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Google Japan's Keyboard Day

Google Japan replaced their April Fools jokes with Keyboard Day. On October 10th each year, they announce a funny new keyboard design. This year, the latest g-board is in the shape of a Möbius strip to allow multiple people to type on the same keyboard simultaneouly!

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AI Disease Detection From Coughs

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Using Google's AI Health Acoustics Representations (HeAR) model, Indian company Salcit is expanding their Swaasa to detect TB and assess lung health based on the sound of a patient's cough.

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Solar Power From Space

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UK company Space Solar has developed a proposal to gather solar power in space and beam the converted microwave energy to a fixed point on earth.

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Walking Coffee Table

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Inspired by Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest sculptures, Giliam de Carpentier built a walking pod coffee table, which is controlled wirelessly using a Wii remote. He also open-sourced the leg linkage design.

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Disney HoloTile Moving Floor

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Disney Research announced their new HoloTile, a moving floor that allows multiple people to travel on the spot, ideally while in an AR or VR environment.

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The Parting Glass Sinéad O'Connor Tribute by boygenius & Ye Vagabonds

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Listen to this beautiful cover of The Parting Glass by boygenius and Ye Vagabonds, released as a tribute to Sinéad O'Connor and raising money for the Aisling Project.

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Jeff Bezos Head Boat

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Watch the entirety of this fantastically wonderful video from Limerick artist Bobby Fingers which chronicles his journey in creating a row boat in the form of Jeff Bezo's head. I guarantee you won't see any of the amazing twists coming. Yurt.

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The Network State Conference

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Balaji Shrinivasan's The Network State Podcast live-streamed their conference on YouTube. The Network State concept describes society moving away from nation states towards states that coalesce virtually and/or around shared ideals. The conference included talks from organisations that are experimenting with creating their own communities, enclaves, online and real-life cities, and presentations about how technology (usually blockchain) can power these initiatives and also disrupt the operation of the incumbents, aka countries.

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NASA AI Generative Design

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NASA has turned to AI to generate the design of components to use during space flight that reduce the amount of materials used, and thus weight, while also being better at stress and bearing. The designs reduced stress factors by 10 times and weight by 66%.

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LEGO Human Skin Printer

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Scientists at Cardiff University have developed a human skin 3D printer made completely of LEGO. The build cost of the printer is £500, making it financially accessible to a wide range of researchers.

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