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Disney 3D-prints cheap fiber optic expressive eyes for use in robots, toys, humans

2013-07-25 20:43:31| Extremetech

Along with mouths and hair, eyes are one of the biggest reasons why artificial creations can't climb their way out of the uncanny valley. One reason for this is because artificial eyes -- in computer-generated models or on animatronic robots -- are simply not expressive enough. Disney Research has taken a step toward correcting this issue by creating 3D-printed eyes that are not only extremely expressive, but dynamic.

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How to put humans on Mars, and get them home safely again

2013-07-25 17:02:43| Extremetech

Younger generations haven't experienced staggeringly monumental historic events like older generations have, such as World Wars or landing on the Moon. Our historic events so far -- mostly related to personal technology, such as the rise of he PC and the internet -- are more of a slow, incremental burn. However, a team of UK scientists are aiming for that staggering historic event that the younger generations can experience, and have designed a mission to land three humans on Mars.

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Scientists develop acoustic levitation, could enable the eventual levitation of humans

2013-07-16 14:29:41| Extremetech

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in levitating and moving arbitrarily shaped objects using acoustic (sound) waves. The researchers, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, have already used their new-found magical powers of levitation to collide a granule of coffee and water to create instant coffee in midair — and more…

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Humans "Inducing" Earthquakes During Energy Exploration, USGS Report Says

2013-07-12 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World News: Human activities that inject fluids into the ground, such as natural gas extractions and geothermal energy production, are the cause of many earthquakes in the United States, including a destructive 5.6-magnitude tremor in Oklahoma in 2011, according to new research published in the journal Science. While the continental United States experiences small earthquakes each day, a recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey found that the annual number of earthquakes recorded at magnitude 3.0 or greater...

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