Google doesit again!

http://www.google.com/squared/

information;

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/ ... oogle.html

Seems pretty good to me.
Gets a lot wrong, especialy pictures...and the edit tools need to be better.
But it seems geniunely quite usefull.

Looking up stuff like "Adventure Games" actualy produces a list of adventure games, with release dates and publisher.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfaAiujrX_Y&fmt=

Asimo just gets freakier.

Very impressive.
When are they going to put Asimo into batch production? Theres probably a market for 10,000 or so worldwide even with just the current abilitys. (if they can get the reproduction cost down to, say, $100,000 or so. Should be possible, as its mostly research costs. The componants themselfs shouldnt cost millions)

Been just wondering that too. Why does everytime something cool gets made they have to wait 10-some years until it gets released to the public?

Well, general-public being a bit of a stretch here, given the costs.
But certainly they could be a lot more common, rented out for shows and such.

I wonder how power consumption works out for that thing. Handling heavy material with human precision must use a lot of power. Does it use li-ion?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzjkBwZtxp4&fmt=

This one playing the violin gets better and better too...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs_vL9g4IYk&NR=1
There's a whole fricken band now...

Nice, except the musicbox was invented even before the discovery of electricity :p

Yeah, the difference is in the detail though. This robot can do a lot more, and lot more fluently then a scribing automaton, or a chess playing automaton. Besides, they're not just playing stuff out of speakers, the ones playing brass instruments have artificial lips and lungs... and they're really playing the real instrument they're holding.

I cant help thinking we could be so easily fooled and they turn out to be guys in suits :P

Opera Unite;
http://unite.opera.com/
Obvious comparisons to GoogleWave, allthough this is here right now, and actualy is pretty different.
Basicaly its like a p2p websever right into the browser, letting you share files or even set up a webpage with pretty much zero effort. Dont even need a static IP, just...umm...select what you want and go...your sites online.

Its very impressive that all this, and the whole existing feature set of Opera, still fits in 9MB.

Heres a quick test I made, sharing some backdrops;
http://secondcity.twdarkflame.operau...Share/content/

The password is the name of the hero of LBA's girlfriend followed by 1.
(set purely to stop random googlers getting to the stuff easily).

If the sites offline, its because I'm restarting my pc :P
I'll be interested to hear what speeds are like.

Pretty cool! I always found manually setting an FTP server to be a pain in the ass.

Edit: P.S. The speed is excellent. What connection do you have (in upload speed)?

1MB/s upload ver ASDL (XS4ALL)

And yes, its -much- easier to set up. I'll be using this a lot.
I did notice it drop down a few times though.
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Sarychev volcano (Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) as seen from ISS:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...-09048_lrg.jpg

Higher res;
http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/gallery...020e009048.jpg

Pretty neat;

http://gamesalfresco.com/2009/06/23/...-is-very-cool/

(Automated pool playing robot + visual projected guide for human players)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMtqWqj0hE

A docu with Brian Cox about fusion. Ilovedocumentary2 and 3 has a lot of great stuff. Youtube shut down his frst account :(

A "cure" for radiation poisoning;
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...748014,00.html

Not nice to think about the animal testing there, but those are very impressive results.

First Stimpack (tissue regrowth), now Radaway :D We're getting there.

What astounds me the most is that you're not hearing about it in any news, and it should be front page. Seriously scientific discovery should always be front page!

Also, seeing they use stem cells it should be "stempacks" :P.

Restored moon footage from Apollo11:
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010400/a010451/
An article on NASA loosing the film reels with the original transmission (apparently the tv one was a downgraded horrible version of the OT):
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...asa&topic_set=

Some stills from the original not downgraded transmission:
http://honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_1...es/A11TV04.jpg
http://honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_1...es/A11TV03.jpg
http://honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_1...es/A11TV05.jpg
http://honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_1...es/A11TV06.jpg
http://honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_1...es/A11TV07.jpg
http://honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_1...es/A11TV17.jpg

Hi res Apollo11 photos:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200...apollo_11.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LR...ollosites.html

LRO made photos of all of the APOLLO landing sites! :)

The 12th picture looks like a massive LAN party :D

Now seriously, those pics look really awesome :)

Great stuff.

Rather amusingly, they also released the original software used for the moon landing :P

Darkflame, here's the schematics for the Landing computer and the software that runs it:
http://www.galaxiki.org/web/main/_bl...-kidding.shtml



http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hu..._20060410.html
New "planet" found, dubbed Xena, slightly larger then Pluto.

yeah, I know :D
Lots of cool stuff.
I do wonder though, how the "moon landings are fake" crowd are responding to all this :p
I guess they can denigh and overhead photos going ver nasa as also being fake...but wasnt there a Japanese probe going around the moon soon?
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We interupt this moon-party to bring you a AR announcement;

While not that exciting as such, I'm flaging this as an important step.
I -really- want the future I see depicted in Denno Coil, Halting State, and a few other things.
I think its humanitys next step, and could happen within 5 years.

But it needs to be open platforms and not closed-solutions run by a handfull of companys.
The idea of a platform for a Augmented Reality Network...as well as the founding of the AR consortium, hopefully points to a development akin to the start of the World Wide Web.
I only hope we dont get another browser war this time.

Well if the Japanese make photos of it they'll just say they're US allies, and that the conspiracy is even bigger then they initially thought...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw&fmt=

This is a great vid made to Carl Sagan.
And the photo, you can see the earth in it. I'm not sure it's the original taken by voyager 1 though, this is most likely a cassini photo.

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:...230_6162_1.jpg


Btw. we should rename this thread to Science and Hi-technology,

EDIT:
Yeah, that one's a cassini photo, a shame there's no higher res of this one made almost outside the solar system:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...(uitsnede).png

I like the movie.

Me too, I liked it so much, I translated it into polish!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muSRs3FfHiQ

That's nice! But I think Youtube's annotations feature could allow you to do that more smoothly.

I wanted to send it to another site, and don't think those work that well with embedded vids.

Anyway, I want to work at festo!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5JHMpLIqO4&fmt=


http://www.youtube.com/user/FestoHQ?view=videos

Not high tech, but Vortex cannons are cool;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyAyd4WnvhU

And, not to be outdone, the Japanease;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bvtv...eature=related

100 olden things your kids will never know.

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07...er-know-about/

Yeah, I read that.
I suspect however, slide-rules will be known, as its a very generic example thats always brought up....knowledge of it will survive for that reason alone :P

I also dont buy that wires are going away. Reduced hugely, but power-over-air has a lot to prove in an era when we are trying to be efficient with energy.

Still good list.

ESA goodness!

A crew space vehicle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hbp5_KtDGM&fmt=
New lightweight rocket:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVbpxIl_MCk
(I really like the way they "weave" the hull)

Now the fact they're working on re-entry, and are making a crew vehicle, plus this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBlAVYlWF6k&fmt= suggests that ESA might be planning a shuttle like vehicle in the next few years and is working out all the quirks. And as much as I'm excited about the privately founded companies, seeing a all european organization becoming a major player really makes my day.

Coooool :)

I like this image;
http://i27.tinypic.com/oj4b9f.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93S5QTIUbrk&fmt=

Another Esa thing, about a moon and mars mission.

And now for something completely different;
http://colorforth.com/haypress.htm

Not much to look at, but thats 360 cores at 700 MIPS each.

This is, apart from being an insane amount of computing power in a very small space, is quite a many times more powerfull then is necessary for software radios.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly

This is really disturbing...

Why? Is it doing anything it didn't do before? I tried to read it but somehow could not make out what you pointed at.

Well, it makes perminate or semi-perminate residence in near-earth orbit harder.
If we could get mass into space easier it wouldnt be such a problem.

As my understanding goes, however, depending on the "route" you take into space, if your not stopping in earth orbit, this radiation isnt actualy much of a factor.

Actually, what I meant is that it's a hole in the magnetosphere, and we know for a fact that the earths magnetic "shield" is getting increasingly weaker, and the magnetic pole reversal is way overdue. it means that at one point this "hole" could make a touchdown. It also makes flying in airliners damn dangerous in that region.

Ah okay, so the field is getting weaker but no signs it will be getting stronger again? One way street? That would be kinda scary depending on the time scale.
Wasn't it mars that lost most of its magnetic crap a long time ago? Maybe Earth is getting rusty too. :eek:

I think the story says the field gets weaker and weaker nearing the pole reversal. Then at some point we'll have multiple poles springing up at different points of the planet and at one point they'll stabilize at opposite geographical poles.

I might've gotten that part wrong. It is getting weaker though.

Yeah, I heard that too. The field will get weaker and weaker, then it'll vanish. After some time it will start getting stronger but with switched poles. Yup. That would be totally fucked up... :?

Fucked up, but it isnt that bad, our species survived it before.
We just gota stop using compass's for critical stuff in our tech.

I dont actually think gps broadcasts (ie, timed radio) will be effected. Although, that dosnt give you direction.

Probably won't be affected, but while there will be no magnetic field, anything can just hit our planet. Also, we'll probably die because of the radiation from the sun. The magnetic shield protects us from it. No more sunbathing.

As I said, we survived before.
Radiation wont kill us, and the magnetic shield only protected us from that solar radiation....it never helped with physical stuff smashing us, thats only the atmosphere helping there.

Of course, it might not be wise to sunbath so much indeed.

No sunbathing = we're screwd.

I have no clue what you all are talking about :?