Category: Science & Technology

Quakescape 3D Fabricator Transforms Seismic Waves from Earthquakes into Art

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If Mother Nature is the ultimate artist, then the Quakescape 3D Fabricator is her ultimate medium. The incredible art-making machine converts seismic waves into colored splotches, which are squirted onto a unique canvas – a topographical sub-section of Christchurch, New Zealand. Inspired by last year’s devastating quake in the region, the Quakescape is synched in with earthquake monitors, and it creates a painting each time seismic activity is detected.

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4 Best interactive mirrors that monitor health

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Jon Walmsley’s health monitoring mirror

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Mirrors that can change the complicated tasks of a person in an interactive and an easy to go task, is what Interactive Mirror do. Have you ever wondered if you could organize your daily schedule with the few touches on your bathroom mirror or chatting with far-away relatives and friends through an interactive video on your kitchen counter or say reading a novel on a thin piece of flexible glass? Technology has actually made the world smaller and easier for one and all, interactive mirrors make all these fascination possible, not only this, they help you stay connected and even keep a check on your health. So for your knowledge we have listed below 5 interactive mirrors that monitor health, take a look.

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Lab-Grown Sphincters For Mice

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The world’s first artificial sphincters have been successfully grown and transplanted into mice.  This new technique uses a circular mold in which human muscle cells grow along side nerve gut cells of mice.  The man leading this research is Khalil Bitar of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine.  Bitar is currently doing testing on some larger animals and hopes to begin testing in humans in as little as three to five years. … Read More

Amazon CEO’s flying water tank crashes, leaves dent in his space travel dream

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In a moment of profound candidness, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos has revealed that the mid-air failure of his unmanned spaceship 11 days ago was “not the outcome any of us wanted.” The searing truth of his statement is certainly borne out by the fact that NASA has poured millions of dollars of funding into Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin, in the hope that it will one day ferry people to the ISS and replace the scuttled shuttle program. … Read More

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