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Developer Kit Available from Kickstarter as of Friday, May 17th at Noon (EST) NEW YORK, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Friday, May 17th marks the end of the era of the flat screen device, according to meta, a young and highly progressive computer technology development start up recently accepted into the Y Combinator Summer 2013 cohort. The company is launching the meta 1 Developer Kit, the world's first hardware/software package for full augmented and mediated reality, via online...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SmarTech Markets Publishing has announced that it will present a Webinar analyzing the market opportunities in the Augmented Reality (AR) business. The Webinar will be held on May 15, 2013, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT. To register, please go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3880677161960719104 This Webinar will be based on the conclusions and recommendations from SmarTech's new report "Opportunities for Augmented Reality:...

Will augmented reality be the catalyst to accelerate immortality? What if we could interact with Dirrogates—digital surrogates of living, or even dead people? (PRWEB) May 02, 2013 Memories with Maya, is a hard scifi novel that cuts through genres, touching on today's hard science focus: artificial Intelligence, the singularity, transhumanism and augmented Reality and how these disciplines will affect human emotions, relationships and our evolution as a species...even after death....

Growing Roster of Distributors now includes Poland, Australasia, South America, Italy & Spain NEW YORK, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SurePure, Inc. (OTCBB: SURP) a global leader in liquid photopurification, is pleased to announce Karbon Strateji Danismanlik Dis Ticaret Limited STI ("Karbon Strateji") as their exclusive distributor in Turkey. This relationship has yielded early breakthroughs, with commercial trials already planned for the replacement of pasteurization of sugar syrup...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Forest fires are a major cause of plant death and destruction, but they can also be a source of life as some dormant seeds begin to germinate in the aftermath of a raging inferno. Previous research has shown chemicals in the smoke of burning trees called karrikins are responsible for this phoenix-like rebirth. Now, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has described new details on the mechanism behind...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Approximately 252 million years ago, during the world’s largest mass extinction event, nine out of ten species vanished from the planet. Based on fossil records from sites in South Africa and southwest Russia, many scientists have long thought the predecessors of dinosaurs largely missed the race to fill habitat niches that were emptied during this event. However, according to an international team of scientists, it turns out they...

Tees For Your Head's product offerings continue to expand, now offering a fun and geeky line of illusions to their tees, in sizes from toddler to 6XL. Santa Cruz, CA (PRWEB) April 28, 2013 Tees For Your Head designer Tom Bates has been wearing the his optical illusion tees around town, and they are provoking comments. Noting the reaction, his nerdy t-shirt company created a category just for illusions and is steadily adding original designs. Bates has been studying both brain behavior...

American Geophysical Union When scientists torched an entire 22-acre watershed in Portugal in a recent experiment, their research yielded a counterintuitive result: Large, hot fires do not necessarily beget hot, scorched soil. It’s well known that wildfires can leave surface soil burned and barren, which increases the risk of erosion and hinders a landscape’s ability to recover. But the scientists’ fiery test found that the hotter the fire—and the denser the vegetation feeding...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A group of researchers from Cornell University's Creative Machines Lab say they have developed an algorithm that can be used to witness virtual creatures evolving. The team wrote in their paper titled "Unshackling Evolution: Evolving Soft Robots With Multiple Materials and a Powerful Generative Encoding" in the journal Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference about their algorithm. They said the equation...

Duke University Software builds "library" of millions of small, carbon-based molecules chemists might synthesize. Drug developers may have a new tool to search for more effective medications and new materials. It's a computer algorithm that can model and catalogue the entire set of lightweight, carbon-containing molecules that chemists could feasibly create in a lab. The small-molecule universe has more than 10^60 (that's 1 with 60 zeroes after it) chemical structures. Duke...