Disney World Offers Star Wars Fans ‘Carbon Freeze Me’ 3D Printed Figurines
Like a scene straight out of Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Disney World is offering visitors to be 3D scanned and 3D printed in a Hans Solo style figurine as part of their Star Wars Weekends..
The unmanned aerial vehicle industry is expected to bring in billions for domestic drone makers over the next few years. Where are the robotic aircraft manufacturers sending their stealth spy plans though? They aren’t saying.
The American Independent reports that Texas’ Vanguard Defense Industries, a US Defense Department contractor that outfits the Pentagon with unmanned aerial drones, has inked agreements with several overseas governments. According to the Independent, Vanguard is expected to see most of their profits in the next year occur from selling airships to foreign nations. Just exactly who is on the receiving end — and to the tune of how many crafts — remains a mystery.
It is the human face that will suffer the scars of this automation of killing
New Challenger Footage of the Day: The niece of a couple who retired to Florida primarily to attend space shuttle launches recently came across what could be called a national treasure — her father, Steven Virostek, captured the 1986 Challenger tragedy on home video.
The rare footage, made public this week, begins with Steven’s wife, Hope, caught up in the excitement of teacher Christa McAuliffe’s flight.
“C’mon, Chris! … Go Chris, Go! Beautiful! Oh, Beautiful, Chris! … Go, Chris, Go!”
Seventy-three seconds into the launch, however, the Challenger explodes. Then Steve Nesbitt is heard, broadcasting from the Mission Control Center in Houston: “Flight control is here looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction.”
The Virosteks were devastated. “After it happened,” Tricia Hunt said, “for weeks and months they would go to the local beach to search for parts of the shuttle.”
The new footage joins just a handful of other amateur videos of the explosion.
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Breaks my heart and brings tears to my eyes.
The End of Cash: Dropping the penny was just the beginning as the Canadian Mint seeks digital future With the penny gone and the triumph of plastic over paper bills only months away, the research and development department of the Royal Canadian Mint has proposed going one step further: the death of hard currency altogether.
Video: Jerry Brito Talks About Mintchip (and Bitcoin)
In an interview on CTV News (Canadian Television), Jerry Brito (@JerryBrito) argues that there is a real future for digital money.
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5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Care About Your Klout Score - http://mylov.es/IuLyaK
Klout now has an official app for the iPhone!
And the coolest part of it is internet connection or not, the red notification circle will display your Klout score. (Unless you don’t want it to, and then you turn it off in the settings.)
Klout which has no scientific research behind it’s metric.
Today on Tech In A Sec we talk about the move Minority Report and it becoming a reality with new technologies on the way. Mainly Huawei’s new 3D gesture tracking technology that they’re spending a massive amount on their budget on for their next generation of smartphones and tablets.
Apparently Huawei has partnered with CERN, the people responsible for the Large Hadron Collider. Through this partnership, CERN has gathered 15 Petabytes of physics information to make their next phones the best possible.
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Who has thie biggest thumb drive
So volume of research data as now the benchmark for success? My research comes from 500 exabytes. (The Internet). I win.
