Stratospheric Broadband
Led, by the University of York and funded by the EU’s Framework 6 R&D programmes, the CAPANINA project seeks to energise the development of high-alititude platforms (HAPs) for wireless broadband....
View ArticleThe Internet Address Book the Identity Search Engine.
About a month ago Roberto Bonanzinga pinged me with details of The Internet Address Book (IAB), an identity search engine that scanned a host of popular social networks – MySpace, LinkedIn, Delicious,...
View ArticleQuintura.com plans visual search expansion
Following its recent launch, visual search engine Quintura.com plans to release a specially designed interface for market-specific sectors. Yakov Sadchikov, co-founder and CEO of Quintura (picture by...
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Clear Labs Aims To Be Google Search For GMOs In Packaged Food
How much gluten, genetically modified organisms and other allergens are in that cereal you ate this morning? Not many people know what is in their food right now, but genomic data startup Clear Labs...
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Zortrax Launches A 3D Model Library For Its Robotic-Arm Loving Users
Polish 3D printer manufacturer Zortrax has announced that they’ve added a 3D model library to its Z-Suite software suite, a closed place where Zortrax users can store and share their models. To...
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Voodoo Manufacturing Taps The Power Of 3D Printing To Make Things On Demand
Four ex-Makerbot employees, Max Friefled, Oliver Ortlieb, Patrick Deem, and Jonathan Schwartz, have come together to create a Brooklyn-based rapid manufacturing system using – what else? – Makerbots....
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I, For One, Welcome Our Sphere-Shaped Quadrupedal Robot Overlords
If you’ve ever wondered what you’ll eventually find inside your body cavity when the robots take over, meet QRoSS by Takeshi Aoki, Satoshi Ito, and Yosuke Sei from the Chiba Institute of Technology in...
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Dragonlock Lets You Print Your Own RPG Dungeons
Your party enters a darkened room. Candles flicker in the gloom and something is glinting along the far wall. Your thief enters first. Her dwarvish blade begins to glow. Danger is nearby! What will...
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Parrot Enables Autonomous Flight For The Bebop Drone
The Parrot Bebop can now fly by itself. After purchasing Flight Mode, Bebop owners can tap out waypoints and sit back while the drone flys autonomously. The ability is enabled by purchasing the in-app...
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GoPro Publishes Sneak Peek Of Upcoming Drone After Reporting Disappointing...
GoPro is working on a drone that’s scheduled for release in early 2016. The company just posted a sneak peak of footage captured from the new drone. Spoiler: It’s silky smooth. This footage was...
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Researchers Can Now Create 3D-Printed (Plastic) Hair
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created a system to put realistic-looking plastic hair on 3D printed objects. While this doesn’t help the follicularly challenged humans among us it does allow you...
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Dispatch Joins The Ground Delivery Club
Delivery companies have finally realized the importance of rolling before learning to fly. While autonomous quadcopter and other airborne drones have been in vogue over the past few years, autonomous...
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Fleks3D Lets You Pull Your 3D Prints Out Of Your Printer With A Quickness
Pulling a 3D print out of your printer is usually a process fraught with conflict. Who will do it? Can you hire someone? Why does it have to be so painful? Has the deity abandoned us Earth people,...
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What Technology Will Look Like In Five Years
As a driver of technical innovation for a software company, a huge part of my job depends on forecasting how current tech trends will play out, merge, dissipate or expand. Here are some of my...
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Making The Case For Drones In Commercial Markets
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015, the CEOs of Sky Futures, Verifly and Airware took the stage with TechCrunch writer Frederic Lardinois in an attempt to explain how drones can be used other...
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College Campuses Are The New Test Facilities For Emerging Technology
College campuses have long been sites of innovation and technology. Housing superior research and development facilities, a plethora of advisory resources and brilliant thinkers, higher-ed...
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Five Good 3D Printers You Can Buy Before The Holiday
If you’re looking to build your own Christmas tree out of plastic this year, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve collected my five favorite 3D printers that you should be able to order and receive...
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A Nano Step For Man, A Giant Leap For Mankind
It is now time for a second era – NNI 2.0. A return to higher and sustained investment, the purpose of NNI 2.0 should be not just foundational research but also necessary support for rapid...
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Lily, A Camera Drone That Automatically Follows You, Pulls In A Mountainous...
Self-driving drone Lily has had quite the success in sales and it’s not even on the market yet. The startup pulled in a whopping $34 million in pre-orders by the end of 2015, with 60,000 units already...
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Google And Amazon Talk About Managing Drone Traffic At CES
Figuring out how to manage drone traffic over the United States to allow for drone delivery services and other drone-based service is going to be critical if Amazon and Google ever want to deliver...
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