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The Future is knocking at your door with a suitcase full of things it would like to demo on your carpet, your walls, your stovetop. I’m thinking, I’d like to let it in. I’ve got a world of artwork to conserve and I want to know all about the new materials and methods that just… Continue reading The Future Is Here and It Wants You To Try Its Stuff
Dan Cull asked about sci-fi and conservation and reminded me that it might be time to revisit Technovelgy, so off I went and found this: Self-folding Origami is basically all about how DARPA is doing research into shape-shifting materials, a merger of material and computer so that an object is not limited by it’s original… Continue reading Boggles The Mind
Researchers at Osaka University have come up with a pen that “writes” at the atomic level. The folks at sci-fi/technology site Technovelgy, who paid to read the full article at Science Magazine, say “The process replaces individual atoms of tin with silicon”. Plus they cite Bladerunner. So, I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking:… Continue reading Writing Implements of the Future
Every once in a while I come across an article that sends me into my own little sci-fi world where I have all the world and time to tinker with new technologies- along with a miraculously improved understanding of chemistry and physics. I daydream about various ways nanotech can change our work (the way we… Continue reading Science Fiction and Conservation
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