the Live Screen by Danielle Trofe, which is a hydroponics system inspired by vertical gardens.
Each pod HAS LED an light built into its underside to provide extra sunlight for the plant below it The Live Screen is a modular design,
thus the screen#in the name. I could see these being used in lieu of cubicle dividers in offices,
The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup,
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#Apple s ibooks 2 initiative for the priviledged few could leave most children behind Apple s ibooks 2 Apple s new ibooks 2 initiative has the potential
But, with the proprietary nature of the software it means that publishers, parents, and schools will be locked into Apple s ecosystem.
The cost of ipads, digital textbooks, and the infrastructure to support them will prevent most schools from offering this technology to their students,
it s not nearly enough in most schools to cover small class sizes (the average student-teacher ratio for elementary schools is 20.2 to 1). Is there really enough money available to buy an ipad for every student
If a school adopts a program where it owns the ipads and supplies them to students,
the school then becomes responsible for managing that hardware from an IT perspective. Districts that might now have one
After all, if the school supplies the ipads, it needs to make sure they survive abuse, that they can t be used for anything but their intended purposes,
and that they have the latest versions of the textbook software preloaded. Unlike some laptops that schools roll into the classroom on carts
and then roll back out again for the next class, these ipads would have to be loaned to the students for home use,
because there s no way kids can do homework or study if they can t take textbooks with them.
Taking the ipads home results in all kinds of risks: damage, theft, hacking, misuse. Schools would have to be ready to buy a lot of spare units.
Textbook Replacements Of course, all of the hardware and maintenance costs of the ipad don t include the price of buying a fresh textbook for every student in every class, every year.
or that the titles you want will be made available via Apple s ibooks store. If your school buys a stack of paper textbooks,
which runs on MAC OS X only. Publishers who use Windows or Linux computers in the office need not apply.
If you want to create EPUB books, you can get software that runs on any platform.
Just as with itunes and its App store Apple gets to decide what content gets in, based on its arbitrary standards.
The Cupertino company is nothing if not risk-averse, so what happens if the content of your textbook is deemed too controversial to get into the store?
as currently worded, also prevents authors who use the ibooks Author software and want to market their work on the ibooks store from selling their work anywhere else.
if you paste it into another program to sell elsewhere. If educators support the EPUB3 format,
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#25 Technologies I Didn t See at CES Futurist Thomas Frey: After spending the past three days scouring the showroom floors at CES,
Smartphones, tablets, 3d television, and supporting peripherals were everywhere. But as the industry was getting sucked towards the gravitational allure of these technologies, many others,
with harder problems to solve, haven t been getting enough attention. It s very easy for the digital world to spot an opportunity,
But going beyond the current capabilities of existing hardware blazing entirely new trails of thinking,
but for most exhibitors their so-called smart clothing has little more than pockets for smartphones or space for video nametags.
Invisible fences, invisible screens, and invisible cars and windmills will all be possible. Ford had its Evos concept car on display at CES 2012 turning heads with style and design,
Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 200,000 driverless miles on highways. 6.)Ground-Based Delivery Drones Before we have sold driverless passenger cars in any sizable quantities
#Dispatching a flying drone with video cameras that transmits a live feed back to a central command center will give first responders critical information to formulate an action plan before they arrive. 8.)Video Projector Drones Once a video projector is added to a flying drone,
) Password Eliminator Technology Even with all our sophisticated security technology being built-in to computer platforms,
3d Food Printers-As we shop for apples in the grocery store, we find ourselves looking for the perfect apple.#
This is the promise of food printer technology as we move from simply printing ink on paper
to 3d printing of parts and objects, to next generation food printers. These aren t the artificial food devices that science fiction movies have been promising.
) Disposable Batteries for Smartphones At CES there was no shortage of battery companies. Virtually any object that needs power has a battery vendor exhibiting several different options.
But as of yet, there are no cheap disposable batteries for Smartphones. Yes, it is indeed a bad idea to fill landfills with more batteries,
Accomplishment-Based Educational Apps-Much of what happens in today s colleges and universities is based on symbols of achievement,#not actual accomplishments.
A new generation of apps will soon be developed that allow students to autonomously work their way through an actual accomplishment
or swarms, inspired by the behavior observed in social insects, called swarm intelligence. So far no swarmbots have made their way to CES. 25.
Leonar3do is integrated an software and hardware platform that offers a unique, truly immersive VR experience in the sense that you are able to see
and the request that product developers continue to work on disruptive technologies. We are still in the awkward in-between stages of technology.
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#Parasitic flies attack honeybees turning them into zombies Zombie#fly parasite causing decline of honeybee population.
When we observed the bees for some time the ones that were alive we found that they walked in circles, often with no sense of direction,#Andrew Core,
and video cameras to see whether infected bees are leaving the hive willingly or getting kicked out in the middle of the night
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#Guerrilla Grafters: Turning public trees into fruit-bearing trees Money doesn t grow on trees,
I presented my thoughts on the Future of Mobile Apps & Peripherals#at our monthly Night with a Futurist event.
Michael Sitarzewski was quick to point out a new site called#Please Rob Me#that aims to make online tell-alls aware of the potential downside to public location-sharing.#
Continue reading here. 3.)The Coming Food Printer Revolution Would you buy a product that was advertised as Naturally grown, completely organic, printed food?#
This is the promise of food printer technology as we move from simply printing ink on paper
to 3d printing of parts and objects, to next generation food printers. These aren t the artificial food devices that science fiction movies have been promising.
Continue reading here. 2.)Eight False Promises of the Internet In early 2003 I had a conversation with Dee Hock, founder and former CEO of VISA.
what doesn t on the Internet. With that in mind I ve put together a list of eight of the founding theories of the Internet that have proved similarly deceptive.
Continue reading here. 1.)55 Jobs of the Future One of my primary complaints with higher education is that they tend to prepare students for jobs of the past.
and computer system analysts, they are all jobs that currently exist today. Yes, many of these jobs will still exist in the future,
and change as technology and communication systems make their impact. As an example, technology research firm IDC predicts the amount of data businesses will have access to will grow 50-fold over the next decade.
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When eating bubbles, beware of bubbles that smell like your ex wife A computer once beat me at chess,
which can be called by mobile phone, or via tiny sensors built into their eyewear, clothes, watch, ring or bracelet.
adaptive courseware presented by computer-simulated teachers. In the learning process, human adults fill the counsellor
According to Android vice president Hugo Barra, these were near-perfect for some languages in 2013. However
it took much longer for Google, Microsoft and Japan s NTT Docomo to deliver the service in a non-intrusive
and fashionably acceptable way soft contact lenses are evolved sleek, and from Google glass. Innovega led the early work here,
Audi, BMW, GM and Google tested them first. The search engine giant wanted them on the roads by 2020
Job posts by Microsoft Research in mid-2013 suggested that it was then#oedeveloping the hardware
and software necessary to have a realistic physical body-double or proxy in a remote meeting#that gives the remote worker#the ability to look around the room,
#By 2050, The Human Media Lab at Queen s university in Kingston, Ontario in Canada has developed a life-sized hologram-like telepod that uses Microsoft s Kinect System and a cylindrical display for live
since the days of IBM s first contract in Qatar, because air pollution and congestion are no longer a problem,
altering the economy as products (from micro-batteries to phones and medical implants) can be produced for a fraction of their traditional manufacture costs.
Nokia was an early mover in holographic advertising. Available for a long time, it uses a combination of Mylar screens, super high-definition overhead projectors and reflective surfaces,
but is now much more lifelike, with clearer images. Holograms have gone portable via personal, ipad-sized display pieces, including the Chinese-owned Facebook-Apple Corporation s iholo mobile device.
Food in Qatar is assembled commonly by nanomachines. This food is externally indistinguishable from natural food.
It can be made more wholesome as production can be controlled at the molecular level phasing out the crude genetic modification.
Photos) Whether these artists are rearranging natural materials found on a site, like branches and rocks,
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Until recently, we did not have the means to actually design interventions on computers. All of that has changed now,
We also have new tools that allow us to actually reprogram our biology in the same way that we reprogram our computers.
and processes in the pipeline using these methods to modify the course of obesity, heart disease, cancer,
Health and medicine is now an information technology and is therefore subject to what I call the#oelaw of accelerating returns,
#which is a doubling of capability (for the same cost) about each year that applies to any information technology.
There are niche applications such as printing our replacement parts for machinery, but the opportunity to begin replacing significant portions of manufacturing is still about five years away.
Remember the Internet boom of the 1990s followed by the Internet bust around the year 2000?
That was around the time Google was getting started, and now we have multi-hundred billion dollar Internet companies.
We re in the early boom phase of 3d printing enthusiasm and hopefully we ve learned enough to avoid a period of undue disillusionment,
Consider that IBM s Watson got a higher score on the American television game of Jeopardy than the best two human players combined.
#What is appreciated not widely is that Watson got its knowledge by reading Wikipedia and several other encyclopedias, a total of 200 million pages of natural language documents.
At Google, we are creating a system that will read every document on the web
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
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#Boulder is America s startup capital Downtown Boulder, Colorado Boulder, Colorado has become an entrepreneurial powerhouse.
including natural foods, computer storage, biotech, and now Internet companies. It s the original home of Ball aerospace (one of the first NASA contractors
herbal tea pioneer Celestial Seasonings, Storagetek (later acquired by Sun microsystems for $4. 1 billion), and the biochemistry lab that led to Amgen.
But Boulder wasn t always so affluent, so collegiate, so pretty. The history of Boulder, the start-up haven, is a fascinating story of a community that built itself from scratch through a combination of individual effort, shared sacrifice,
and he cautioned them about suburban developers,#oedirty industries, #and pandering to tourists. Above all, he said,
and beat out 11 other cities to make that site the home of the National Bureau of Standards s new Radio Propagation Laboratory.
In 1952, the federal government made greater Boulder the site of Rocky Flats, a 27-building nuclear weapons manufacturing facility.
Eventually, the government made Boulder the site of thenational Center for Atmospheric Research and IBM moved its tape drive manufacturing division out there,
which later led to the founding of storage start-ups Storagetek, Exabyte, and Mcdata. On the backs of these technology jobs, Boulder s population doubled from 1950 to 1960
welcoming developers in to build out new housing and offices. Instead, it did the opposite.
stymieing developers, heading off major roadways, and preserving nature. Next, the city limited new housing starts to just 2 percent a year.
founder of Confio Software, moved there because his biggest investor told him he had to as a condition to getting funded (the man lived in Boulder
a Web company she runs out of a loft apartment downtown. In 2006, adman Alex Bogusky moved a chunk of Crispin Porter+Bogusky
says Niel Robertson, CEO of $12. 6 million-a-year Internet advertising start-up Trada. The city, in its efforts to reduce congestion,
In fact, several start-ups, including Internet security firm Webroot and Storagetek, grew out of the town, choosing to move out to a sprawling office across the green space in neighboring Broomfield.
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#7 things you didn t know the world was running out of Helium is a highly necessary commodity in the modern world.
Everything from MRI magnets to fiber optics and LCD screens needs the element (which has the lowest boiling point of any other material On earth) to function,
As George Paul, director of cheesemaker Bradbury & Son, toldthe Telegraph: Retailers would either need to pay more for goat products
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#Google s self-driving car. Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights,
signal to the left and turn to the right. They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids.
They have blind spots, leg cramps, seizures, and heart attacks. They rubberneck, hotdog, and take pity on turtles, cause fender benders, pileups,
He holds his phone up to the window with both hands until the car is framed just so.
and taps out a lengthy text message with his thumbs. By the time he puts his hands back on the wheel and glances up at the road
A chime sounds, pleasant yet insistent, then a warning appears on his dashboard screen:##oein one mile, prepare to resume manual control.#
#Levandowski is an engineer at Google X, the company s semi-secret lab for experimental technology.
his English has no accent aside from a certain absence of inflection#he bright, electric chatter of a processor in overdrive.#
As a freshman at Berkeley, he launched an intranet service out of his basement that earned him fifty thousand dollars a year.
As a sophomore, he won a national robotics competition with a machine made out of Legos that could sort Monopoly money#fair analogy for what he s been doing for Google lately.
He was one of the principal architects of Street view and the Google maps database, but those were just warmups.#
The Google car is an old-fashioned sort of science fiction: this year s model of last century s Make it belongs to the gleaming,
I was told by Ron Medford, a former deputy administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration who now works for Google.
Levandowski keeps a collection of vintage illustrations and newsreels on his laptop, just to remind him of all the failed schemes
#oewe just got lucky that the computers and sensors were ready for us.##Almost from the beginning, the field divided into two rival camps:
a receiver in its front end picked up a radio signal and followed it around the curve.
computers to steer them, digital maps to follow. In the nineteen-eighties, a German engineer named Ernst Dickmanns, at the Bundeswehr University in Munich, equipped a Mercedes van with video cameras and processors,
then programmed it to follow lane lines. Soon it was steering itself around a track.
the computers weren t there, and the mapping wasn t there. Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars.
is the founder of the Google Car project. A wunderkind from the west German city of Solingen, he programmed his first driving simulator at the age of twelve.
computer-controlled system of shafts and motors to adjust its position every hundredth of a second.#
He gradually scraped together thirty thousand dollars from Raytheon, Advanced micro devices, and others. No motorcycle company was willing to put its name on the project.
They added cameras, gyros, G. P. S. modules, computers, roll bars, and an electric motor to turn the wheel.
To win, the teams would have to address a daunting list of failures and shortcomings, from fried hard drives to faulty satellite equipment.
Pomerleau equipped the computer in his minivan with artificial neural networks, modelled on those in the brain.
Machine learning is an idea nearly as old as computer science#lan Turing, one of the fathers of the field, considered it the essence of artificial intelligence.
It s often the fastest way for a computer to learn a complex behavior, but it has its drawbacks.
#oeneural networks are like black boxes, #Pomerleau says.##oethat makes people nervous, particularly when they re controlling a two-ton vehicle.#
#Computers, like children, are taught more often by rote. They re given thousands of rules and bits of data to memorize#f X happens,
His team spent twenty-eight days laser-scanning the Mojave to create a computer model of its topography;
then they combined those scans with satellite data to help identify obstacles.##oepeople don t count those who died trying,
Both teams used similar sensors and software, but Thrun and Montemerlo concentrated more heavily on machine learning.#
the computer learned to identify the flat parts as road and the bumpy parts as shoulders.
drive for twenty minutes, realize there was some software bug, then sit there for four hours reprogramming
one out of every eight pixels that the computer labelled as an obstacle was nothing of the sort.
I have a computer, and I need a million bucks. So they were doing things in their home shops,
Their lead programmer had lifted his preliminary algorithms from textbooks on video-game design.##oewhen you look back at that first Grand Challenge,
By then, Thrun and Levandowski were both working for Google. The driverless car project occupies a lofty, garagelike space in suburban Mountain view.
It s part of a sprawling campus built by Silicon graphics in the early nineties and repurposed by Google, the conquering army, a decade later.
each with someone staring hard at a screen. It had taken me two years to gain access to this place,
Google guards its secrets more jealously than most. At the gourmet cafeterias that dot the campus, signs warn against#oetailgaters##orporate spies who might slink in behind an employee before the door swings shut.
the cofounder of Google, told me. Brin was dressed in a charcoal hoodie, baggy pants, and sneakers.
#When Thrun and Levandowski first came to Google, in 2007, they were given a simpler task:
Five years earlier, Page had strapped a video camera on his car and taken several hours of footage around the Bay Area.
Google engineers went on to jury-rig some vans with G. P. S . and rooftop cameras that could shoot in every direction.
and sent them all over the United states. Google street view has since spread to more than a hundred countries. It s both a practical tool and a kind of magic trick#spyglass onto distant worlds.
which Google had been leasing from companies like navteq. The street and exit names could be drawn straight from photographs
but Google maps had to be comprehensive: every logging road logged on a computer, every gravel drive driven down.
Over the next two years, Levandowski shuttled back and forth to Hyderabad, India, to train more than two thousand data processors to create new maps and fix old ones.
When Apple s new mapping software failed so spectacularly a year ago, he knew exactly why.
By then, his team had spent five years entering several million corrections a day. Street view and Maps were logical extensions of a Google search.
They showed you where to locate the things you d found. What was missing was a way to get there.
using a pretty simple algorithm, based on asking what percentage of 10 and 11-year-olds couldn t read.
and as the world slips onto the web, we need to follow, to communicate and to comprehend what we are reading.
So they sent a delegation to the US, to Apple, to Microsoft, to Google, and they asked the people there who were inventing the future about themselves.
According to Eric Schmidt of Google, every two days now the human race creates as much information as we did from the dawn of civilisation until 2003.
who may not have computers, who may not haveinternet connections, can go online without paying anything: hugely important when the way you find out about jobs,
or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up,
and audiobooks and DVDS and web content. A library is a place that is a repository of information
in this world of text and email, a world of written information. We need to read
as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.
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#Companies rush to build bio-factories for a wide range of products Vials of genetically engineered life-forms.
For Jack Newman, a scientist, creating a new life-form has become as simple as typing out a DNA sequence on his laptop.
#oeyou can now build a cell the same way you might build an app for your iphone,
#Hundreds of products are in the pipeline. Laboratory-grown artemisinin, a key antimalarial drug, went on sale in April with the potential to help stabilize supply issues.
the idea of being able to program cells on a computer was fanciful. Newman was working in a chemical engineering lab run by biotech pioneer Jay Keasling
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#Carbon-negative energy now a reality In 2007, officials from Berkeley, California shut off the electricity to an artists space known as the Shipyard.
000 a month to power a cell phone tower, Price said. But a Powerpallet could do the job for a fraction of the cost,
At the same time, while researchers at the 50 or so institutions that have bought the machines are excited by opening up the computer control system and poking around inside,
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#Google hopes to cure death with its new health startup Calico Google is planning to launch a new company with the absurdly ambitious objective of extending our lives.#
Google gave exclusive access to Time magazine for a story on the new venture. Underscoring the scope of Google s ambition,
the cover of Time asks, #oecan Google solve death?##That, in a nutshell, is the goal of Calico.
Sounds like a joke, but it s not. On Google+,Google CEO Larry page wrote,#oeok#so you re probably thinking wow!
That s a lot different from what Google does today. And you re right. But as we explained in our first letter to shareholders,
there s tremendous potential for technology more generally to improve people s lives. So don t be surprised
or speculative compared with our existing Internet businesses. And please remember that new investments like this are very small by comparison to our core business.#
#Levinson is current the chair of Apple s board. He has the blessing of Apple CEO Tim cook to start this new Google-y company.
In a release, Cook said,#oefor too many of our friends and family, life has been cut short
On Google+he says, #oeit s still very early days so there s not much more to share yet.
expect it to use its core data-handling skills to shed new light on familiar age-related maladies.
That s why Google is doing self driving cars, and balloons floating in the air with Internet connections.
Google which boatloads of cash, and limitless ambition sees itself as the only company willing to take big risks like this.#
#oei m not proposing that we spend all of our money on those kinds of speculative things,
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA September 18, 2013 Google today announced Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.
Google CEO said:##oeillness and aging affect all our families. With some longer term, moonshot thinking around healthcare and biotechnology,
#And here s his Google+entry: I m excited to announce Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.
That s a lot different from what Google does today. And you re right. But as we explained in our first letter to shareholders,
or speculative compared with our existing Internet businesses. And please remember that new investments like this are very small by comparison to our core business.
Art and I are excited about tackling aging and illness. These issues affect us all#rom the decreased mobility
And Arthur Levinson is also on Google+with an announcement: You may have seen the news (http://goo. gl/Kjre4q) that Google
and I will be starting a new company focused on health, aging and well-being, called Calico.
#When I served on Google s board,+Larry page and I got to know each other well#nd
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