This comes in nice, after the short ‘Danish design’ exchange of views we had on Troniu’s blog :-). Of course no resemblance, no comparison, to Verner Panton’s (S and more) chairs, true masterpieces.
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SuperBots!
I’ve always loved those ‘Transformer’ cartoons. Well, it seems that researchers affiliated with the ‘Information Sciences Institute’ at the University of Southern California are very close to designing some real-life Transformers.
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I bet no one would fall asleep in this sort of presentations.
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D-Wave’s Orion: The first practical quantum computer
It still doesn’t work properly, but well, it is a start. I am optimistic and I think it’s a matter of 5-10 years (not half a century as some think!) to get it to solve all existing Sudoku puzzles in seconds, for instance (although there are much more important things one could do with a quantum computer than solve Sudoku…).
→ Read more On Larry Page’s address at the AAAS Annual Meeting 2007 and more from that event
Excerpts from Larry Page’s address at the AAAS Annual Meeting of this year are in the third part of this recent Science podcast (in .mp3 format) from the 17th of February (his talk starts from around min 14 in the podcast).
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