A Taxonomy of Social Networking Data (Bruce Schneier) -- he divides information by who gave it, why, and who controls it. Useful to remember that not all social data are equal.
News at Seven -- project to automatically generate news report, complete with Flash-animated news readers and text-to-speech voices. A project from the Intelligent Information Lab at Northwestern University.
Bacteria-Powered Micro-Machines -- A few hundred bacteria are working together in order to turn the gear. When multiple gears are placed in the solution with the spokes connected like in a clock, the bacteria will begin turning both gears in opposite directions and it will cause the gears to rotate in synchrony for a long time. Video embedded below (via BoingBoing)
The Bacteria-Powered Machines look amazing!
But I wonder what is the application of these things, or just another 'for fun' activity.
Anyway, it MAY become a breakthrough at sometime, when we can program the bacteria like bits and bytes, for example.
Comments: 4
LPT [21 December 2009 06:55 AM]
The Bacteria-Powered Machines look amazing!
But I wonder what is the application of these things, or just another 'for fun' activity.
Anyway, it MAY become a breakthrough at sometime, when we can program the bacteria like bits and bytes, for example.
John Riphart [21 December 2009 07:50 AM]
If you have a watch powered by bacteria, and you spray it with an antibacterial, will it stop working?
Binal [21 December 2009 10:33 AM]
Would you please check the weblink for second topic from browser?
Wayne [21 December 2009 06:07 PM]
I clicked the second link and got a browser alert about being attacked by a virus.