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Happy 2011 Rabbit Year

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Happy New Year! 2011 Rabbit Year

Happy Rabbit Year!

Kinect-Controlled Humanoid Robot – Bring On The Robo-Gladiators!

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Nanopore DNA sequencing technique promises entire genome in minutes or your money back

via Engaget

Reading NAND flash chips without removing them

First, you’ll need to get a Smartmedia/xD card reader. The reason for this is Smartmedia and xD flash cards are basically just NAND flash chips in a friendly, removable card. Other types of flash media also use NAND, but have a controller in them that handles the interfacing between the flash chip and the host, be it a camera, cell phone, card reader, etc. This controller gets in the way or reading data off embedded chips, because they are looking for partitions/files in a particular formats (FAT16 for example) that embedded flash rarely uses. Typically, we’d be trying to get the raw data off the embedded NAND to study.

http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2007/05/05/read-embedded-flash-chips/

Wiki Reader + 電子字典機

或許 WikiReader可以考慮把技術賣給電子字典公司 因為加上字典機公司的Text to Speech功能 讓閱讀Wiki更方便

OpenSLAM (Simultaneous localization and mapping)

http://openslam.org/coreslam.html

Virtual USB via AVR MCU

V-USB is a software-only implementation of a low-speed USB device for Atmel’s AVR® microcontrollers, making it possible to build USB hardware with almost any AVR® microcontroller, not requiring any additional chip.

http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html

這才叫生活中的裝置藝術

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生活中的裝置藝術

把這堆雜亂的書說成是"生活中的裝置藝術" 是有點掰的過份些 不過我是很喜歡這樣的擺法 對於那些所謂的系統家具把家裡弄得乾乾淨淨的好像沒人住一樣 我可是一點都沒興趣

Wiki Reader 看電視的好夥伴

看電視時可以隨時查詢資料 不會被名嘴或是記者亂唬去了

http://thewikireader.com/

Breakthrough in TB Diagnostics

The test directly detects genetic sequences associated with TB and drug-resistant TB. Although researchers have known about these sequences since the mid-1990s, incorporating the molecular technologies needed to detect them into tests for the developing world has been impractical until recently, says David Persing, the chief medical and technology officer at Cepheid, the California-based company that manufactures the test.

The test starts by adding a simple chemical mixture—sodium hydroxide and alcohol—to the patient sample to kill off any TB, eliminating the need for expensive biosafety equipment. Then the sample is transferred to a closed cartridge that uses microfluidics to purify the patient's DNA and detect the target sequence. All the clinic staff has to do is wait for a printout that tells them whether a patient has TB and if it is drug-resistant.

via MIT Technology Review

 

Use 56 Ipad to make a iphone

via CrunchGear

 

測試不是就為了找出問題嗎?

上星期拿機器去demo 結果出包當場老闆發飆 我是覺得沒怎樣啦 畢竟所有的demo都是一種測試 測試的目的就是為了找出問題 在家裡面出包永遠比在客戶手上出包來的好 所以出現問題是好事ㄚ 真可惜當場沒有人能跟我分享出包找問題的喜悅 只有無法停止的大聲咆嘯和無盡的藉口 哈哈

其實學校中的考試不也是這樣 好像考了100分的就沒事了 沒考100分的人呢 就該打該罵而不是找出為何成績不好 想出方法來幫助他呢 老師不是應該協助學生學習嗎? 讓老師整天考試其實是便宜了老師

問題也好 成績不好也好都不可怕 可怕的是對問題視而不見希望他會憑空消失最可怕

Falling sand game on an FPGA

via instruct1.cit.cornell.edu

我一直覺得FPGA很適合做一些複雜的Simulation!

WikiReader Can Now Access 33,000 Project Gutenberg E-Books

The WikiReader just got a bit more content where the phrase “a bit” refers to 33,000 books. The landslide of content comes from Project Gutenberg, which is now available on the little e-reader. The entire Project Gutenberg library can be fitted onto a 4GB microSD card and then slid into the WikiReader. It actually works a lot like Wikipedia currently on the device. Users can access articles, books and also search by keyword.

via crunchgear

Sandia Creates World’s Smallest Single Nanowire Battery

The microscopic battery’s anode is made from a single nanowire  just 100 nanometers wide and 10 micrometers long, in comparison, its lithium cobalt oxide cathode is huge at three millimeters in length. While it may not resemble a battery, the Sandia team have created a single tin oxide (SnO2) nanowire that will help scientists discover what occurs inside lithium-ion storage devices and how they charge and discharge.

Read more: Sandia Create World's Smallest Single Nanowire Battery | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

華麗的毛毛蟲

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Making blind mice see

via ScienceBlog

Taz is hungry

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Panasonic’s Healthcare Robot

He can pick up medications (including fragile ampoules and vials), arrange them on a tray and deliver them within a hospital – all autonomously.

What’s cool is that Hospi can even use elevators to change floors – again, without human help. For that, he’s equipped with a total of four laser range finders and 27 ultrasonic sensors.

via crunchgear

 

Medical Design get Sexier

via Core77

X-ray Xbee

via Make

AM & PM

	AM	PM
	Ante Meridiem* Latin for "before midday"	Post Meridiem* Latin for "after midday"
When:	Midnight to Noon	Noon to Midnight
24 Hour Clock:	0:00 to 11:59	12:00 to 23:59

 

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Air Powerd iPhone

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Reading DNA via Silicon Chip

At the heart of Ion Torrent's technology is a semiconductor chip manufactured in the same foundries as computer and cell-phone microprocessors. The chip holds an array of 1.5 million sensors, each topped with a small well designed to hold a single-stranded fragment of DNA. To sequence a strand of DNA, the machine synthesizes a complementary strand, sequentially attempting to add each of the four bases that make up DNA one by one to the well. When the correct base is incorporated into the growing sequence, it triggers a chemical reaction that releases a positively charged hydrogen atom, which is detected by the sensor. A computer stitches together the sequence by integrating these signals with knowledge of when each base was flowed through the chip.

The device is so much cheaper than other machines because of its simplicity; the chip itself detects the sequence, and it does so electronically. Other devices use optical systems, which require lasers, cameras, and microscopes. (These devices also read DNA sequence by synthesizing a complementary strand—but chemicals used in the reaction have to be modified to fluoresce when added to the growing piece of DNA; a camera detects the flashes of light.) "It's a simple system to implement," says Nusbaum of Ion Torrent's technology. "Not just the machine, but also the infrastructure around it."

via MIT Technology Review

Wiki Reader 入手

最近在上一些生物化學 分子生物學 化學之類的課程 需要經常查Wiki 雖然可以用PC可是畢竟看書時經常是躺在沙發上 而且很多時候是用PC看電子書 或是各大學的Open CourseWare (video)  要切換畫面很麻煩 有了Wiki Reader就方便多了 另外Wiki  Reader的 random 功能也是很適合打發時間 我在信義誠品買的 蠻適合給Geek的聖誕禮物

http://thewikireader.com/

Cities made of broken technology

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Geeky wreath

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Mil-spec snake robot

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Insects

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