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This a demonstration of a device (already in commercialization) that can decipher nerve impulses created by thought and translate them into speech. The video below is the first ‘telepathic’ phone call. I would expect to be shown something like this, but I just found it:
And those same voice signals have been processed into directions for [...]
Biotopes (Interactive Bar) (2004: Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman with the production of Ars Electronica Futurelab) is an interactive installation for cafe-like social venues. The Biotopes Interactive Bar forms the natural habitat of a species of creatures that exhibits a unique pattern of social behavior. When someone touches the surface of their virtual terrarium, these [...]
As the Manhattan project neared completion of ‘the gadget‘, a classified research project determined whether the nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere would ignite and turn earth into a giant fireball. I’ve only recently been made aware of it, and I’d like to share. My favorite passage is
A graph that means ‘we won’t all die’ is [...]
Except for the first image, these were found in “Building a Nano-factory” by Tihamer Toth-Fejel. The first image is an early famous display of arranged Xenon atoms. Yes, I said atoms.
The girl at 2:01 IS AMAZING. But the third girl wins the “most transfigured face” award. But at 2:55 we see the “most clearly passed out” winner…
GIZMO
by Howard Smith Here we have perhaps the funniest collection of old footage I ever did see. It features many many hilarious people with their inventions, sideshow talents, and advice. The deepest desires of science are here revealed by a load of enthusiastic crackpots.
This movie is a collection of stories of people obsessed by [...]
On physweb.org today…
Some physicists are uncomfortable with the idea that all individual quantum events are innately random. This is why many have proposed more complete theories, which suggest that events are at least partially governed by extra “hidden variables”. Now physicists from Austria claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a broad class [...]
‘Chord Geometries‘, developed by Dmitri Tymoczko, is a mathematical model to spatially represent the position of individual tones within 3d space. It works best with the ordered progression of chords within classical music. Below is rendered output from the visualization program he developed. It has been fed the opening of Chopin’s E minor prelude:
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