#March2012
VIDEO: NASA’S ‘Perpetual Ocean’ Animation is Trippy Ocean Current Bliss
NASA is getting their trippy on with this animation. It depicts all the ocean currents rocking out at once, and we the viewer get to bask in their science. I’m personally doing so in my underwear, mowing a cold can of Campbell’s Chunky soup. You continue on NASA with your wizardy, I’ll continue seeing the bar low for us geeks of the world.
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Pair Of Secret VAN GOGH Paintings Revealed By High-Energy Radiation. Science Swag.
When I’m a famous writer (I know, it’s never going to happen) I’m going to embed a discarded novel in the buried digi-bytes of a rudimentary and trite story. I will also discard this novel on a USB drive in a sewer somewhere. If this story about Van Gogh teaches me anything, it is that in a hundred years or so both will be discovered to the acclaim of all.
Scientists Implant FALSE MEMORIES In Mice. #INCEPTIONHORN
Scientists have implanted false memories in mice. The Inception horn is blowing like a mofuckah!
Microsoft Is Working On A Universal Translator. Foreign Language Teachers Shitting Themselves.
…Naw!, I’m just kidding. As products of the cultures they reflect, foreign languages will always have worth. Plus French is sexy. However, it would be goddamn glorious if I could have something to translate for me in a pinch. That’s why my boys Microsoft and their Science Daemons have my back.
Video: The DARPA Cheetah Is The RoboDog Of Our Future Death
What the fuck are we doing here? We’re engineering our own destruction. DARPA is pretty good at building death machines with my tax money, and their latest is goddamn terrifying. The DARPA Cheetah, a dog-looking robot that can run 18 mph. Don’t even both running when the RoboPocalypse hits.
Hit the jump to see your doom in motion.
Video: Microsoft’s Concept PC Lets You Control Apps With Your Hands In 3D Space
This is just the friggin’ berries right here. Using a Kinect and a transparent 3D display, gurus over at the Micro-soft have created a concept PC that would let you manipulate apps with your hands in a 3D space. Minority Report ++!
Hit the jump to check it out.
Printer Can Print Human Tissue For Drug Testing. No Words. No. Words.
A wizardlicious start-up named Organovo uses a 3D printer to blow your fucking mind. More specifically, with less vulgarity: they use a 3D printer to build a variety of human tissue types. Just go reread that sentence.
Then hit the jump.
Your Heartbeat Could Become Your Password. Futurism!
This is some science-fiction boner time right here. A team at National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan have translated a human heartbeat into an encryption key. Stealing someone’s password is about to get pretty messy. Puns! Aha!
IBM Could Have Fully Working Human Brain Made Out Of Electronics By 2019.
Humanity seems dead-set on forcing its own obsolescence. Hey let’s just created flesh-covered robots! Hey let’s just give machines sentience and get them to think for themselves! The latest: hey, let’s create a human brain out of electronics and then laugh at ourselves. Puffy fleshy meat cages!
