinosauropteryx, sporting their orange and white striped tails. Scientists discovered their colour by studying microscopic structures inside fossilied .feathers.
Article by David Derbyshire
Read moreArticle by David Derbyshire
Dailymail.co.uk Dinosaur's colour discovered for first time... and it was GINGER
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Genetics as Fireworks
A team led by Michael Costanzo at the University of Toronto, Canada, has produced a map of all of the interactions between the genes in a yeast cell. Yeast cells are useful models for scientists working on genetic diseases and discovering new drugs. The map is published in the journal Science.
The Multiple Reincarnation of Frank Zappa
The Multiple Reincarnation of Frank Zappa
"French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways."
"For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape." by BarbicanLondon
Barbican http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=9713
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Haïti: remote efficiency
Haïti: remote efficiency
- OpenStreetMap is a Creative Commons project, sort of geographic Wiki.
- The members of this open community reacted promptly by drawing the precise map of the catastrophy.
- This map is updated in real time.
- Yellow crosses indicate the streets blocked by obstacles.
- Yellow crosses on red background are the collapsed buildings.
- White tents on a red background are the camps of survivors.
- Rescue teams and NGOs on the ground are using Garmin GPS .
- Hundreds of surfers immediately started a real ant work , designing the city's map using satellite imagery provided by Yahoo and by GeoEye (the company that provides Google Earth) and updated after the earthquake.
- It only took a few hours to members of the free mapping community to respond.
Haïti Crisis Map
Bostom Faces of Haiti (The Big Pictures)
Historical Browser Statistics
Historical Browser Statistics
via michaelvandaniker.com
"For the beta release of Axiis I prepared a visualization showing the historical browser breakdown of visitors to W3schools.com. Since then I’ve enhanced it a bit, adding the ability to filter by browser type, and Tom lent his artistic eye and did a little restyling. Although the number of Axiis tutorials out there is growing steadily, there are still very few, so I’ll dive deep and explain exactly how this visualization works..." by Michael.
Michael VanDaniker Visualizing Historic Browser Statistics with Axiis
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Nasa's cool electric air bike
Nasa's cool electric air bike
Since Jules Verne invented the genre, Science Fiction has tried to anticipate our future, in an attempt to forward what life might become.
From the early stage, autonomous individual flight was a major speculation and a strong fantasy. Now we see this sort of manned drone which is altogether, a paradox and a paradigm.
From the early stage, autonomous individual flight was a major speculation and a strong fantasy. Now we see this sort of manned drone which is altogether, a paradox and a paradigm.
Youtube NASA Puffin Low Noise, Electric VTOL Personal Air Vehicle
WIRED NASA’s Puffin Is Way Cooler Than a Jetpack article by Jason Paur
WIRED NASA’s Puffin Is Way Cooler Than a Jetpack article by Jason Paur
Youtube (kitt2591) Airwolf startup sequence shorter version
Scientific American Electric Icarus: NASA Designs a One-Man Stealth Plane
Boeing V-22 Osprey: http://www.boeing.com/rotorcraft/military/v22/index.htm
Boeing V-22 Osprey: http://www.boeing.com/rotorcraft/military/v22/index.htm
Nick Veasey: Exposing the invisible
We have seen those X ray pictures for quite some time now.
They were (and still are) very impressive and sought many a comment on how it was done, including the redundant nevrotic "photoshopped" supposingly explaining everything and sounding as stupid as the "there is a trick" when watching magic or "my son could do better" contemplating modern art.
Well here is the whole explaination by the author and once again, reality is beyond fiction... Enjoy!
Take a tour to look at this post with interactive transcript by TED
Well here is the whole explaination by the author and once again, reality is beyond fiction... Enjoy!
Take a tour to look at this post with interactive transcript by TED
Nick Veasy X-RAY http://www.nickveasey.com/ (About news Contact Work)
Friday, January 22, 2010
Acoustic Levitation Chamber
Acoustic Levitation Chamber
"This is an acoustic levitation chamber I designed and built in 1987 as a micro-gravity experiment for NASA related subject matter.
The 12 inch cubed plexiglas Helmholtz Resonant Cavity has 3 speakers attached to the cube by aluminium acoustic waveguides.
By applying a continuous resonant(600Hertz) sound wave, and by adjusting the amplitude and phase relationship amongst the 3 speakers; I was able to control levitation and movement in all 3 (x,y,z) axis of the ambient space.
This research was used to show the effects of micro-gravity conditions that exist in the space shuttle environment in orbit, but done here on Earth in a lab.
This is not "anti-gravity." So don't waste time arguing something pointless. ...drdeak"
- How Acoustic Levitation Works Howstuffworks.com
- "Acoustic levitation is a method for suspending matter in a medium by using acoustic radiation pressure from intense sound waves in the medium. Acoustic levitation is possible because of the non-linear effects of intense sound waves." wikipedia.org
- Acoustic Levitation: Scientists Use Sound Make Objects Levitate huffingtonpost.com
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Bioloid goes climbing - climbing process
Bioloid goes climbing - climbing process
"Kinematic system that operates just by getting a new target position (inverse kinematics) everything else is done autonomously. This demonstration has 4 different target positions only and it shows the system's accuracy even at a very high speed.
This is part of an autonomous system that first looks for possible ways up a climbing wall (according to the abilities of the robot and to physical constraints) and after placing the robot at the start position of the chosen path the robots climbs up just by knowing the x/y-positions of the grips.
The final scenario will be a bioloid looking at the wall using an onboard vision system, detecting marked grips, calculating the best way up, walking to the start position and climbing up the wall, totally autonomously..."shirtrockers
Bioloid goes climbing - Part 2 - kinematics
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