In The Future, All Our Pop Idols Will Be Machines
Performing live at CEATEC, everyone's favorite catwalk model bot has been loaded with Vocaloid software (Rin), enabling her to croon sweet pop songs.Stay tuned for more coverage of the wonders and...
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New Answer to 80-Year-Old Question Makes Computer Modeling 100,000 Times Faster
Quantum Physics Puzzle Solvers Princeton professor Emily Carter and graduate student Chen Huang developed a new way of predicting important properties of substances. Frank WojciechowskiFermi would...
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Europe's Living Earth Simulator Could Forecast the Future
Living Earth Simulator Could the Google Earth models of today herald tomorrow's socioeconomic forecasting machine? Google Earth BlogThe goal would require gathering unprecedented amounts of information...
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Build a Life-Size Paper Clone of Yourself for Under $40
DIY Paper Clone A young Instructables user based in Germany tells you how to make a 3-D clone of yourself from paper. InstructablesA young German guy has a detailed Instructable online this week that...
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You Built What?! A Backyard B-50 Bomber
Big Flyer The craft can get up to about 50 mph in the air. Jonathan WorthWeighing nearly 100 pounds, a giant model plane takes to the skies Four years ago, engineer Tony Nijhuis was visiting an...
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Video: Spanish Designer Demonstrates Spray-On Clothing
Spray-On ClothingNew Scientist via YouTubeHigh fashion meets high tech with this new spray-on clothing designed by a Spanish fashionisto. The design team also hopes to use the technology for spray-on...
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Elaborate Software Model Addresses Burning Question: "How Is the Eiffel Tower...
The Eiffel TowerTaxiarchos228The Eiffel Tower was intended to stand for only 20 years past its 1889 debut--in fact, the original contest rules for the design stipulated that the tower must be easily...
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You Built What?! A Colossal Flying Reproduction of a 1935 Airship
Quick Jaunt The airship gets 45 minutes of flight time on a single charge of its battery. Cody PickensThe model USS Macon barely fits inside a two-car garage The first time retired computer engineer...
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Study: Rising Global Temperatures Spur Steepest Sea Level Rise In 2,100 Years
Outer Banks Salt Marsh Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania studied salt marsh core samples in the Outer Banks of North Carolina to build the first-ever reconstruction of sea level history....
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Computer Algorithms Quantify How Much a Photo Has Been Retouched
Model Undone By Mathematical Models The real image is at left; the retouched one at center; and a vector field heat map showing the distortions in the retouched image is at right. Farid and...
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10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class
Tetranitratoxycarbon Professor Robert Zoellner holds a model of tetranitratoxycarbon. He has a co-authorship on a paper about the new molecule--along with ten-year-old Clara Lazen. Humboldt State...
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Turning People Into Plastic
Plastic SurgeryClick here to get a bigger view of this amazing image.Reuters/Sheng LiAt Dalian Hoffen Bio-Technique Company in northern China, people turn other people into plastic. Plastination is a...
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You Built What?!: A Fire-Breathing, Jet-Powered Dragon
Green Flash The dragon can fly faster than 100mph, but builder Richard Hamel keeps it at a cruising speed closer to 70. Tom CwenarA 50,000-volt stun gun and liquid propane canister lets the flames fly...
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Meet Spaun, The Most Complex Simulated Brain Ever
Spaun Learns And Remembers A screen capture from a simulation movie of Spaun in action shows the input image on the right. The output is drawn on the surface below Spaun's arm. Neuron activity is...
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Brooklyn's Most Insane New Buildings Look Like Giant Angular Donuts
Domino BuildingsCourtesy SHoP Architects and James Corner Field OperationsWelcome to Brooklyn, where you can live in a giant condo with a hole in it. On the Brooklyn side of the East River next to the...
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Europe's Living Earth Simulator Could Forecast the Future
Living Earth Simulator Could the Google Earth models of today herald tomorrow's socioeconomic forecasting machine? Google Earth Blog A world rife with burst economic bubbles and the threat of global...
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Build a Life-Size Paper Clone of Yourself for Under $40
DIY Paper Clone A young Instructables user based in Germany tells you how to make a 3-D clone of yourself from paper. Instructables A young German guy has a detailed Instructable online this week that...
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You Built What?! A Backyard B-50 Bomber
Big Flyer The craft can get up to about 50 mph in the air. Jonathan Worth Four years ago, engineer Tony Nijhuis was visiting an aviation museum in Duxford, England, when he spotted his next project:...
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Video: Spanish Designer Demonstrates Spray-On Clothing
Spray-On Clothing New Scientist via YouTube High fashion meets high tech with this new spray-on clothing designed by a Spanish fashionisto. The design team also hopes to use the technology for...
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Elaborate Software Model Addresses Burning Question: "How Is the Eiffel Tower...
The Eiffel Tower Taxiarchos228The Eiffel Tower was intended to stand for only 20 years past its 1889 debut--in fact, the original contest rules for the design stipulated that the tower must be easily...
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