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PHYSICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL WORLD MERGES."In the future you won’t use computers to design a car, the car will form from billions of tiny computers that arrange themselves into anything you want. The physical and computational world will merge. Hope you’re ready."" " http://lnkd.in/dHbJvdK View in LinkedIn

PRINTING NEW EYE CELLS. "Our study has shown, for the first time, that cells derived from the mature central nervous system, the eye, can be printed using a piezoelectric inkjet printer. Although our results are preliminary and much more work is still required, the aim is to develop this technology for use in retinal repair in the future."" " http://lnkd.in/deD4xBj View in LinkedIn

SHAPESHIFTING PROGRAMMABLE MATTER that can change color, shape and conductivity; tiny computer particles called CATOMS can use swarm behavior on demand to create a 3D image or structure. Intel Corp is already working on it. See the video. This stuff truly rocks. " " http://lnkd.in/dnMNfme View in LinkedIn

THESE EXEMPLARS ARE TEASERS demanding that you read the full article, because the concepts are difficult and the resulting toys are more than a little strange in every way. And unfortunately, it only gets worse with tomorrow's blogs. Hang onto your dentures. Prepare for the unknown. View in LinkedIn

PROGRAMABLE MATTER, some highlights. Watch two videos of Catoms at work. While these researchers need the polish of Scientific American, one cannot help feel that you are on a sand dune at the Outer Banks NC, watching the Wright brothers practice man's first flight. Suspend your disbelief and immerse in the possibility. " " http://prokalkeo.com/top-tech-2013-day-programmable-matter/ View in LinkedIn

SELF-CONFIGURING MODULAR ROBOTICS, some examples: "1. Most important is the incredible flexibility that comes from the ability to change the physical structure and behavior of a solution by changing the software that controls modules. 2. The ability to self-repair by automatically replacing a broken module will make SRCMR solution incredibly resilient. 3. Reducing the environmental foot print by reusing the same modules in many different solutions."" " http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_matter View in LinkedIn

HACKING MATTER. "Imagine you had a bag of tiny, programmable robotic modules that could sense their neighbors and move as directed. After running the appropriate program, you could reach into the bag and pull out a wrench, a coffee cup, or whatever else you wanted. Then, when you were done, you could put the modules back in the bag and command them to re-form into the next thing you needed."" " http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/66/6/10.1063/PT.3.2020 View in LinkedIn

ELECTROPERMANENT MAGNETS: "imagine you were to replace a large motor with 1000 smaller motors, each scaled down by a factor of 10 in length and therefore by a factor of 1000 in volume...you might connect all 1001 motors to the same long shaft and then drive the 1 large motor forward and all 1000 small motors backward for a game of rotary tug of war. With all the small motors stalled against the large one, the small motors together would dissipate 100 times more heat."" " http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/66/6/10.1063/PT.3.2020 View in LinkedIn

"ALL TECHNOLOGY WILL BECOME INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY". This truly dazzling thought deserves exploring to its natural exhaustion, unless, which is highly likely, it leads to yet another surprising confluence of great disciplines. The cartoon character, Shoe the wise owl, famously said: "Is this brilliance or complex stupidity?". Let's find out. " " http://lnkd.in/d-QZYYM View in LinkedIn

NETWORKED MATTER. "Big data and the Internet of Things, where everything is online and interconnected, where we observe and create complex systems ourselves; in the age of networked matter where everything is information and interconnectivity with machines and other species." (IFTE,org). Beware the Lunatic Fringe. " " http://www.iftf.org/future-now/article-detail/the-coming-age-of-networked-matter-1/ View in LinkedIn