New Microscope Enables Real-Time 3-D Movies of Developing Embryos
“Using a revolutionary new microscope, scientists can now peer into embryos and watch, in one of the world’s smallest 3-D movies, as brains, eyes and other organs form. A team at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, watched zebra fish and fruit flie embryos develop under the scope for as long as 58 hours, charting the location of every cell as it danced around the embryo. This experiment would have been impossible a mere two years ago before a recent spate of innovations in advanced microscopy years into the future.”
Scientific American
Zootool is a Visual, Social Bookmarking Tool
“After you sign up, Zootool provides a bookmarklet (but a third party chrome extension is available as well). Like any good bookmarking web app, you click the bookmarklet to bookmark the site. Instead of a little info panel, however, Zootool runs through all the images on the page and gives you a nice little grid to choose from. From there you can bookmark any image on the page, tag it, and save it to your Zootool account. Zootool creates a feed of your bookmarked sites, making it like a hybrid between a bookmarking site and a microblog.”
LifeHacker
The Future of Screens, Circa 2014
“Screen technology is now taking the next leap and the coming years imagination is the only thing stopping us. We will soon have dual screens, malleable screens, screens built into wifi connected mirrors, desks or backside of gadgets clothed with e-ink screens, tactile feedback, color screens with great contrast in sunlight, holographics/stereoscopic screens, color e-ink touch screens, or screens actually knowing where they are in relation to other screens thanks to ultrasonic emitters and microphones.”
Gizmodo
Meteorological Data Turned Into Sculptural Music Scores
“Artist Nathalie Miebach extracts weather data from different cities and translates it into functional musical scores which she then uses to create sculptures.”
PSFK
Meet Booyah’s InCrowd, A Location-Based Second Life
“Touted as part game and part social utility, InCrowd is unique in the LBS space as it goes beyond collecting check-ins and allows users to experience a virtual world corresponding the real world visited in Places. Like a location-based Second Life
, InCrowd app users can create their own customizable avatars, “interact” with old and new friends nearby as well as accumulate status and virtual goods.”
TechCrunch
Make Custom Electronic Goods Online: Ponoko and Sparkfun Team Up!
“We’re excited to hear that Ponoko, the popular, laser-cutter based, online fabrication system, is teaming up with SparkFun to offer electronic hardware as part of its catalog of materials, allowing makers to create polished, custom electronic products. Touch-sensitive, gps-enabled, music-producing robots that feed your cat come to mind.”
Core77
The Other Half Of Search: Greplin Is A Personal Search Engine For Your Online Life
“It’s dead simple to use. Sign up and authorize any number of social services for Greplin to index – I signed into Facebook, Twitter and Google Voice to start. After a few minutes of indexing time Greplin then presents you with a Google-like search box. Run a query and find the public and private data you’ve locked away on those sites. Tweets, including DMs, are shown, as well as Facebook messages and Google Voice voicemail transcriptions and SMS. You can also index Gmail, Dropbox, LinkedIn and a bunch of other services. After you use it for the first time you’ll understand that you’ll never not use it again. And there are nice touches like showing real time results as you type. And Greplin only uses OAuth and other APIs for authorization, so they never see your third party site credentials.”
TechCrunch
The Touchscreen that May Bring iPhone Pen Input One Day
“Hitachi—the inventors of the IPS display technology used in the iPhone 4 and iPad—have developed a new capacitative touchscreen that allows for multitouch input with both fingers and synthetic, non-conductive materials like plastic pens or gloves. The accuracy for a pen 0.031 inches thick on its tip is ±1.0%. That’s only half of a millimeter, which is not bad at all. The design also allows operation through other insulating materials, like natural leather, artificial leather, wool and artificial fiber.”
Gizmodo
yuri suzuki and oscar diaz: rec & play
“the ‘rec’ pen, draws and records sound on a line. it contains a special ferromagnetic ink, made with the same component used to make old cassette tapes, a recording head and a microphone. the ink is applied to the paper and at the same time the recording head can record the sound
captured by the microphone situated on the top part of the pen. the ‘play’ pen retrieves the sound and plays it back. it contains a red head and a speaker. when the red tape head is moved along the line the previously recorded sound can be heard.”
Design Boom
Swimsense monitors your aquatic workout
“This watch-sized device is worn on the wrist and uses motion sensing technology to automatically detect and record the number of laps swum, total distance, calories burned, lap time, pace, and stroke count. The device also features automatic stroke recognition and FINIS says it is the first performance monitor in the world that can automatically differentiate between backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle and butterfly – although I wonder what it would make of the frenzied thrashing about that passes for my butterfly. The device can be configured for unique pool sizes and calorie calculations can be personalized by specifying gender, weight and age”
Gizmag
