December 20, 2009

Scaling the universe

Categorie: Tech, art — Tags: , , , — Fraehnk, 6:42 pm

Meet Uniview, the most feature-rich astronomical visualization and universal data exploration platform on the market, yet simple enough to get you started with doing live presentations in museums, science centers, large scale theaters and fulldome planetariums in no time.
So, lets have a look at the know universe:

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December 6, 2009

ReThink Afghanistan

Categorie: politics — Tags: , , , , — Fraehnk, 7:28 pm

The Bundestag has prolonged the mission of german soldiers participating in bombing innocent people (for 20 killed so-called “terrorist leaders” 700 civilians casualties are counted) to help keeping up a corrupt government, which, of course, was not elected in a democratic fashion at all. Here you can read the full list of how everybody voted.
This [...]

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December 3, 2009

brain controlled hand… prosthesis

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , , , , — Bise, 8:02 pm

could not embed this one so head over to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/video_and_audio/8392111.stm
and here a more detailed report from physorg.com: http://www.physorg.com/news178976346.html
“A group of European scientists said Wednesday they have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts.”

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