Category: Fundstücke

TEDxCambridge – Scott Summit’s beautiful artificial limbs…

TEDxCambridge – Scott Summit’s beautiful artificial limbs (by TEDxTalks)
3D printing lets us move away from mass-produced identical items, to personalised experiences
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Free access to British scientific research within two years (The Guardian)

Free access to British scientific research within two years (The Guardian): An important move for open access, but probably not the right one:

[…] research papers that describe work paid for by the British taxpayer will be free online for universiti…
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EU Opens Up Drug Data Secrets

EU Opens Up Drug Data Secrets: via the European Public Sector Information Platform and Reuters:

Europe’s medicines regulator is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl through millions of …
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A Phone that Knows Where You’re Going

A Phone that Knows Where You’re Going: The potential of Big Data and why it is scary to have companies and governments collecting it…

In a study on 200 people willing to be tracked, the system was, on average, less than 20 meters off when it predict…
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Brilliant! A digital camera sends a picture to a crowdsourcing…

Brilliant! A digital camera sends a picture to a crowdsourcing network to let someone describe what is on the picture, and it then prints out that description for you.
(via Descriptive Camera)
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Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study of the United States of America

Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study of the United States of America: Interesting article. The “usual talk” about eradicating extreme poverty, but applied to an unusual suspect: the US.

Extreme poverty, defined as a composite of income p…
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