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IBM: We're on the cusp of the Quantum Computing revolution

via Engadget

Well,希望不會跟“核融合”一樣 一搞就是50年

Why a Portable DNA Device Could Yield Better Data

The technology relies on the fact that a DNA base, or a combination of bases on a DNA strand creates a characteristic disruption in a current as it passes through the nanopore. Electrodes measure the change in current flow as DNA molecules are fed through protein nanopores; an electrical gradient drives the DNA through the pore, while molecular "controllers" attached to the molecules mechanically slow them down so that their electrical signals may be recorded.

This approach has two important advantages.

First, the system is compact and doesn't require a supply of expensive reagents. That means sequencing can come out of the lab, making it useful for personalized medicine or for use in resource-poor clinics. Indeed, the disposable sequencer the company is about to introduce is the size of a USB memory stick.

Second, the technology reads much longer stretches of DNA than other rapid sequencing approaches, which means it has the potential to be better at spotting important "structural variants" related to disease. These variants occur when a whole segment of chromosome is moved, inverted, duplicated, or otherwise changed. When DNA is chopped into shorter stretches to be sequenced and then put back together on a computer, it is easier to miss, or misinterpret, such variants.

via Technology Review

synthesis.cc 

Atmel Studio 6 Beta

http://www.atmel.com/Microsite/atmel_studio6/default.aspx

Piccolo tiny CNC platform

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The Art of Eating Insects (昆蟲比牛肉效益高）

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Very very good idea!!

相關

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Kilobots

 Kilobot, a robot designed to make testing collective algorithms on hundreds or thousands of robots accessible to robotics researchers. To enable the possibility of large Kilobot collectives where the number of robots is an order of magnitude larger than the largest that exist today, each robot is low cost and takes only a few minutes to assemble. Furthermore, the robot design allows a single user to easily oversee the operation of a large Kilobot collective, such as programming, powering on, and charging all robots, which would be dificult or impossible to do with many existing robotic systems. We demonstrate the capabilities of the Kilobot as a collective robot, using a 29 robot test collective to implement some popular swarm behaviors.

via Wyss of Harvard

Laser cut writings on the wall

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有趣的Laser cut 作品

 

Face-recognizing billboard ad identifies gender

A new face recognition ad will only reveal its full contents to women. It uses a "high-definition" camera to scan people's faces, detecting their gender with an apparent 90 percent success rate. The charity, Plan UK, is looking to raise funds to sponsor education for girls living in developing countries; the outdoor display will run the full advert for female viewers, while men will get a brief glimpse followed by directions to the charity's website. It's aiming to demonstrate the limits put on young women in some countries -- and is a pretty admirable use of facial recognition technology. Well, it's not withholding pudding from minors. Check the bus display in action on the streets of London right after the break. 

via Engadget

我想加上Internet access 應該就可以認人了吧！

Intelligent Design And The Modern Cellphone

The manufacturers’ fear is palpable and it’s time this parade of phones, designed to mimic one major phone, stopped. It’s bad for the consumer, it’s bad for the carrier, and it’s bad for the manufacturer.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/24/intelligent-design-and-the-modern-cellphone/

 

 

Picopter

The control board seen in the foreground has an edge connector which mates with a Wii classic controller connector. This is what you use for flight control. But there’s even more. The pinheader just visible on the left side of the controller mates with a socket on the ‘copter board. This allows you to sync the two so that there’s no radio frequency interference, and recharge the batteries from a USB connection. Speaking of those wireless communications, [Frank] chose to use an ATmega128RFA1. This is a newer microcontroller from Atmel that has a radio built into it. Add a gyroscope sensor and some motor control and you’re in business.

via Hack A Day

http://www.instructables.com/id/Picopter/

The Information

Sound,Language,Symbol,Morse Code,Bit/Byte,DNA,Meme,Network....

很棒的一本書 念資訊的應該都要看！

The Machinery of Life

這是一本非常美的書 裡面很多的蛋白質機器和細胞都是用水彩話的！ 

http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/cell+biology/book/978-0-387-84924-9

http://biocurious.com/ Books's blog

Ninja Blocks: Connect your world with the web.

My interpretation : A device that connect to internet. It can listen to you command via different source say Twitter or plain web page. It also respond to different source say facebook ...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ninja/ninja-blocks-connect-your-world-with-the-web

股票期貨

同事說最近新的投資工具 股票期貨 （不過看起來量不大）

Download 股票期貨交易策略概述.pdf <--找到的資料

http://info512.taifex.com.tw/Future/FusaQuote_Norl.aspx

Sync Your Data without the Cloud

A piece of hardware called Somniloquy is the reason this system works. The USB device, which acts like a smarter version of an ordinary network card that connects a computer to the Internet, can wake a sleeping computer and retrieve data from it before powering it back down. It has its own low-power processor and a few gigabytes of storage to cache files sent its way while a computer wakes up.

via MIT Technology Review

旅人的食材曆

一本會令人想去旅行的書

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用iModela製作單面PCB

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用iModela製作單面PCB 太厲害啦

via Make Japan

Incredible Robot Arm Made Entirely of LEGOs

http://gajitz.com/toybotics-incredible-robot-arm-made-entirely-of-legos/

Single atom transistors

 A single phosphorus atom was placed into a silicon lattice and read with a pair of extremely tiny silicon leads that allowed them to observe both its transistor behavior and its quantum state. 

via Engadget

HOW-TO: Get your PCBs manufactured

很不錯的說明! 自己Layout時可以先注意

via dangerous prototype

Fixing Gnuplot on OS X 10.6.X and 10.7.X

 

The solution, though, is easy to understand and easy to implement:

1. Open /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot in your favorite text editor. This is a shell script that sets up several environment variables and runs the Gnuplot binary.
2. Find all instances of DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in that script and replace them with DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH.
3. Save the edited script.

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2012/02/fixing-gnuplot-on-os-x-10-7-3/

Synoptic Office : 1—Alphabet Topography

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MinION: a miniaturised sensing

MinION is a disposable device that contains a sensor chip, ASIC and the fluidics system that are needed to perform a complete single molecule sensing experiment. Plugging directly into a laptop or desktop computer through a USB port, it is a self contained device to deliver real time experimental data. 

The MinION is adaptable for DNA sequencing, protein sensing and other nanopore sensing techniques. 

via nanopore_tech

 

What is nanopore

Upgrading BeagleBone to Angstrom

1) Inserted Micro SD into SD holder, and inserted into computer.

2) Used Ubuntu Disk Utility to unmount and delete all volumes on card. 3) Executed: sudo sh makecard.txt /dev/sdb

4) Executed: zcat Angstrom-Cloud9-IDE-eglibc-ipk-v2011.12-core-beaglebone-2011.12.26.img.gz > /dev/sdb

5) Ejected card from Ubuntu.

 

via http://datamanlv.blogspot.com/2011/12/upgrading-beaglebone-to-angstrom.html

other reference:

http://borderhack.com/?p=1062 

Analog Video Mixer for iPhone

via Make

MIT duo successfully tests wireless drug-delivery microchips, more consistent than injections

 This past week, researchers in Cambridge -- alongside scientists from MicroCHIPS, Inc. -- announced that they have successfully used the aforementioned chip to give osteoporosis patients their daily allotment of teriparatide. "You can do remote control delivery, you can do pulsatile drug delivery, and you can deliver multiple drugs,"

via engadget

LUFA (2012)

LUFA (Lightweight USB Framework for AVRs, formerly known as MyUSB) is my first foray into the world of USB. It is an open-source complete USB stack for the USB-enabled Atmel AVR8 and (some of the) AVR32 microcontroller series, released under the permissive MIT License (see documentation or project source for full license details). The complete line of Atmel USB AVRs and USB AVR boards are supported by the library, as are any custom user boards, via custom board hardware drivers supplied by the user.

http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php

守護4141個心跳 徐超彬醫師的故事

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Location Annotation Service (idea)

An API or service that provide user to sysmatically annotate the location on google map. It also run in reverse way. User can search annotation then lead to the location.

Annotation include : Name,Kind,Web,Blog,Book,Movie,Song,Video,Photo,Link to other location.

It is all in URL format. But we will pull out the page and hilite the relationship.

用途：當我去玩時 我會想到哪一本書有提到這個地方 這樣我可以用書名找出與這本書相關的地點

Android USB Host + Arduino: How to communicate without rooting your Android Tablet or Phone

This example consists of two parts:

• The Android application that makes use of the USB API
  A simple Android app that let’s you regulate the brightness of an LED on the Arduino using a slider. It also features a button to “enumerate” the USB device.
• Firmware for the Arduino that does some serial I/O with the Android app
  Very basic firmware for the Arduino. An interrupt is generated when a new byte is received. The received data controls the brightness of the Arduino’s on-board LED.
  (implemented via usleep-style software pwm in the main loop).

vi android.serverbox.ch

四條腿不如兩條腿 兩條腿不如一條腿 （沒有腿也不錯）by 飲食規則

books.com.tw

四條腿 : 豬 牛 羊

兩條腿 : 雞 鴨 鵝

一條腿 : 植物

沒有腿 : 魚類（我自己加的）

iModela from Roland

iModela Home Page

台版 Hobonichi

昨天去永康街的金石堂發現的 沒有買 只有把DM拿回來 學的蠻像的 可能不敢學的太像吧 另外因為價錢低很多 自然品質也會差一點 

iRobot Goes to the Hospital

iRobot Corp., makers of the beloved Roomba (and a lot more), announced that it would be investing $6 million in InTouch Health, a telemedicine company operating in 80 hospitals around the world. Though $6 million represents just a minority stake in the company, it’s--needless to say--a substantial investment, and a strong expansion of a joint development and licensing agreement the two companies had announced last summer.

via MIT Technology Review