Category: Uncategorized

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

NETWORKED MATTER is a rather extraordinary concept. Beware the Lunatic Fringe, but it merits serious consideration. The Internet of Things (IoT) will be the barn door opener, connecting devices to anticipate our needs. Such as the house warming up when the car GPS shows the owner approaching. But isn't that just the most basic start? Device to device communication that includes powerful computers could really have legs. View in LinkedIn

THE AGE OF NETWORKED MATTER. "As part of Institute for the Future's research project on what we're calling "The Coming Age of Networked Matter," we've looked at progress around programmable materials that can morph and self-assemble. MIT professor and TED fellow Skylar Tibbits is pushing on this idea with what he dubbed "4D printing, where the fourth dimension is time," meaning that the printed objects change shape over a certain period."" " http://lnkd.in/dBdaTja View in LinkedIn

BRILLIANT CLAYTRONICS FUTURE includes morphing materials and a virtual reality communications capability: image talking on the phone to a recreated image of your friend with touchability included. (Were you listening?). Or, morphing your phone into a computer and back to a phone again. Mind-bending stuff. " " http://m.youtube.com/watch? v=XUR3_KP8TWE&autoplay=1&desktop_uri=%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DXUR3_KP8TWE%2526autoplay%253D1 View in LinkedIn

PSRIO PARTNER. "For example...in telepresense to mimic, with high-fidelity and in 3-dimensional solid form, the look, feel, and motion of the person at the other end of the telephone call. To achieve this long-range vision we are investigating hardware mechanisms for constructing submillimeter robots. We also propose the creation of a new media type, which we call pario. The idea behind pario is to render arbitrary moving, physical 3-dimensional objects that you can see, touch, and even hold in your hands." http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2241 View in LinkedIn