Tech Suki

Play it here:

http://notdoppler.com/supercrazyguitarmaniacdeluxe3.php

Source: http://www.hobby-wave.com/DreamTech/WF_lucy/index.html

Source: Dailytech

The Savannah Research National Laboratory have created a multipurpose new material, composed of tiny glass bubbles, which behaves both like a fluid and a solid

Source: weirdasianews

The South Korean government plans to build two robot-themed parks close to Seoul—one in the bustling seaport of Incheon and another in Masan—by the year 2013.

Source: weirdasianews

A large sign that reads, “Squeeze All You Want,” actually tells a buyer that’s it quite all right, to cop a feel.

Source: weirdasianews

Scientists at Hiroshima University’s Institute for Amphibian Biology in Hiroshima, western Japan, have bred transparent frogs whose organs can be seen through their skin.

Source: CNET

Source: weirdasianews

They created the flowers by implanting the gene that leads to the synthesis of the blue pigment Delphinidin in pansies. The pigment does not exist naturally in roses.

Source: engadget

Source: Dailytech

European astronomers have continued the run of discoveries of smaller planets with the discovery of a trio of “super-Earths” rotating around the star HD 40307, located 42 light-years from Earth towards the southern Doradus and Pictor constellations.  The new planets have masses of 4.2, 6.7, and 9.4 times the mass of Earth and orbits of 4.3, 9.6, and 20.4 days respectively.

Source: weirdasianews

Recently, there has been an increase in executions of North Koreans who are caught using or possessing cell phones.

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This is pretty cool, *when it works. It lets you easily install Fedora in a usb pendrive as a live system.

Get it here: https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator

However, as it’s Linux, there’s of course trouble and problems. If you can’t get it to boot, here’s the fix:

http://forums.blagblagblag.org/viewtopic.php?t=4365

cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdc

(Change sdc to your drive letter)

If that doesn’t work, try here:

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=104367

If those solutions still don’t work, just give up, this is trash Linux after all and is bound to fail.

Source: Dailytech

Los Alamos researchers are putting this power to work with a program dubbed PetaVision. The program was created to model neuron and synapse interaction in the visual cortex of the human brain. The brain uses over a billion neurons and trillions of synapses alone to process the visual information it receives and is one of the most complicated processes known to exist in grey matter.

Supercomputers like Roadrunner bring new possibilities for modeling human recognition systems, and the advances are not likely to stop there. In the past, computers have been unable to flawlessly perform cognitive tasks that the human brain does easily; tasks like picking out a face in a crowd, or detecting oncoming vehicles in traffic. Such a large step up in processing power may enable scientists to breech this difficult wall in mimicry.

The researchers used PetaVision to set a processing record with Roadrunner, spinning up to an astonishing 1.144 petaflop/s. “Just a week after formal introduction of the machine to the world, we are already doing computational tasks that existed only in the realm of imagination a year ago,” explains Terry Wallace, associate director for Science, Technology and Engineering at Los Alamos.

The supercomputer’s architecture is based on a hybrid node system. Each node contains two AMD Opteron dual-core and four PowerXCell 8i processers. The PowerXCell CPUs are derived from the same Cell processor used in the Sony Playstation 3 and act as computational accelerators for the Opterons.

Source: Dailytech

The new system, known as Gestix, eliminates the need for complex and largely ineffective sterilization procedures on today’s OR touch screens.  When surgeons first start with the system, they train it and learn to use it by learning to move their hand in one of eight directions away from a neutral area, fast.  This movement scrolls the image.  They also learn to zoom in and out by rotating their hand clockwise or counterclockwise.  To avoid misleading signals, when the doctor is done, they drop their hand which triggers a sleep mode.

The hand motions are captured using a Canon VC-C4 camera and they are processed by an Intel Pentium processor and a Matrox Standard II Video Capture device.  The system was tested to much success at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C during two “in vivo” neurosurgical brain biopsies.  This may be the first time such a system was used with an “in vivo” procedure, according to the researchers.