Archive for November, 2007
“Self Aware” Robots
Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. At the root of this uncanny demo is a deep inquiry into the nature of how humans and living beings learn and evolve, and how we might harness these processes to make things that [...]
Future Mobile Technology
Younghee Jung leads a multidisciplinary research team at Nokia called “Insight and Innovation” (download PowerPoint slides from Nokia Connection 2007 conference). Jung talks about what to expect next from your mobile phone, the newest ideas in the pipeline, and the questions that Nokia is asking women.
She spends the first half of the video describing how [...]
Environmental Entrepreneurship
In the past few years, we have greatly improved our environmental quality. However, new challenges of disappearing habitat, ineffective regulations etc continue to pose more challenging problems. This has given rise to a new breed of environmental activists – environmental entrepreneurs.
Environmental entrepreneurs specialize in identifying conservation opportunities, mobilizing resources, and building a constituency for conservation. [...]
Spore
Spore is a multiplatform “God game” under development by Maxis and designed by Will Wright that allows a player to control the evolution of a species from its existence as a multicellular organism to a spacefaring sapient creature. The game has drawn wide attention for its promise to simulate this development of a species through [...]
