Liam is a five year old boy from South Africa who was born without fingers on his right hand. When Liam’s mom stumbled upon a blog run by prosthetics hobbyists, Ivan and Rich, she contacted them and shared her son’s story. The two were so moved that they decided to work together on a new hand for the boy.
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After about a year of training its Watson system on more than 600,000 pieces of medical evidence and 2 million pages of medical research, IBM is now offering a cloud-based Watson service to help oncologists develop the best-possible treatments for cancer patients.
Watson schooling our own Stacey Higginbotham at Jeopardy
Watson, if you’ll recall, was designed as a question-answering system that defeated … Read More → "Watson now officially fighting cancer, from the cloud"
We get that not everyone loves the symphony, but everyone loves Final Fantasy, right? Right. Of course they do. That’s why we’re so pumped about the London Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Final Symphony. It’s a collection of music from Final Fantasy VI, VII, andX, and it’s one night only.
The music was compiled from the … Read More → "The London Symphony Orchestra takes on Final Fantasy"
As we cover the mobile industry, where the evolution of devices and processors is relentless, we’re used to being impressed. We’re used to seeing a new generation of a product that instantly and irrevocably makes the previous one look tame. It’s just the way this world turns. However, that’s not something we’re used to seeing in the automotive world, where each new model year is typically such a … Read More → "Tesla Model S review"
Research firm Forrester understands that everyone who’s been listening with even one ear knows that mobile, social, cloud, and data are big freight trains of change that are blowing up old business models and old business practices.
But let’s face it: that train is in the station. What’s next?
Analyst Bryan Hopkins gave us a peek into what Forrester thinks is next, and much of it builds on those four horseman of disruptive change. “We went a level deeper in our research by examining how today& … Read More → "Forrester’s top 15 emerging technologies"
“Star Wars” makeup artist Stuart Freeborn, who helped create Chewbacca, Yoda, Jabba the Hutt and the otherworldly creatures in the trilogy’s famous barroom scene, has died, Lucasfilm said Wednesday.
He was 98.
A creature effects artist, Freeborn also worked on other film classics and was responsible for creating the apelike human ancestors in the “Dawn of Man” sequence in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
He also did the makeup for Peter Sellers in “Doctor Strangelove,” Lucasfilm said on … Read More → "Makeup master Stuart Freeborn of ‘Star Wars’ dead at age 98"
… Read More → "Simple electronic circuit patents"While circuits can’t be copyrighted, they can be patented. Mats spotted this simple undervoltage indication circuit that is supposedly covered by a patent.
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Humans, by nature, are thrill seekers. Why else would we leap from a 1,149-foot-tall tower or wait in line to ride the world’s steepest roller coaster? The Centrifuge Brain Project is a mockumentary by German filmmaker Til Nowak that challenges the notion that brain activity decreases while riding high-speed, vomit-inducing amusement park rides.
In The Centrifuge Brain Project, Les Barany plays fictitious engineer … Read More → "Impossible amusement park rides"
NASA’s Curiosity rover recently took a step closer to its historic first drilling on Mars, as it tested its drilling system. Last Saturday, the nuclear-powered explorer conducted a “drill-on-rock checkout” on a rock designated “John Klein” in Gale Crater. The brief test of the drill’s percussive action in a back and forth motion was part of a series of tests to determine if the rover’s drill is … Read More → "Curiosity tests drilling system"
