RealitySandwich - Tech

Where To Find Life Outside Earth

David Wilder — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:57:41 -0800

Dying stars could host life, which we might be able to detect within the next decade. This finding, reported by e! Science, comes from a new theoretical study of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars.

Researchers found that we could detect oxygen in a white dwarf's planet more easily than for an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star.

Printable 3D Ear

Hildemar — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:26:21 -0800

Birth of a Black Hole

Sarah Nicholls — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:44:03 -0800

Comparatively close to Earth, supernova remnant W49B offers astronomers the chance to examine an as yet little understood phenomenon. Harbouring the youngest black hole in our galaxy, the supernova exploded just 27,000 years ago.

Scientists Create Near-Living Crystal

Sarah Nicholls — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:42:15 -0800

Physicists at NYC University have this month published the results of their experiment on the lifelike behaviours of a newly-synthesized chemical compound. The scientists' aim was to investigate self-organizing collective behaviours such as those seen in flocks of birds and schools of fish. They stated that the goal of the work was “to study how complicated collective behaviors arise from simple individual properties."

Advanced Mind Mapping

David Wilder — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:34:01 -0800

Discover Magazine reports that a group of scientists are working on a brand new form of brain mapping. The $30 million Human Connectome Project will provide a model showing the main neural pathways that link the 500 major areas of the brain in an attempt to show how our biological hardwiring controls our mental activity.

Technology Conference Furthers Global Evolution

David Wilder — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:17:55 -0800

Campus Party is an annual week-long technology festival and LAN party. Thousands of hackers, developers, gamers, and geeks attend the conference, now hosted in multiple locations each year. Participants refer to themselves as Campuseros, and have created a community that yearns to reunite each year.

World's First 3D Photobooth

Sarah Nicholls — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:13:38 -0800

The Eye of Gyre, an art exhibition space in Tokyo’s Harajuku neighborhood, recently introduced the world’s first 3D photo booth. It is appropriately named the 3D Shashin-Kan, which literally translates to ‘3D Picture Space.'

What's Too Weird for Wired? My Predictions for 2013

Talat Jonathan Phillips — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:23:59 -0800

Life on Mars?

Arianna A Garofalo — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:29:07 -0800

Cheops: An Extraterrestrial Search

Osirian Dawn — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:19:41 -0800

A satellite by the name of Cheops, an acronym for Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite, is currently in the works by the European Space Agency to search for Earthlike planets and, possibily, otherworldly entities. Expected to launch in 2017, this ESA satellite will be

Designing for the Other 90%

Michael Sammet — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:14:07 -0700

Blueprints of Utopia

stefaniesara — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 04:58:42 -0700

In reponse to the Canal Istanbul project, NYC based designer, Dror, created HavAdda Island, a cybernetic-eco island whose innovative design is breaking heads open by pushing the practices of urban planning and architecture to utopic limits.

Geodesic Deconstruction

Hildemar — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:03:06 -0700

American architect, engineer, designer, inventor, and futurist Buckminster Fuller was best known for popularizing the geodesic dome. The domes are latticed shell structures with a network of circles on the surface that intersect to form triangular elements that have local triangular rigidity, and also distribute the stress across the structure. They are compact, efficient, and an intelligent design.

Nano Boost

Linda Maa — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:15:50 -0700

The Bio-Net

Jeffrey Fish — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:59:37 -0700

Researchers at Stanford University have engineered a biological messenger that connects cells to each other in much the same way that Wi-Fi transmitters connect personal computers. Scientists have modified a harmless virus, called M13, enabling it to package and distribute large amounts of cellular data. Just as computers utilize WiFi to send and receive information, with the help of M13, cells can now do the same thing.

Cyborg Monkeys

Osirian Dawn — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:29:32 -0700

Speak, Memory

Jeffrey Fish — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:03:04 -0700

In a recent study, researchers at Case Western University have discovered how to store different forms of artificial short-term memory in the isolated brain tissue of rats. These findings help to explain how short term memories are formed. Your ability to recall the melody of a song you just heard on the radio is an example of short-term declarative memory.

Ten Strikes You're Out

Faye Sakellaridis — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:12:54 -0700

[Action Alert] • The latest proposition threatening the way information is shared on the internet is the "Ten Strikes bill," a bill that proposes to redefine the the criminal acts of copyright violation by targeting streaming media, and establishes criminal penalties for copyright violation.

MeshNet: A Possible Uncensored Internet Alternative

Emory Mort — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:28:31 -0700

"Get out there, and help us build a way to freedom," says narrator Josh Harkema at the end of a 3-minute animated presentation of the MeshNet project. Still a dream in need of support, MeshNet (originally called the DarkNet) is intending to become "an alternative to the internet, with no centralized authority, making it impossible to censor or shut down."

Lasers Uncover the World

Kevin Fairbanks — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:27:23 -0700

Oh, for the love of lasers! When they're not busy animating our favorite concerts or annoying our pets, the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation serves far greater purposes. For the past half-century, lasers have aided in efficiency for countless areas of industry, medicine, and research. Now, the radiated light has spread to all corners of the world, driving discovery and teeming technology.

Air Fuel

a.k.a. Gainesy — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:50:14 -0700

Those of you who are around 25-30 years old and grew up in Britain may remember a kids TV show called Aquila. It was about two boys who found a small, pod-like alien craft that ran on air. Well, this type of vehicle, or at least power source, is finally here!

Start With Universe

David McConville — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:42:47 -0700

The following article is excerpted from A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All, from Divine Arts Media. Edited by L. Steven Sieden (2012).

Remote Viewing Institute Issues Grave Call to Mainstream Science

Emory Mort — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:55:15 -0700

The Farsight Institute, a non-profit organization focused on the scientific application of remote viewing, recently released a challenge to mainstream science: organize a tightly controlled, publicly viewable scientific display of the phenomenon of remote viewing in return for mainstream recognition of the validity of the phenomenon itself. And do it in the narrowing window of a vanishing 2012 timescape.

This Week in Tech

OddEdges — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:55:20 -0700

In This Week in Tech we celebrate the birthdays of Bucky Fuller and St Tesla, Edge releases their 2012 Summer reading list, designer beehives for urban environments, Ron Paul releases The Technology Revolution Manifesto, A Nobel laureate talks physics on the street, Neil DeGrasse Tyson vs summer movies, Scientists unite to protest ‘death’ of research, 3D printing blood vessels, digitizing your vinyl collection, introducing the Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality, synthetic biology as an open system for architectural design, enter the Internet Defense League, comics a

This Week in Tech

OddEdges — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:17:47 -0700

In This Week in Tech we check out the next paradigm shift: going from sustainable to evolveable, graphene captures light, NYC gets its Gamification on, Japan to boom with renewable energy, Kevin Kelly on the "Global Collectivist Society," RedLetterMedia decimates Prometheus, 3D printing the human body, Singularity University parties up, conscious stars vs dark matter, the gigapixel camera, the importance of being playful, and Alan Turing turns 100!

Flying without Fuel

stefaniesara — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:17:27 -0700

An experimental solar-powered airplane completed its first successful journey on June 5th: a 20-hour transcontinental flight from Madrid to Rabat, Morocco’s capital city.

Science Paradigms Set Aflame

Emory Mort — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:16:50 -0700

Opening on June 20 in Boulder, Colorado after receiving the highest number of submitted papers (48) in the history of the Society, the 31st Annual Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) Conference has been given the title “Bonfire of the Paradigms” by the Organization committee headed by Cornell-trained entomologist and current owner of a Florida bioelectromagnetics laboratory Dr. Thomas Dykstra.

BuckyBall Honors Paradigm Definers

Emory Mort — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:29:56 -0700

The Buckminster Fuller Institute awarded their 5th Annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge award and $100,000 to The Living Building Challenge, a Seattle-based NGO "building standard framework and certification program that is defining the highest possible level of environmental performance in the built environment." The award was presented as the finale to a day-long event hosted by the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design in New Yor

Living Computers Figured Out

Nathaniel Page — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:54:35 -0700

Dr. Takanari Inoue of Johns Hopkins Medical School has made a bunch of little computers with some of Henrietta Lacks’ old cancerous cervical cells.

A Lucid Dream Come True

Isaac Wynn — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:04:14 -0700