You know, you blink and you miss out on everything. I was wondering what was going on in the apparently fast paced world of nanotechnology and came across this. I had not idea that there were so many current nanotechnology applications in the the world today.
I wonder if nano tech could be employed to form a finer photo sensitive emulsion on photographic films and paper. I can only imagine what a photo would look like if the light sensitive material was as small as the wavelength of light it was supposed to detect. Even more improvement could be made if the emulsion layers were deposited in a very ordered fashion, not the random looking clumps you get now.
01-Nanotechnology Brochure
Category: Technology
Surgery daVinci Style
It’s one thing to have a robot make you coffee (Mr. Coffee) or wash your clothes (Maytag) or even pilot an airplane (the classic autopilot), but to have one cut open a human and make some repairs. I guess this isn’t that much like ‘Saturn 3‘, a human is still running the show albeit remotely. The autodoc may become part of the standard military field hospital in the next few years, that would be a very good thing as the modern warfare techniques are allowing for a higher survivability rate and in previous combat situations.
The da Vinci Surgical System, is a robotic device which allows surgeons to perform minimally invasive surgery with the intuitive control, range of motion, fine tissue manipulation capability and 3-D visualization characteristic of open surgery.
The da Vinci seamlessly and directly translates the surgeon’s natural hand, wrist and finger movements on instrument controls at the surgeon’s console outside the patient’s body into corresponding micro-movements of the instrument tips positioned inside the patient through small incisions.
Augmented Reality – Human Pacman
I think that this example of augmented reality could change the way humans interact with any sort of computer interface. However, I think that playing Pac Man in a mall would be a blast!
…Human Pacman also explores novel tangible aspects of human physical movement, senses and perception, both on the player’s environment and on the interaction with the digital world. For example to devour the virtual “enemy”, the player has to tap on the real physical enemy’s shoulder, which is an instinctive action to “catch” the “enemy”.By employing the philosophy of ubiquitous computing [2], we have implemented a system that embeds everyday physical objects with digital fantasy meanings. For example, players have to collect virtual ingredients by intuitively picking up physical sugar jars laid across the game area. These Bluetooth embedded sugar jars when picked up will automatically communicate with the wearable computer by adding the corresponding virtual ingredient to the inventory list of the player.
Hot Shredder Action
I agree, nothing is more satisfying than seeing big things getting turned into smaller things. I’d very much like to get one of these for the office and use it on some of the more problematic computers there…
Dan’s Horrendous Waste of Bandwidth ? For some reason, this is REALLY satisfying…
Apple Powermac LED Clock Hack
The site has an image of a circuit board that looks to be pretty standard, I can see using these clocks for lots of projects…
Those punched holes in the front of the Apple G5 Powermac’s aluminum case just happen to be the perfect size to hold standard-issue LEDs. Swedish hacker Anders Lundberg built his own LED clock that fits right in the bottom, and I think it’s sort of swell.
Can you think how rad it would be if the entire front panel was one giant LED array?
Virtual Reality Goes Round
Very cool VR project, the drum is a clever idea. It will cost less than a cave and still give a good feeling of immersion.
Virtual Reality Goes Round