Xeeban’s Musings

The BBC is running
a very interesting article about a device created by Kimiko Ryokai, a researcher at the MIT Media Lab.

The brush can scan any external image or surface and use that to “paint” that texture onto a digital painting.

Ms Ryokai wanted to know what would happen if you could literally suck the ink from the environment.

The concept of the space elevator is one step closer to reality. The LiftPort Group, a company planning on building a space elevator, received FAA clearance (a waiver) to use airspace to start testing models of the elevator using a robotic device to climb a free hanging ribbon attached to a balloon initially as much as a mile high.

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