Upending the cliché of muscleheads, scientists at the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging recently set out to examine whether changes in muscles prompted by exercise might subsequently affect and improve the brain’s ability to think. via Phys Ed: How Muscle Workouts May Boost Brainpower – NYTimes.com.
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It is tough to complete a marathon even if you aren’tparalyzed. But what if you had a bionic suit on your side? That changes everything, as a 32-year-old English woman just proved. It may have taken 16 days, but Claire Lomas did finish theLondon Marathon this week. She became the first person in world history to [...]
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Transrealiteit omvat het versmelten van de fysieke met virtuele wereld. Deze twee werelden bestaan anno 2010 nog voornamelijk naast elkaar. De eerste tekenen van het samenkomen (transrealiteit) van de werelden zijn er al. Denk aan de populariteit van augmented reality (AR) en quick response codes (QR-codes). De virtuele wereld wordt steeds vaker gebruikt om de fysieke wereld te verrijken. [...]
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The earliest adopters of the Twitter platform arrived with a firm understanding of our service and the objects that represented the various nouns and verbs that describe Twitter’s capabilities and opportunity. The platform has grown considerably since and now developers of all levels of familiarity and experience are getting started with the Twitter API. Inspired [...]
Inside the civic digital space, anyone can download a public dataset, build an app, share it with others. There are no permit fees, no regulations to research, no paperwork to file. You don’t have to trudge to City Hall. Everything is (or at least, it should be) open. In this way, the digital world is [...]
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Op 30 mei bezoekt de SIG Creative Labs de TU Eindhoven – met dank aan Jan Rouvroye (TU/e) en René Paré (MAD lab). We ontmoeten elkaar om 14:00 in het hoofdgebouw op de TU/e campus, kamer HG2.30. 30 mei: SIG Creative Labs bezoekt TU Eindhoven – Artikel – SURFspace.
De Europese Unie wil tot 2020 80 miljard euro uittrekken voor onderzoek en ontwikkeling. Daarbij gaat het vooral om toepasbare innovaties ter bevordering van groei en bestrijding van klimaatverandering. “Onderzoek en innovatie zijn de beste instrumenten om onze economie te vernieuwen en een lange lijst van grote problemen aan te pakken”, verklaarde Euro-commissaris Máire Geoghegan-Quin [...]
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Numerous research groups around the world are reporting that they have created silicene, a one-atom-thick hexagonal mesh of silicon atoms — the silicon equivalent of graphene. Since its discovery a few years ago, you will have heard a lot about graphene, especially with regard to its truly wondrous electrical properties. Graphene is the most conductive material [...]
Smart ParkingMonitoring of parking spaces availability in the city. Structural healthMonitoring of vibrations and material conditions in buildings, bridges and historical monuments. Noise Urban MapsSound monitoring in bar areas and centric zones in real time. Traffic CongestionMonitoring of vehicles and pedestrian levels to optimize driving and walking routes. Smart LightningIntelligent and weather adaptive lighting in [...]
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The TR10 represents the 10 most important technological milestones reached in the last 12 months. To compile the list, Technology Review selects the technologies we believe will have the greatest impact on the shape of innovation in years to come. This impact can take very different forms: one technology points toward a method of discovering better [...]
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A linguistics professor in Bamberg is considered the most powerful member of Germany’s burgeoning Pirate Party, even though he holds no office. Martin Haase engages in politics almost exclusively through the Internet using the party’s Liquid Feedback software. The platform is flattening the political hierarchy and is unique among German political parties. Liquid Democracy: Web Platform Makes Professor [...]
Take top thinkers from Silicon Valley and science, mix them with scientists, innovators and philanthro-capitalists, and you’ve got the Singularity University – on a mission to seek technological solutions to the world’s great challenges Singularity University: meet the people who are building our future | Technology | The Observer.
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