Cartagram — Geocoded Image Visualization — by Bloom Cartagr.am This is Cartagr.am, by Bloom . It shows popular public photos from Instagram arranged on a map. Click and drag to pan around ... Scroll with your mouse or + and - to zoom ... Labels fade in if you move the mouse, and fade out if you don't. We're hard at work on better integration with Instagram, a clearer set of labels, and an iPad app. We would love your feedback! Site © 2011 Bloom . Map labels are from Acetate , © 2011 Stamen and FortiusOne . Bibliographic data No documents available for this priority number. Abstract of GB2475730 (A) Tooltip A three dimensional image is generated from a two dimensional image, the two dimensional image having a background 30 and first 705 and second 710 foreground objects.
50 Great Examples of Data Visualization Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information. And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for. But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner. Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter. Music, Movies and Other Media Narratives 2.0 visualizes music. Liveplasma is a music and movie visualization app that aims to help you discover other musicians or movies you might enjoy. Tuneglue is another music visualization service. MusicMap is similar to TuneGlue in its interface, but seems slightly more intuitive. Digg, Twitter, Delicious, and Flickr Internet Visualizations
Relation Browser / Visualisations showing relations | valderama.net Relation Browser - Moritz Stefaner Different types of relations, different type of entities. Number of relations should not get bigger then ~25. Nice animations. "Flat" - every relation is equal. Ask Ken - Michael Aufreiter (Linz) In contrast to the "relation browser" (by moritz s.) here a whole graph opens. Image swirl - G. The start is a Grid View. PaperCube - Peter Bergstrom my thoughts are here Publication Map - Moritz Stefaner Publications are clustered according their cross-references of single articles. Relation Circle for Publications - Moritz Stefaner Here just one type of relation and one type of entiy is used. See infoVis Pattern .
NSF Mathematical Sciences Institutes New Bandages Latest in Healthcare Technology - High Tech Bandages and Band-Aids ChitoGauze (Photograph courtesy of HemCon Medical Technologies, Inc.) HemCon Medical Technologies manufactures bandages and wound dressings that harness the power of the sea. The company's products use chitosan, a biopolymer made from a component in the exoskeletons of crab, shrimp and other crustacean exoskeletons. The positively charged chitosan attracts the negatively charged outer membranes of red blood cells; when the two come into contact, localized clotting occurs. Gecko Bandage (Photograph by Bob Langer and Jeff Karp, MIT) The ability of geckos to scale vertical surfaces comes from the special topography of their feet: nano-size hairs gives their feet an adhesive property. QuikClot (Photograph courtesy of Z-Medica Corporation) The family of QuikClot products make use of kaolin clay, a natural blood-clotter. Ultrasound Device (Photograph courtesy of George K. Forget bandages—make way for sound. Scaffold Bandage (Photograph courtesy of University of Sheffield) Electric Bandage
Can humans regrow fingers?" When a hobby-store owner in Cincinnati sliced off his fingertip in 2005 while showing a customer why the motor on his model plane was dangerous, he went to the emergency room without the missing tip. He couldn't find it anywhere. The doctor bandaged the wound and recommended a skin graft to cover the top of his right-middle stub for cosmetic purposes, since nothing could be done to rebuild the finger. Months later, he had regrown it, tissue, nerves, skin, fingernail and all. This particular hobbyist happened to have a brother in the tissue-regeneration business, who told him to forego the skin graft and instead apply a powdered extract taken from pig's bladder to the raw finger tip. The extract, called extracellular matrix, lays the framework that cells use to generate any given body part. Extracellular matrix is a component of body tissue that functions outside of the body's cells (thus the "extracellular" designation).
Nanoengineers invent new biomaterial that more closely mimics human tissue Thursday, May 26, 2011 A new biomaterial designed for repairing damaged human tissue doesn’t wrinkle up when it is stretched. The invention from nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego marks a significant breakthrough in tissue engineering because it more closely mimics the properties of native human tissue. Pictured: Optical images of polyethylene glycol scaffolds expanding in response to stretching.(Note: green tone added to image.) A new biomaterial designed for repairing damaged human tissue doesn’t wrinkle up when it is stretched. A new biomaterial designed for repairing damaged human tissue doesn't wrinkle up when it is stretched. Shaochen Chen, professor in the Department of NanoEngineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, hopes future tissue patches, which are used to repair damaged heart walls, blood vessels and skin, for example, will be more compatible with native human tissue than the patches available today.
snsanalytics Public release date: 19-Apr-2011 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: David Orensteindavid_orenstein@brown.edu 401-863-1862Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Researchers at Brown University have found that specific genetic variations can predict how persistently people will believe advice they are given, even when it is contradicted by experience. The story they tell in a paper in the April 20 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience is one of the byplay between two brain regions that have different takes on how incoming information should influence thinking. Researchers including Michael Frank, assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic, and psychological sciences at Brown, have studied the striatum intensely, but have been curious about the effect that the advice-influenced PFC has on its function. To conduct the experiment, the researchers recruited more than 70 people who gave saliva samples and then performed a computerized learning task.
Biomimicry Institute - Home The Biomimicry 3.8 Institute is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the study and imitation of nature’s remarkably efficient designs, bringing together scientists, engineers, architects and innovators of all ages who can use those models to create sustainable technologies. The Institute was founded in 2006 by science writer and consultant Janine Benyus in response to overwhelming interest in the subject following the publication of her book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. See Janine’s TED Talk video for her groundbreaking introduction to biomimicry. Today, the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute focuses on three areas: Developing our online database of nature’s solutions, AskNature.org.Hosting our annual, international Biomimicry Student Design Challenge.Growing our Global Network of regional biomimicry practitioners. See examples of biomimicry in action! Meet executive director Beth Rattner, our staff, and the Institute board.
Blogging Innovation » Why Open Innovation is Not for Small Companies It is difficult to find good cases on how smaller companies have engaged with open innovation. It is also difficult to give strong advice on how such companies should engage with open innovation. I have reflected much on this and I am approaching a conclusion that is slightly provocative: Open innovation is for big companies; not small companies. Let me provide some reasons for this: Small companies are most often based on one product, service, technology or platform. They are bound to find partners around this in order to prosper let alone survive. These are just some of my reflections on an important topic.
Open Innovation's Next Challenge: Itself - John Hagel III and John Seely Brown by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison | 10:43 AM February 4, 2010 Let’s face it. Executives are under a lot of pressure to follow the latest management trends. Columbia business school professor Eric Abrahamson, who has written about the diffusion of managerial innovations, calls this the “norm of progressivity”: the expectation that you either follow the latest management innovations — even if they later prove misguided — or suffer a diminished reputation among your peers, the press, and your shareholders. Thus it’s little surprise that nearly every company now has some sort of experiment or program relating to open innovation. But are companies, with all their good intentions, getting the most from open innovation? If you look at most of the widely cited examples of successful open innovation, the model in use poses a question to a group of “solvers” who then provide an answer. This approach has two limitations. Why do relationships matter more than mere transactions?