The spitting
This robot has a pulse. Battery-operated pumps have mechanical heart artificial blood through his artificial veins and arteries. He has joints, moving arms, legs and head. With "Rex, The Bionic Man", scientists have succeeded in creating a robot from all artificial organs and body parts, which can be produced so far - a milestone for the prosthetic research. The man left in the picture knows what it feels like living with artificial body parts: The German social psychologist Bertolt Meyer was born without a left forearm and had to rely on his life prostheses. No wonder, then, that he not only helped develop Rex, but he has also lent his face.
Office in the fast lane
A furious IT specialist from Baden-Württemberg, which had moved its office unceremoniously into the passenger seat of his car, went to the police in the Saarland into the net. With laptop, printer, voltage transformers, two mobile phones, GPS and GPS receiver - all units in operation - he injected with 200 km on the highway. Prepared he is preparing for a hasty appointment? That it could not be proven, and so it remained "parking ticket" for driving at high speed and improperly secured cargo ...
The goal in mind
The man in the middle is more than the other commuters in line 3 of the New York subway. But he is no ordinary passenger: Sergey Brin, Larry Page developed with the Google search engine - and is wearing the latest innovation of the company on the nose: Google Glass. The augmented-reality goggles hidden information about the area in his field of vision. Brin sees what now? We do not know, because so far is Google Glass only developers reserved. But nice to see how relaxed and popular so he roars through the New York underground. He could so easily afford a car and tell the driver the way, what Google knows all about his great city.
PC as a dollhouse
Discarded computers are hazardous or you tinker it into a Puppenstübchen for the kiddies. The caste of case modders, housing modifier, it has taken on the task, dreary PC boxes in its external and internal appearance and reshape it so visually enhance. The cozy interior comes from "newsmakers" who transformed his old PC into a lovingly crafted living room, including miniature gumball machine functioning and floor lamp. More examples of innovative housing design you see on the pages of Russian modding community " modding.ru ".
60 years TV
Love telly, now we've been together 60 years. Christmas 1952, you are with the daily broadcasts came into our lives and become our daily lives hardly unthinkable. The German sticks to you like a postage stamp on the envelope. This photo shows you in 1953: a TeKaDe Model FS 1040 with 36 inches diagonal. Then framed a fine wood case your black and white images.
Today you show the world in colorful, well liked in 3D, and otherwise did you visually changed enviable: You have grown significantly, but also become more slender. If you keep this up, you can quickly move through comfortably under each door. Content you've developed yourself also. With the first shipment nor Concerns were raised, you would contribute to our mutual isolation and brainwashing. Some viewers did you manage doubt, but we are happy anyway, that you are there. Because with each new model, and each handle to remote control you bring us again amusement, entertainment and recreation.
By computing helper for game console
Now that every phone, calculators functions has to satisfy the needs scientific requirements, a hacker has taken the trouble to feed an older model calculator from Texas Instruments with new features. After the RSA key of the operating system of a " TI 83 Plus had "cracked after several months, the somewhat dated computer helper functions now as a game console. Publisher is the programmable calculator 1999th Among the games that come on the TI 83 Plus to new, blocky honors such illustrious titles as "Tetris," "Mario Brothers" and "Sonic the Hedgehog" are. Texas Instruments TI-is driving the hacker community naturally anathema. However, ran to try to stop the spread of chopped key, into the void. Within a short time he has been mirrored in many places in the network, among others Wikileaks .
Virtual lookout
Keller children beware, here waving the chance of a virtual window, along with views of the colorful underwater world, the favorite city or a winter wonderland: The project Winscape presents numerous film panoramas to choose from. So you can greet the morning about a shark and colorful fish that beat comfortably on two plasma TVs with the fins ...
The equipment must however agree: In addition to the TV are a Mac Winscape including software, iPhone to control and a Kinect sensor bar needed. Which detects the position of the person in the room and adjusts the perspective: it looks impressive real Such gadgets are available in the future as in shop windows and react to pedestrians.
Automated Driving
The greatest risk factor is driving the man. According to the Federal Statistics Office, 80 percent of all accidents could be attributed to the bad behavior of the driver with Pesonenschaden. Remedy to provide driver assistance systems by the driver in dangerous situations or in monotonous driving ease with decreasing attention.
The international automotive supplier Continental completed in the State of Nevada from a two-week endurance test of such a system. Over 6,000 miles of laid-equipped with all sorts of high-tech car back fully automated. Inter alia, were a stereo camera, the size and distance of obstacles measures, an electronic brake system, and an electric steering. The near-production technologies are not standard, but in the future it probably means: sit back, the boring stop-and-go traffic jam takes over in your car!
Fossil in operation
61 years old and have no thought of retirement, on the contrary: The Harwell dekatron ventures after three years of treatment back into the world of the working computer. 1951 was the 2.5-ton truck on his first day - and was one of only twelve computers worldwide. To multiply two numbers, it took ten seconds. His duties he got via tape, his results, he also punched in paper. In 1973 he was considered the most durable computers in the world, shortly after he was retired. Now, seven decades after its development, the veteran has found a new workplace: In the "National Museum of Computing" in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, visitors can see him at work.
Titan: Giant performance
The new top-500 list of the fastest supercomputers is titanium, a Cray XK7 system in the first place. The new Supercompter is at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA. The science center is part of the U.S. Department of Energy. With 17.59 petaflops (quadrillion mathematical operations per second) suggests, the "giant" of the Sequoia hitherto fastest supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While Sequoia secret military research serves, Titan is the fastest computer in the "free" science. For the insane pace incidentally provide 560,640 processors, including graphics processors (GPUs). The good news: Despite the insane performance of "Power Calculator" economical. In the top-500-Green-List he finished third.
Fresh pressure Babies
Ultrasound images can be so exciting: The expectant mother points to a few millimeters in size and shadow gets upset: "There! That's his little arms! Do you see "The Japanese have's rather vivid and therefore a new trend, well, helped birth. Company Fasotec happy parents with a 3D print of the unborn child With ultrasound and magnetic resonance images of the fetus is detected detail and manufactured by 3D printers in resin - depending on size and design for up to 950 euros. Who holds the resin coming in his hand, also see whether it's a boy or a girl.
Elf above the clouds
Not only sheep, breathtaking nature and extreme sports: New Zealand offers new attractions. Since Peter Jackson - at its inception the splatter genre arrested - 2001-2003, the Oscar-winning "Lord of the Rings" trilogy on New Zealand's South Island turned to travel fantasy fans in droves to admire Hobbit dwellings or Elf accommodations. With the prequel "The Hobbit," Jackson told now in three films, the history of the Ring saga. On the way to Middle Earth to meet the tourists have their heroes in the sky: Air New Zealand has shot with the cast, a new safety video for the airline.
Future Music
At the Brussels Philharmonic music connoisseurs miss hardly artistic expression, although the ensemble complete "ausdrucklos" makes music: On the music stands are not printed sheets, instead Tablets show the musicians the music. And so now light not only the eyes of the audience, but also the digital scores of the 92 musicians. And the checkout would be: With the use of paper saves the Philharmonic 25,000 euros per year - and on top of that many meters of shelf space, which had previously been filled with sheet music. Nice to hear that ecological thinking is a popular one.
Roads printer
He looks incredible, it's there but really: the road and pavement printer. The company hölländische Vanku created with the road-building machine Tiger Stone innovation of 2010. The "printer" sets of paving stones on a day up to 300 m-way area with a maximum width of six meters. Two workers use the expensive 60,000 to 80,000 euro machine. The ornate pattern of the coating they put by hand.
On the Brink
Smartphone junkies who run the view of the display bans against lampposts have to reckon with a bump on the head. The young man in the picture threatens greater adversity - goes from the edge of the Grand Canyon is more than a kilometer down. He focuses entirely on the magnificent landscape: For Google Street View, he emigrated with his camera backpack on the precipice of the mounted in just over two meters in height every few steps cameras shoot high-resolution photos of the surroundings.
With its Android Smartphone controls the hiker the whole system, in the next few weeks, Google intends to integrate the images in Street View. Being from "Street View" slow "World View" is because the backpack photographers snap increasingly off-road - the Arctic and the Amazon region may be completed by Streetview scour already on your PC or on your smartphone. Even in the world's oceans, the collector images from Google are already dived.
Sustainable rocking
That modern technology and contemplative furniture design are not mutually exclusive, is the company Micasa Zurich Lab. Recently announced her rocking chair "iRock" invites iPhone and iPad with cozy rockers. The erschaukelte in an hour kinetic energy loads the Apple devices on a third or operates the speakers built into the chair.
Micasa Lab Schreinert the kinetic power plant in fine wood - it is to come in 2013 at a price of 1,300 euros on the market. Android devices can be used in the design study is not connected to the iRock - maybe for the launch.
Auto-Kino
Engine off, movie - and whisper sweet nothings to the flame in the passenger seat: drive-ins, where you can have not only the action on the screen its fun, there are hardly any. Car makers Mercedes-Benz, the other makes rather more sedate gentlemen mobile builds, so just the movies in the car: In the hood of a teen-hip smart Forstars implanted the Swabians a projector, which the movie fan can direct a smartphone. Or better could: Mass production of presented at the Paris Motor Show Mercedes has no plans to study.
Electronics, which dissolves in the body
Just a drop is left of this postage stamp-sized chip, if he comes into contact with water. Possible the behavior is determined by the construction of the electrical circuits to the materials used: magnesium, silicon and spider silk. Of the alkaline earth metal consist the delicate conductors and electrodes made of thin layers of semiconductor diodes and transistors. All electrical components are embedded in layers of magnesium oxide and spider silk.
How stable the circuits and components to water, are the design engineers set to John A. Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana already laid in the construction of the chip. In addition to the thickness of the silicon layers decides the structure of the silk sheath that dissolves the chip of minutes, days, weeks or months late. A number of applications have already been tested in the laboratory. Including the use of the treatment of wounds after surgery to prevent infections: The chip, which is about two weeks actively heated, and the wound is thus help to kill bacteria.
The mobile gadget garage
At schools in New York have cell phones to stay outside. For kids who do not get along on the way to school without a cell phone, the technology-wardrobe is the perfect solution. The kids are not queuing up to get hold of a brand new mobile phone, but to make her favorite gadget: the discarded vans they can store phone or MP3 player for one U.S. dollar, and were given a card with a number - as in a wardrobe. From two units there's discount. But students who deposit their mobile phones every day in the truck, pay for it every year more than 180 dollars (140 euros) - costs more than many cell phone.
A locomotive traveling
Ron Fugelseth sent the toy locomotive "Stanley" his son with a weather balloon and an HD camera in the direction of space. The absurd idea came to the father when he saw the video some Canadian students, a Lego figure with maple flag sent on the great journey.
The vehicle for the flight Fugelseth tinkered with: A weather balloon was attached to a box. In the box he put an HD camera and an old mobile phone with GPS. Stanley he fastened securely to the outer end of a box mounted on the rod. Having found a suitable site, weather maps and studied the Authority were informed, they let the balloon go up. Stanley reached an altitude of about 28 kilometers and the stratosphere. Then the balloon burst and locomotive and device sailed with a parachute to earth. The package landed safely in a field.
"Stuck like Calvin and Hobbes" had his son and the locomotive, the proud father says in the text to video . YouTube already saw more than 3.3 million people to the exciting journey of a Lieblingsspielzeiugs. The field was the way only 45 kilometers from the starting point. Jayden Fugelseth could soon close its Lok So after landing in the arms.
PC with brain
Computer and the brain have a lot in common. Since it is only natural to combine the two data memories. What comes out, you will see here. Kenner clever Hollywood comedies think of this portion Grips well to a classic with Steve Martin. In "The Man With Two Brains" Martin finds a talking female brain in a laboratory glass - and falls in love with the organ. Also in this picture Love is in the air: a love of tinkering. "Case Modding" is the name of a PC scene, clothe their supporters fully functional computer in unusual cases. Whether beer box, microwave or cranium: The PC runs like a Mietnomade of a housing into the next - only his board Grips always remains the same.
"I am your father"
The Empire Strikes Back? Hardly, the power has become far too weak in the small film. Previously the analog film role was a sincere Jedi who did good service in any camera. But at least in this galaxy, they had no chance against the small and potent rebels save loose a few hundred pictures. With its more than 36 images of the miniature film acts as rather like the rattle asthmatic Darth Vader shortly before his death. The SD card will survive, that the movie role is her dad - at least rebel to the next generation of memory media. Then get the SD card, the red light saber ...
Beaming: Researchers teleport light about 143 km
From A to B in a few seconds: Travel without crowded airplanes, traffic jams on highways or train delays - this dream researchers are now one step closer. So far, the technology will lead to more secure communications. A team led by the Vienna Physics Professor Anton Zeilinger has teleported the quantum state of a photon from the neighboring island of La Palma to Tenerife - a distance of 143 kilometers. A future, global quantum internet could use quantum effects to make the tap-proof communication and accelerate some calculations.
A billion dollars in damages to pay for Samsung abgucken at Apple. The justifications that have been not work at school help, this too failed. The classic: "I just wanted to let's see if we have the same" or "No, silly nerd has copied from MIR, so it was around!" And what does Nokia? Beats hands together above his head. Perhaps the former flagship Finn would have liked a bit rübergeschielt. Too bad only when one is so far away from the competition, that it would need a telescope.
Hot Box
The futuristic structure produced in a plasma experiment, which had a temperature of over two billion degrees Kelvin (about two billion degrees Celsius) reached - hotter than the interiors of stars. The complex experimental facility called Z-machine and is in the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The plant is used for material testing at very high temperatures and pressures. The Z-machine consists of one - surrounded by 36 electrical conductors - cylinder with 32 meters in diameter and a height of six meters. In the center of the vessel, there is a vacuum chamber, in which in turn, are tungsten wires tensioned. In its center is finally the peppercorn large plastic ball, the fusion capsule. The experimental arrangement in which the incredible temperatures were reached, comes the way from 2006 and has been experimentally confirmed in further tests, a complete explanation of the phenomenon is still pending.
Super-Kamiokande: the neutrinos on the trail
What looks like a 3D image or a strange dream world is, in fact, the fascinating inner workings of the Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan. The boat-crew slips to 50,000 tons of highly purified water. And about a kilometer deep in a rock. In the approximately 40-meter-high hall researchers are far from interfering cosmic radiation for neutrinos. These particles are in fact not that easy to find, Because they are electrically neutral and have a very small mass, they penetrate even thick layers of material.
To prove it yet, the scientists are using more than 11,000 so-called multiplier. These balls measure the Cherenkov radiation. Produced when neutrinos and water molecules interact. For this, the hall must be completely filled with water. Then, the researchers found that neutrinos still not directly, but they can prove their presence. For the first time in 1987 was achieved with the previous Kamiokande detector - this success Masatoshi Koshiba brought the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Computer workstation: Emperor 1510
Shaped like a scorpion, combines the spacey computer workstation. the Canadian company MWE Labs , futuristic look and unparalleled comfort. The tiltable steel construction is ergonomically designed, includes a Bose sound system, LED lighting, leg rest, a freely adjustable Tasturablage course and a drink holder. The strategically optimum viewing position allows the use of a single 30-inch displays or three 24-inch screens. A Windows or Mac PC or a game console either make the design for high-end home or office workstation. All convenience of course, has a princely price. Monitors and PC without the cost - available in black and white - Emperor proud 1510 $ 6,200.
Printer-gun
Gone are the days when printers spit out only harmless paper - high-tech copies available for a machine gun. Although not complete, but still important parts: The plastic housing on grip and magazine, an American has with the pseudonym "Have Blue" designed on the PC, his 3D printer has built the plastic component. Cost: $ 30. And the 3D printers are available from 500 euros. The remaining components of the hobbyists bought commercially.
Although even other PC DIYers have weapons parts made by printers, but Have Blue was the first fired one shot with the .22 caliber gun with printer. Do the Yanks now with printed arms over each other? So quickly it will not go - the barrel and the ammunition still haunts from a printer.
Laser-vices
The eerie green glow at the rear of the truck raises the suspicion, if it were a radioactive hazardous substance transport. Far from it. Through the little favorable aerodynamics of trucks consume this much fuel. Since the charging structure should not be changed - an understandable desire of the carriers - to test researchers of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Department of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology in Göttingen, modified subsoils to reduce suction. To obtain practical results, the research team sent a converted tractor on the road. Laser technology makes up the air currents at the tail visible.
Visit the Privacy Policy
In issue 15/2012 COMPUTER BILD had accused the parent company of vacation sites like Fluege.de and ex-in-the-urlaub.de, ripping off its customers in the Reservation. Unister had then tried to prevent critical reporting of COMPUTER BILD. Less than two weeks later equipped the Saxon privacy advocates Unister a visit. While Unister of a "routine check", advocates want the data protection on request of COMPUTER BILD not comment on the reason for the visit. A spokesman said: "It is an ongoing process."
Supercomputers
By SuperMUC, on the 20th Was put into operation in July, Germany's top 500 list of the fastest computers now with four "Power PC" in the top-25. The fastest computer in Europe is at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, needs expansive 500 square meters of space and weighs 100 tons. The supercomputer provides a peak performance of three petaflops per second, and thus three quadrillion calculation steps. The special on SuperMUC: It is cooled with 40 degree water. This means that no cables are visible but water hoses. Manufacturer IBM brings with it an extremely environmentally friendly method of cooling mainframes used. Only a maximum of 20 percent of additional energy for cooling are necessary. This save you € 850,000 in energy costs per year.
iDesk
The combination of table and tablet makes tedious desk work a pleasure: The most important documents are no longer in messy piles of paper around on the table, but are displayed digitally. They scribble notes with a special pen on it anyway as usual. The automatic heater keeps coffee at temperature - and the smartphone charges by induction, if it stores. Too good to be true? Unfortunately, yes. The U.S. designer Adam Benton with the iDesk designed a dreamlike quality that initially remains probably a dream. Because such a iTisch would like to buy expensive as a new car ...
World of friendships
A world map of Facebook friendships: In the beginning was a black screen, gradually built a Facebook employee, the geographic data of users of the social network and thus mirrored even national borders. Nice to see how Facebook connects people on the continents together. Nevertheless, you can see some black holes: Russia in particular is left out, there is Europe's largest social network VKontakte leader. Also in China Facebook is a niche product. There are also sparsely populated areas like the rain forest and the Sahara, which are clearly visible on the Friendship Card. Somehow comforting to know that not all of humanity Facebook is addicted ...
Light-painting
A light fence stands on a square. In addition, a ghostly figure. What's behind the bizarre effect?
The radio waves from wireless networks are extracted from the eye, such as air, but mostly as present. With a little imagination and ingenuity of the three Norwegian artist Timo Arnall, Einar Sneve Martinussen Jørn Knutsen and have found a way to make the imaginary waves visible. They assembled a four-meter long wooden bar with 80 LEDs. For this purpose, they installed a wireless receiver, depending on the strength of the signal brings the LEDs to light up. With a long exposure reached the three "light painting" the illustrated effect: a fence of wireless flows in the town center.
Event of the century: Transit of Venus
The progress of this year's transit of Venus was observed by many people. But the historical significance of Venus for science, few know. The passing of Venus on the sun was still up to the 19th Century, the only way to determine the distance between Earth and the Sun relative precision. These observers were stationed at two locations (as far south and as far north). Due to the different time it took for the Venus transit, they could, the distance to the sun, and thus calculate Venus. Thus, the scientists determined then the other planetary orbits in our solar system. The distance from the Sun is the way pretty much 149,600,000 km and the next transit of Venus is on 11 Dezember 2117th
Retinal chip
Blind can see again - which previously required a miracle to accomplish soon a small chip. Researchers at the University of Tübingen have developed a "subretinal implant," which they implant in the nerve cell layer of the retina (retina). In the eye of the blind patient receives the tiny chip light pulses, which he converted into electrical signals and transmits them to the nerve cells of the retina. The chips are still prototypes, which are surgically removed after five weeks in the eye again, the blind can currently with the electronics in the eye can perceive only simple visual impressions as outlines. But finally, the images of the first digital cameras were similarly modest, while current Digi-snapping deliver pin sharp images. Therefore the Tübingen researchers are confident that the blind can continue with more advanced chips actually see again.
Mini-Cam
It fits on a fingertip and will still make high resolution photos. The smallest digital camera in the world that measures just 2.9 x2, 54x2, 7 inches and shoots still photos at a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels. In addition, the tiny films with a 640x480 pixel resolution. In the U.S. merchant Hammacher there are the mini-cam for a mere $ 39 (about 31 euros). The big question is: how to get just the puny trigger? So you would prefer to keep a sharp object ready, otherwise takes the snapshot simply by chance. Perseverance we must not demand of the small notches too, the battery life is 30 minutes.
Space Junk
The earth - surrounded by a dense ring of old rocket and satellite parts: just as it looks in this photo montage, according to calculations by the European Space Agency ESA in orbit from actually. With the naked eye all the crap cannot be seen, of course, the parts fly in orbits up to 2,000 kilometers in altitude. Scientists found that the scrap pieces collide en masse and so added each year tens of thousands of parts.
To avoid damage to the aerospace and active satellites, scientists tinkering in Germany and Austria at an observation system. They intend to detect even small parts using a laser. Initial tests have been successful. Then the future is a more powerful laser to divert part of its orbit, so they burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
The largest digital camera in the world
The camera-monster with a lens diameter of 1.62 meters belongs to LSS telescope, which currently occurs in the Chilean Andes. From 2014, the giant sky camera take pictures with the incredible resolution of 3.2 billion pixels - in addition to the dimensions, another record high for a digital camera. Every night would produce as 30 terabytes of data.
Virtual supermarket in Seoul
The South Korean supermarket chain Home Plus has a clever idea: to illuminate the barriers on subway platform in the capital Seoul Pictures of goods shelves - deceptively real. Stressed commuters shopping here by smartphone in the virtual supermarket. How it works: Scanning Using the phone the QR code below the desired products, send order, and the whole cart landed on the evening the customer's home. Homeplus wants Sun rise without building new supermarkets into the market leader in South Korea.
