What a beautiful and original bridge.
Invisible pederestian bridge by Ro Koster and Ad Kill Architects.
Via androphilicnigger
Japanese engineers develop flying robotic orb
This is pretty cool stuff. And as they point out, it’s also a proof-of-concept prototype, so, basically, you can expect it to get more awesome in time. For better or for worse, it may just be a few years till we see robotic spheres roaming the skies and streets.
Also, at just $1,400 and using common parts, I’d love to see someone release a DIY kit for something like this.
(Hat tip to weliveinthefuture for the link.)
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
Via themythslayer
IBM hopes to simulate human brain in nine years.
IBM’s Blue Brain Project has spent the last six years aiming to replicate the function of a human brain using supercomputers. At the last milestone two years ago, the group simulated the brain of a cat.
Now a new research paper is claiming the “dawn of a new era in the scale of cortical simulations”, by announcing that 4.5% of a working human brain has been replicated using 147,456 processors
The current schedule is set to have the simulated human brain 100% complete by 2019, using 880,000 processors.
(Source: scientificamerican.com)
