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    British inventor sets jet suit record



    Published on 9 Nov 2017
    Richard Browning sets a world record for the fastest speed in a body controlled jet engine powered suit.

    'Iron man' flight sets first world record - BBC News
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBTdxGQnWTM
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technol...t-world-record
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    Well, that suit was certainly a great start.. but THIS... this will appeal to the masses who don't have supernatural core strength required for a jet suit.

    Quote Zapata Ezfly: The jet-powered aerial Segway anyone can fly

    The Zapata Ezfly looks for all intents and purposes like a Segway of the sky. You stand on a small platform equipped with a series of jet thrusters, holding two handgrips that come up from the base, then rise up into the air and zoom around, steering with your bodyweight.
    It builds on the platform of Franky Zapata's Flyboard Air, a green goblin-style flying platform with no Segway-style handgrips. The Flyboard Air, like the water-propelled Flyboard that started this whole venture for Zapata, straps you in at the boots, and requires an extraordinary amount of core strength and balance to operate – which its inventor most certainly has.

    Zapata has frequently been seen zooming around over waterways in Europe and the United States, testing and updating his invention, sometimes with the blessing of the authorities, sometimes without.

    The new Ezfly system is a dangerously disruptive idea, because it looks for all the world like it takes very little training to operate, so just about anyone could fly one. You don't strap your boots in, you just stand on the platform and hang onto the control sticks, pretty much like a three-dimensional Segway.
    In the above video, Zapata shows a testing session held last October somewhere in Texas, where no less than 10 pilots jumped aboard the Ezfly and took turns blasting about over the surface of a lake. Everyone seemed to be able to get the hang of it pretty quickly, and there were no incidents. Notably, a couple of the guys in the test team were wearing military gear, which would make sense, as it's no secret the US defence forces are highly interested in personal flight devices.

    In fact, the Ezfly looks like a vastly slimmed-down, much more powerful, jet propelled descendent of the Hiller Flying Platform, which was built in the 1950s and tested by the U.S. Army before eventually being abandoned.

    The fact that Zapata was willing to put a range of people on board suggests that the Ezfly has a bunch of built-in stability gear, as well as potentially an altitude/distance from base limiter. You could even feasibly have a drone-style remote control to bring back a wayward pilot in distress. We'd love to know more, but Zapata hasn't yet responded to our enquiries.

    One thing we can be fairly sure it doesn't have is an active safety system, because nothing of that nature really exists as yet.

    Ballistic parachute systems are well and good, but they don't have time to slow your fall if you're flying at altitudes of less than about 100 ft (30 m). By the time they've opened up, you're the shape and texture of a pizza. That's a problem everyone's dealing with in this new VTOL space, from the flying car guys to the Jetpack people – once you're way up in the air, ballistic chutes are handy to have, but between the ground and 100 feet, a system failure could be absolutely catastrophic.
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    Default Re: Technological advances that will directly affect you in the next 2 years

    Probably not quite what thread is about but sorta fits:

    Train Your Brain to Work Like Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt, & Top Navy SEALs

    http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/...avy-seals.html


    And couldn’t resist putting this one in from the human perspective – ironically if we all get outfitted with brain enhancements to achieve optimum “flow states” maybe we will be able to eliminate secrecy and gain full transparency after all by being genius hackers

    British 15-year-old gained access to intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be head of CIA, court hears

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    Not a flying car, but still very useful. (where's my damn flying car??)

    Quote The End Of Root Canals: Stem Cell Fillings Trigger Teeth To Repair Themselves, Research Study Claims
    Wouldn't it be great if your teeth could heal themselves without the need of a painful root canal?

    What if damaged teeth could heal themselves without the need of a root canal? Apparently, that’s what Harvard and the University of Nottingham are trying to figure out. They believe they can create stem cell stimulated fillings.

    Worldwide, dentists treat hundreds of millions of cavities each year by drilling out the decayed part of the tooth and replacing it with a filling. According to Popular Science, the problem is up to 15 percent of those procedures will fail, which will lead to a root canal to remove the tooth’s pulp, a soft tissue in the center of the tooth that contains blood vessels, nerves, and connective tissue. The downside is, following a root canal, the tooth’s strength is weaker and could eventually need to be removed.

    Adam Celiz is a therapeutic biomaterials researcher who believes that stem cells could help reduce the number of root canals and the need for dentures. Celiz and his team developed a new kind of filling that is made from stem cells that can help your tooth heal. Just like regular fillings, the biomaterial stem cells are injected into the tooth and hardened with ultra-violet light.

    “Existing dental fillings are toxic to cells and are therefore incompatible with pulp tissue inside the tooth. In cases of dental pulp disease and injury, a root canal is typically performed to remove the infected tissues. We have designed synthetic biomaterials that can be used similarly to dental fillings but can be placed in direct contact with pulp tissue to stimulate the native stem cell population for repair and regeneration of pulp tissue and the surrounding dentin. ‘Our approach has great promise to impact the dental field and this prize provides a great platform to develop this technology further with industrial partners.”

    Celiz believes that all fillings could be made of such regenerative material so that damaged teeth could heal themselves, which, in theory, would reduce the filling failures and could completely eliminate the need for root canals.
    The researchers believe that if used on a damaged tooth, those stem cells can repair the tooth. It would mimic a filling but would have a very low risk of rejection or failure. The easiest way to explain it is the tooth would heal itself, with the help of the stem cell biomaterial injection.

    According to Daily Mail, the research placed second in the materials category of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Emerging Technologies Competition in 2016. Applications were judged on the degree of innovation, the potential impact, and the quality of the science behind it.

    Many dentists aren’t sure if stem cells have a place in dentistry. They suggest additional research to prove (or disprove) its benefits.
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    Quote Well, that suit was certainly a great start.. but THIS... this will appeal to
    the masses who don't have supernatural core strength required for a jet suit.
    I want one of those machines would be great on my mail round...

    I also noticed the persistent trail above their heads....

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    I think this might be pivotal to crowd sourced media....

    Think of how much evidence can be collected by an individual wearing a 360* camera like this, the Vegas shooting's come to mind.....

    Quote This neckband records 360-degree video from your point of view

    When I first saw the Fitt360, all I could think of was how ridiculous it looked: it’s a lot like one of those chunky wireless earbud bands, except instead of having built-in headphones, it has three built-in cameras — arguably even worse, if we’re to take any privacy lessons from Google Glass. But after wearing a demo unit and watching some of the footage that came out of it, I have to admit I’m coming around. The footage it records is compelling to watch, even if wearing one does look a little weird.

    Fitt360 comes from Linkflow, a company that got its start inside Samsung’s C-Lab product incubator and has since been spun out into a standalone company. The 360-degree wearable camera is Linkflow’s first product. It’s been on Kickstarter for close to a month, but I just got a chance to use a working prototype. The prototype is a bit chunkier and less polished than the final product is supposed to be, but the main function — recording everything around you — already works.here’s something surprisingly engrossing about watching first person footage and seeing your own arms stretch out in front of you. You can watch recorded footage in a connected smartphone app (and then share it elsewhere; Linkflow is also planning a live-streaming function), swiping around to change the camera’s point of view or just moving the phone around in space as though it were your head. Because the cameras are worn around your neck, the footage all feels first-person, even when you aren’t looking in the direction the wearer was facing.

    Linkflow doesn’t envision the Fitt360 as something you’d wear day in and day out — it’s more for times when you’re a tourist, or out hiking, or anywhere you might want to take a lot of photos to remember where you were. Hiking is pretty ideal, since you don’t have to worry about making people uncomfortable by filming. You press a little button on the neckband to start and stop recording, and on the prototype unit, a green light came on to indicate it was filming.

    I asked Linkflow if they were worried about getting similar blowback to Google Glass, and the company’s CEO, Kevin Kim, said he thought the product would avoid bumping into those same issues because it has “blinking LED lights” that activate while recording. “We’ve actually had Fitt360 at multiple exhibitions and were stopped by a security guard who told us not to film,” Kim said in an emailed response. “So we believe that it is noticeable with the LED light on.”

    I only spent a few minutes wearing the neckband, but I found it comfortable enough. And because it has two little braces that slope inward, it gently hugs your neck in such a way that helps it stay in place and not bounce around. One word of warning though: if you have long hair, you’ll need to wear it up, or else you’ll end up covering the two rear lenses.



    Linkflow has posted a bit of Fitt360 footage to its Kickstarter page, and I was able to see some as I was wearing it around The Verge’s office. What I saw was on par with other 360-degree cameras: pixelated, blurry, with limited colors, poor dynamic range, and occasionally odd, cut off, and stretched out portions. But for all those issues, it’s still a joy to look through, for both the novelty of moving around in all directions and for the first-person experience. I don’t mean to say the image quality is awful, just that what it captures is a lot higher-quality in feeling than it is in resolution.

    The real test, and something I wasn’t able to thoroughly test in my office, is how well the Fitt360 deals with constant movement — if the footage is really bumpy, it’ll be nauseating to watch. The neckband does a good job of holding the cameras in place, and Linkflow seems to be applying some stabilization to the footage to smooth out the motion. It felt relatively natural looking at the footage streaming from around my neck.


    The product will be on Kickstarter through late next week. It’s already surpassed its goal several times over, having raised over $300,000 at this point in time. The product is expensive, though, even for a 360-degree camera: the early bird price is just under $400, and the retail price is supposed to be $600 when it launches later this year. Consumer 360-degree cameras tend to be around $300, though you can go much cheaper. Those cameras may not capture the first-person experience, but it might be worth trying them first to see just how much you enjoy 360-degree video.
    https://www.theverge.com/circuitbrea...ff-kickstarter


    I signed up for one on their kickstarter page
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    Well here's a future Olympic champ....

    Baby is a Pro on a Hoverboard



    Published on 19 Jan 2018
    One toddler is having the ride of her little life showing off her sweet hoverboard
    skills. Roxie, 11-months-old, can push herself forward, backward and spins around
    all while keeping her balance. She looks like a pro as she stands up on a
    hoverboard and goes around her parents’ living room. Unlike Mike Tyson, who
    famously fell off his hoverboard, Roxie has got the moves.


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    Scientific breakthrough: China tests own-made ice rover in Antarctica
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49WTJBiUq78
    Published on 13 Feb 2018
    The 34th Chinese scientific expedition team conducted research missions
    using its first self-developed ice rover in Antarctica.
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    Some interesting medical advancements

    Nanofibers Dramatically Improve Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration

    This one will be hugely beneficial to a certain population subset:
    By 2019, the first bionic kidney will discard the need for dialysis

    This isn't really tech based, but a fix for a "tech based" problem:
    Virus fished from pond cures man’s deadly antibiotic-resistant infection
    The clinical success suggests promising strategy for fighting antibiotic resistance.



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    Looking back at these after some time is always very interesting. Many of these things usually haven't make such a big impact as expected, but some did... For example I would never thought how fast is going nanotechnology make a leap from laboratory to entire industries. Its awesome to be able to buy every day products enhanced with these materials.

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    This one seems pretty amazing... I wonder just how expensive it is to manufacture...


    Quote ALON - Transparent Aluminum - is a ceramic composed of Aluminium, Oxygen and Nitrogen. Transparent Aluminum, was once pure science fiction, a technical term used in a Star Trek Movie from the 80’s. In the movie Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home, Captain Kirk and his team, go back in time to acquire 2 whales from the past and transport them back to the future. Scotty needed some materials to make a holding tank for whales on his ship, but had no money to pay for the materials, So Scotty uses his knowledge of 23 third century technology and the manufacturers computer and programs in, how to make the Transparent Aluminum Molecule. Transparent Aluminum or Aluminum Oxynitride, also known as ALON, is much stronger than Standard Glass and over time will become cheaper to make, but until then will most likely be used for NASA & the Military.
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    Finally a very useful practical application for 3d printing



    Someone could open a custom part shop with this technique; hell, I'm tempted!
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    Uhhh.. I want more videos like this... INGENIOUS FORMAT!!!



    when they got to the graduate and professional level i learned a LOT about the current state of quantum computing... thigns I had never even heard before.... awesome!
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    Glad YOU could understand about the Quantum Computing, TargeT!

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    Quote Posted by Foxie Loxie (here)
    Glad YOU could understand about the Quantum Computing, TargeT!
    the video didn't help?

    at the very core, instead of a binary system (1 and 0) we will use a language that can be 1, zero, or both.. this super positioning makes for some very interesting possibilities, but the very first one will be mundaine: rapid computing.

    The parts I learned about were concerned with error correction and how the Qbits do not retain a state for very long.. from what I heard we are a bit further away from this being a proven tech than I originally thought.
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    So the Q bits are the basis of this type of computing....not the 1's & 0's?? Next question.....why do we NEED Quantum Computing?

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    Quote Posted by Foxie Loxie (here)
    So the Q bits are the basis of this type of computing....not the 1's & 0's?? Next question.....why do we NEED Quantum Computing?
    Yes the Qbits are the basis, they are basically super conductive material that can be put into different state through various manipulation methods (directed microwaves, very very cold environment etc...). so instead of a transistor that can be "on or off" (1 or 0) you have a Qbit, which has way more interesting properties, and more possibilities.

    as to the why, well the simplest way to say it is this:
    Binary computers have very fixed limitations in how they can "compute", quantum computers over come those limitations (I'm sure we will find it also has it's own set of limitations).

    but it's a bit more complex (and cool!) than that statement leads one to think.
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    I like to think of quantum computing as more like analog computing, versus the digital computing that has and continues to dominate.

    That rule of thumb, analog vs digital, is sufficient to, correctly, infer that quantum computing has a good chance of breaking public-key crypto based on prime number factorization or elliptic curves, but is useless for breaking hash (aka message digest) based problems, such as at the heart of Bitcoin. Close (i.e. analog) counts in hand grenades, horse shoes, and those two kinds of public key crypto. Close doesn't count in hashing: off by a bit, off by a mile, by design.

    Fortunately, there are some public key crypto algorithms being researched that look like they will not be vulnerable to quantum computing.

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    More importantly, I sense that quantum computing, like artificial intelligence (AI), is being hyped as a controversial danger, with the effect of dividing us along another fracture line and instilling fear, distrust and confusion in us, while convincing most of us that we must defer to the "experts", because we are not capable of making sense of this ourselves.

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    Paul could you explain what hashing is please.
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    Quote Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
    Paul could you explain what hashing is please.
    Hashing is mapping chunks of data, of any length, to fixed length numbers, such that if a single bit of the input data changes, then randomly about half of the output, fixed length, number changes.

    For example, using the MD5 hash, as computed on the website: http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php, the 128 bit output MD5 hashes of the two three ASCII character strings Mon and Moo (which differ by only the single, low order, bit) are:
    Mon: fd29458ae58ac32a2d8734ed90ad51ec
    Moo: 8889740bf1ca26aaca1ec55a80a99d27
    One bit of input, from Mon to Moo, changed, and a whole bunch of the output 128 bits changed.

    The key work required of bitcoin miners is to find a way, by adding a few extra random bits that they get to guess, to get a proposed next block for the blockchain that has several leading zero bits. It's a lottery guessing game. One just has to keep making random guesses of the extra bits, until you happen on a block that has a hash that passes the leading zero bits test.
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    Default Re: Technological advances that will directly affect you in the next 2 years

    All I know is I had to invent my own base 18 numbering so I could fit all the code of my "running stick figure man" onto my 128K Apple 11C that actually only had an operating system that controlled 64K of it....
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