Schlagwort: science

  • Mind-Bending Interactive Installation Looks to be Straight from TRON and Matrix!

    Mind-Bending Interactive Installation Looks to be Straight from TRON and Matrix!

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    Hakanai is an interactive installation like no other, as the images are on-stage animations that move in physical patterns according to the rhythm of the live sounds that they follow. In the Japanese language, Hakanai refers to that which is temporary / fragile, evanescent / transient, and in this case, something set between dreams as well as reality.

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    Hakanaï is a solo choreographic performance that unfolds through a series of images in motion. In Japanese Hakanaï denotes that which is temporary and fragile, evanescent and transient, and in this case something set between dreams and reality. While widely associated with nature, the term is now often used to elicit an intangible aspect of the human condition and its precariousness. It encompasses two elements: that concerning the human being as well as that related to dreams. This symbolic relationship is the foundation of the dance composition in which a dancer gives life to a space somewhere between the borders of imagination and reality, through her interactions with the images she encounters. The images are on-stage animations that move in physical patterns according to the rhythm of the live sounds that they follow. The performance’s outcome is the revelation of a digital installation to its audience.

    Source: https://vimeo.com/46045360#embed

    http://www.am-cb.net/projets/hakanai/

  • When Tiny Electric Car Meets Trike! Toyota i-ROAD

    When Tiny Electric Car Meets Trike! Toyota i-ROAD

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    You Get the Futuristic Toyota i-ROAD

    With Toyota’s „Active Lean“ technology, it’s not only safe, but intuitive and enjoyable to drive, with no need for a helmet. The vehicle is only 92-inches long, 57-inches tall and 35-inches-wide.

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    With an all-electric powertrain that uses a lithium-ion battery to power two 2kW motors mounted in the front wheels, the i-ROAD’s battery can be fully recharged from a conventional domestic power supply in a reasonable 3-hours. The „Active Lean“ system uses a lean actuator and gearing mounted above the front suspension member, linked via a yoke to the left and right front wheels. There is also an ECU that calculates the required degree of lean based on steering angle, gyro-sensor and vehicle speed information, with the system automatically moving the wheels up and down in opposite directions, applying lean angle to counteract the centrifugal force of cornering.

  • Die Sonnenfinsternis 2015 , Sonnenfinsternis im Zeitraffer!

    Die Sonnenfinsternis 2015 , Sonnenfinsternis im Zeitraffer!

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    Source: http://www.spiegel.de/video/sonnenfinsternis-2015-im-zeitraffer-video-video-1564287.html

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  • Alle Infos zur Sonnenfinsternis gibt es bei uns + LIVE Stream!

    Alle Infos zur Sonnenfinsternis gibt es bei uns + LIVE Stream!

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    Morgen ist es endlich wieder so weit, um 9:27 geht es bereits los!

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    Die totale Sonnenfinsternis vom 20. März 2015 findet am Tag des Frühlingsbeginns auf der Nordhalbkugel statt. Die totale Verfinsterung beginnt östlich von Neufundland, der Schattenpfad umrahmt dannGrönland und Island auf seinem Weg durch das Europäische Nordmeer. Die Färöer-Inseln und Spitzbergen liegen in der totalen Zone. Die Finsternis endet nahe dem Nordpol, genau an dem Tag, an dem dort dieSonne erstmals nach einem halben Jahr wieder über dem Horizont erscheint. In ihrer partiellen Phase kann die Finsternis von ganz Europa gesehen werden.

    Was braucht ihr um die Sonnenfinsternis beobachten zu können?!

    Eine normale Sonnenbrille oder selbst gebastelte Brillen bitte nicht benutzen!!!

    Wichtig ist ein geeigneter Lichtschutz. Eine herkömmliche Sonnenbrille mit UV-Filter reicht nicht aus, sagt der Bundesinnungsmeister der Optiker Peter Gumplmayer: „Bitte die partielle Sonnenfinsternis nicht durch die Sonnenbrille beobachten, die dunkelt nicht genug ab.“ Wer sich eine Brille selbst basteln will, kann sich im Fachhandel eine Spezialfolie besorgen, so der Optiker. Aber Achtung: Alufolie, Rettungsdecke, CDs, Filmstreifen etc. lassen gefährliche Strahlung wie die Wärmestrahlung einfach durch. Die Netzhaut kann irreparabel geschädigt werden. Auch, wenn diese Folien mehrmals gefaltet werden. Quelle: Ö3.at

    Wo bekomme ich jetzt noch eine Brille schnell her?!

    Falls man keine Briller mehr bei seinem Optiker bekommt, sollte man noch Tageszeitungen am diesem Tag durchsuchen 😉 Nur ein Tipp von uns.

    Sonst wird das LIVE Event auch im Fernsehen und über LIVE Streams übertragen:

    Watch live video from Sternwarte_Peterberg on www.twitch.tv

    Die nächste totale Sonnenfinsternis gibt es in Österreich erst 2081 (in Kärnten, Vorarlberg, Tirol, Salzburg und in den angrenzenden Teilen der Steiermark) zu sehen. In Wien erst wieder 2227.

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  • Put an iPad Into the Holocube HC Tablet and Watch Holograms Come to Life!

    Put an iPad Into the Holocube HC Tablet and Watch Holograms Come to Life!

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    We have seen the future of holograms, and it includes the Holocube HC Tablet. This gadget essentially transforms your iPad Air 2 into a holographic projector, thanks to a transparent synthetic mirror with a solid hinge at a 45° angle that captures moving media on the screen. Images are seemingly projected onto thin air. It’s crafted with a thin aluminum fingerprint-resistant housing to ensure that the iPad’s sleek aesthetic minimalist designed isn’t ruined.

  • Contact lens with telescope might to increase peripheral vision in Future!

    Contact lens with telescope might to increase peripheral vision in Future!

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    A revolutionary new contact lens with a built in telescope could help millions to regain their full sight. Just a wink of one’s eye is enough to zoom in or turn the telescope off, which increases peripheral vision three fold.

    The new technology is set to help sufferers of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which can result in the loss of vision in the center of the visual field. This makes it difficult to read and recognize faces.

    The 1.55mm thick lens contains an extremely thin, reflective telescope. Small mirrors inside bounce light around, expanding the perceived size of objects and magnifying the view, similar to looking through low-magnification binoculars.

    It is very simple to operate with the lens working in conjunction with glasses. A simple wink of the right eye makes the telescope zoom in, while if the user winks with their left eye, then the telescope is turned off. “The most compelling reason why you would want to have this is to help people with serious visual problems, such as macular degeneration, or other retinal illnesses where people have severe vision loss,”said Dr. Eric Tremblay, who is a designer with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, which is based in Lausanne. “In a lot of cases magnification is very useful. So what people usually use are head-mounted telescopes which don’t work for everything,” which was reported by the Daily Telegraph.

     

     

    The contact lens had an unlikely source for funding, with DARPA, the Pentagon’s research agency providing the cash. They wanted it to be developed to give soldiers a form of bionic vision.

    “They were really interested in supervision, but the reality is more tame than that,” said Tremblay at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Jose. So far, only five people have tested the latest version, according to the Guardian.

    Official Source: http://rt.com/news/232511-contact-lens-telescope-sight/

  • This is the Largest Hubble Image Ever Taken, Views of Andromeda Galaxy!

    This is the Largest Hubble Image Ever Taken, Views of Andromeda Galaxy!

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    What you’re looking at above is the sharpest and largest Hubble image ever taken. It stretches 48,000 light-years across the Andromeda Galaxy’s disk, and shows more than 100 million stars. This galaxy may be located 2.5 million light-years from Earth, but since Andromeda fills up so much of Hubble’s field of view, it was able to capture incredible detail in its survey of the galaxy. „Hubble traces densely packed stars extending from the innermost hub of the galaxy. Moving out from this central galactic bulge, the panorama sweeps from the galaxy’s central bulge across lanes of stars and dust to the sparser outer disk,“ said a Hubble representative.

    According to Space.com, „The panorama was created as part of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) program. This image was created as a mosaic of 7,398 exposures taken over the course of 411 pointings of the telescope, according to Hubble officials.“

    Source: http://twistedsifter.com/videos/deep-zoom-into-andromeda/

  • You Won’t Believe These 10 Weird Things Actually Exist!

    You Won’t Believe These 10 Weird Things Actually Exist!

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    Officially called Hydnellum peckii, this non-toxic fungus produces spores on the surface of vertical spines or tooth-like projections that hang from the undersurface of the fruit bodies. Young fruit bodies can „bleed“ a bright red fluid that contains a pigment known to have anticoagulant properties similar to heparin.

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    The unusual appearance of the young fruit bodies has earned the species several descriptive common names, including strawberries and cream, the bleeding Hydnellum, the bleeding tooth fungus, the red-juice tooth, and the Devil’s tooth.

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  • Noch 7 Tage bis zur YPD Online-Cha​llenge 2014

    Noch 7 Tage bis zur YPD Online-Cha​llenge 2014

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    Letzte Chance zur Anmeldung bei der YPD-Challenge 2014 –
    Noch sieben Tage bis zur Online-Challenge!

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    Der Anmeldecountdown läuft! In sieben Tagen, am 25.2.2014, startet die Online-Challenge, in der sich die YPD-Kandidaten den ersten herausfordernden Fragen stellen müssen. Im Zeitraum von 14 Tagen werden die jungen Erwachsenen in 3er-Teams zu fünf Online-Events geladen, wo es in je 90 Minuten unterschiedliche Aufgaben zu lösen gilt. Aufgrund der Komplexität sind die Aufgaben nicht unmittelbar mit Google & Wikipedia zu lösen. Ehrgeiz, Willensstärke und die Fähigkeit des Querdenkens müssen abgerufen werden, um sich im Gewinnerfeld positionieren zu können. Zusätzlich zu den fünf Spieltagen erwartet die Teilnehmer die Tagesaufgabe als besondere Challenge.

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  • Fascinating Look at the Rotating Space Colony (Stanford torus) by NASA

    Fascinating Look at the Rotating Space Colony (Stanford torus) by NASA

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    If you’ve seen the movie Elysium, then this rotating space colony concept probably is still fresh in your mind, but did you know that this concept was first brought up in the 1970s, by NASA? The Stanford torus is a proposed design for a space habitat capable of housing 10,000 to 140,000 permanent residents.

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    The Stanford torus was proposed during the 1975 NASA Summer Study, conducted at Stanford University, with the purpose of speculating on designs for future space colonies.

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  • If youre an creative Atist, this is what you need!

    If youre an creative Atist, this is what you need!

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    Nervous System is a generative design studio that works at the intersection of science, art, and technology.

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    We create using a novel process that employs computer simulation to generate designs and digital fabrication to realize products. Drawing inspiration from natural phenomena, we write computer programs based on processes and patterns found in nature and use those programs to create unique and affordable art, jewelry, and housewares.

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  • There Is A Huge Underground Farm Hiding 100 Feet Beneath London’s Streets

    There Is A Huge Underground Farm Hiding 100 Feet Beneath London’s Streets

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    The newest branch line of the London Underground doesn’t go anywhere. But it does produce a lot of nice food to eat. It’s an aquaponic farm, 100 feet below the surface, set to open this March.

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    With sky-high rents in central London, it made sense for the startup behind the project, Zero Carbon Food, to look for an unconventional farm site. And the location, beneath the Northern line, puts the produce near a lot of restaurant customers. That reduces the miles that food has to travel to reach the table. Zero Carbon Food is now selling stock online–you can see its full pitch below:

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  • Researchers Develop Star Trek-Like Skin Gun That Heals Wounds Instantly

    Researchers Develop Star Trek-Like Skin Gun That Heals Wounds Instantly

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    You read that right, NASA has partnered with GRoK Technologies to build a device called BioReplicates, which creates 3D human tissues in a manner similar to how the dermal regenerator works in Star Trek: The Next Generation. In other words, this device can be used to almost instantly heal minor injuries like cuts or burns to the skin by regenerating cells quickly.

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    Source: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2008

  • Teenager Develops Quantum Space Propulsion System That Doesn’t Use Fuel

    Teenager Develops Quantum Space Propulsion System That Doesn’t Use Fuel

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    Aisha Mustafa, a young physicist from Egypt, has patented a next-generation quantum propulsion system that could send spacecraft to other solar systems without using a single drop of fuel. Mustafa says that this quantum effect can be harnessed with the dynamic Casimir effect, which utilizes a ‚moving mirror‘ cavity, where two reflective flat plates are held close together and then manipulated in order to interact with the quantum particles. By moving the silicon plates, energy is created out from nothing, and a net force is generated, which would be used to push, pull or propel a spacecraft.

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  • Mind-Blowing Photo Shows What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like from the ISS

    Mind-Blowing Photo Shows What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like from the ISS

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    Most of us know that when viewed from Earth, a solar eclipse is a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun.

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    Now here’s what the phenomenon looks like from the International Space Station.

  • Fruit flies have been genetically modified to GLOW when they detect cancer

    Fruit flies have been genetically modified to GLOW when they detect cancer

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    Using bioluminescence as a marker in genetic modification is routine for good reason: it provides a very clear visual confirmation that the desired gene has been target correctly. A new application involves modifying the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster so that their antennae light up in the presence of cancerous cells. The report comes from lead author Martin Strauch from the University of Konstanz and was published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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  • Startschuss für die „YPD-Challenge 2014 – Der Karrierestart Deines Lebens“

    Startschuss für die „YPD-Challenge 2014 – Der Karrierestart Deines Lebens“

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    Erstmals auch im Fernsehen – bei ServusTV ab 20. März 2014

    Wien, am 14.1.2014 – Unter dem Motto „Du musst niemanden kennen, nur etwas können“ startet heute die Anmeldephase zur 6. Auflage der von Hannes Jagerhofer erfolgreich etablierten YPD-Challenge. Gesucht werden junge, dynamische und motivierte Schüler, Studenten oder Berufseinsteiger aus Österreich und Deutschland, die sich einen von rund 120 begehrten Praktikumsplätze bei international namhaften Unternehmen sichern möchten.

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  • The true Nature , Science photos by Jimmy Kong

    The true Nature , Science photos by Jimmy Kong

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    Amazing!

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  • 7 Hand Gestures That Make You Look Like a Real Intellectual

    7 Hand Gestures That Make You Look Like a Real Intellectual

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    You’ve definitely seen it at some point. Maybe it was in a lecture in college. Maybe it was in a TED talk you watched recently. Someone is trying to explain some important historical connection, drawing up a grand theory of art or science or human progress, and there it is, as if by reflex: the hand lifts in front of them like an upturned claw, the fingers slowly turning an invisible dial. That’s “The Dialectic,” one of the hand gestures you’ll need to master to become a genuine thought leader.

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    Picking up Small Ideas – Use only when seated in front of an audience.

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  • First Look at Saietta R, the World’s First Electric Superbike

    First Look at Saietta R, the World’s First Electric Superbike

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    Introducing Saietta R, the world’s first electric superbike, capable of going from 0-60 mph in just 3.9 seconds without using a single drop of fuel.

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  • Triton Scuba Mask Turns Humans Into Fish with Artificial Gills

    Triton Scuba Mask Turns Humans Into Fish with Artificial Gills

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    Unlike other scuba diving gear, the Triton Scuba Mask is designed to offer you an indefinite stay underwater by stripping oxygen from the water around you like a real set of gills.

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  • 12 Amazing Pictures of Things Cut in Half

    12 Amazing Pictures of Things Cut in Half

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    Do you ever wonder what common (and not so common) things would look like on the inside if they were cut in half?
    Take a look at this odd collection of cutaway shots of random objects, giving you an inside view.