“Smart” dental implants can improve current devices by promoting the health of the surrounding gingival tissue using biofilm-resistant nanoparticles and battery-powered lights. Credit: Gelsu Hwang
More than 3 million people in the United States have dental implants, which are used to replace teeth lost due to rot, periodontal disease, or injury. Implants represent a breakthrough beyond dentures and bridges, are designed to fit much more safely and last for over 20 years.
However, implants often fall short of their expectations and instead require replacement in 5-10 years due to local inflammation or periodontal disease, requiring the patient to repeat costly and invasive procedures.
“We wanted to tackle this problem, so we came up with something innovative and new. Implant“Geelsu Hwang, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry, said. He has an engineering background involved in the study of oral hygiene issues.
Larva Labs, the team behind the outrageously popular NFT project CryptoPunks, has penned a deal with Hollywood agents United Talent Agency (UTA).
According to an Aug. 31 article from the Hollywood Reporter, UTA will represent Larva Labs for intellectual property (IP) deals in TV, film, video games, licensing and publishing. Two other NFT projects from Larva Labs, Meebits and Autoglyphs, will also be represented by UTA.
CryptoPunks was launched back in 2017 and is one of the first NFT projects created on Ethereum. The IP-related deal with UTA marks a significant milestone for Larva Labs, as it is one of the first examples of content created in the blockchain sector that has entered the mainstream entertainment industry.
Lesley Silverman, head of UTA Digital Assets told the Hollywood Reporter:
“I would say that it is one of the first opportunities for an IP that fully originated in the crypto-world to enter a broader entertainment space, and they earned it.”
Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a soft, stretchable device that converts movement into electricity and works in both dry and wet environments.
“Mechanical energy — such as the kinetic energy of wind, waves, body movement and vibrations from motors — is abundant,” says Michael Dickey, corresponding author of a paper on the work and Camille & Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State. “We have created a device that can turn this type of mechanical motion into electricity. And one of its remarkable attributes is that it works perfectly well underwater.”
In our present nanomanufacturing process known as Simultaneous Plasma-Enhanced Reactive Ion Synthesis and Etching (SPERISE), we have integrated both nanoscale bottom-up synthetic and top-down etching approach. This eliminates the expensive prepatterning steps and hence give rise to ultrahigh throughput, better reliability, high yield and above all, low cost. Since, this process does not need any prepatterning steps, it is now possible to combine nanostructures on any microstructures, which is the holy-grail of the nanomanufacturing process.
The findings have been reported in the September 21, 2011 online edition of ACS Nano (“Ultrahigh Throughput Silicon Nanomanufacturing by Simultaneous Reactive Ion Synthesis and Etching”).
Although it is known to researchers for a long time about how to make nanostructures over a large area, little was known about the mechanism of such synthesis. This was a barrier for controllable and deterministic nanofabrication process. In this paper, we have presented experimental evidence of the nanoscale synthesis process elucidating the mechanism of formation of nanostructures. The mechanism has been successfully applied to explain the nanostructure formation in variety of crystallographic silicon substrate such as single-crystal, poly-crystal and amorphous silicon as well as differently doped (p- or n-type) substrates. We believe, the proposed mechanism will provide a general guideline to design new SPERISE methods for other solid-state materials besides silicon.
Smart buildings offer individuals, businesses and even cities better and more efficient ambient experiences. However, the connected technologies that make buildings “smart” tend to require processing massive amounts of data inputs, often including personal information.
The collection and use of personal information requires consideration of the data privacy and security risks to individuals, as well as the possible associated legal and compliance obligations of developers, managers and operators of smart buildings.
Smart technologies enable interoperability across networked devices to produce a desired or defined output. For smart buildings, these outputs span a broad range of capabilities, such as automatically adjusting the temperature of a room based on the number of occupants detected, or even designating individual work spaces based on daily calendars or ambient conditions. Generation of an output requires an input, and in the case of smart buildings the inputs tend to be data collected from sensors placed in and around the buildings, as well as from connected systems and devices.
Concept: Singaporean robotics technologies startup, Otsaw Digital (Otsaw), has developed an autonomous last-mile delivery robot named Camello that can deliver on-demand parcels and groceries to customer’s homes in Singapore. Otsaw aims to deliver medicines and groceries where there is a labor shortage or if the location is not easily and economically accessible by humans.
Nature of Disruption: Customers who want their goods to be delivered to their homes can very easily book a delivery slot for grocery items like milk and eggs. At the time of delivery, the app notifies the users that the robot has arrived near their home so that they can go to the pick-up point and collect their goods. Camello is equipped with 3D sensors, a camera, and two compartments each capable of carrying up to 20kg (44 lb) of food or parcels ordered…
ICON, a construction technologies startup based in Austin, Texas, announced the project earlier this month in partnership with the Texas Military Department. At 3,800 square feet, the barracks will be the biggest 3D printed structure in North America. It’s edged out for the worldwide title by at least one other building, a 6,900-square-foot complex in Dubai used for municipal offices.
The barracks are located at the Camp Swift Training Center in Bastrop, TX, and are replacing temporary facilities that have already been used for longer than their intended lifespan. 72 soldiers will stay in the building, sleeping in bunk beds, while they train for…
An advertising company is willing to pay you to let your face do the selling for you. The company wants to take your face and put it on other models’ faces so they can offer clients a wide range of faces to choose for their ad marketing campaigns. Your face could sell Rugby balls to Russian kids and you’ve never spoken Russian in your life, let alone played Rugby, but your face is a Russian Rugby Ball Selling Meme Lord in Moscow and you’re just raking those fat deepfake dollars in.
That’s the goal, but, more likely, you will recieve a few bucks to never know the myriad of ways your face will be used. Still, if someone wants to pay me to let them Deepfake my face to sell Japanase Anime to the Germans, I’m all for it. Let those Deefakes dollars flow.
Are you looking to make some cash? Are you not worried about the dark implications of AI and its potential uses with your likeness? Good news: There’s a company that wants to pay you to deepfake your face for commercial purposes.
Hour One is a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses real people’s likenesses to create AI-generated “characters” for marketing and educational videos, according to MIT Technology Review. The company currently has a library of roughly 100 characters, and it’s looking to expand its roster.
“We’ve got a queue of people that are dying to become these characters,” said Natalie Monbiot, Hour One’s head of strategy, in a very unsettling choice of wording.
Hour One, an AI startup, wants to pay you to make a deepfake likeness of your face for commercial and educational purposes. Companies will be able to purchase AI-voiced “characters” to say whatever they want….
China has already publicly announced its intentions to build a miles-long space-ship, and they’re not alone. The new great race between nation-states might be to build a miles-long space ship. Welcome to the 21st century.
Kilometer-scale, ultra-large spacecraft are major strategic aerospace equipment for the future use of space resources and colonization.
They will study minimizing the weight of the spacecraft and space structures to reduce the number of launches and construction costs.
NASA has had a decade of several NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) projects studying the construction of massive kilometers scale and larger structures in space.
The main NASA study started Feb 2021. Kilometer-Scale Space Structures from a Single Launch, Zachary Manchester, Carnegie Mellon University.
A high-expansion-ratio auxetic structure can be stowed inside a single Falcon Heavy fairing and deployed to a final length of one kilometer on orbit as part of a large space station. The station can then be spun at 1-2 RPM to generate 1g artificial gravity at its…
When he wasn’t getting enough attention from the public back in 2017, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon used to play this game: He’d just say something dismissive about bitcoin and it was sure to put him in the headlines.
So, a prominent entrepreneur at the time, Adam Ludwin, then CEO of early enterprise blockchain company Chain, decided to play along.
In a letter posted on his company’s blog, Ludwin argued to Dimon (and, presumably, his true audience, the many curious folks the open letter was sure to reach) that the quality that distinguished cryptocurrency and made it uniquely valuable was something called “censorship resistance.” Ludwin wrote:
“Nothing can stop me from sending bitcoin to anyone I please. Nothing can stop me from executing code on Ethereum. Nothing can stop me from storing files on Filecoin. As long as I have an internet connection and pay the network’s transaction fee, denominated in its crypto asset, I am free to do what I want.”
Censorship resistance is a jargony way of saying speech, or any other activity, that can’t be vetoed or stopped. Ludwin might be right that it’s a killer feature of distributed ledgers, but it goes further. Censorship resistance is also a step change in the history of political philosophy.
It’s an idea that evolved from prior ones, going all the way back to the earliest days of Western civilization (at least). In particular, though, our modern conception of the right to state one’s opinion, or free expression.
Back FREEDOM for only $4.95/month and help the Freedomist to fight the ongoing war on liberty and defeat the establishment's SHILL press!!
Are you enjoying our content? Help support our mission to reach every American with a message of freedom through virtue, liberty, and independence! Support our team of dedicated freedom builders for as little as $4.95/month! Back the Freedomist now! Click here
