Topic: Holy Crap! *New Tech/Gadget Thread*

[BranDonk Kong]

...wouldn't the "burned" oxygen just get re-released into the outside air?

[Stogi]

I thought it turns into CO₂

[stevey]

I'm just hoping that the air doesn't become thinner once everyone, and I mean everyone, is burning oxygen for electricity.

Everyone already burns oxygen for everything and electricity. The atmosphere is 20.9% O₂ so it's not going to run out or even thin out to a measurable way for a several thousand years.

But back to the Google link; There are also studies of delivering High Speed Internet over power lines. Could Google be looking to provide internet and power to your google powered search/browser/OS/Computer?

Screw that, Google is already setting up 1Gb/s FTTH internet service. (Everyone please go here and nominate the Trenton through Princeton NJ Area)

[BlackNMild2k1]

Damn, I need to forward that onto some local Gov. Officials and get this set up in The Bay Area.

......where to start?

[EasyCure]

I'm just hoping that the air doesn't become thinner once everyone, and I mean everyone, is burning oxygen for electricity.

It's not so much a concern for the short term, but the really long term.

You know how you see those post-apocalyptic movies where everything went wrong nd it all stemmed from something that started off as being relatively harmless, and then it was abused. Now humanity is fucked.

I'm just picturing a future where GoogleNet reigns supreme and oxygen isn't as abundant a resource as it used to be due to not taking care of our "taken for granted" free sources of oxygen replenishment. Now we have a Total Recall situation only we are looking for new sources of power so we can make more oxygen.

Screw Total Recall scenarios, we know what must REALLY be done..

Screw that, Google is already setting up 1Gb/s FTTH internet service.

damn

[Stogi]

Hybrid Reactors
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527505.900-hybrid-fusion-the-third-nuclear-option.html

Workable hybrid technology is still some way off, but given the inherent problems with fission and the uncertainty over fusion it has to be worth pursuing. Even modest-sized reactors could provide affordable and almost limitless energy for all. Hybrid fusion deserves wider understanding and support from governments, scientists and environmentalists.

So along with Bloom Energy and other emerging technologies in renewable energy, I think we are pretty much set if the Coal and Oil industries allow it...

[EasyCure]

they wont

[BlackNMild2k1]

Unlimited Detail: No More Polygons!

Unlimited Detail

Unlimited Detail is a new technology for making realtime 3D graphics.  Unlimited Detail is different from existing 3D graphics systems because it can process unlimited point cloud data in real time, giving the highest level of geometry ever seen.  If this all sounds a bit technical to you, just press the "What is it ?" button on the side and we will try and explain things in a bit more detail.

Pic: http://unlimiteddetailtechnology.com/attachments/Image/fig4.JPG

The above picture contains billions of points and we can run it all in real-time.
This site has a gallery of pictures for you to look at, as well as some video clips you can download. We also have a technical clip that will explain Unlimited Detail in more detail.

We are in the process of Negotiating to get the Commercial version of Unlimited Details SDK built. After that, you should expect to see 3D graphics take a huge leap forward in about 16 months when Unlimited Detail comes out commercially, in Games and other products.

This was put up last month, and 16 months from then is June 2011. June is when E3 happens, so I'm expecting this to be debuted at E3 2011 in the Nintendo conference/booth for the Wii2 reveal assuming all of this is legit and functional.


Video Demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ATtrImCx4

[Caliban]

Cool. I hope the Polygon conglomerate doesn't shut them down.

[BlackNMild2k1]

ATi & Nvidia? they supposedly went to them first. I'd imagine it didn't turn out too well, especially if this is a software tech that works fine on yesterdays Hi-end graphic cards.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

A long time ago I hoped graphics elements would be rounded or volumetric (planets and atoms are described as round, after all) instead of the polygon origami we have today.  I was a fan of the Voxel Space concept, tho I couldn't afford a computer that ran my Voxel Space games really well.

Actually, I believe having round-ish display pixels instead of square pixels would be a simple way of reducing aliasing in TVs/monitors.

[ShyGuy]

what happened to nurbs?

[Stogi]

Thats interesting, but I would be more impressed when I see things like animation and physics.

[ThePerm]

John Carmcack was talking about something similar to this, and i'm pretty sure he's pushing graphic tech companies to have similar technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_6

and holy **** i just watched the explanation on how it works...and the sound of it is you couldn't do much in the way of real time lighting or animation, but this would revolutionize draw distance at least. The other thing is...that is all running in software..i wonder how much processing power it takes to search through a point cloud for 345,600 pixels

thinking about this technology..its genius, and kinda stupid they didn't come up with it sooner.

how would Wii do it? Well I don't know the actual specs of the Wii, but I do know the actual specs of the gamecube. The gamecube can do 20 million polygons a second which is 337,500 triangles a frame at 60 FPS. Now games today are made out of polygons, but the type of polygon of choise is a trangle. triangles can be bent and stretched on all three points in every which way, but polygons have a limitation in that you need to load three points into memory each with their own x,y,z coordinant, because of this you can't sift through a file to process it, you have to load the whole file into the system and then process the information. With this point cloud technology you only have to load a portion of a file at a time and process it and thats where the power leap occurs. Normally, when processing polygons you have a lot of unused memory that you can't see. This eliminates that for a super efficiency boost, however files will be HUGE, and unless there is a lot of ram then things will constantly stream off the disc, which may cause your disc drive to fail.

oh and Nurbs? Well actually you could manipulate the point cloud data in real time with some nurbs calculations, but you would probably need a whole new co-processor for that. Interesting time we live in though. Oh, and combine this with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_mapping
and we should have realtime shrek processing machines by 2012

[ThePerm]

http://www.youtube.com/user/Quipster99#p/a/u/2/l3Sw3dnu8q8

another video

listen to what he says on 4:47

[BlackNMild2k1]

http://www.youtube.com/user/Quipster99#p/a/u/2/l3Sw3dnu8q8

another video

listen to what he says on 4:47

so I'm expecting this to be debuted at E3 2011 in the Nintendo conference/booth for the Wii2 reveal assuming all of this is legit and functional.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Quantum teleportation achieved over ten miles of free space
One small step for man(into a teleporter) could take you 10 miles or more! I can't wait for the future.

Quantum teleportation has achieved a new milestone or, should we say, a new ten-milestone: scientists have recently had success teleporting information between photons over a free space distance of nearly ten miles, an unprecedented length. The researchers who have accomplished  this feat note that this brings us closer to communicating information  without needing a traditional signal, and that the ten miles they have  reached could span the distance between the surface of the earth and  space.
 
 As we've explained before, "quantum teleportation" is quite different  from how many people imagine teleportation to work. Rather than picking  one thing up and placing it somewhere else, quantum teleportation  involves entangling two things, like photons or ions, and then moving  the quantum state from one to the other.
 
 When one of the items is sent a distance away, entanglement ensures that  changing the state of one causes the other to change as well, allowing  the teleportation of quantum information, if not matter. However, the  distance particles can be from each other has been limited so far to a  number of meters.
 
 Teleportation over distances of a few hundred meters has previously only  been accomplished with the photons traveling in fiber channels to help  preserve their state. In this particular experiment, researchers  maximally entangled two photons using both spatial and polarization  modes and sent the one with higher energy through a ten-mile-long free  space channel. They found that the distant photon was still able to  respond to changes in state of the photon they held onto even at this  unprecedented distance.
 
 However, the long-distance teleportation of a photon is only a small  step towards developing applications for the procedure. While photons  are good at transmitting information, they are not as good as ions at  allowing manipulation, an advancement we'd need for encryption.  Researchers were also able to maintain the fidelity of the long-distance  teleportation at 89 percent— decent enough for information, but  still dangerous for the whole-body human teleportation that we're all  looking forward to.

[stevey]

Obligatory response

[ThePerm]

so, no people yet, but information.

Soon Spacecrafts? Save money sending satellites into space, and or moon bases.

The idea of entanglement is interesting.

[BlackNMild2k1]

We are almost 1 step closer to eternal life.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7928426/Damaged-heart-could-be-coaxed-into-mending-itself-claim-scientists.html
-Self healing hearts-

In as little as five years, researchers hope to be able to coax the heart into regenerating itself, repairing the damage caused by cardiac arrests and old age.

The revolutionary treatment could be possible after scientists discovered a technique for turning ordinary connective tissue into muscle cells inside the heart.
[...]
It works in a similar way to stem cells but instead of the new cells being grown outside the body and then injected back in, the technique simply makes the cells switch at the point where they are needed.
[...]
The main problem is that when beating muscles cells – known as cardiomyocytes – die during an attack there is no way to reactivate them and the surrounding connective tissue – known as fibroblasts – cannot take over their role.

Now Professor Deepak Srivastava at the Gladstone Institute, University of California, and his team have discovered a way of reprogramming fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes.

The system involves slowly administering three substances – using an artificial tube called a stent – into the blood that trigger the conversion.
Professor Srivastava believes this could be achieved over just two weeks.

"We first have to test if the same factors can convert human fibroblasts to beating heart muscle and then find ways to safely introduce these factors, or small molecules that mimic these factors, into the coronary circulation so they can reprogram the existing fibroblasts in the heart, said Professor Srivastava.

"I envision such factors being loaded into a stent that is placed in the coronary artery and can elute (allow to emerge) the reprogramming factors over 1-2 weeks.

"It is ambitious, but not unreasonable, to imagine being ready for a clinical trial in the next five years."

We have scientist working with Stem Cells to replace basically anything in the human body
we have scientist working on making skin keep it's elasticity so you always look young
and now we have hearts that can heal themselves.

Now if only they could take all this and turn it into something you could just drink and cycle it through some sort of fountain....

[vudu]

I'd settle for being able to upload my mind to a computer before I die.

[ThePerm]

i always said that my preferred death would be by dinosaur....which unfortunately sounds more likely.

[EasyCure]

I guess this counts as going in this thread..

[TJ Spyke]

The new iPod Touch seems damn impressive, and I am glad they finally put in the cameras that they were gonna put in last year and then pulled days before the unveiling. The cameras and mic pretty much eliminate any reason for me to get an iPhone now. When I get the money I will probably get it. My only problem is that they are raising the price (the 8GB model is going from $200 to $230).

[BlackNMild2k1]

can you use GVoice on the touch through Wifi?