Laboratories: looks like the high-tech of the future - V

Music from blocks

Researchers at Southampton University have created a new way to generate computer music. This software, audio d-touch, works with a computer and a webcam. By using simple techniques of computer vision, physical blocks are drawn on a printed circuit. The position of the block then determines how the computer samples and reproduced the sound.

Laboratories: looks like the high-tech of the future - IV

Touchscreen TapSense

Here is a project to improve the use of touch screens. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found a way to make the most of the anatomy of the finger and dexterity. By combining a microphone a touchscreen, the researchers showed that it could make the difference between the tip of the finger, the finger nail or joint.

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self directed ira

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Laboratories: looks like the high-tech of the future - III

Kilobots

Researchers at Harvard University have developed a technology that facilitates the testing of algorithms group on hundreds or thousands of tiny robots. Kilobots called, these robots the size of an insect moving on three legs, interacting and coordinating their actions as a team. A report from Harvard in June 2011 introduced a set of 25 robots performing different actions in a group, such as drilling, development training, and synchronization.