Technology

Reflections of the Realized Imagination

Imagine you are living within a bubble.  Your bubble stretches in any direction but you are always contained within it.  Your bubble is adrift in a sea that has no bottom, only a surface.  The surface surrounds your bubble, so the sea itself is only a bubb ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Aug 10 2011 - 11:08am

Surround Haptics- Kill People Virtually With Even More Realism

Greater virtual realism is always shown in television shows like "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as people who act out an alternate life as a farmer or solve mysteries in the 1800s, and that may happen, but long before that any technology like t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 14 2011 - 10:08am

Mission Impossible, The Robot Version

    Object: a book           Location: high shelf, exact location unknown     Agent: Swarmanoid, robot swarm consisting out of three types of robot.    Mission: Impossible?        ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 14 2011 - 10:05am

Heello- TwitPic Creators Turn The Tables On Twitter

You may not know this, but Twitter is actually not that great.   The website itself is clunky. Add-ons are what made it successful.   Sometimes Twitter has acquired them, like with TweetDeck, and sometimes they have created their own once the market has sh ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 13 2011 - 2:26pm

The Data: Social Media Stinks At Driving Traffic

Over time, a variety of people have asked me where they should get the word out that they are writing on Science 2.0 and I am happy to tell them- but they are surprised by the answer.   Social media darlings like Twitter and Facebook will accomplish very l ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 24 2012 - 11:17pm

Seeking Shape and Cardinality in the 0-Dimensional Web

What is the shape of a Website?  How does one determine "shape" from a collection of links and electronic files?  Web designers, search engineers, and marketing consultants use geometric shapes like circles, rectangles, pyramids, and network diag ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Aug 16 2011 - 3:44pm

The End Of The Stakeout? Single Sensor Has Autonomous Multi-target, Multi-user Tracking Capability

In the modern world, even residents of London generate more i ntelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data than human operators can collate and that can severely limit the ability of an analyst to generate intelligence reports in operationally r ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2011 - 9:50am

Open Science In Science 2.0- Who Does It?

Five years into the Science 2.0 experiment I can tell you down to the eyeball how many people are involved in the communication pillar of it- but in the collaboration realm, it's not so easy. Science 2.0 fave Heather A. Piwowar from the Department of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 17 2011 - 6:05pm

National Geographic Ends Anonymous Accounts At Scienceblogs.com

National Geographic, which nows runs Scienceblogs.com, has put the hammer down on anonymous blogs. Really, that whole thing was always a little sketchy.  Supposedly the rationale was that these people were going to be edgy insiders revealing things too exp ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 18 2011 - 6:29pm

Magic Goggles And Enchanted Maps- Kind Of A Science 2.0 For Museums

At Science 2.0 we are not big fans of being clever just for the sake of being clever- we were smart kids and there are smart kids today and the belief by government funding agencies that STEM outreach needs to be cartoons and video games and mascots is a l ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2011 - 1:34pm