It uses lasers to illuminate plasma anywhere in the air. Also works underwater.
Category: art
December 19, 2011
December 5, 2011
O Ferrofluid Fortuna!
Limitless lilting landscapes of light
irridescently emerging, elegantly inverting and mellifluently merging.
Mesophase geometries reveal resonant chromatic complements
interlaced in magnetic dream spirals.
Prismatic tides and horizons bursting with beauty
glimpsed behind the ethereal veils of time.
November 29, 2011
November 18, 2011
November 13, 2011
October 12, 2011
October 5, 2011
Jason Silva on time, intelligence, language, psychedelics…
and 50 other things in less than 2 minutes! 
But really, these quick Jason Silva videos are wonderful. Watch in full screen.
More info on each of the videos (and more rants by Silva) on his vimeo page.
September 29, 2011
Parking Lot at the Center of Time
Amazing, trippy artistic portrayal of a story based on a premise by Terence McKenna.
September 23, 2011
3D Printing watch
Scan and print industrial tools with moving parts in minutes. Great introductory video to 3D printing:
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Also…
Makerbot recieves $10 million dollars in funding from Amazon founder and other angel investors
and the New Museum in New York team up with Makerbot to offer and design challenge.
3D printers for kids: Origo makes a toy that makes more toys.
3d printers for criminals: Thieves steal $400,000 from ATMs using 3D printed tech.
Have a look at the a 3D printed car. Expected to hit the market as soon as 2014.
Here’s a list of 10 wearable, edible, flyable and transplantable objects made with 3d printers.
and PopSci has a feature on Printing Musical Instruments and Instruments of War.
When you can print nearly anything, who will say what not to print?
September 23, 2011
Visual brain activity reconstructed using fMRI and Youtube
This was the technology portrayed in the 6th season episode of House entitled Black Hole.
The potential of it is staggering.
From description:
The left clip is a segment of the movie that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this movie from brain activity measured using fMRI. The reconstruction was obtained using only each subject’s brain activity and a library of 18 million seconds of random YouTube video. (In brief, the algorithm processes each of the 18 million clips through the brain model, and identifies the clips that would have produced brain activity as similar to the measured brain activity as possible. The clips used to fit the model, those used to test the model and those used to reconstruct the stimulus were entirely separate.) Brain activity was sampled every one second, and each one-second section of the viewed movie was reconstructed separately.
For a related video see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMA23JJ1M1o
For more information about this work, please check our lab web site:http://gallantlab.org
