Innovation

Motion Retargeting Video

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a motion video retargeting system that captures dance moves from a source dancer and generates video of those dance moves being performed by a target dancer, using pose detection as the transfer medium, with seemingly good face synthesis and motion smoothing.

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Tech

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Better Noise Cancelling

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Researchers at the University of Illinois' Coordinated Science Laboratory have demonstrated a better mechanism for noise cancelling headphones that uses wireless signals to send sound data from microphones close to the sound source, allowing less processing and microphone hardware to be installed on the headphones themselves.

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Tech

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Concrete Crane Energy Storage

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A startup called Energy Vault is using a 120 meter crane to store potential energy in a tower of concrete blocks that weight 35 metric tons each. The tower can store 20 megawatt hours of power and has a round-trip energy efficiency rate of 85%.

Innovation

Science

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Cool Thing Of The Week: Printed Paper Actuator

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Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Morphing Matter Lab have created printed paper actuators. By coating paper with conductive thermoplastic, the paper can bend, fold or flatten in response to an electric current. The video demonstrates some interesting uses for this technology, as interface controllers and as a moving publishing medium. (H/T to Mikael for sharing this.)

Innovation

Science

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Wireless Communication Water Air Barrier

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Researchers at MIT have figured out how to break the water air barrier for wireless communication. The solution involves using a sonar transmitter to vibrate the surface of the water and an airborne receiver to detect and decode the vibrations. The system produced data rates at hundreds of bits per second in tests done in two MIT swimming pools.

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Science

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AI Proves Fibromyalgia Exists

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Researchers have used machine learning and AI to identify a brain signal model that characterises Fibromyalgia, despite the some doctors believing that Fibromyalgia does not exist. The signature model can be used for assessing therapeutic mechanisms and predicting treatment response at an individual patient level.

AI & ML

Innovation

Science

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Retool

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Retool is a drag and drop tool that lets you create web based apps to manage data. It aims to allow you to build internal tools easily with a set of building blocks.

Innovation

Web Dev

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Optical Neural Network

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Reseachers at UCLA have developed an all optical neural network system, which uses specially etched plates to diffract incoming light to perform calculations. A number of plates are layered together to create teh Diffractive Deep Neural Network (D2NN) which can perform calculations at the speed of light.

AI & ML

Innovation

Science

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Star Wars Backgrounds

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This is a fascinating Twitter thread detailing how the backgrounds of the original Star Wars movies were created using Matte paintings on glass to create the various scenes before CGI.

Innovation

Space

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Airkhruang

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The band Khruangbin have created a site called Air Khruang which allows users that are taking a flight to enter their source and destination airports and receive a generated playlist of music for their flight.

Innovation

Music

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