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Da's inderdaad een gamechanger.

En dan nog zo:
"We werken met goedkope grondstoffen en we hebben geen edelmetalen of andere dure componenten nodig."

This MicroLED Display Is Smaller Than a Bug



14 000 pixels per inch. hock:
Up close under microscope.



The dimensions of it are purpose built for the application we’re going to use it for. Just one piece of several building blocks that we have to have in place to build the product that we’re making.

https://mojo.vision/#invisible-computing
Invisible computing’s proved a compelling enough idea that the company has attracted millions in venture capital from the arms of big tech companies including Alphabet, HP, and LG.

Artificial life form given 'synthetic DNA'

"With only 61 of Syn61's 64 possible codons taken up as instructions for natural amino acids (hence the name), that leaves three that can now be reassigned to unnatural ones that could introduce entirely new chemistry into the cell."



Iemand die daarstrax de pers conferentie van Musk over Neuralink gevolgd heeft?
Elon Musk unveils Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert them
Neuralink heeft in samenwerking met hoop universiteiten een BCI ontwikkeld bestaande uit 96 threads, elks dunner dan een haar en een custom robot die deze in het brein kan embedden. Ze hopen volgend jaar reeds met de eerste human trial te beginnen.

Dan toch leven op de maan (in de vorm van aardse extremofielen)?

Tardigrades may have survived spacecraft crashing on moon.

The HADES detector in Darmstadt, Germany.

The experiment is the first to measure the temperature of quark matter under conditions akin to the inside of a neutron star collision. When neutron stars — the super-dense cores of dead stars — spiral together and collide, they shake the fabric of space-time and trigger explosions called kilonovas. To produce similar conditions, the team slammed gold atoms moving at nearly the speed of light into a gold target.

When the researchers plotted the energies of these matter-antimatter pairs, they found that the energies formed an exponentially falling curve. If the electrons and positrons had originated from particles with a characteristic energy or mass, there would have been a bump in the curve. Its smooth shape was an unmistakable sign that the matter had assumed an exotic form. The slope of the curve clocked the fireball’s temperature at hundreds of thousands of times that of the sun’s center, and the team calculated that its protons and neutrons reached a density analogous to the effect of cramming New York City into a sugar cube.

This is some hot stuff alright.


A New Type of Visual Prosthesis

First, to stimulate a stage of visual processing with synaptic precision, just as the natural visual system does it, we need a way to activate neurons in the visual system prosthetically. We do this by injecting a custom virus into the region of the brain where the optic nerves first connect within the center of the brain. The virus injects genes into those cells and changes them into photoreceptors: now they are excitable by light. Because these neurons reach all the way to the visual cortex at the very back of the brain, and because they are laid out in a map that matches the visual world, we can stimulate their synaptic connections precisely with a video projector to recreate how they would react to real incoming visual inputs. We then target the central visual neurons and ultimately restore vision.
Cyberpunk 2019


Trampoline mirror may push laser pulse through fabric of the Universe
"The numbers get even more mind blowing when you consider that all of that energy is focused, such that the intensities reach something like 1022W/cm2. To put this in perspective, you start creating a plasma when intensities hit 1012W/cm2. Once intensities get above 1025W/cm2, if the light hits just a single electron, there's enough energy to cause e=mc2 to start a cascade of electron-positron production out of the vacuum. If the laser intensity hits 1029W/cm2, not even that single electron is required—the light will rip virtual electrons out of the vacuum, generating real charges from the apparent nothingness of empty space."