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Archive for August, 2008

Alive in Joburg

Alive in Joburg — the short film about extra-terrestrials landing in early-90′s South Africa.

Producers: Neill Blomkamp, Simon Hansen, Sharlto Copley, Shannon Worley.

http://www.spyfilms.com

http://www.archive.org/details/ALIVE_IN_JOBURG

Cybernetic Insect

Right now, researchers are already growing insects with electronics inside them. They’re creating cyborg moths and flying beetles that can be remotely controlled.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/for-years-now-p.htmlv

CERN black hole September 10

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the miniscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe.

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/fr/LHC/LHC-fr.html

Assignment Outer Space

In the 21st century Ray Peterson, reporter for the Interplanetary News, is assigned to write a story aboard a space station. Tension mounts between Peterson and the station commander, who believes he is in the way, but has orders to leave him alone. Errant spaceship Alpha Two enters the solar system and its photon generators are radiating enough heat to destroy Earth as it approaches. It falls to Peterson to try to figure out a way to enter the spaceship, disarm the generators, and escape before suffocating.

Kevin Warwick: Cyborgs and Cybernetics

Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics and carries out research in artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering. He is also Director of the University Knowledge Transfer Centre

The Lift Experience is a set of artistic interventions intended to connect and inspire attendees. From the very first edition LIFT was created together with designers to provoke a dialogue between people with different backgrounds and cultures. LIFT is more about an experience which reaches not only our intellect but also our emotions and our senses.

http://www.kevinwarwick.com

http://www.liftconference.com/person/kevin-warwick

MUTO Combining Animation and Real Life

MUTO

http://yuri.typepad.com/yuri_blog/2008/05/index.html

http://www.blublu.org