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UpDown is a new start-up that helps people devel

Combining computer science, modular robotics, and systems nanotech, researchers at Carnegie Mellon & Intel are pushing the limits of manufacturing and design to construct a fundamentally new programmable building block of future matter. Built on catoms - millimeter-scale components capable of self-assembly - researchers envision a near-future where literally billions of microscopic intelligent catoms could be programmed to assemble into virtually anything.

A pioneer of "digital physics," Ed Fredkin is convinced that the universe is a computer.

Embedding prosthetic components into biological systems suffers both from communication challenges and problems with rejection of the foreign materials. Invasive brain computer interfaces must translate between electrical and electrochemical cellular activity and often lose resolution over time due to the build-up of scar tissue around the implant.

Livestation, a new app for the iPhone, 

Video is emerging as an important method of communication

Researchers at UC Berkeley have demonstrated that control of robotic prothetics may occur much more naturally than originally thought. Expanding on previous research that integrated a robotic arm with a BCI electrode implant in a monkey brain, the team has shown that the monkeys (and in some cases, humans) are quick to learn how to manipulate the new appendage just as if it were a biophysical component.

Boulder, Colorado and Xcel Energy are currently implementing what is arguably North America's largest experiment with a smart energy grid. The project will provide insight into the consumer side of the grid.

 Smart grid technologies are going to place a lot of complex decisions in the hands of homeowners. What to run, when to run it and how to minimize electricity costs will require not just making data-rich decisions but also setting rules (programming) so that the home can act on its own.

 The US Department of Energy has released a long-term planning document, "Grid 2030"

Using a programmable network of shape-memory alloy coils - metals that contract and expand in response to heating and retain their shape once transformed - a group at MIT has constructed an inexpensive programmable surface that can be used in architectural modelling, adaptive human-computer interfaces, and other applications.

With the economy faltering, more and more couples are taking job

It's not about the neurons, it's about the connections. 100 billion neurons, 100 trillion connections. The National Institutes of Health's Blueprint for Neuroscience Research has launched a $30 million initiative to create a functional map of brain circuitry.  

Amidst the ongoing debates of "natural" & "un-natural"

"At GeoGames, we aim at making geo-information a more usable - gaming - experience in an exciting and playful way (not the endless search, rather, the unique findings in full context).

We want to enhance internet business and educational information with real-time 3D simulation - at your exact locations, via reversed geo-coding capabilities.

All customized geo-intelligence at your users' fingertips, at the moment they need, and in every web browser application.

Jack Dangermond, founder of the pre-eminent geographic infromat

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