Category: Science & Technology
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ZX Spectrum Vega+ out October
The portable version of the classic Spectrum computer will be released next month, with 1,000 games and a £100(ish) price tag. After raising over £350,000 in crowdfunding from retro lovin’ games fans, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ will be released on October 20, although that’s only for those that actually backed its IndieGoGo campaign. It…
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Tomorrow’s buildings: App-controlled ‘day at the office’
Alexandre Janssen shows how a smartphone gives him a highly personalised day at the office, at The Edge building in Amsterdam.
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Daniel Dennett: Convergence: Information, evolution, and intelligent design
Had the pleasure in attending what was both an enlightening and memorable talk last night. Wednesday 25 March 2015, 7.00pm to 8.30pm The Theatre The Royal Institution of Great Britain 21 Albemarle Street London W1S 4BS Standard £12 Concession £8 Associate £6 Free to Members, Faraday Members and Fellows The concept of information is…
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Solar Impulse 2 : Best-Of First Round-The-World Solar flight, Nagoya – Hawaii
Relive the longest solo flight ever achieved! André Borschberg flew 117-hours from Nagoya to Nanjing where he landed on July 3rd 2015. Get more information about the project: www.solarimpulse.com
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Creativity is Great
The Creative industries are worth almost £10 million / per hour to our economy New figures published today currently reveal that the UK’s Creative Industries are now worth £84.1 billion per year to the UK economy In 2014 the UK’s Creative Industries grew by 8.9 per cent – almost double UK economy as a whole…
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Open Bionics 3D Printed Robotic Hands
Open Bionics, is a U.K startup that makes bionic hands, that are dramatically lower than the cost of current prosthetics using a combination of open-sourced 3D printing software and robotic sensors. Source: www.openbionics.org
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The App Effect
The App Store has grown from 500 apps to well over a million in just 7 years. The software world is now a level playing field for developers and the experiences they are creating have enriched, empowered and truly changed all of our lives.
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The swarming drones that can float on water
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a drone that can float on water and communicate with other drones via the cloud. The team behind the project hope that the drones can be used to test the cleanliness of water. BBC Click spoke to MIT research fellow Chris Green in Dubai at…
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Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
Just so awesome on so many levels, what a great series of experiment with endless potential possibilities, but plagiarism and the depth of cursory knowledge would still concern me. There is much more to education than learning what some one else has written and excepting it as gospel. Who has learnt the most him or…
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Ligne Roset – TOGO
The making of a wish list favourite.