Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA reveals that a resourceful 5,300 year old Iceman wore a
sheepskin loincloth, cow leather shoelaces, goat hide leggings, sheep and goat mixed coat,
a brown bear hat.
Meanwhile, researchers at Stanford developed a new fabric that, unlike cotton, allows infrared
radiation to pass through it.
So you’ll feel four degrees cooler if you’re wearing plastic clothes.
Vsauce!
Kevin here - this is Mind Blow.
DuoSkin makes your arm an interface.
Developed by the MIT Media Lab, a cheap, skin-safe gold leaf material is attached in various
designs to the skin.
The three interfaces include wireless communication, touch-sensing input and displaying output.
The metallic temporary tattoos can control mobile devices like a trackpad, and also data
like movie tickets could be embedded in the material.
They believe on-skin electronics will become less taboo over time and develop into user-friendly
body decoration.
In science fiction becomes reality news, an astronaut sequenced DNA in space.
While aboard the International Space Station, a Biomolecule Sequencer was used to identify
the DNA sequence of a mouse, virus and bacteria while identical samples were sequenced at
the same time on Earth to control for differences in results.
Current practical applications include being able to test the fungi growing on the ISS
without having to send it back to Earth and future amazing applications include detecting
life on Mars.
Virtual reality, brain-control and a robotic exoskeleton combine to retrain people to walk.
The system allows patients with spinal-cord injuries to regain voluntary leg muscle movement
and feel touch and pain in their paralyzed limbs.
After 12 months of training, which involved patients imagining walking through a virtual
scene, the EEG picked up signals for the lower limbs that had been previously lost.
The patients wore sleeves with haptic feedback to react to each step, and even varied so
walking on sand would feel different than walking on grass.
Eventually they could walk in the real world with robotic training devices
and the research is ongoing.
The oldest fossils ever found are 3.7 billion years old.
Australian geologists discovered a newly exposed outcrop of sedimentary rocks and minerals
in Greenland that was previously covered in snow.
They found evidence of fossilized microbial mats called stromatolites
which are shallow water microorganism communities.
Due to the complexity of stromatolites they believe life may have started much earlier
than when they appear in the fossil record and this discovery increases interest in life
on other planets.
There’s now a drone that drops ignition spheres to start fires.
The Unmanned Aerial System for Firefighting was created to safely perform prescribed fires
that are used to combat the spread of wildfires
and benefit ecosystems by fighting off invasive species.
Traditionally, helicopter-based ignition has been used but its expensive and dangerous
- so this new system represents a major upgrade in fire.
EPFL built a robotic foosball table.
A camera under the table tracks the ball and linear and rotational motors control the players.
The robot can already beat humans.
The robot knows where the human player is positioned and can react accordingly.
And now they’re working on having a robot play against another robot.
3D Printing now enters 4D.
Engineers are printing shape-changing polymers that remember their original shape when heated
to specific temperatures.
They believe what they call 4-D printing could be used for biomedical devices like medicine
that’s released when the patient has a fever or used for solar cells that move in relation
to temperature to optimize performance.
Really i just think this little soft polymer claw thing looks cool.
So yeah.
Finally, DFKI in Germany unveiled a project to search for extraterrestrial life in the
deep oceans of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
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I’m gonna leave you with a virtual reality robot arm,
And as always, thanks for watching.
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You are about to take a journey out of this world,
Into the world of the future.
Forget the world around you.
Forget the people around you.
You are entering Futurama.
It’s hard to believe there actually is an oven that can cook a roast in minutes by electronics.
Then bake you potatoes in less time than it takes to carve the roast.
A refrigerated cart ready for wheeling into a game room or out on to the patio.
Perfect for keeping foods and drinks cool for informal entertaining.
Yes, that’s a wonderful idea.
And I’ll bet this washer will get anything clean,
Even my most delicate things.
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