Each of us had to come up with an >X< — a big hairy topic that needs addressing,
Today, we are brainstorming "radical technology ideas for solving global problems. Radical in the sense that the solutions could help billions of people. Radical in the sense that the audaciousness of the proposals makes them sound like science fiction."
More to come on Tuesday. For now, they have a teaser video [update: site just went live with video]
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The PlasticLogic screen, demonstrated by Chariman Hermann Hauser, visiting Google's "Solve for X" from the U.K. They have developed high mobility transistors on plastic, unlike prior attempts like FlexICs.
So far the buyers are the Russians for educational eBooks… after investing $700M for a minority stake.
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The Google X site just went live.
I suggest starting with Mary Lou Jepsen's talk on reading the mind (HD version). From many fMRI scans, where seeing and imaging something is fundamentally similar in brain blood flow effects, they can create a "mental map" of correlates with elements of images seen. From this composite, and a bit of machine learning, they can then present a new image, and from the fMRI data alone recreate a fairly spooky rendition of what is being seen.
I would love to run the tape while dreaming.
This mind-reading requires a clunky fMRI today, but others are working on a radically different way to export the image: running neurons in reverse... and expressing the image on the retina to be read externally.
This led the guy next to me to say "guys are screwed."
In this photo, we have Neal Stephenson, another neuromancer, who inspired some of my photo captions in years past — Snow Crash and Diamond Age.
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Just spray it on and it self assembles into an antenna.
I was guessing that it used some kind of conductive block copolymer. A strip of it oscillates when connected to an ohm meter.
I suggested that they use RF coupling strength feedback to adjust the structures while they are still plastic. Perhaps an improved antenna could result if the physical structure could be modified while operating as a proto-antenna. They are going to give it a try.
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Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be?
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