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    Default Re: Technological advances that will directly affect you in the next 2 years

    And on the opposite side of the spectrum:

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    The darkest material on Earth has become even darker
    There is none more black than the new Vantablack.




    When Surrey NanoSystems introduced the original Vantablack, the company said the carbon nanotube material is capable of absorbing 99.96 percent of light that touches it. It's so dark, it can fool your eyes into seeing a smooth surface even when the nanotubes were actually grown on crumpled foil (seriously -- watch the video below the fold). Well, the new version of Vantablack is darker than that. In fact, Surrey can't even give us the percentage of light that gets absorbed, because its spectrometers can't measure it.

    In this video below (and the GIF above), you can see the material engulf the laser pointer in darkness when it moves across:


    ..........
    Vantablack has a lot of potential applications, especially in the military and space sector. It could, for instance, be used to coat stealth vehicles. A team of Utah State University researchers found a rather novel use for it, though. They used the material to create an extremely absorbent urinal cake -- a black hole that sucks in your pee.
    http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/05/vantablack-2/

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    I think it's going to be hard to get used to how fast technology will be changing soon... a 1000x improvement in memory storage is a pretty big jump..

    Quote Hard disk drive and SSD makers are about to wow the storage market again
    Hard disk drive (HDD) and solid-state drive (SSD) makers are about to wow the storage market again.

    This year, Intel and Micron will introduce 3D XPoint memory, also known as Optane, which will increase performance and durability 1,000-fold over today's NAND flash.

    Don't count NAND flash out. While the Optane chip and other resistive memory technologies coming down the pike may result in storage-class memory that could replace costly DRAM for many applications, it won't be cheap for a long while. That leaves the door open for continued NAND flash advances.

    Enter 3D NAND flash, which Samsung, Intel/Micron, Toshiba and others believe will continue to grow capacity and tamp down prices. Eventually, 3D NAND will even convince consumers that SSDs can be as affordable as HDDs.

    "Very soon flash will be cheaper than rotating media," said Siva Sivaram, executive vice president of memory at SanDisk.

    Meanwhile, Seagate has demonstrated its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) for HDDs, which will enable data densities of more than 10 trillion (10Tbits) per square inch. That's 10 times higher than the areal density in today's highest density HDDs. Seagate expects to work with equipment makers in 2017 to demonstrate HAMR products for data center applications, and in 2018 the company expects to begin shipping HAMR drives to broader markets.

    These recent technology advances are just the latest chapter in the long story of ever-growing storage needs forcing innovations to meet the new demand.

    Storage is always up against a wall

    When HDD companies faced capacity limits in the early 2000s, Toshiba and Seagate flipped data bits from lying flat on a platter to standing up side-by-side. The change from longitudinal to perpendicular magnetic recording increased HDD capacity by as much as 10 times.

    When the HDD industry again faced capacity limits in 2013, Seagate overlapped data tracks like roof shingles, increasing capacity by 25%; then in 2014, HGST introduced helium filled drives, boosting capacity by 50%.

    In the non-volatile memory industry, the same kind of advances have occurred to blow past capacity limits. Single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash became mult-level (MLC) NAND, where instead of one bit per transistor, two and three bits were stored. When MLC NAND faced its limits with the sub-10 nanometer (nm) lithography process, Samsung introduced 3D NAND flash, a move quickly followed by Intel/Micron and Toshiba, which stacked NAND cells up to 48-layers high. Flash manufacturers believe there's no limit in sight to how high they may climb.
    NAND flash skyscrapers to grow beyond 100 stories

    From the first iteration, 3D NAND flash technology offered from two to 10 times higher reliability and twice the write performance of planar NAND.

    Most importantly, however, 3D NAND removed the lithography barrier planar (single-level NAND flash) faced as manufacturers shrunk transistors below 15 nanometers in size. The smaller lithography process led to data errors as bits (electrons) leaked between thin-walled cells.

    "The big deal is you're not building these [3D NAND] skyscrapers one floor at a time. We know how to go from 24 layers to 36 layers to 48 layers to 64 layers and so on," said Sivaram. "There are no physics limitations to this. What we now have in 3D NAND is a predictable scaling for three and four generations -- something we never had before."

    Currently, Samsung, SanDisk and its partner Toshiba and Intel and its partner Micron have been able to create 48-layer 3D NAND, which can store 256Gbits (32GB) in a single chip. While Samsung is the only company mass producing the 48-layer chips, all of the others are planning product launches soon.

    anDisk, Sivaram said, is already planning for 3D NAND chips with more than 100 layers.

    "We don't see a natural limit to how high we can go. If I went around and asked how high can we go, [NAND manufacturers] won't tell me we can take it to 96 or 126 layers, and there's a physical limit there," Sivaram said. "This has been our dream for a long time."

    While factories to build 3D NAND are vastly more expensive than plants that produce planar NAND or HDDs -- a single plant can cost $10 billion -- Sivaram argued that over time they'll scale down in cost as adoption ramps up.
    Pricing is key

    While enterprises and consumers alike love capacity -- more is better -- price most often determines adoption.

    Intel and its development partner Micron are working on what may be a game changer in the non-volatile flash industry: the Optane chip -- known internally at Intel as 3D XPoint.

    While Intel has released little information about what Optane will be, most industry experts believe it is a form of resistive RAM.

    A two-layer depiction of Intel's and Micron's 3D XPoint (also known as Optane) chip resistive RAM architecture. It removes the need for bit-storing transistors and instead uses a latticework of wires that use electrical resistance to signify a 1 or a 0.
    Resistive RAM (ReRAM) is able to perform read and write operations using 50 to 100 times less power than NOR flash, which makes it perfect for mobile devices -- even wearables.

    ReRAM is based on the "memory resistor" concept, also called memristor. The term memristor was coined by University of California-Berkeley scientist Leon Chua in the early 1970s.

    Until memristor, researchers knew of only three basic circuit elements -- the resistor, the capacitor and the inductor. Memristor, which consumed far less energy and offered far greater performance than previous technologies, was the fourth.

    Currently, the only company shipping ReRAM products is Adesto Technologies. It recently introduced a new conductive bridging RAM (CBRAM) memory chip for battery-operated or energy-harvesting electronics used in the Internet of Things (IoT) market.

    A microscopic sideview photo of a Resistive RAM circuit where tiny conductive filaments crisscross and connect silicon layers to represent a bit of data.
    In contrast, Intel plans to ship its Optane drives for enthusiast PC users this year. Jointly developed with Micron, the new Optane drives are expected to be 10 times denser than DRAM, and on paper are 1,000 times faster and more durable than NAND flash-based SSDs.

    With one thousand times the endurance of NAND, Optane drives will offer one million erase-write cycles, meaning the new memory would last pretty much forever.

    "It's not as fast as DRAM, so it's not going to replace it in the most latency-valued applications, but it's much higher density and much lower latency than NAND," Russ Meyer, Micron's director of process integration, said in an earlier interview with Computerworld. "If you compare how much faster SSDs are to hard drives and how much faster 3D XPoint is to conventional NAND, it's kind of the same order of improvement," Meyer said.

    Intel has demonstrated Optane drives operating at about seven times the speed of its current SSDs.

    This year, Intel also plans on releasing Optane drives for servers based on its new Skylake processor.

    Along with Optane SSDs, the ReRAM technology is expected to come as DIMMs that plug into memory slots.

    Alan Chen, a senior research manager at DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, said that even if Intel's Xpoint ReRAM technology enters the consumer PC marketplace this year, its use will be limited to the highest-end products due to cost.

    "Optane's impact on the SSD market will be determined by its pricing. Currently, Optane products are still more expensive than the mainstream NAND flash-based counterparts. Hence, they will initially affect just the high-end SSD market," Chen said.

    Last year, Hewlett-Packard and SanDisk also announced an agreement to jointly develop "Storage Class Memory" (SCM) ReRAM that could replace DRAM and would be 1,000 times faster than NAND flash.Knowm's memristors are designed to mimic human brains, in which a synapse connects two neurons. Those neurons get stronger the more often a signal is passed between them. Similarly, the learning and retention of information on Knowm memristor circuits are determined by data flow characteristics and the current.

    Chen revealed that Samsung is also working on a product similar to Intel's Optane that will incorporate DRAM and NAND flash manufacturing. Samsung, however, declined comment.
    A 20TB hard drive by 2020

    As SSD prices continue to drop following the adoption of denser flash memory technology like 3D NAND, HDD makers are planning their own technology upgrades. Case in point: HAMR, which uses a laser on the hard drive read/write head to set smaller bits more securely in place on a drive's spinning platter.

    Both Western Digital and Seagate are working on HAMR HDDs.

    HAMR (heat assisted magnetic recording), uses a laser on the hard drive read/write head to set smaller bits more securely in place on a drive's spinning platter compared to traditional perpendicular magnetic recording.
    "HAMR is our next technology that will keep our march along areal density curve going," said Mark Re, Seagate's chief technology officer. "We seem to go through these transitions every 10 years or so."

    As disk drive densities increase, the potential for data errors also increases due to a phenomenon known as superparamagnetism effect. That's where the magnetic pull between bits close together on a platter's surface can randomly flip, resulting in their value changing from one to zero or vice versa. Random bit flips result in data errors.

    HAMR uses a special aperture on the HDD's read/write head called a near-field transducer that concentrates a large quantity of photons onto the spinning disk in as small a size as possible.

    A close up look at a near field transducer on a read/write head that concentrates a large quantity of photons onto the spinning disk.
    HAMR technology, created by Seagate, uses a laser to briefly heat a hard drive's disk surface during magnetic head recording. The heat shrinks a platter's data bits and tightens the concentric circles, known as tracks, to increase density. HAMR also uses nanotube-based lubrication to allow the read/write head of a disk to get closer to the surface in order to be better able to read and write data.

    HAMR technology will eventually allow Seagate to achieve a linear bit density of around 10 trillion (10Tbits) per square inch -- 10 times higher than today's best HDD areal density of about 1Tbit per square inch, according to Re.

    Seagate has already demonstrated HAMR HDDs with 1.4Tbits per square inch -- still 40% higher than today's best HDDs.
    "We don't see others out there ahead of us. We have a pretty long history with HAMR. We've been working on it for about 10 years," Re said. "We're a bit more aggressive on when we'll ship it."

    Seagate plans to begin shipping HAMR HDDs next year.

    Using HAMR, the theoretical density for hard drives skyrockets, yielding a 3.5-in. server or desktop drive with up to 60TB of storage, and a single-platter 2.5-in. laptop drive with up to 20TB of capacity.

    The marketing campaign Seagate has used is "20TB by 2020," but Seagate CTO Mark Re told Computerworld that's just a target.

    Even beyond HAMR, the HDD industry has plans for greater drive density. Bit patterned media (BPM) recording would use nanolithography to down predefined bits of data on a drive platter, as opposed to current HDD technology where each bit is stored in 20 to 30 magnetic grains.

    BPM could increase HDD density up to 200Tbits per square inch.

    "Considering the latest 4TB external drive is 5 platters, that's pretty insane," said Nathan Papadopulos, Seagate's corporate communications manager.

    "It's clearly still a ways out," Re added. "We're looking at this technology for middle of the next decade."
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    Default Re: Technological advances that will directly affect you in the next 2 years

    this is great thread...we are 3 month in from 2016 and already seeing or hearing some of the stuff that blow my mind away how fast are we going especially with VR. many of you and include my self expected hard push for VR which it did.

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    Beware the drone swarms... this will be a "thing" in the future

    Quote Modeled After Ants, Teams of Tiny Robots Can Move 2-Ton Car
    Archimedes pointed out that with a lever he could move the world.

    He most likely would have been surprised to learn that a team of six microrobots, weighing just 3.5 ounces in total, could pull a car weighing 3,900 pounds.

    A group of researchers at the Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory at Stanford University has been exploring the limits of friction in the design of tiny robots that have the ability to pull thousands of times their weight, wander like gecko lizards on vertical surfaces or mimic bats.

    Now they have pushed biomimicry in a new direction. They have taken their inspiration from tiny ants that work as teams to move massive objects. In this case, they are not just taking ideas from nature — the movie “Big Hero 6” made a great deal of what swarms of microrobots could do, including tossing cars.

    The researchers’ approach is counterintuitive. Rather than striking powerful blows like a football player making a tackle or a jackhammer, they have focused on synchronizing the smooth application of very tiny forces. The microrobots work in concert, if slowly.

    The researchers observed that the ants get great cooperative force by each using three of their six legs simultaneously.

    “By considering the dynamics of the team, not just the individual, we are able to build a team of our ‘microTug’ robots that, like ants, are superstrong individually, but then also work together as a team,” said David Christensen, a graduate student who is one of the authors of a research paper describing the feat. The paper will be presented this May at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Stockholm.

    Their new demonstration is the functional equivalent of a team of six humans moving a weight equivalent to that of an Eiffel Tower and three Statues of Liberty, Mr. Christensen said. The car is the one he uses for commuting to campus. Part of the magic is the use of a special adhesive that was inspired by gecko toes.

    Last month, Mr. Christensen and Srinivasan Suresh, another graduate student, the researcher Katie Hahm and the mechanical engineering professor Mark Cutkosky published “Let’s All Pull Together: Principles for Sharing Large Loads in Microrobot Teams.”

    In an accompanying video, they show that the microrobots, when they are carefully synchronized, can do astounding things.
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    Of course the military found out a way to use quantum entangled pairs of photons for war....

    Quote US Navy replaces SONAR with quantum photonic imaging device (quantum entangled photons)
    A recent patent from US Navy reveals details of their awesome quantum photonic imaging device to detect of underwater objects. The patented invention would provide complete stealth during operation.

    The invention uses quantum entanglement as a means to achieve detection of reflected radiation at levels that are below the noise level.

    In a way, this is similar to how CDMA works by spreading information under the noise floor making it virtually indistinguishable from noise until it’s correlated with the correct code sequence. Just like that, the patented device generates a pair of entangled photons one of which (call it “probe photon”) is transmitted towards a target. The probe photon is reflected by the target. The reflected radiation which includes noise is then correlated with the other photon of the pair. Only when the reflected radiation includes a reflection of the probe photon, the correlation with the other photon is high, which indicates presence of an object. Multiple pairs of entangled photons are used to determine range and geometry of the target object.

    The target object can be an Arctic ice canopy, ocean bottom, and another natural or artificial obstacle in the water that can obstruct under-ice passage of the vehicle in Arctic waters.

    The patented device is particularly useful under Arctic sea-ice canopy, where conventional current underwater navigation systems fail.

    Conventional arctic underwater vehicles use an (detection systems employ) active sonar array to avoid an accidental collision with the ice canopy. However, in the case of Arctic military operations, active sonar will give away the position of the submarine.
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    This is a real time rendering of the Unity engine.... Video games and even movies are about to become VERY hard to tell if they are real or not (especially with VR immersion)

    This product will be released this year... CGI has never looked more amazing.

    Quote Today the folks at Unity have revealed a shirt film called "Adam" to demonstrate the abilities of their Unity engine. This clip is part of a longer film that'll be released (in full) by the Unity Demo team at Unite Europe 2016 in Amsterdam. Until then, you have this - a masterpiece in its own right. This demonstrates not only the power of Unity for games, but for the future of film, too. Unity announced this week the availability of both Unity 5.4 and Unity 5.3.4 (stable), as well as the availability of beta releases to personal edition users. In Unity 5.4 this means big things not only for flat, 2D rendering, but for virtual reality rendering as well.

    According to Unity, this is a real-time rendered short film. "Adam" shows exactly what it'll mean to work with the Unity engine in the year 2016 and beyond. If this is what videos in video games are going to look like, can you imagine how realistic full-size Hollywood movies are going to look? There'll be no telling the difference between special effects and reality.
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    AI + drones + new battery tech.... anyone else see where this is headed?


    Quote When you hear the word "drone," you probably think of something either very useful or very scary. But could they have aesthetic value? Autonomous systems expert Raffaello D'Andrea develops flying machines, and his latest projects are pushing the boundaries of autonomous flight — from a flying wing that can hover and recover from disturbance to an eight-propeller craft that's ambivalent to orientation ... to a swarm of tiny coordinated micro-quadcopters. Prepare to be dazzled by a dreamy, swirling array of flying machines as they dance like fireflies above the TED stage.
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    As in applications for dubious deeds?

    I see a tech that is fairly low cost that could have a variety of personal uses. A swarm of mini drones could be very useful in lots of ways, from defense to detection screening, to mobile signage. They could be used to find your missing cat!

    If they could be made small enough and adaptable enough, and cheap enough, I could use one to run a string through enclosed walls for circuit installations in existing structures.

    Of course, if they can build a drone they can also build a stable flying car...they can already carry packages

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    Quote Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
    As in applications for dubious deeds?

    I see a tech that is fairly low cost that could have a variety of personal uses. A swarm of mini drones could be very useful in lots of ways, from defense to detection screening, to mobile signage. They could be used to find your missing cat!

    If they could be made small enough and adaptable enough, and cheap enough, I could use one to run a string through enclosed walls for circuit installations in existing structures.

    Of course, if they can build a drone they can also build a stable flying car...they can already carry packages
    (dubious? I don't think so)

    Exactly my thoughts, though more focused on personal transportation.

    If you can coordinate swarms of drones with out mid air collision...... This becomes a VERY viable thing once a decent battery comes out.


    Quote The 184 doesn't just look like a drone; it acts like one. Passengers will only have minimal controls: take off, pause flight and land. The drone's autonomous flight controls do the rest. All you need to do is push a button -- that's if you can pry your white knuckles off the seat long enough to press them. Naturally, you have to tell it where you want to go (via a smartphone app, of course), but once you do, it'll fly you there automatically.
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    Never trust video again....This is the ATOMIC BOMB of Disinformation.
    Quote Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos

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    We present a novel approach for real-time facial reenactment of a monocular target video sequence (e.g., Youtube video). The source sequence is also a monocular video stream, captured live with a commodity webcam. Our goal is to animate the facial expressions of the target video by a source actor and re-render the manipulated output video in a photo-realistic fashion. To this end, we first address the under-constrained problem of facial identity recovery from monocular video by non-rigid model-based bundling. At run time, we track facial expressions of both source and target video using a dense photometric consistency measure. Reenactment is then achieved by fast and efficient deformation transfer between source and target. The mouth interior that best matches the re-targeted expression is retrieved from the target sequence and warped to produce an accurate fit. Finally, we convincingly re-render the synthesized target face on top of the corresponding video stream such that it seamlessly blends with the real-world illumination. We demonstrate our method in a live setup, where Youtube videos are reenacted in real time.
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    Wow, this really opens the doors up for a lot of cool advancements, especially in friction-less joints and micro machines.

    Quote PRINTABLE MAGNETS!

    The future of magnets is here

    If you’re anything like me, you were probably fascinated by magnets when you were younger. But the new “smart magnets” in this video just made my jaw drop.

    I just saw a video (above) on a new innovation which is a completely new way to not only manufacture magnets, but design them so that they have completely new properties.

    In the video above from Smarter Every Day, (the same guy who did the Backwards Brain Bicycle), he goes to see a company called Polymagnet, who can design metals to have specific magnetic patterns so that they can both attract and repel at the same time on the same surface. They can even control the strength of the field over distance.

    The part of the video at 5:45 shows how this can produce a “Smart Magnet” hinge which provides smooth closing, but locks in place when rotated.

    It blew me away.

    This opens up all sorts of ways that companies can produce truly new innovations in the future.
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    Sign me up... I'll download kung-fu and re-create that matrix scene (with out the gravity defying jumps... maybe?)!

    Quote Education of the future? Scientists figure out how to UPLOAD knowledge to the brain
    A GROUP of scientists claim to have created a simulator which can upload knowledge directly to your brain.

    In a breakthrough which promises new technology like that from The Matrix, researchers at HRL Laboratories have developed a programme which they say can upload new skills and knowledge directly to your brain.

    The California-based institution analysed electrical signals in the brain of a pilot and fed the data to people who didn’t have the knowledge to fly planes via electrode-embedded head caps which stimulated the correct regions of the brain.
    The participants who were fed the information via electrodes were then pitted against a placebo group on a realistic flight simulation test, which found that the former performed an average of 33 per cent better than the latter, according to the results published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

    Lead author Dr Matthew Phillips explained: “Our system is one of the first of its kind. It's a brain stimulation system."It sounds kind of sci-fi, but there's large scientific basis for the development of our system.

    "The specific task we were looking at was piloting an aircraft, which requires a synergy of both cognitive and motor performance.

    "When you learn something, your brain physically changes. Connections are made and strengthened in a process called neuro-plasticity.

    “It turns out that certain functions of the brain, like speech and memory, are located in very specific regions of the brain, about the size of your pinky.”

    He added that this could be the future of learning: “What our system does is it actually targets those changes to specific regions of the brain as you learn.
    “The method itself is actually quite old. In fact, the ancient Egyptians 4000 years ago used electric fish to stimulate and reduce pain.

    “Even Ben Franklin applied currents to his head, but the rigorous, scientific investigation of these methods started in the early 2000s and we're building on that research to target and personalise a stimulation in the most effective way possible.
    “Your brain is going to be very different to my brain when we perform a task.

    "What we found is … brain stimulation seems to be particularly effective at actually improving learning.”

    While scientists may have figured out how to upload knowledge to a brain, a Russian billionaire is working on uploading his brain to a computer.

    Dmitry Itskov has said he will make it possible for humans to live forever in the next 30 years by connecting human brains to computers.
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    The crap you can get "at home"now is pretty insane... with this you can analyse your DNA, is there a home version of CRISPR? Will the new fad be personal genetic modification (why not?)?

    Quote Citizen scientists, you can now DIY your own DNA analysis with Bento Lab

    Want to know if you have the “athlete gene” or if you’re actually related to the weirdos who claim you as a family member? Get your collection tubes ready, citizen scientists, Bento Lab’s DIY DNA analysis kit is here and ready for the in-home lab.

    Normally you’d order a kit somewhere like 23andMe, spit in a tube and mail it off for results in six to eight weeks. However, the London-based Bento Lab claims to be the first DIY DNA lab you can use to test anywhere. It’s small enough to fit in a backpack and can analyze DNA from saliva, hair, animal tissue and even beer or wine.

    You collect a sample and place into the centrifuge in the middle of the product for DNA extraction. A PCR machine on the right-hand side then copies the genes and a gel unit allows you to then visualize the DNA.

    The type of equipment needed is usually very expensive and requires DNA experts to run the various machines, but the Bento Lab is roughly the cost of a PC at $793 USD — affordable enough to test a variety of products that could cost hundreds of thousands to farm out to a lab service.

    Bento Lab is on Kickstarter and has already more than doubled its crowdfunding goal, with 22 days to go, and the team behind it has support from the U.K.’s Royal Academy of Engineering, Makerversity, Imperial College SynbiCITE and UCL Advances.

    The lab includes the Bento Lab kit, as well as pipettes, reagents, cotton swabs for collection, an instruction booklet and a connected community. Bento Lab also mentioned creating an app to connect citizen scientists and allow the sharing of research and discoveries in the future.

    Some of the suggested experiments you can run on Bento Lab include:

    Test a hamburger to see if it contains horse meat
    Identify genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
    Find out if your taste buds detect bitter flavors by testing your variation of the PTC gene
    Check if you are built for endurance by testing your variation of the “athlete” gene ACTN3
    Explore how blood group genotyping works
    Identify poisonous and non-poisonous types of mushrooms
    Typify the genetic code of your homemade beer

    The personalized lab has already been used in beta testing all across the world. Find out a bit more about this cool DIY genetics lab by watching the video below:
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    Uhhhhhhh...... Well this is just terrifying...

    Quote Mind-control MICROSCOPE changes the behaviour of mice in an instant: Scientists make the animals do whatever they want by tweaking the brain's 'code' in real time
    1. Approach combines cutting-edge techniques to manipulate brain cells
    2. It uses lasers to create a holographic template which alters cell activity
    3. So far the tool has been used to alter the behaviour in live mice
    4. Researchers said it could provide insight how the regions of the brain communicate and even shed new light on brain disorders


    In a breakthrough that wouldn't look out of place in a science fiction film, researchers said they have been able to control the minds of living animals by tweaking the activity of their brain cells.

    Using a specialised microscope to tweak activity of brain circuits, they were able to control the behaviour of mice, leading to hopes that we could one day selectively stimulate cells in the brain, like hitting keys on a piano.

    While mind control may seem like the stuff of dystopian sci-fi nightmares, the team said the findings could provide insight how the different regions of the brain communicate with one another and even shed new light on brain disorders.

    The brain is an incredibly complex organ, made up of interconnected clusters of cells which form neural circuits for different functions.

    Cells within circuits may fire in response to a given task, but deciphering which combination of on-off signals within the circuits achieves the desired effect has remained unclear.
    In experiments with mice, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, combined cutting edge neurobiology techniques to develop a microscope which is able to zoom in on a relatively small patch of thousands of brain cells and alter their activity using laser light.

    By targeting an area of just a few thousand cells with the tool, they were able to change the electrical signals passed between them, so altering the activity of the animal's brain circuitry.

    The findings were presented at the Annual Meeting of Experimental Biology in San Diego.

    'With this new microscope, we believe we will soon be able to treat the brain as the keyboard of a piano, so to speak, and write in a sequence of activity that is needed to understand or correct brain function,' said Dr Hillel Adesnik, a neurobiologist at UCB, who led the research.

    'After more refinements, this instrument may be able to function as a sort of Rosetta Stone to help us crack the neural code.'

    According to Dr Adesnik, the researchers hope their approach will help to better understand how the brain's cellular machinery works and the 'language' being used by the cells to communicate.

    He explained: 'We wanted to develop a technology that can offer a general approach to understand the basic syntax of neural signals, so that we can begin to understand what a given brain circuit is doing and perhaps what's gone wrong with that in the case of a disease.'

    Mice were prepped by fitting glass windows into their skulls so the light could penetrate into their brains.

    The brain cells were also genetically modified to make them responsive to light, using a technique called optogenetics.

    Once in position on the animal's head, the tool shines two beams of infrared lasers through one of these windows in order to create a 3D holographic pattern within the brain.

    The light-responsive brain cells then alter their electrical signals to any pattern the team choose, using the holographic pattern as a template.

    'We're adapting holographic display technology, optogenetics and sensory biology and behaviour into one complete system that allows an all-optical approach to image and manipulate the nervous system,' said Adesnik.

    The brain is incredibly complex, made up of interconnected clusters of cells which form neural circuits for different functions (pictured). Cells within circuits may fire in response to a given task, but deciphering which combination of on-off signals within the circuits achieves the desired effect has remained unclear


    The team believes that their findings could provide insight how the different regions of the brain communicate with one another and even shed new light on brain disorders. In future, it may be possible to selectively stimulate cells in the brain by targeting them with light (stock image), like hitting keys on a piano.
    'We've essentially put a lot of disparate existing pieces together to achieve something nobody had yet achieved,' explained Dr Adesnik.

    Initial tests in live mice used the tool to record the activity of cells during small movements, such as a mouse moving its whiskers.

    The activity was mapped to a hologram, which could be used as a template to trigger the same network of neurons to fire.

    But the group is also developing the technology to trick mice into seeing things that aren't there.

    In animals trained to push a lever in response to seeing a shape, they are using the approach to stimulate brain cells so the animal will think it has seen the shape, which could eventually be applied to memories.
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    Well we had computors beating Chinese masters
    at there game which I have forgot the name ?
    and Chess masters before that and now they
    are becoming artistic ?




    Computer paints 'new Rembrandt' after old works analysis

    By Chris Baraniuk
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    4 hours ago
    From the section Technology

    The painting was produced by a computer that had analysed existing Rembrandt works

    Image copyright The Next Rembrandt

    The painting was produced by a computer that had analysed existing Rembrandt works

    A team of technologists working with Microsoft and others have produced a 3D-printed
    painting in the style of Dutch master Rembrandt.

    The portrait was created after existing works by the artist were analysed by a computer.

    A new work was then designed to look as much like a Rembrandt as possible - while
    remaining an original portrait.

    It was then 3D-printed to give it the same texture as an oil painting.

    "We really wanted to understand what makes a face look like a Rembrandt," Emmanuel
    Flores, director of technology for the project, told the BBC.

    After they had been digitally tagged by humans, data on Rembrandt's paintings was
    gathered by computers which discovered patterns in how the Dutch master would, for
    example, characteristically shape a subject's eyes in his portraits.

    Then, machine-learning algorithms were developed which could output a new portrait
    mirroring Rembrandt's style.

    To limit the many possible results to a specific type of individual, the computer was
    asked to produce a portrait of a Caucasian male between the ages of 30 and 40, with
    facial hair, wearing black clothes with a white collar and a hat, facing to the right.

    Algorithm artist

    "We found that with certain variations in the algorithm, for example, the hair might be
    distributed in different ways," explained Mr Flores.But humans didn't decide the final
    look and feel of the final portrait - they simply chose algorithms based on their efficiency
    and let the computer come up with the finished result.Finally, a 3D texture for the
    painting was applied based on the height and depth of paint
    applied to Rembrandt's works.

    As this was 3D-printed, artists's brushstrokes themselves could be mimicked in the final product.

    "Our goal was to make a machine that works like Rembrandt," said Mr Flores. "We will
    understand better what makes a masterpiece a masterpiece."

    However, he added, "I don't think we can substitute Rembrandt - Rembrandt is unique."

    The two-year project, entitled "The Next Rembrandt", was a collaboration between Microsoft,
    financial firm ING, Delft University of Technology and two Dutch art museums - Mauritshuis
    and Rembrandthuis.

    A public exhibition of the portrait is planned and details of the display will be released at a later date.

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    Quote Citizen scientists, you can now DIY your own DNA analysis with Bento Lab
    would this be any good for testing the Star Child scull and other
    alternate mysteries I wonder ? or is it not designed for that ?

    The main delay there before Lloyd passed was funds for
    DNA testing, though they did finally get some results...



    INCREDIBLE STARCHILD DNA RESULTS *HD* ORIGINAL

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moEYqLdupIA
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    Preliminary new DNA results from the 900 year old Starchild Skull, providing
    information that a percentage of the DNA in the bone may not be from Earth.
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    Well we had computors beating Chinese masters
    at there game which I have forgot the name ?
    the name is "go" and it's insanely complex I'm a very poor player..




    Quote Posted by Cidersomerset (here)
    As this was 3D-printed, artists's brushstrokes themselves could be mimicked in the final product.

    "Our goal was to make a machine that works like Rembrandt," said Mr Flores. "We will
    understand better what makes a masterpiece a masterpiece."

    However, he added, "I don't think we can substitute Rembrandt - Rembrandt is unique."

    He might not think a Rembrandt can be substituted, but 99.99999% of the people out there wont know the difference... I bet that GAULS the elites that soon even their coveted rare-art can be had by the common man.
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    Quote the name is "go" and it's insanely complex I'm a very poor player..
    I put down 'Go' then thought that can't be right and I was going to look
    it up but got distracted with the helicopter drone vid and the DNA machine..LOL

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    Liquid-pumped robots made by 3D printer

    37 minutes ago

    Short vid on link.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35981694


    Robotics researchers in the US have developed a new technique to build working
    robots using a 3D printer.

    The work was carried out by at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
    Lab and involves printing solid and liquid materials simultaneously.

    The engineers believe their method could one day be used by disaster relief
    organisations to deploy customised bots in dangerous environments.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35981694
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    Quote Citizen scientists, you can now DIY your own DNA analysis with Bento Lab
    would this be any good for testing the Star Child scull and other
    alternate mysteries I wonder ? or is it not designed for that ?

    The main delay there before Lloyd passed was funds for
    DNA testing, though they did finally get some results...
    .
    yes, and mostly no...

    That particular kit just compares DNA against known signatures.. you'd be missing out on any unknowns (not sure how they'd show up).

    DNA sequencing is very inexpensive now however.... previously this wasn't the case.


    as of 2014 it was $1000, probably much cheaper now.....
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    This seems like the first step to easy nano manufacturing.. manipulation via electromagnetic fields is not new, but THIS is amazing.

    Modified Tesla Coil Makes Carbon Nanotubes Self-Assemble Into Wires

    Electromagnetism has fascinated and confused people for hundreds of years. It brought light to our nights, and allowed for the development of the world. It would look like magic to a person living 200 years ago and, to top all that, we now have a new trick up our sleeves: constructing structures at a distance.

    Researchers from Rice University in Texas have used the strong electric field emitted by a redesigned Tesla coil to assemble carbon nanotubes (cylindrical carbon molecules) into long wires. The amazing process lines up the positive and negative charges of the nanotubes, forcing them to join up in chains. The researchers called this phenomenon Teslaphoresis.

    "Electric fields have been used to move small objects, but only over ultrashort distances," Paul Cherukuri, leader of the team of researchers, said in a statement. "With Teslaphoresis, we have the ability to massively scale up force fields to move matter remotely."

    The Tesla coil was designed by Nikola Tesla in 1891 as a way to transmit electrical energy without wires, and the researchers used this property in combination with Teslaphoresis to create self-assembly circuits. In one experiment, the nanotubes formed an electrical circuit with two LEDs, structured in a way that it could absorb the energy from the Tesla coil and use it to light up the LEDs.

    "It is such a stunning thing to watch these nanotubes come alive and stitch themselves into wires on the other side of the room," Cherukuri added. Their results are presented in a paper published in ACS Nano.

    Lead author Lindsey Bornhoeft described that while nanotubes were used in this instance, Teslaphoresis could potentially be used for many different materials.

    "These nanotube wires grow and act like nerves, and controlled assembly of nanomaterials from the bottom up may be used as a template for applications in regenerative medicine," he said.

    And the researchers also think there could be many more applications for these "force fields," allowing for matter in both biological and artificial systems to be controlled.

    "And even more exciting is how much fundamental physics and chemistry we are discovering as we move along. This really is just the first act in an amazing story," said Cherukuri



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