Wired:
The researchers’ algorithm is composed of a series of five equations through which data from cameras can be run. Each equation represents tricks used by fly circuits to handle changing levels of brightness, contrast and motion, and their parameters constantly shift in response to input. Unlike Lucas-Kanade, the algorithm doesn’t …

Bruce Lipton, The Wisdom of your Cells — “the cell wall *is* a computing device” — must be going ga-ga right about now, on this news.
“This is much the same thing that happens in a cell,” Stroeve explained. “Now that we can open and close these channels, we can, in …

Researchers develop ‘wireless’ activation of brain circuits
“The long-term goal of this work is to develop a light-activated brain-machine interface that restores function following nerve or brain impairments,” Strowbridge says. “The first attempts to interface computers with brain circuitry are being done now with complex metal electrode stimulation arrays that are …

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set a deadline of Monday 28 July for US companies to voluntarily hand over details about the nanoparticles they work with. Yet very few companies have participated, leaving the EPA more likely to move towards mandatory regulation, something the industry fears will be bad …

It’s nice to get back to the core curriculum with today’s MIT Technology Review report that, “Scientists are developing new ways to coax electrodes to integrate with brain tissue.”
Frankly, it’s annoying that our utterly broken NeoRepublican PseudoSocialist economic system exerts such a disproportionate entropic influence upon our collective potential to …

This month in IEEE Spectrum:

Human senses and body parts are increasingly augmented by a stunning array of high-tech devices.
Today, robots are pushing the envelope of humanoid design—they can play the violin, unload a dishwasher, and climb stairs.
To David Adler, the human brain is just really advanced nanotechnology.
Countervalent: One day a …

On Feb. 21, 2003 at TIME magazine’s “The Future of Life” conference, Ray Kurzweil presented a talk based upon this essay. Subsequently, the Lifeboat Foundation reprinted a nicely photo “enhanced” version of the article.
On today’s five year anniversary, it may be a good time to take a glance at …

The potential for nanotechnology to “build molecule-by-molecule” has been greatly discussed with one question invariably being asked: How do we get from here to there?
Foresight Nanotech Institute and Battelle Unveiled a Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems.

This 10 minute introductory segment aired last year on QUEST, but it sure beats reruns during the current writer’s strike.

Where will you find Cleantech, Nanotech, and BioNano innovators ready to step out of the lab and into the market?
[At] the 2008 TechConnect Summit, June 3-5, 2008 in Boston, representing the world’s largest peer-vetted deal flow for technology Partnering, Investing and Licensing.
Deadline for submission of IP and Venture proposals is …

Not that my readers could have possibly missed it by now, but thanks to the empirically ineffable accomplishments of physicist Alex Zettl and graduate student Kenneth Jensen the nano-genie is now SO out of the bottle that it won’t be long now before the normals start telling us how smart …

[T]hanks to a [Nobel award-winning] nanotechnology breakthrough, [b]y 2011 Hitachi expects to have a hard disk for desktops with 4 TB of storage and a laptop with a 1 TB drive.