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Green architecture – Alila Villas Uluwatu eco resort

By Damir Beciri
One Comment11 July 2010
alila-villas-uluwatu-1The beautiful Alila Villas Uluwatu eco resort is located on a sloping hill in Bali’s Uluwatu region on the Southern Bukit Peninsula of the Indonesian island. It is the first of its kind to achieve the highest level of certification for Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESD) and is designed for the Green Globes GG21 standard. Designed… »

Gadgets| Tech»

Mouseless – an invisible computer mouse

By Damir Beciri
2 Comments10 July 2010
mouseless-1Pranav Mistry, Liyan Chang, and Pattie Maes, from the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab, were interested in removing the requirement for a physical mouse, while still allowing computer users to interact with their computers in a way with which they are familiar with. They developed an “invisible mouse” and named it Mouseless…. »

Gadgets| Tech»

Aqualux 3D – a multi-layered display with water drops

By Damir Beciri
9 July 2010
aqualux-3d-four-layers-droplets-displayWe already wrote an article where water droplets (or fog) were used as a medium where image was projected in order to create interesting walk-through and semitransparent displays (see our article regarding FogScreen eZ). A new projection technology, developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, is named AquaLux 3D and it can target light onto… »

Robotics»

Team B-Human won the RoboCup 2010 Standard Platform League

By Damir Beciri
9 July 2010
b-human-robocup-2010The RoboCup is a fascinating combination of innovative research and one of the world’s most popular team sports – soccer. Standard Platform League is a league in which all teams use the same robot platform (Aldebaran’s Nao humanoid robot we described in the last year’s article about RoboCup 2009) so the teams are challenged to… »

Robotics»

DARwIn-LC robot presented at RoboCup 2010

By Damir Beciri
2 Comments7 July 2010
darwin-lc-1As we announced on our Twitter account, we’re going cover this year’s RoboCup. As we said in our article about Robocup 2009, this event has a goal to develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players that could beat the human world soccer champions by 2050. On 24 June the RoboCup 2010 soccer… »

Tech»

Consumer-grade camera used to detect cancer cells in real-time

By Damir Beciri
6 July 2010
consumer-grade-camera-used-to-detect-cancer-1By using an off-the-shelf digital camera, Rice University biomedical engineers and researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have created a device that is powerful enough to let doctors easily distinguish cancerous cells from healthy cells simply by viewing the LCD monitor on the back of the camera. The overall cost of… »

Tech»

Super battery made of super-high pressure treated materials

By Damir Beciri
6 July 2010
super-battery-created-with-super-high-pressure-treated-materials-at-wsu-1When we write about gadgets and technology, we often mention the need for breakthroughs in energy storing technology. By using super-high pressures similar to those closer to the Earth core or on a giant planet, the researchers from Washington State University have created a compact, never-before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy. “If… »

Tech»

Oblong g-speak – the near future of information interaction?

By Damir Beciri
One Comment5 July 2010
oblong-g-speakIf you’re a regular tech news reader you must have stumbled upon articles where they compare some information manipulation (or human-machine interface) technology to the technology seen at the sci-fi movie Minority Report. In this article we’re going to describe the Oblong g-speak Spatial Operating Environment (SOE), technology that is most resembling to the one… »