Oh, sure, it will be crude at first. But even that step is cool as hell.
I hope mobiles get more and more sensors. Eventually, of course, it wont be mobile phones but AR specs using the same tech.
Some people see this as humans getting closed of from the real world, but I see it the reverse; we get to see more of the world, to understand more from it, then our natural biology can alone - and that's fantastic ^_^

But,yes, I do fear the smart toilet paper uprising.

I agree that it's fantastic. I'm also curious to see what exactly the toiler paper uprising will look like.

By the way my brother got the molecular sensor as a Kickstarter backer (for $200) and yes it really works. We tested it on several food products and it always matched the correct values as said on the product's nutrition values. You just point it at whatever and it tells you fat percentage and such things. There's an app center for it where developers can make and publish apps that can assist you with anything molecule-related.

It's crazy! I mean, it's difficult to grasp the fact I'm holding such a device in my hand. One minute it's crazy sci-fi, the next minute I'm actually holding it. It's surreal. Not nearly as surreal as me talking to you right now by tapping those little flat stones on a plate that communicates to this crazy machine that is infrastructured on the entire planet, but we've already gotten used to that 20 years ago haven't we?

We get used to things so fast we tend to forget the fact that they weren't there yesterday. And in turn the fact that what's impossible now will be trivial tomorrow.

Indeed x 10.
The most amazing thing of all is we live in a world were its easy to forget just how amazing things are.
Sometimes I just think of something that seems simple - like a lightbulb - and all the various inventions and effort it took for humanity to be able to make it.

Hehe, reminds me of a French video when a guy stares out of a window car at night and thinks of everything that had to be accomplished in order for him to do that :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylItncwfIE4

No subs? aww man. :( I can understand the kind of narrative though, seems clever.

The uploader blocked the video from view in Israel. Nice. :sigh:

I tried to look for a subbed version but couldn't find any :(

Here is the vid from another website, hope this one is available from everywhere : http://www.videobuzzy.com/Bref-des-f...uris-5288.news

The final two sentences are "It was one of the most beautiful things I saw in my life. In short, sometimes I think about it, and I smile."

Need happiness?
http://hackaday.com/2017/01/19/marla...m/#more-240486

I couldn't not have a big grin watching that.

Adorable. :o:o:x

Team Unlimbited... HAHA.
Pardon my ignorance however, I do not understand how she controls the grip. It was simply attached to her arm with straps... Where does the signal comes to close and open the hand?

Not bad :D

I think the hand grips automatically when she folds her arm.

"Car" for goldfishes :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GDgmP1ac_A

I somehow remember already seeing something like that somewhere... Anyway, for some reason, I'm finding this pretty cool |)

ha :D
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Anyway, this popped up earlier in the thread I think, but really impressed what a skilled person can do with it;

Whoa :eek:
I have a 3D pen, but this is something else !

Yeah, its like people who can make masterpiece art in mspaint.
In this case though its a completely new medium for art. Cant think of anything like this before.

Well... It's a statue... ?

Yeah, but its inverted - your adding, not chipping away.
Also at times in the video he bends it a bit with his hands.
So its like statue+drawing+clay+???

Wowza! When technology and art meet, the most beautiful things are born.

indeed!
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7 earth sized planets found in a nearby system - 3 in the habitable zone;
http://www.space.com/35803-trappist-...lien-life.html

Lots and lots of free software from NASA;
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/02/na...ou-should-try/
Sure, most only useful for very specialized purposes, but some stuff like image analysis might be applicable for other fields.
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Unrelated but cool;
https://benedikt-bitterli.me/tantalum/tantalum.html

Light beam simulator, including refraction.
Switch to lazer for the most interesting effects.

Hard to read that light simulator, but neat indeed !

Check out this awesome software (demo on browser, no download necessary): https://affinelayer.com/pixsrv/index.html

I think it's amazing. Just imagine how useful it can be once it's even more developed... it's as close as we've ever gotten to simply imagining something in our heads and have the computer display it on screen. And what's more, looks like it's completely free and open source.

oh, yes, played with that earlier...should have posted it here myself. Its amazing indeed.

Actually, maybe we could make a collection of these cool high-tech interactive websites?
(this one, googles "recognize whats in the image" one....?)

Go for it :tup: (can't think of any more sites myself at the moment)