Category: research
Research Fodder November 9, 2012
- ‘Terminator’ arm is world’s most advanced prosthetic limb – YouTube
bebionic3 myoelectric hand (Stolen from Savage Glenn.)
- London mapped with language | Neurobonkers | Big Think
Idea: Cross reference with notes regarding Snow’s ghost map.
- Paypal founder invests in floating island utopia – Telegraph
Research Fodder November 5, 2012
- Cleidocranial dysostosis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Symptoms include: “Partly or completely missing collarbones. If the collarbones are completely missing or reduced to small vestiges, this allows hypermobility of the shoulders including ability to touch the shoulders together in front of the chest.”
- UNICAT® – going there is half the fun
When you absolutely positively have to tour the zombie apocalypse.
Research Fodder October 31, 2012
- ‘Devil’s Toy Box’/ Giza Secrets – Shows – Coast to Coast AM
Devil’s toy box: Inward-facing mirrored box.
- Möbius syndrome – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Most people with Möbius syndrome are born with complete facial paralysis and cannot close their eyes or form facial expressions. […] People with Möbius syndrome have normal intelligence, although their lack of facial expression is sometimes incorrectly taken to be due to dullness or unfriendliness.”
Research Fodder October 26, 2012
- Lasers Turned Into Working Tractor Beam | Geekosystem
- Meet the Amazing Robots That Will Compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge – IEEE Spectrum
A variety of concepts
- Watch Darpa’s Rescue Robot Jump, Climb and Dodge Obstacles | Danger Room | Wired.com
Robot Parkour
- Behold Your Doom: Robospidernaut – IEEE Spectrum
Research Fodder October 24, 2012
- Flex LED – Invisible Mercedes – YouTube
How to defeat drones, Step 2
- Gloria Ramirez – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“[S]aw an oily sheen covering Ramirez’s body, and some noticed a fruity, garlic-like odor that they thought was coming from her mouth. A registered nurse named Susan Kane attempted to draw blood from Ramirez’s arm, and noticed an ammonia like smell coming from the tube.
She passed the syringe to Julie Gorchynski, a medical resident who noticed manila-colored particles floating in the blood. At this point, Kane fainted and was removed from the room. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Gorchynski began to feel nauseated. Complaining that she was light-headed, she left the trauma room and sat at a nurse’s desk. A staff member asked her if she was okay, but before she could respond she also fainted. Maureen Welch, a respiratory therapist who was assisting in the trauma room was the third to pass out. The staff was then ordered to evacuate all emergency room patients to the parking lot outside the hospital.”
- Egg freezing changing fertility treatments – CNN.com
“She went online to a new website that sells frozen donor eggs flown in from other cities. She was pleased to find a much wider selection than with fresh eggs — dozens of choices instead of one or two — and for about $11,000 less.”
- Creepily realistic robot can hold conversations and answer questions – YouTube
Research Fodder October 20, 2012
- World first: Robot “Obelix” moves through Freiburg autonomously | SICKinsight online
Roaming robot
- Rex Bionics
“The world’s first hands-free, self-supporting, independently controlled robotic walking device that enables a person with a mobility impairment to stand up and walk.”
- Logiciels & Robots: Wall-Ye
A mean grape-vine-tending machine
- New HAL Exoskeleton: Brain-Controlled Full Body Suit to Be Used In Fukushima Cleanup
- The Steam Man of the Prairies – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seek out.
Research Fodder October 13, 2012
- Love Commandos rescue India’s forbidden couples – CNN.com
- Next (restaurant) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Rather than stick with one type of cuisine, Next completely changes its style every few months, focusing on a different time period and part of the world for each “season” of its menu.”