08/11/2009
How much would you pay to see your future?
The Human Genome Project, which officially completed the mind-boggling achievement of sequencing Jim Watson’s genome in 2006, carried the equally mind-boggling price tag of $3 billion. If I may be so bold as to use that word thrice in one paragraph, even more mind-boggling is that a company called Complete Genomics has just sequenced three human genomes for $4,400 in materials, with an error rate of less than one base in 100,000.
15:46
Updated Report on the Future of Nuclear Power
An interdisciplinary MIT faculty group has issued an update on their 2003 report on the future of nuclear power
15:06
On The Go Mobile Coupons
The idea behind AT&T’s system is that you can walk around a city with a phone in your pocket and get alerted when a nearby retailer has a deal for you.
Via Techcrunch
15:01
New Neural Chip Requires No Battery
a new one, created by experts at the University of Washington, works without a battery, drawing its power from a radio source up to a meter away
14:56
Forecasting Financial Crashes: The Ultimate Experiment Begins
If a new technique for predicting crashes really works, a bold new experiment will measure how well.
Paul Higgins: A commendable step. Too much of the commentary and claims around forecasting are based on individuals making a prediction that comes true but no examination of the overall performance. I will be watching this with great interest. My initial reaction from principle is that forecasting of complex events is by definition impossible but my principles would also say that scientific and empirical testing should always be carried out.
07/11/2009
Scared of Flying - There’s an App for That
Virgin if offering its Fear of flying counselling and training process via an iPhone application
2:15
Software Listens for Hints of Depression
A large-scale trial will test whether software can identify depressed patients.
06/11/2009
Can the green movement save wool?
That’s the question circulating around the industry as vertically integrated wool marketing company, The Merino Company (TMC), becomes the first wool licensee of the highly respected EU Eco-label ‘Flower’ and offers it to its retail clients.
The environmentally conscience label first hit European retail shelves in 1992 and at the beginning of 2009 more than 750 companies world-wide had been awarded the label as marketing managers attempted to benefit from the shiny green dollars by helping consumers find more environmentally friendly products and services.
21:27
New Computer Simulator Helps Design Military Strategies Based On Ants’ Movements
A researcher at the University of Granada has designed a new system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield based on the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move using a commercial video game.
21:24
F1 designer unveils electric car
An electric car created by the McLaren F1 ‘supercar’ road car designer Gordon Murray has been unveiled.
Three prototypes of the T.27 model will be developed over the next 16 months.
The manufacturing process, called iStream, has received £9m of investment, half of which came from the government’s Technology Strategy Board.
iStream plants can be just one fifth of the size of a conventional car factory, as the cars are not made from stamped steel.
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