Posts tagged ‘Science’
Two Inch Hornet
Recently scientists from Conservation International and Disney’s Animal Kingdom started out on a two month expedition into six regions of the Tibetan “Sacred Lands” in the mountains of Southwest China and Nepal. They have found and rediscovered many species; one of which is called the “Yak Killer” by locals. The Vespa Mandarinia, or giant Asian [...]
Ancient Pyramid Discovered in Mexico
Yesterday, Mark Stevenson from the AP wrote an article about the latest discovery in Mexico. According to Stevenson, archaeologists announced yesterday that they had found the oldest pyramid beneath the ruins of a Catholic religious site. The structure, supposed to have been built by the mysterious Teotihuacan culture, was apparently abandoned 1,000 years before Catholics [...]
Multi-Input Touch Screen
Check out this video of a New York University project using a multi-input touch screen. Screen allows Minority Report like interaction with applications. No word on when this technology will reach the consumer market, but I’m sure it will be some time. Our technique is force-sensitive, and provides unprecedented resolution and scalability, allowing us to [...]
Google Goes To Mars
Today, Google released Google Mars. Utilizing Google Maps to provide an interactive map of Mars, much like the Google Moon project, was accomplished by a partnership between Google and Arizona State University’s THEMIS project. Google Mars features three methods to view our red neighbor: Elevation – A shaded relief map, generated with data from the [...]
Light Sabers on the Way!
Scientists at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have created a device to project 3D images in mid-air. Up until this point all “3D” mid-air imagery was an illusion facilitated by the natural parallax between the eyes. The AIST device actually creates very small plasma emissions by focusing lasers at specific [...]
