IN RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY

Storing information inside organic elements

 

Double Helix Serves Double Duty, John Markoff (October 1, 2014)  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/science/using-dna-to-store-digital-information.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 

 

This articles talks about a research group that has stored 739 kilobytes of information onto DNA. Getting more and more efficient to write information onto DNA and store it. We will eventually be able to store more and this is an example of how information could be stored in something like water and blood. Evelyn has the "virus" uploaded into her and this could be one way for it ot be possible. There is no actual implementation, but it does show a proof of concept and with future advances in computing, the price will go down and it will be more viable.

 

New Silicon Chip Sequences Complete Genome in Three Hours, Sebastian Anthony (October 1, 2014)

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/84340-new-silicon-chip-sequences-complete-genome-in-three-hours

 

This is about one of the advances in technology that makes it possible for encoding upon organic substances. The Ion Torrent Chip is powerful enough to measure pH changes caused by the release of a single H+ ion. The chip allowed the sequencing of a strain of E. Boli in only three hours.

 

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3D Laser Face Scanning

 

Three-dimensional recording of the human face with a 3D laser scanner (November 2006)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1748681506000970 

 

States that the Minolta Vivid 9i (machine they used) would be useful for 3d scanning of other body parts, but because of the different angles and tiny movement that happens to the face it is difficult and doesn't really work with this machine. Experimented by trying to record males faces using this 3d scanning device. Device Link: http://www.3dscanco.com/products/3d-scanners/3d-laser-scanners/konica-minolta/ 

 

3D Scanner used in Music Video

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/18/world/3d-scanning-human-skin-art/ 

 

UK band uses a design studio's help to create a music video based on the 3d laser scanning of a man's entire body. Incredibly detailed used something like 96 cameras, maybe have also used photogeometry. 

 

 

3D laser scan takes fear out of face molds (January 17 2011)

http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/2014/07/13/11426176/

 

3D laser scanning allows burn victims to have face masks, without the pain of the face molding process. The new laser scanning machine also easily creates multiple for the children to use, where as before one took a very long time and could be very painful. 

 

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Nano Particles (that compute)

 

Bioengineering: Nanoparticles and Neural Computing (September 2014)

http://www.trendguardian.com/2014/09/bioengineering-nanoparticles-and-neural.html 

 

Nanoparticles that target cancer cells and create a small bubble and explode, damaging the cancer ell membranes, the nanoparticles then release chemoteraphy drugs, stright to the cell cytoplasm. Method has proved to be very effective and only very small doses of drugs are needed to completely eliminate tumors much quicker. They are also small enough to avoid and not damage the healthy cells. 

 

Data on the brain: ‘Wet computing’ liquid implants could boost intelligence

http://rt.com/news/176996-brain-implant-intelligence-nanoparticles/

 

Research done in University of Michigan to store data in nanoparticles suspended in water, also known as the process wet computing. Using only small amounts of water (teaspoon worth) could store up to a terabyte's worth of data.