Powers of ten

Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes

In 1998, "Powers of Ten" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Logistics: Rise of the warehouse robots

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Inside Amazon as it faces its busiest shopping period

Cooking with Intel - A Demonstration on CPU Heat

 

Cooking with Intel - A Demonstration on CPU Heat

 



How tall can a Lego tower get?

 

 

 

It's not just children who like to build towers with Lego - the internet is alive with discussion on how many Lego bricks, stacked one on top of the other, it would take to destroy the bottom brick. So what's the answer? Click here to find out

 



 

The hum that helps to fight crime

 

 

A hum that comes from mains electricity has allowed forensic scientists to establish whether recordings are genuine

 

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Robot 'race' to fix damaged Fukushima nuclear plant

 

 

Japanese company Mitsubishi has unveiled a radiation-resistant robot aimed at cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.

 

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Minecraft to aid

 UN regeneration projects

Development plans for 300 places around the world are being modelled in Minecraft so residents can help decide how the locations will change.

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Who is controlling your voice?

Who is controlling your voice???

Impressive but is it real?

The saying goes seeing is believing .....

Not everything on the web is real

Horrible Histories: Fawkes' Thirteen 

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Human video game

Technodelic Comedy and Performance Troupe

Tuesday 16 October marks Ada Lovelace day, an annual event designed to raise the profile of female scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians.

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Record sky dive

What technology went into supporting it ?

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gamification

What if gamification really became pervasive

Artfully visualizing our humanity

a brilliant presentation from the artist Aaron Koblin, who specialises in data and digital technologies, using real-world and community-generated data.

computational thinking

Example of computational thinking ?

internet minute

the number of networked devices is equal to the global population. By 2015, the number of networked devices will be twice the global population

Friendly robot uses Facebook to interact with you

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sensor map

Wearable sensor maps disaster areas in real time

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Controlling computers with gestures

Controlling your computer with gestures

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Virtuoso cartoon pianist plays just like the real thing

Watch a professional pianist play and you'll be struck at how effortlessly their hands skip across the keys.

Making an animated character do the same is much harder, so researchers from the University of California, Davis, have built an algorithm designed to make computer-generated hands tickle the ivories far more realistically.

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Cyborg cockroaches

Researchers say they've figured out a way to create cyborg, remote-controlled cockroaches, hoping one day the resilient creatures could be steered into disaster zones to gather information and look for survivors.

Dad sends son favourite toy train into space

what the Internet is really made of

When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it -- the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical bits that make up the net.

 

Robots join the fight against cancer

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FLL challenge

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012

Fireflies dancing beneath the stars, the last transit of Venus for 105 years and giant swirling galaxies deep in space. The 2012 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition has produced some awe-inspiring images (Click on link above to view show)

Formula 1's IT crowd: Software engineers power Marussia

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What's the safest 4 digit pin?

The safest 4-digit PIN is '8068' — or at least it was, until researchers at Data Genetics told everyone this week. The researchers there went through a set of 3.4 million four-digit personal identification numbers and found "8068" came up only 25 times.

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safest 4 digit pin