On (most) Fridays I post here a roundup of interesting things I’ve read and/or posted on social media since my last roundup, generally stories about emerging technologies, experiential activations, interactive art, advances in scientific research, and other things I find interesting.
Featured Image: Opener
Google co-founder Larry Page is covering his bases on flying cars with investments in at least 3 startups, including Opener, which just came out of stealth mode:
Image: Opener
SeaBED is a sensor-packed autonomous robot that dives over a mile deep under Antarctica’s polar ice collecting invaluable data:
Image: Northeast University/Wired
Unmoored is an augmented reality interactive art installation from artist Mel Chin where Times Square visitors don a HoloLens AR headset to experience an undersea dystopia where NYC streets must be navigated by boat:
Image: Microsoft/YouTube
RAD (Rotary Actuated Dodecahedron) is Pokéball-like device for handling delicate sea creatures without harming them:
Image: Harvard University/YouTube
In a world of driverless cars and winged planes on autopilot, creating autonomous helicopters remains a formidable challenge – the Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft (SARA) is here to take it on:
Image: LOCKHEED MARTIN
DARPA is planning an ‘Olympic-style’ competition called SHRIMP (SHort-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms) for tiny search and rescue robots:
Image: DARPA
The first all-digital art museum has launched in Japan and it’s full of immersive projection and interactive art:
Image: The Newsmakers/YouTube
A thoughtful look at how driverless cars and shared autonomous vehicles could transform American cities built around car ownership:
Image: Brandon Sullivan
AR developer Oscar Falmer created an augmented reality business card using ARKit:
Image: Oscar Falmer/YouTube
Google’s new ‘Move Mirror’ AI experiment uses machine learning to compare your pose to 80,000 photos and find a match:
Image: Google
CeramicSpeed’s ‘Driven’ concept bicycle has an innovative 99% efficient drivetrain that uses a carbon fiber shaft instead of a chain:
Image: Matt Phillips
Researchers in Poland created a machine learning algorithm that can differentiate scans of live irises from dead ones:
Image: A. Czajka, P. Maciejewicz and M. Trokielewicz
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