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A Robot That Balances on a Ball

I want my office chair powered with one of these…

Augmented Reality Wall Hack

Yet another very good idea how to secure traffic even more. I am looking forward to see this implemented in urban areas. Whit the low cost of WiFi and camera components it possible to build this into traffic lights or signs so your BMW cHUD can get these streaming life images.

This wouldn’t be my blog if I wouldn’t post a “scientific” video.
The video is from a high school physics project and demonstrates the calculations of velocity, force and acceleration of a pyrotechnic effect.

I’m off celebrating new year.
I hope to see you all in good health in the next decade.

I found this 20 minute video of a ISS fly around sight seeing tour with Astronaut Michael Barratt on youtube.
I had no idea how densely packed the whole station is with all the stuff brought up there. Space seems to be a serious issue up there.

I’ve seen this video linked on reddit today.
As some of you know, I am totaly into machine vision these days and this 3d tracing software that imediately caught my attention.

Think about putting your face into your favorite video game – the term “Headshot” needs to be redefined then.

IBM DNA Transistor

Your personal DNA sequencing  co-processor is not far away from now. IBM taking big leaps to make it happen.

This technology will totally reshape the landscape of medicine and how drugs will be prescribed in the near future.

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  • The solution for KDE 4 users is fairly simple:
    You may not have set the correct DPI for your system.

    In KDE this is done in the Apearance tab in the System Settings.
    Goto Fonts and there will be the drop down  for Force Fonts DPI.

    Set it to 96 DPI and restart Mathematica. That’s it.

    Forcing 96 DPI in KDE control center.

    Forcing 96 DPI in KDE control center.

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  • According to this press release the first stable beam was created this morning.
    Best wishes to CERN and keep up the good work.

    Higgs boson, here we come…

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  • Chemical Party Video

    Chemistry has never been so much fun!

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