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: IBM
Blue Vision Labs, an augmented reality startup that builds ‘collaborative’ AR, has emerged from stealth mode with $14.5M round:
Image: Blue Vision Labs
Sony used virtual reality projection mapping technology in a music video to close out its activation at SXSW:
Image: Christina Chi Craig
IBM created a computer smaller than a grain of salt and made for less than 10 cents, for use as a “cryptographic anchor” that can be embedded in everyday objects to monitor, analyze, communicate, and even act on data:
Image: IBM
Urban Rivers plans to built a robot that anyone can control online as it trawls the Chicago River picking up trash:
Image: Urban Rivers/Digital Trends
South Korean researchers created a drone with retracting arms that allows it to pick up trash, and other objects:
Image: Science Robotics
NatGeo created immersive ‘Astronaut Reality Helmets’ to give viewers an astronaut’s view of space and promote Darren Aronofsky’s ‘One Strange Rock’:
Image: National Geographic/AdAge
Georgia Tech researchers made a prototype 3D-printer that combines four different printing techniques into one machine, allowing for efficient printing of complex products (like robots and phones) using multiple materials:
Image: Craig Hamel and Conner Dunn
MIT’s CSAIL unveiled “SoFi,” a soft robotic fish that can independently swim alongside real fish in coral reefs:
Image: MIT CSAIL
UK researchers have built a new wearable, portable brain scanner that could generate imaging similar to fMRI machines but allow the subject to move around:
Image: University of Nottingham
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