It's funny that I found two links to this iSpecies in the last fives minutes (one on and the other on a google watchlist). It is a species search engine led by Roderic Page. You can query species and the data displayed are generated "on the fly" by querying other data sources: iSpecies uses web se...
Self-reproduction of a physical, three-dimensional 4-module robot
(via) this is amazing Self replication project carried out at Cornell University by Viktor Zykov, Efstathios Mytilinaios, Bryant Adams, Hod Lipson. Self-replication is a fundamental property of many interesting physical, formal and biological systems, such as crystals, waves, automata, and especial...
Understanding the context of bodynets implementations
Ana Viseu's work seems very interesting with regards to wearable computing, human/nonhumans interactions. Her PhD work: "Sociotechnical Worlds: The Visions and Realities of Bodynets" seems to be very appealing to my current readings about STS studies about IT. Bodynets are bodies networked for (pot...
Workshop about Human-Robot Interaction
In the context of the Human Robot Interaction HRI2005 conference, there is an intriguing workshop about "HRI Young Researchers Workshop". Some of the topics addresses there that I find interesting to my research practices: Lilia Moshkina - Experimenting with Robot Emotions: Trials and Tribulation...
About MIT Medialab agenda
An article by Techreview mentions the fact that MIT MediaLab is going to be "more focused": venture capitalists no longer readily throw money at "vague" projects, and government funding is drying up. Today, 70 percent of the lab's annual budget of around $35 million comes from corporate sponsors, w...
SmartFish: innovative aviation
Smartfish is a project carried out by various lab and industrials such as EPFL, RUAG, German Aerospace... The objective of team SmartFish is to develop and commercialise a revolutionary general aviation aircraft technology that is highly innovative in terms of safety, economy and emotion. This tech...
Nokia and the future of gaming
A gamasutra news deals with the future of gaming according to Nokia (Jani Karlsson). It addresses the n-gage experience and what they learnt form it. The basic learning is that experience is everything. Experience is the key. Not features for features sake, not power for power's sake - but always l...
Beyond the QWERTY keyboard of gaming
An eTech2006 talk that might be interesting for completing a report on game controllers I did last year: From Paddles to Pads: Is Controller Design Killing Creativity in Videogames? by Tom Armitage The videogames market is stagnating. The primary cause is not the domination of the industry by large...
RFIDs seminar in Geneva (ITU)
Once in a while, some news coming from the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) pops up into my RSS feed aggregator. This time, it's about a workshop that happened last week in Geneva about "Networked RFID: Systems and Services". It addresses arphids (RFID) capabilities, security concerns, n...
Tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression.
This is an intriguing project carried out by Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr in Collaboration with Guy Ben-Ary. It's an artistic research and development project into the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. In the last five years, we have grown tissue sculptures, "semi-living" o...