Here’s one take on what omnipresent visual overlay with network connectivity might enable, although with a slight dystopian bent.
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Artificial jellyfish built from rat cells : Nature News & Comment
“Morphologically, we’ve built a jellyfish. Functionally, we’ve built a jellyfish. Genetically, this thing is a rat,” says Kit Parker, a biophysicist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led the work.
Artificial jellyfish built from rat cells : Nature News & Comment.
New Projects Help 3-D Printing Materialize
NPR.org » New Projects Help 3-D Printing Materialize.
Until now, 3-D printers have been something of a novelty. The computer-controlled machines create three-dimensional objects from a variety of materials. Now, they are being discovered by everyday consumers. Jon Kalish reports.
Scientists Build Vascular Network Using Sugar and a 3-D Printer
3D printing replacement blood vessels!
Researchers at University of Pennsylvania say they may have found a way to create vasculatures using sugar and a 3-D printer. The design starts with sucrose and glucose and, with a custom RepRap 3-D printer, the scientists were able to turn the mixture into a free-standing, three dimensional vascular template.
via Scientists Build Vascular Network Using Sugar and a 3-D Printer – IEEE Spectrum.
How to solve impossible problems: Daniel Russell’s awesome Google search techniques
Hey librarians: You think you’re good at finding things? Try this test on for size:
Daniel Russell stood in front of a crowd of investigative journalists in Boston last week and showed us this picture of a random skyscraper in an unknown city:
Russell posed a riddle:What’s the phone number of the office where this picture was snapped?
via How to solve impossible problems: Daniel Russell’s awesome Google search techniques.