Apple Promotes Car Racer that works with iPhone

Car racer, Anki, that works off your iPhone…and the developers are…CMU alums. Not surprising, that the developers are CMU alums.

What do you think?

Are you game?

The World’s Smallest Movie

Can you belive there is a movie made up only of 10,000 carbon dioxide molecules and one atom of oxygen?

Why would someone make this?… read on and see

How…? again, read on!

Computers built from DNA?

(credit: istock)

Did you know?…in a computer, a transistor is like a tiny switch that can be turned on or off. Computer processors use hundreds of millions (often billions) of transistors.

Did you know?…DNA can be used to build those switches.  These bio-switchs a re called transcriptors.

Want to learn more?

Sara Wins First Place for Algae Research She Did Under Her Bed!

Sara Wins First Place for Algae Research She Did Under Her Bed! That’s right – under her bed.  She conducted an experiment that coaxed algae into boosting their production of oil for use in biofuel

Impressed? (I certainly am.)

Printing a 3D House?!

For the first time, a Dutch architecture firm plans on using a D-Shape 3D printer and outputting a house in the shape of a Mobius strip - a project they estimate will take 18 months! The team are working with mathematician and artist Rinus Roelofs.

This ‘Landscape House’ will be printed in sections using a giant D-Shape printer. The printer can produce sections of up to 6 x 9 metres making use of a mixture of sand and also a binding agent. Printer created hollow volumes will be filled with fibre-reinforced concrete to give it strength. The volumes will then be joined together to create the house.

Did you think this would be possible?

Robot Dancing Gangnam Style

Here is Charli the robot dancing Gangnam style!

Are you impressed??

Want to join him?

CHARLI-L1 (Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Learning Intelligence-Lightweight)

The Science of Shopping?

The Intel scientist has designed a high-tech mirror showing how clothes look on a consumer – who simply stands in front of an LCD monitor! This parametric technology simulates body type and how fabrics fit — based on weight, height and measurements.

Within 10 years - retail as we know it will be unrecognizable,
Think 3D printers, smart phones….and much more!

What would work for you?