I've been crazy busy lately. Here's a few quick links of things that I want to keep track of.

A Robotic Fish video. From my nemesis nation, The United Kingdom.

Protein synthesis in the race to create for artificial life

Rustum Roy's Burning Salt water?

Robots becoming essential to farming.

Here are some guys who are doing PhD research on using multi-touch screens. They are using Google Earth and Warcraft III to demonstrate use and techniques of multi-touch and voice recognition. I don't find this bit of 'research' to be very interesting. I mean, these guys are taking someone else's technology and translating commands into a different technology. I suppose it does show basic techniques for usage.

Jeff Han's touch screen interface works by measuring the refraction of light caused by fingers touching the screen. This allows for several neat computer-human interactions. Namely, the screen is multi-touch, meaning that several fingers can touch the screen at the same time. Secondly, the screen allows for different reactions based on the amount of pressure applied to the screen. During Jeff Han's presentation to TED he also indicated that the screen could potentially register proximity of the hands to the screen.