LiquiGlide - a super slippery coating
Scientists at MIT have developed this freaky non-stick coating that keeps ketchup flowing. Amazing solution to an old problem. Also one of the weirdest videos you will see this week.
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Scientists to build $1 billion smart city where no one will live
The coolest town of all time is about to be built, and no one will live in it. A scientific ghost town that cost a billion dollars will soon be built in New Mexico as a testing ground for futuristic technologies. It won’t only look futuristic like this accidental ghost town, it actually will be.
The city, which will be built in Lea County, will test everything from intelligent traffic systems to next-generation wireless networks. A rendering of it is above.
Something about the idea of a city with self-driving cars going from place to place sans passengers is inherently creepy but also incredibly cool.
The Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation project will be about 15 square miles and is considered the first of its kind.
June 30 is the set date to begin building this incredibly frustrating city that feels like the biggest prank of all time. There’s no telling if people will be able to move in late, but here’s to hoping.
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Scientists to build $1 billion smart city where no one will live
The coolest town of all time is about to be built, and no one will live in it. A scientific ghost town that cost a billion dollars will soon be built in New Mexico as a testing ground for futuristic technologies. It won’t only look futuristic like this accidental ghost town, it actually will be.
The city, which will be built in Lea County, will test everything from intelligent traffic systems to next-generation wireless networks. A rendering of it is above.
Something about the idea of a city with self-driving cars going from place to place sans passengers is inherently creepy but also incredibly cool.
The Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation project will be about 15 square miles and is considered the first of its kind.
June 30 is the set date to begin building this incredibly frustrating city that feels like the biggest prank of all time. There’s no telling if people will be able to move in late, but here’s to hoping.
State of the 3D Printing Union, Per The Telegraph
You might not know anyone with a 3D printer yet, but, says Neil Gershenfeld, head of the Center for Bits and Atoms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “digital personal fabrication has been growing exponentially, and the ways these exponentials work is that there’s a kind of barrier to perception. You may think nothing’s happening and then suddenly there’s a revolution.” Brooklyn-based MakerBot has sold around 6,000 machines, to tech-savvy early adopters like the aforementioned eggcup maker, Brendan Dawes.
But we don’t know how many 3D printers there are out there – some, like the RepRap, can make their own parts and reproduce themselves. Bowyer designed them to be “evolutionarily stable”: RepRaps offer people goods so that people will build them, just as flowers offer bees nectar so that they’ll carry their pollen.
Another problem with the perception of desktop 3D printers is that the things people are making at home right now don’t look that exciting. Take the Thingiverse, a website where people upload photographs and design files of things they’ve designed and made themselves. There are plastic kittens. Plastic door stops. Plastic plant pots. Plastic toy planes. Plastic widgets and encoder wheels and screw isolators and servo wheels, individual parts to improve your printer but not much else.
But just when your inner cynic starts to kick in, because homemade plastic tchotchkes don’t look much more appealing than ones made in Taiwan, someone will tell you a cautionary tale. Gershenfeld invokes the name of Ken Olsen. The head of a company called the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in 1977 Olsen made a famous pronouncement: “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” As Gershenfeld says today, “Now DEC is bankrupt, and you have a computer at home.” Underestimating the potential for new technologies to adapt, evolve and thrive can make you look stupid.
(via Make your own: the 3D printing revolution - Telegraph)
(ht BigThink.com)
