Posts Tagged ‘ interactive ’

How much is that pet plant in the window?

April 5, 2012
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How much is that pet plant in the window?

I hadn’t realised that there was research on creating interactive pet plants that are able to display emotions! From the description of “My Green Pet” (Hwang et al. 2010): “The difficulty that children have in perceiving plants as living entities has been verified by several studies. As an initial attempt to address this issue, we propose “My Green Pet”, an interactive plant for children. Through this, children enjoy human-like interactions with the plant and also perceive that this particular plant is living. This is achieved by personifying a regular plant by giving it human feelings and emotions, such as...

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The scale of the universe will blow your mind

February 11, 2012
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The scale of the universe will blow your mind

You MUST look at this website. No, I am serious – you MUST, even if you only have a minute to spare. It has a slider which you can move to explore the size of objects from quantum foam to our observable universe. It will blow your mind. Make sure to click on objects and they will reveal more information. Isn’t our universe amazing?!

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Expedition into Cellular Landscapes

January 12, 2012
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Have you ever wondered how things might look like inside your body, inside every tiny cell? Check out these stunning photo-realistic and interactive rendered “Cellular Landscapes” by Cell Signaling Technology. The image above shows the cellular landscape around a mitochondrion, which is also known as the “power station” of the cell because it produces energy. In the background you see the cytoskeleton, the cell’s “railway tracks”, transport vesicles and a lot of other important cell components. You can explore the cellular landscape in two ways: move your mouse over the image to find out more about individual structures and...

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Meet the Microscopes

May 10, 2011
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Meet the Microscopes

“You must be the new research technician. Good to have you on board!” If the Brasilian doctor and scientistCarlos Chagas had said these words to you and asked you to look at Trypanosoma parasites with a microscope, it would have been a relatively straightforward task. At the beginning of the 20th century, light microscopes were the norm and electron microscopes had not yet been developed (check out the History of the Microscope for more information). Today however we have a wide choice of different microscope systems available at hand, which allow us to look at things as tiny as...

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