Electric air vehicles. Story here.
The idea of personal planes may conjure up dark visions of “Blade Runner,” but the first batch of two-seater aircraft to fly on electricity rather than fossil fuels could reach more than a dozen buyers by year’s end...
Cool paper in nature today from the research group of Prof. Z.L. Wang at Georgia Tech. They’ve made arrays of nanowire fibre’s from which they can generate (obviously small amounts of) electricity. Pretty neat nevertheless. Reminds me of this cool research that came out of Cornell a few years ago that used trace amounts of radioactive material near a micron-scale cantilever as a battery.
Another SVMs applied to DNA microarray data project. Looks like it’s from a collaboration called MLExAI between the University of Hartford and Central Connecticut State University that is an information exchange on teaching machine learning and AI material.
Came across another application of Kalman Filtering here in a homebrew UAV project.
Wow just read a really neat write-up on the use of Kalman filtering in the Robo Cup competition.
Hey cool! These guys in Japan made a cool jig to give feedback when walking in a virtual environment. Gives resistance to your feet via strings to simulate the virtual environment that is being walked through. The coolest thing is it supports walking in any direction and does so by rotating with the user… anyways… the video speaks for itself.
