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20 Library Stories You May Have Missed – OEDB.org
This Anti-Gravity 3-D Printer Can Make Objects Anywhere–Even Space | Co.Exist
The Mataerial printer squirts quick-drying polymers from a nozzle, like it was frosting a cake, creating a new model for 3-D printing that doesn’t require layers and supports to make a new object.
The Future Of Technology Isn’t Mobile, It’s Contextual | Co.Design
Next up: Machines that understand you and everything you care about, anticipate your behavior and emotions, absorb your social graph, interpret your intentions, and make life, um, “easier.”
via The Future Of Technology Isn’t Mobile, It’s Contextual | Co.Design: business + innovation + design.
The Declassification Engine: Your One-Stop Shop for Government Secrets | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
A fascinating article about researchers developing the “Declassification Engine” – a tool to analyze declassified documents in the United States.
In many cases, documents are declassified only because individuals will request them under the Freedom of Information Act, and this often means they’re spread to the four winds. “There are a lot of declassified documents out there. Some of them are in historians’ basements. Some are in specific libraries. Some are in digital archives. And they’re in different formats. No one has systematically collected them into a searchable, usable, user-friendly database,” says Columbia law professor David Pozen.
The Declassification Engine seeks to remedy this, but that’s only the first step. Columbia’s Matthew Connelly first dreamed up the idea when he realized that although more and more government documents are now created in electronic format, a dwindling percentage are declassified in electronic format. The rise of digital records, he told himself, should provide more opportunities for researchers, not less.
See the full article: The Declassification Engine: Your One-Stop Shop for Government Secrets | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com.
Google Takes Street View Trekker And Underwater Cameras To The Galapagos Islands | Tech Crunch
Google today announced that it has been taking its Street View Trekker – the compact backpack version of its Street View cars – and its underwater Street View cameras to the Galapagos Islands and that it plans to make these images available on Google Maps later this year. The company worked together with the Charles Darwin Foundation, the Galapagos National Parks Directorate and, for the underwater survey, the Catlin Seaview Survey.
via Google Takes Street View Trekker And Underwater Cameras To The Galapagos Islands | Tech Crunch
Bing Adds Klingon to Language Translator | Mashable
Bing Adds Klingon to Language Translator | Mashable
Very cool. The Bing Translator translates “Librarians can do anything.” into “vay’ laH Qu’ librarians.” in Klingon. There is also a Klingon (Kronos) option, which shows the statement in the Kronos language/characters/font.
25 Alternatives to Google Analytics – Stephen’s Lighthouse
Understand the Key Book Publishing Paths (Infographic) | Huffington Post
Review of Internet of Things Device Twine | Wired.com
With the powers that be continuing to expand their use of sensors to monitor our every action as we move about in the world, it’s nice to encounter a product that lets us do the same inside our own homes.
Twine is an inexpensive, customizable little box that can be rigged to monitor your home for various changes or actions, and alert you when they happen. It debuted in 2011 as a Kickstarter project, and became a fully funded reality in early 2012. For the full article see Review: Twine by Supermechanical | Wired.com.
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