Bruno Söderström
Two British men who have been totally blind for many years have had part of their vision restored after surgery to fit pioneering eye implants.

Two British men who have been totally blind for many years have had part of their vision restored after surgery to fit pioneering eye implants.

Dual-focus contact lens prototypes ordered by Pentagon

Innovega says the lenses could be released to the public in 2014

Dual-focus contact lens prototypes ordered by Pentagon

Innovega says the lenses could be released to the public in 2014

But Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon and Schuster have already settled.

The case will proceed against Apple, Macmillan and Penguin “for conspiring to end e-book retailers’ freedom to compete on price”, the Justice Department said.

Chinese Drones Will Evolve New Sub Hunting Methods on the Fly

And, according to a paper published in the journal Advanced Materials Research, the UAV’s will use genetic algorithms to spot the subs faster.
A genetic algorithm is one that works much like natural evolution. It narrows down search results, weeding out the weaker, off-topic responses, and recombining the “stronger” returned values into a better hybridized result.

Chinese Drones Will Evolve New Sub Hunting Methods on the Fly

And, according to a paper published in the journal Advanced Materials Research, the UAV’s will use genetic algorithms to spot the subs faster.

A genetic algorithm is one that works much like natural evolution. It narrows down search results, weeding out the weaker, off-topic responses, and recombining the “stronger” returned values into a better hybridized result.

Swedish communications giant Ericsson has developed a device which transmits data via the human body.

Giant Tesla Tower Spawns Big Bolts

A first step towards Minority Report ads from Inwindow Outdoor (demo)

(via Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence)

Could a Russia-US rail tunnel be built?

Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons

CV Dazzle™ is camouflage from computer vision (CV).

CV Dazzle™ was developed by Adam Harvey as a thesis project at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunication Program in the spring of 2010 to explore ways of protecting and interfering with privacy compromising technologies.

Co.Design
Dazzle

CV Dazzle™ is camouflage from computer vision (CV).

CV Dazzle™ was developed by Adam Harvey as a thesis project at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunication Program in the spring of 2010 to explore ways of protecting and interfering with privacy compromising technologies.

Co.Design

Dazzle